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Kelley Burton - School of Law |
LecturerB Bus (Accy)(Dist)/B Laws (Hons), GradDipLegalPrac, LLM QUT Contact Room: C705 Gardens Point During 2000 and 2001, Kelley worked as a casual academic in the QUT School of Law. At the same time, Kelley worked full-time at the Australian Taxation Office and specialised in taxation and privacy laws. In March 2002, Kelley commenced full-time work as an Associate Lecturer in the QUT School of Law. Kelley was promoted to Lecturer in 2005. Kelley has taught 11 undergraduate core law units spanning across all year levels of the law degree, including skills based units. Her outstanding teaching and learning performance and ongoing efforts in supporting innovative ways of learning have been recognised by the following teaching awards: 2001 QUT Faculty of Law Achievement in Teaching (Casual Academics) Award, 2003 QUT Compassionate Pioneer Award, 2003 QUT Faculty of Law Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award, 2004 QUT Faculty of Law Excellence in Teaching Award, and 2006 QUT Faculty of Law Students’ Voice Award. Kelley was invited to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), in Canada. In January 2007, she taught a unit, Privacy and Criminal Law, at the UWO. She designed the unit around her cutting edge PhD research. Kelley and Prof Geraldine Mackenzie authored a book titled, ‘Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia’. Lexis Nexis published this book in October 2006 and Kelley authored 70 per cent of it. The primary purpose of this book is to provide criminal law students in Queensland and Western Australia with formative feedback on their understanding of criminal law, and to develop their problem-solving skills. Kelley has contributed to the QUT Faculty of Law's research culture by producing a range of DEST rated publications including a refereed book chapter and several refereed scholarly journal articles. Some of these publications are available online at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/. She has also presented a range of international and national conference papers on criminal law and justice, and the scholarship of teaching. Kelley completed her LLM at QUT and received the award for the Highest Graduating Grade Point Average in the Master of Laws by coursework. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program at USQ examining the issues of harm, privacy and consent in the decision to criminalise non-consensual visual recording and distribution. Her Principal Supervisor is Prof Geraldine Mackenzie (USQ) and her Associate Supervisor is Prof Sally Kift (QUT). In 2005, Kelley won the prize for the Best Research Paper at the University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law Postgraduate Law Research Colloquium, which was attended by postgraduate law students from across Australia. Units currently taught:Research interests:
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