Dr Maryanne Kelton

Senior Lecturer

College of Business, Government and Law

place Social Science South
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Maryanne is a researcher in Australian Foreign Policy, Alliance relations, the international political economy of technology and security, and the strategic implications of digital technology. Maryanne has a sustained interest in experiential learning.

Select publications:

'Virtual Sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States', International Affairs, 98(6), 2022, pp. 1977-1999, co-authored with Michael Sullivan, Zac Rogers, Emily Bienvenue, Sian Troath, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac226

‘US-Australia: deepening ties and securitising cyberspace’, chapter in Oliver Turner and Inderjeet Parmar, (eds.), The US in the Asia Pacific: Obama, Trump, and Beyond Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, co-authored with Zac Rogers.

'Australia, the utility of force and the society-centric battlespace', International Affairs, 95(4), 2019, pp. 859-876, co-authored with Michael Sullivan, Emily Bienvenue, and Zac Rogers, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz080 .

‘US-Australia-Indonesia Trilateral Security in the Indo-Pacific Geometry?’ Conditions for Cooperation’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 73 (3), 2019, pp. 289-311, co-authored with David Willis, 10.1080/10357718.2019.1570485 .

Honours, awards and grants

2025 Mission Focused Operational Data, DSTG grant II

2024 Mission Focused Operational Data, DSTG grant I

2022 Theatre Enhanced Strategic Situational Awareness, DSTG grant

2021 Digital Anthropological Terrain, DSTG grant

2020 Australian Government New Colombo Plan grant: Vanuatu

2019 Australian Government New Colombo Plan grant: Indonesia

2018-21 Shaping Futures in an Uncertain World: Navigating the human-technology interface through trust and digital governance in the age of information warfare, DSTGroup grant

2018 Australian Government New Colombo Plan grant: Indonesia

2018 Shaping Futures in an Uncertain World: The human-technology interface in the age of information warfare, DSTGroup grant

2017 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Global Workplace Team

2017 Developing a framework to monitor the health and resilience of bilateral relationshps: Aus-US, DSTGroup grant

2015 University Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant: Emotional Intelligence

2015 University Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant: Global Workplace Competencies

2015 Australian Government New Colombo Plan grant: Indonesia

2014 Australian Government OLT Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning: Australian Foreign Policy Simulation Team

2014 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Australian Foreign Policy Simulation Team

2011 Faculty Teaching and Learning Award

2009 University Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant

Further information

‘Paradigm shift: Understanding propaganda in the digital age’, The Interpreter, Lowy, 30 April 2019, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/paradigm-shift-understanding-propaganda-digital-age, co-authored with Zac Rogers and Emily Bienvenue. Republished as 'The New Age of Propaganda: Understanding Influence Operations in the Digital Age’ by War on the Rocks, 1 May 2019, https://warontherocks.com/2019/05/the-new-age-of-propaganda-understanding-influence-operations-in-the-digital-age/

‘Glocal Classroom – teaching collaboration on policy issues across space-time and cultural difference’, Schech, S. (presenter), Kelton, M. and Kingsmill, V. 2018 AAG Annual Meeting,Marriott French Quarter New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018.

'Convergence Pedagogy, Active Learning, and Employability in the Glocal Classroom', co-authored paper with Susanne Schech, Verity Kingsmill and Colin Carati, Convergence Pedagogy: Achievements and Challenges Symposium, Malmo University, 16-17 September 2015.

'Dual Purpose Simulations in the Professional Education of Australian Foreign Policy Graduates', co-authored paper with Verity Kingsmill, HERDSA Learning for Life and Work in a Complex World Conference, Melbourne, 6-9 July 2015.

'Shipping in the Shatterbelt: Cooperation and Risk Mitigation in Australia-China Trade', co-authored paper with Emily Bienvenue for the Chinese Academcy of Social Sciences and CUSAPS Flinders University Conference, Adelaide, 18-19 November 2013.

'Arresting Diffusion: evolving spatial domains of power in the US-Australia alliance', paper for the ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.

'Ambition, Capability and Information: Learning from Australia's Collins Class Submarine Project?', OCIS Annual Conference, Sydney 18-20 July 2012.

'Australia: The utility of force', ISA preconference workshop presentation, San Diego, April 2012.

'Security Implications of the International Financial Crisis in Asia', Paper presented to the 'International Financial Crisis: Impacts on China's Regional and Industrial Economy', Flinders-Nankai International Conference, Tianjin, 8 November 2009.

'Australia-US Relations after Bush and Howard', co-authored paper with Richard Leaver presented to ISAC/ISSS ninth annual joint meeting, Vail Cascade Resort, Vail, Colorado, 24 October 2008.