[2] Her Doctoral thesis, awarded in 1999 from Monash University, Gestations of the sacred: ecological feminist readings from the Gospel of Luke,[3] was the basis for the later publication, An Ecological Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Luke: A Gestational Paradigm.
[4] One reviewer of this book congratulated Elvey on her innovative approach and important contribution to Lukan scholarship.
[7][8] Elvey was editor of Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review from May 2012 to May 2017 and president of the Fellowship for Biblical Studies in 2011.
[8] The Global Church Project included Elvey in its list of 20 Australian and New Zealander Female Theologians you should get to know in 2020.
She was the inaugurator and managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics from 2013 to 2020.