Bio
As Director of Kershaw Phillips Consulting, I provide applied research, service planning and program evaluation services to health, community, manufacturing, and educational organisations. I have over 30 years’ experience in public policy, academic and business sectors. I also work as Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee at the Institute for Social Neuroscience (ISN) Psychology, a private university which provides research training in psychology employing a cross-disciplinary approach of social neuroscience.
I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor with RMIT University and an Adjunct Professor with the University of Fiji. In those capacities I collaborate on action research and ethical innovation projects focused on, among other things, youth development, education and training for sustainable development, pathways to decent work and entrepreneurship, and regenerative growth.
I am passionate about writing and translating research results into published works. Recent publications include: Phillips, S., Brown, S., & Kelly, P. (2024). Using Action Research and Logic Modeling to Promote Young People’s Engagement, Resilience and Wellbeing in Middle Schooling. International Journal of Educational Reform, 33(4), 449-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/10567879241258133 (Original work published 2024); P. Kelly, S. Brown and S.K. Phillips, (2021) Informal Workers and Skills and Training for Sustainable Development Evidence from the Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean – Report prepared under contract for UNESCO, Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development, Paris; S. Brown, P. Kelly and S.K. Phillips (2020) Belonging, Identity and Time in Middle School: Re-imagining young people’s engagement in education, London, Palgrave Macmillan; and P. Kelly and S.K Phillips (2019) Evaluation of RMIT University’s Vocational Education (VE) “Pitch Tank” Initiative, Melbourne, UNEVOC/RMIT University