Rate My Professor Paul Kellner

Dr. Paul Kellner is a Research Fellow in the Evidence Review Portfolio at BehaviourWorks Australia within the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, and affiliated with the Sustainability Transitions Lab in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, a position he has held since joining the institution in October 2021. In this role, he focuses on undertaking Rapid Evidence and Practice Reviews. Kellner holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, a joint MSc in International Health from University College London and the University of Bergen, an MSc in Life Sciences Communication from the University of Wisconsin, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame (USA). Prior to Monash, his career included serving as Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor at Our Watch, where he worked on social marketing campaigns for young people, and Research and Policy Project Lead at AMES Australia, leading strategic projects supporting services for newly arrived refugees and migrants in Victoria. He was also a Lecturer at the University of Bergen’s Department of Health Promotion and Development in 2018, teaching postgraduate research methods in the Master’s of Global Development Theory and Practice and designing and convening a course on Podcasting for Social Scientists, and coordinated the CPC Learning Network at Columbia University from 2008 to 2010.

Paul Kellner’s professional endeavors have consistently operated at the intersection of his research interests in children and young people, migration, health, and wellbeing, with a particular drive to make high-quality academic evidence accessible and useful to non-academic audiences such as governments, philanthropic organisations, NGOs, corporations, and UN partners. He has developed multiple evidence-based action partnerships and produced outreach content including videos and podcasts for projects like the Young Lives longitudinal study of child poverty. He has taught and given guest lectures at several universities. Key publications include “Relationship between staff experience and patient outcomes in hospital settings: an overview of reviews” (2025, BMJ Open, with Bragge et al.), “What happened next? A survey of review clients evaluating impacts of rapid reviews” (2025, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, with Bragge et al.), “Inspiring Change: How to Influence Behaviour for A Better World” (2024, edited with Smith, Curtis, and Bragge, Monash University Publishing), “Choosing policy-relevant research questions: what might work and why is it important?” (2024), and “Policy Framework for strengthening Medicare: Evidence review” (2024, with Batson, Waddell, and Kaufman).