| The idea of the PhD: The doctorate in the twenty-first-century imagination F Kelly Routledge, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| Structuring your research thesis S Carter, F Kelly, I Brailsford Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| A day in the life (and death) of a public university F Kelly Higher Education Research & Development 34 (6), 1153-1163, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Supervision Satirized: Fictional narratives of student—supervisor relationships F Kelly Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 8 (3), 368-384, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| ‘Cooking together disparate things’: the role of metaphor in thesis writing F Kelly Innovations in Education and Teaching International 48 (4), 429-438, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Reflecting on the purpose of the PhD oral examination F Kelly New Zealand journal of educational studies 45 (1), 77-83, 2010 | 22 | 2010 |
| ‘And so betwixt them both’: taking insights from literary analysis into higher education research F Kelly Higher Education Research & Development 32 (1), 70-82, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Pushing boundaries in postgraduate supervision E Bitzer, R Albertyn, L Frick, B Grant, F Kelly African Sun Media, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| The role of the disciplines: Alternative methodologies in higher education F Kelly, I Brailsford Higher Education Research & Development 32 (1), 1-4, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| ‘Hurry up please, it's time!’A psychogeography of a decommissioned university campus F Kelly Teaching in Higher Education 25 (6), 722-735, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Seekers after truth? Images of postgraduate research and researchers in the twenty-first century F Kelly Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 33 (4), 517-528, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Trouble in mind: Supporting the transition to graduate research in English F Kelly, M Russell, L Wallace Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 11 (4), 418-433, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| The lecturer’s new clothes: An academic life, in textiles F Kelly Lived Experiences of Women in Academia, 23-31, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Definition and selection of key competencies in New Zealand F Kelly Retrieved June 2, 2003, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
| Doctoral work as boundary-riding and boundary-breaking TD Evans, E Bitzer, R Albertyn, L Frick, B Grant, F Kelly Pushing boundaries in postgraduate supervision, 25-35, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| (Re) Birthing the academy: unruly daughters striving for feminist futures C Manathunga, B Grant, F Kelly, A Raddon, J Jung (Re) birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in …, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| ‘A flight over the study area’: ecological ontologies in doctoral thesis acknowledgments F Kelly, C Manathunga Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 42 (4), 590-601, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Decentring the author/celebrating the typist in doctoral thesis acknowledgements F Kelly, C Manathunga, M Sato Re-imagining Doctoral Writing, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| ‘Man sorting books’: historical research in an archive of university photographs F Kelly History of Education 48 (1), 99-117, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| The Time of the PhD:: Doctoral Research in Neo-Victorian Fiction F Kelly Neo-Victorian Studies 10 (1), 42-63, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
