title: Kelly-Ann Allen
text: # Kelly-Ann Allen
  
  Kelly-Ann Allen (born in Adelaide, Australia) is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Clayton campus, Melbourne, Australia, and an Educational and Developmental Psychologist. Allen gained her PhD in 2014 from the University of Melbourne on the subject of School Belonging which continues to be her main academic focus. Allen is a qualified school psychologist as well as an established academic. Allen has made significant contributions to the field of belonging and school psychology and has published over 170 outputs in these fields. She has gained national and international recognition for the quality of her work and recently was named as one of Australia's top academic researchers.
  
  