Dr Mary Kelly
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment
- School of Engineering and the Environment
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer/Course Director
- Email:
- m.h.kelly@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a human geographer specializing in the areas of social, cultural and historical geography. I have been at Kingston University since February 2013. I am currently Course Leader for the BSc Geography and I am the ECE Research Ethics Faculty Lead. My modules include: Introduction to Human Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Geographical Theory and Practice and Global Rural Geographies.
Qualifications
- PhD (2008) Geography, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
- MPhil (1999) Geography, University College Cork, Ireland
- BA (1994) Geography and Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland
Domains
My modules include: Introduction to Human Geography, Geographical Theory and Practice, Advanced Research and Fieldwork Methods, Development Geographies and Global Rural Geographies.
Course director
My research background is in cultural and historical geography. My early work focussed on literary geographies as well as in archival research. More recently, I have been involved in projects that centre on communities and public engagement. In 2021 I worked with young people aged 14-18 on an AHRC funded project ‘Engaging Young People in Climate Change Research, the outputs of which were the Once Upon a Time and Place Public exhibition at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames. Currently I am working on a KU funded project ‘Stories of Place, Identity and Belonging: a Photographic Archive Produced by Migrant Community Groups.
Specialisms
- Historical and cultural geography
- Community engagement
- Migration and identity
I am the Course Leader for the Geography programme and the Faculty Research Ethics Lead.
Publications
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa
Irene, Julius Omokhudu, Daniels, Chux, Irene, Bridget Nneka Obiageli, Kelly, Mary and Frank, Regina, 2024, Local Environment
Exploring the role of regime actors in shaping the directionality of sustainability transitions in South Africa
Irene, Julius Omokhudu, Kelly, Mary, Irene, Bridget Nneka Obiageli, Chukwuma-Nwuba, Kemi and Opute, Promise, 2023, (99), pp 103068
Mapping 'sluggish' migration : Irish internal migration 1851-1911
Kelly, Mary, Slingsby, Aidan, Dykes, Jason and Wood, Jo, 2021, Irish Geography (54), 2, pp 89-108
Featured graphic. OD maps for showing changes in Irish female migration between 1851 and 1911
Slingsby, Aidan, Kelly, Mary and Dykes, Jason, 2014, Environment and Planning A (46), pp 2795-2797
Writing the colonial past in postcolonial Ireland: an Anglo-Irish response
Kelly, Mary, 2013, Historical Geography (41), pp 137-155
The demographic impacts of the Irish famine: towards a greater geographical understanding
Fotheringham, A. Stewart, Kelly, Mary H. and Charlton, Martin, 2013, Transactions Of The Institute Of British Geographers (38), 2, pp 221-237
When things were 'closing-in' and 'rolling up': the imaginative geography of Elizabeth Bowen’s Anglo-Irish war novel 'The Last September'
Kelly, Mary, 2012, Journal of Historical Geography (38), 3, pp 282-293
Imaginative geographies, family histories, the Irish past and postcolonial present
Kelly, Mary(2013). In: History, postcolonialism and tradition: The Postcolonial Studies Association conference 2013, 12 - 13 Sep 2013 :Kingston Upon Thames, U.K.