She has published extensively on Westminster politics in particular on the House of Lords and parliamentary reform. In January 2010, she began a three-year, ESRC-funded research project entitled ‘The Scrutiny Universe: The House of Commons Select Committees and the Psychology of Group Processes’ (RES-061-25-0391). This project explored how the Commons select committees fulfil their task of holding the government to account, utilising the insights of social psychology and group processes in order to understand how MPs manage their party identities and regulate partisan conflict in an ‘all-party’ institutional environment. Dr Kelso is founder of the Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Parliaments and Legislatures and has been a visiting fellow at the Hansard Society.