my books

AND TWO NEW BOOKS. Refining your writing out now. Schools and cultural citizenship,published Feb 2023.

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES  – THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO SUCCESS IN ACADEMIA. Series Editors: Helen Kara and Pat Thomson

You can see a relatively up to date list on my university webpage and on google scholar citations.  Some of my papers are available on my pages on researchgate and academia.edu.

Published books

THOMSON, P 2022. Refining your academic writing. Strategies for reading revising, and rewriting. Routledge

THOMSON, P 2020 School scandals. Blowing the whistle on the corruption of our education system. Policy Press

EARL, L and THOMSON, P 2020 Why garden in schools? Routledge.

BAROUTSIS, A, RIDDLE, S and THOMSON, P Eds 2018 Education Research and the Media: Challenges and Possibilities Routledge

SNEPVANGERS K THOMSON, P and HARRIS, A Eds. 2018 Creative policy, partnership and practice in education. Palgrave Macmillan

PENNACCHIA, JODIE, MILLS, MARTIN, MCGREGOR, GLENDA and THOMSON, PAT, eds., 2018. Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools, and Social Justice London: Routledge

HALL, C and THOMSON, P  2017 Inspiring school change: Transforming education through the creative arts. London: Routledge

HAYES, D, HATTAM, R, COMBER, B, KERKHAM, L, LUPTON, R and THOMSON, P 2017 Literacy leading and leaning. Beyond pedagogies of poverty. London: Routledge

LUPTON, D, MEWBURN I and THOMSON, P Eds  2017 The digital academic. Critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher education Routledge

THOMSON, P 2017 Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu. London: Routledge

THOMSON, P and HALL, C 2017 Place based methods for researching schools. London:Bloomsbury

THOMSON, P and KAMLER, P 2016 Detox your writing. strategies for doctoral researchers. London:Routledge.

KAMLER, B and THOMSON, P 2014 Helping doctoral students write; Pedagogies for supervision. London: Routledge. Second edition

THOMSON, P and KAMLER, B 2013 Writing for peer reviewed journals. Strategies for getting published. London: Routledge

David Fulton Creative Learning series. 2011 (Eds) series Editors Pat Thomson, Julian Sefton Green and Naranee Ruthra Rajan: Five books for teachers.

SEFTON GREEN, J, THOMSON, P, BRESLER, L, eds., 2011. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning. London: Routledge.

WRIGLEY, T, THOMSON, P LINGARD, Eds. 2011. Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference, Routledge.

THOMSON, P and SEFTON GREEN J Eds 2010 Researching creative learning. Methods and issues London: Routledge

WALKER, M and THOMSON P 2010 Eds. The Routledge doctoral supervisor’s companion: Supporting effective research in education and the social sciences. London: Routledge

THOMSON, P and WALKER, M 2010. Eds The Routledge doctoral students’ companion: getting to grips with research in education and the social sciences. London: Routledge

THOMSON, P.2009 School leadership – heads on the block? London: Routledge. (Highly commended British Education Studies book prize, 2011)

THOMSON, P, Ed., 2008. Doing visual research with children and young people. London: Routledge.

THOMSON, P., 2007. Whole school change: a review of the literature. London: Arts Council England. Second edition 2010 (Open Access)

KAMLER, B. and THOMSON, P., 2006. Helping doctoral students write: pedagogies for supervision. Routledge.

REID, A., THOMSON, P.L., Eds., 2003. Rethinking public education: towards a public curriculum. Brisbane: Post Pressed.

THOMSON, P., 2002. Schooling the rustbelt kids: making the difference in changing times. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books Ltd. Sydney: Allen and Unwin

THOMSON, P and WELLARD, S 1999 Getting a grip: postcritical approaches to research. Geelong: Deakin University Press

In press

THOMSON, P and HALL, C 2021 Cultural citizenship. Arts education for life. Routledge.

Under contract

BLACKMORE, J and THOMSON, P 2021 Critical approaches to research in educational leadership, management and administration. Routledge

HEFFERNAN, A, THOMSON, P and BLACKMORE J Eds Resistance in educational leadership. Routledge