IN PRESS

THOMSON, P (2026 in press) Futures for critical educational leadership scholarship, in Healey, K & Hughes, B Eds. Women writing critical educational leadership Routledge. 

THOMSON, P, GREANY, T, PERRY T & COLLINS M (2026 in press) School leaders’ writings and the crisis in leader recruitment and retention: a Rancierian reading in McKay A & Longmuir F  Contemporary conditions for teachers and school leaders: Theorising issues of workload, wellbeing, and retention within the profession Routledge

MORLEY C & THOMSON P (2026 in press) Going beyond the project.: How leaders embed creative practices in their schools. Eds Lucas, Sowden Spencer and Seymour. The Handbook of Creativity in Schools. Edward Elgar

THOMSON, P (2026 in press) Incidental transformations? Creative practices and changing learning environments, in Mahat, M; Aldridge, J & Fisher, K ( Eds) International Handbook of Research on Learning Environments Springer

PUBLISHED

THOMSON, P and HALL, C (2026) The case for the arts in schools. Arts Education Rapid Evidence Reviews. https://www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/report-card-and-rers-published-today/

THOMSON P and HALL C ( 2026) Generative conditions for shared leadership in arts-rich schools Educational Leadership Management & Administration https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432261438948

GREANY, T, THOMSON P, PERRY, T and COLLINS M (2026) Sustainable School Leadership. Final Report. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/crelm/projects/school-leadership.aspx

THOMSON, P and DOLAN, C (2026) Pathways to the principalship. Research Report. https://saspa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/P2P_SASPA-Report_Final_120226.pdf

COLEMAN, K., MACDONALD, A. and THOMSON, P. (2026), Rethinking Methodology Matters in Art and Design: Education Research Through the White Cube. Int J Art Des Educ. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70011

THOMSON P and HALL C (2026) Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts-richness in an era of curriculum reform. British Educational Research Journal  0(0) https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70143

MEWBURN I., THOMSON.,P GRANT, A., & KARA, H (2026) Managing your research project. Routledge

THOMSON, P (2026) Leading with a feminist ethic of care, in Bogotch I and Shields, C ( Eds) The second international handbook of educational leadership and social (in)justice. Springer. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-56275-4

GREANY, T., THOMSON, P., PERRY, T., & COLLINS, M (2025) A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England. British Educational Research Journal.

THOMSON, P (2025) Evidence informed policy? The Australian Education Research Organisation’s borrowed knowledge-rich curriculum dispositif. Discourse 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2567654

THOMSON P (2025 )When having a meltdown is a good thing. In N Lemon and Selkrig, M Eds The making academic. Routledge

THOMSON, P & HALL, C (2025) Specialist arts teachers make a difference. Impact Journal https://my.chartered.college/impact_article/specialist-arts-teachers-make-a-difference/

GREANY, T., THOMSON, P; PERRY & M COLLINS, M (2025) Signature pedagogies for leadership development: a comparison of headteacher preparation programmes in England and Scotland London Review of EducationDOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.23.1.18

HOWARD, F & THOMSON, P (2025) The challenges of educational inclusion: Arts education in and as alternative education in England., in T Klepacki, van Meerkerk, E & Ostern, T P Eds. Arts and cultural education in a challenging and changing world. Eno Yearbook 3. pp 45-60 Springer. 

THOMSON, P, HALL C & MALOY, L (2025) Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Final Report. https://artsprimary.com

THOMSON, P., & COLES, R. (2024). Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme. Professional Development in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2433069

THOMSON, PAT (2024) Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now. Studies in Continuing Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2024.2417095

HEFFERNAN, AMANDA, THOMSON, PAT and BLACKMORE, JILL, eds., 2024. Resistance in educational leadership, management and administration Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, HEFFERNAN, AMANDA and BLACKMORE, JILL, 2024. Leaders resisting? The very idea. In: HEFFERNAN, AMANDA, THOMSON, PAT and BLACKMORE, JILL, eds., Resistance in educational leadership, management and administration Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, MALOY, LIAM and HALL. CHRISTINE, 2024. “The way I know is by looking back”: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects Education 3-13. 52(1) 251-263

THOMSON, PAT and GREANY, TOBY, 2024. The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders’ work in uncertain times Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 53(6), 1376-1393

THOMSON, PAT, 2025. Why bother with the arts in schools? Australian Educational Researcher.52 781-801 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00741-0

THOMSON, PAT, 2023. Five fleeting snapshots. In: CURTIS, SAM, ed., Which way now?: Making meanings through child-led walks and photography Serpentine Galleries. 

HEFFERNAN, AMANDA and THOMSON, PAT, 2023. Punk ideals, school leaders and fashioning an “authentic” self  Research in Education. 115(1), 80-99

THOMSON, PAT, 2023. Refining your academic writing: Strategies for reading, revising and rewriting Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2023. Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts education for life Routledge. 

MALOY, LIAM and THOMSON, PAT, 2023. Research subjects, participants or co-researchers?: Extending the involvement of students in art and design research International Journal of Art and Design Education. 42(3) 353-366

KEDDIE, AMANDA, MACDONALD, KATRINA, JILL BLACKMORE, RUTH BOYASK, SCOTT FITZGERALD, MIHAJLA GAVIN, AMANDA HEFFERNAN, DAVID HURSH, SUSAN MCGRATH-CHAMP, JORUNN MØLLER, JOHN O’NEILL, KAROLINA PARDING, MAIJA SALOKANGAS, CRAIG SKERRITT, MEGHAN STACEY, PAT THOMSON, ANDREW WILKINS, RACHEL WILSON, CATHY WYLIE, EE-SEUL YOON 2023 What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education? The Australian Educational Researcher 50 (5), 1571-1597

BLACKMORE, JILLIAN and THOMSON, PAT, 2023. Getting a word in edge-wise. Adventures in academic publishing. In: FITZGERALD, TANYA and COURTNEY. STEVE, eds., Critical education policy and leadership studies.: The intellectual contributions of Helen M Gunter Springer. 127-142

MILLS, MARTIN and THOMSON, PAT, 2022. English schooling and little e and big E exclusion: What’s equity got to do with it? Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 27(2), 185-198

THOMSON, PAT, GREANY, TOBY, COUSINS, SUSAN and MARTINDALE, NICK, 2022. Vox Poetica: Bringing an arts-based research method to school leaders’ lockdown experiences Journal of Educational Administration and History. 55(2) 215-230

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2022. Cultural capitals matter, differentially: A Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England British Journal of Sociology of Education. 43(11) 1-18

EARL, LEXI and THOMSON, PAT, 2021. Why garden in schools? Routledge. 

HALL, CHRISTINE and THOMSON, PAT, 2021. Making the most of arts education partnerships in schools Curriculum Perspectives. 41(1), 101-106

THOMSON, PAT, 2021. Back to the future? Recuperating educational administration. In: NETOLICKY, DEBORAH, ed., Future alternatives for educational leadership.: Diversity, inclusion, equity and democracy Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT and HALL. CHRISTINE, 2021. “You just feel more relaxed”: An investigation of Art room atmosphereInternational Journal of Art and Design Education. 40(3), 599-614

THOMSON, PAT, GREANY, TOBY and MARTINDALE, NICK, 2021. The trust deficit in English schools: emerging research evidence about school leaders and the pandemic Journal of Educational Administration and History. 53(3-4), 296-300

THOMSON, PAT and MALOY, LIAM, 2021. The benefits of Art Craft and Design education NSEAD. 

THOMSON, PAT and PRINGLE, EMILY, 2020. Dancing past categories: researching a live art project with participants. In: NIELSEN, CHARLOTTE SVENDLER and BURRIDGE, STEPHANIE, eds., Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance Education, Young people and Change Palgrave Macmillan. 

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2020. Beyond civics: Art and Design education and the making of active/activist citizens. In: BURGESS, LESLEY and ADDISON, NICK, eds., Debates in Art & Design Education Routledge. 

HEFFERNAN, AMANDA and THOMSON, PAT, 2020. Manufacturing the Woman Leader: How Can Wardrobes Help Us to Understand Leadership Identities?. In: NIESCHE, RICHARD and HEFFERNAN, AMANDA, eds., Subjectivity and identity in educational leadership Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT and HEFFERNAN, AMANDA, 2020. Theory. In: COURTNEY, STEVE, GUNTER, HELEN, NIESCHE, RICHARD and TRUJILLO, TINA, eds., Understanding educational leadership: Critical perspectives and approaches Bloomsbury. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2020. Doctoral degree. In: AMEY, MARILYN and DAVID, MIRIAM, eds., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education Sage. 

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

BAROUTSIS, ASPA, RIDDLE, STEWART and THOMSON, PAT, eds., 2019. Education Research and the Media: Challenges and Possibilities Routledge. 

SNEPVANGERS, KIM, THOMSON, PAT and HARRIS, ANNE, eds., 2019. Creative policy, partnership and practice in education Palgrave McMillan. 

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2019. Countering dull pedagogies: the power of teachers and artists working together. In: TETT. LYN and HAMILTON, MARY, eds., Resisting the neo-liberal discourse in education: Local, national and transnational perspectives Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, THORPE, ANNIE and DONAGH, HOLLY, 2019. Arts for multicultural diversity: A case study from England. In: FERRO, LIGIA and WAGNER, ERNST, eds., European Network of Arts Observatories Yearbook 2018 Springer. 

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE, EARL, LEXI and GEPPERT, CORINNA, 2019. Towards an arts education for cultural citizenship. In: RIDDLE, STEWART and APPLE, MICHAEL, eds., Reimagining education for democracy Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE, EARL, LEXI and GEPPERT, CORINNA, 2019. Subject Choice As Everyday Accommodation /Resistance: Why Students In England (Still) Choose The Arts Critical Studies in Education. 61(5), 545-560

THOMSON, PAT, 2019. Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection Journal of Educational Administration and History. 51(2), 87-102

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE, EARL, LEXI and GEPPERT. CORINNA, 2019. The pedagogical logics of arts rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis British Journal of Sociology of Education. 40(2), 239-253

FRANKS, ANTON and THOMSON, PAT, 2019. Changing play: writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project Ethnography and Education. 15(2), 222-237

THOMSON, PAT, RIDDLE, STEWART and THOMSON, PAT, 2019. Who speaks for teachers? Social media and teacher voice. In: BAROUTSIS, ASPA and RIDDLE, STEWART, eds., Education research and the media.: Challenges and possibilities Routledge. 119-134

THOMSON, PAT, 2018. A long goodbye to the ‘good girl’: An auto ethnographic account. In: TAYLOR, YVETTE and LAHAD, KINNERET, eds., Feeling academic in the neoliberal university: Feminist flights, fights and failures Palgrave Macmillan. 

PENNACCHIA, JODIE and THOMSON, PAT, 2018. Alternative Provision in England: problematising ‘quality’ and ‘vulnerability’. In: MILLS, MARTIN, MCGREGOR, GLENDA and MCCLUSKEY, GILLEAN, eds., International perspectives on alternative education: Policy and practice IOE Press. 

WHITEOAK, DAPHNE and THOMSON, PAT, 2018. Negotiating meaning in multiple communities of practice: reconciliation and dis-identification in the identity work of headteachers leaving Anglican primary schools. In: COURTNEY. STEVE, MCGINITY, RUTH and GUNTER, HELEN, eds., Educational leadership: Theorising professional practice in neoliberal times Routledge. 

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

THOMSON, PAT, 2018. Oh to be in England? The production of an un-public state system.. In: WILKINSON, JANE, NIESCHE, RICHARD and EACOTT, SCOTT, eds., Dismantling public education: Implications for educational leadership, policy and social justice Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, MCKELVIE, AMY and TURVEY, LEANNE, 2018. Learning the art museum: experiments in talking/writing ethnography. In: FERRO, LIGIA and POVEDA, DAVID, eds., Learning, arts and ethnography in a contemporary world Tufnell Press. 

THOMSON, PAT, COLES, REBECCA and HALLEWELL, MADELINE, 2018. What did Creative Partnerships achieve? A review of the CP research archive. In: HARRIS, ANNE, SNEPVANGERS, KIM and THOMSON, PAT, eds., Creative policy, partnership and practice in education Palgrave Macmillan. 

MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, 2018. Online thesis-writing resources. In: CARTER, SUSAN and LAURS, DEBRA, eds., Developing research writing: A handbook for supervisors and students Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2018. Troubling writing as ‘representation’. In: JEFFREY, B and RUSSELL, L, eds., Writing for ethnography Tufnell Press. 

IFF RESEARCH LTD and MILLS, MARTIN, 2018. Investigative research into alternative provision Department for Education. (978-1-78105-951-7)

THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2017. Place based methods for researching schools Bloomsbury. 

HALL, CHRISTINE and THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Inspiring school change: Transforming schools through the creative arts Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Writing about research. In: WYSE, DOMINIC, SMITH, EMMA, SUTER, LARRY and WELWYN, NEIL, eds., The BERA SAGE Handbook of Educational Research SAGE. 

MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Social media and academic publishing. In: WYSE, DOMINIC, SMITH, EMMA, SUTER, LARRY and SELWYN, NEIL, eds., THE BERA SAGE Handbook of Educational Research 

NIESCHE, RICHARD and THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Freedom to what ends? School autonomy in neoliberal times. In: BOGOTCH, IRA and WAITE, DUNCAN, eds., The International Handbook of Educational Leadership Wiley-Blackwell. 

LUPTON, DEBORAH, MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, eds., 2017. The Digital Academic Routledge. 

MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Towards an academic self? Blogging during the doctorate. In: LUPTON, DEBORAH, MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, eds., The Digital Academic Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2017. A little more madness in our methods?: A snapshot of how the educational leadership management and administration field conducts research Journal of Educational Administration and History. 49(3), 215-230

THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Nine notes on a pedagogy of not knowing. In: TURVEY, LEANNE, WALTON, ALICE and DALY, EILEEN, eds., In site of conversation: On learning with art, audiences and artists Tate. 25-34

HAYES, DEBORAH, HATTAM, ROB, COMBER, BARBARA, KERKHAM, LYN, LUPTON, RUTH and THOMSON, PAT, 2017. Literacy, leading and learning: beyond pedagogies of poverty Routledge. 

KAMLER, BARBARA and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Detox your writing: Strategies for doctoral researchers Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE and TOWNSEND, ANDREW, 2016. Using film to show and tell: studying/changing pedagogical practices. In: MOSS, JULIANNE and PINI, MONICA, eds., Visual Research Methods in Educational Research: a critical review of the practice and politics of contemporary methods. Palgrave McMillan. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Artist ‘voice’ in inter-cultural contexts and practices. In: BURNARD, PAM, MACKINLEY, LIZ and POWELL, KIMBERLEY, eds., The Routledge International Handbook of Inter-Cultural Arts Research Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Writing for social media. In: SUGRUE, CIARAN and MERTKAN, SEFIKA, eds., Academic life and the publishing landscape: Change, continuity and challenge Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT and PENNACCHIA, JODIE, 2016. Hugs and behaviour points: Alternative education and the regulation of risky youth International Journal of Inclusive Education. 20(6), 622-640

THOMSON, PAT and PENNACCHIA, JODIE, 2016. Disciplinary regimes of ‘care” and complementary alternative education Critical Studies in Education. 57(1), 84-99

HALL, CHRISTINE and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Creativity in teaching: what can teachers learn from artists? Research Papers in Education. 32(1), 106-120

PENNACCHIA, JODIE and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Complementing the mainstream: an exploration of partnership work between complementary alternative provisions and mainstream schools Pastoral Care in Education. 34(2), 67-78

MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Writing with online support. In: CARTER, SUSAN and LAURS, DEBORAH, eds., Developing Research Writing: A Handbook for Supervisors Routledge

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2015. “Everyone can imagine their own Gellert”: the democratic artist and ‘inclusion’ in primary and nursery classrooms Education 3-13. 43(4), 420-432

MCINTYRE, JOANNA and THOMSON, PAT, 2015. Poverty, schooling and beginning teachers who make a difference: A case study from England. In: LAMPERT, JO and BURNETT, BRUCE, eds., The international handbook of social justice in teacher education Springer. 

TOWNSEND, ANDREW and THOMSON, PAT, 2015. Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action Educational Action Research. 23(1), 36-50

COLES, REBECCA and THOMSON, PAT, 2015. Beyond records and representations: in-between writing in educational ethnography Ethnography and Education. 11(3), 253-266

HEARN, HELEN and THOMSON, PAT, 2014. Working with texts, images and artefacts. In: CLARK, ALISON, FLEWITT, ROSIE, HAMMERSLEY, MARTYN and ROBB, MARTIN, eds., Understanding research with children and young people 2nd. 154-168

THOMSON, P, 2014. The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children’s literature Journal of Educational Administration and History. 46(4), 1-20

THOMSON, PAT, 2014. ‘Scaling up’ educational change: Some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges Critical Studies in Education. 55(2), 87-103

THOMSON, PAT, 2014. The photograph as ‘witness’. In: BURKE, CATHERINE and JONES, KEN, eds., Education, childhood, anarchism: Talking Colin Ward Routledge. 157-169

KAMLER, BARBARA and THOMSON, PAT, 2014. Helping doctoral students write: Pedagogies for supervision Second Edition. Routledge. 

THOMSON, PAT, BARRETT, ANDY, HALL, CHRISTINE, HANBY, JULIAN and JONES, SUSAN, 2014. Arts in the community as a place-making event. In: FLEMING, MIKE, BRESLER, LIORA and O’TOOLE, JOHN, eds., The Routledge international handbook of arts and education Routledge. 

FRANKS, A, HALL, C, JONES, K and THOMSON, P, 2014. Teachers, arts practice and pedagogy Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education. 21(2), 171-181

THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2014. The signature pedagogies of creative practitioners. In: WESTPHAL, KRISTIN, STADLER-ALTMANN, ULRIKE, SCHITTLER, SUSANNE and LOHFIELD, WIEBKE, eds., Raume Kultureller Bildung Beltz Juventa. 76-91

COMBER, BARBARA, THOMSON, PAT and WELLS, MARG, 2014. Critical literacy finds a ‘place’: Writing and social action in a low-income Australian Grade 2/3 classroom. In: Critical literacies and young learners: Connecting classroom practice to the common core Routledge. 147-158

PAT THOMSON and JODIE PENNACCHIA, 2014. What’s The Alternative?: Effective Support for Young People Disengaging From Mainstream Education

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

ANDERSON, G, MINGAL, A, PINI, M, SCOTT, J and THOMSON, P, 2013. Policy, equity and diversity in global contexts:educational leadership after the welfare state. In: TILLMAN, L and SCHEURICH, J J, eds., The handbook of research on educational leadership for equity and diversity Routledge. 43-61

JONES, S., HALL, C., THOMSON, P., BARRETT, A. and HANBY, J., 2013. Re-presenting the “forgotten estate”: participatory theatre, place and community identity Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 34(1), 118-131

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE and JONES, KEN, 2013. Towards educational change leadership as a discursive practice –: or – should all school leaders read Foucault? International Journal of Leadership in Education. 16(2), 155-172

THOMSON, P., 2013. Romancing the market: narrativising equity in globalising times Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education. 34(2), 170-184

VINCENT, KERRY and THOMSON, PAT, 2013. “Your age don’t determine whether you’re a good mum”: reframing the discourse of deviance ascribed to teenage mothers Social Alternatives. 32(2), 6-11

THOMSON, PAT and HAYWARD, VANESSA, 2013. Managing performance: The implementation of the English Healthy Schools Programme. In: NIESCHE, RICHARD, ed., Deconstructing educational leadership: Derrida and beyond Routledge. 63-83

THOMSON, PAT and CLIFTON, JOANNE, 2013. Connecting with parents and their community in an urban primary school: Creative Partnerships to build literacy/ies. In: HALL, KATHY, CREMIN, TERESA, COMBER, BARBARA and MOLL, LUIS, eds., International handbook of research on children’s literacy, learning and culture Wiley-Blackwell. 54-66

MEWBURN, INGER and THOMSON, PAT, 2013. Why do academics blog?: An analysis of audiences, purposes and challenges Studies in Higher Education. 38(8), 1105-1119

HAYWARD, V AND THOMSON, P, 2012. Performing health: an investigation of Emotional Health and Wellbeing (EHWB) in a high performance school. In: JEFFREY, B AND TROMAN, G, ed., Performativity and Education – a UK perspective: Ethnographic effects, outcomes and agency Tufnell Press. 109-126

THOMSON, PAT, 2012. Understanding evaluating and assessing what students learn from leadership activities: Student research in Woodlea Primary Management in Education. 26(3), 96-103

THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE and JONES, KEN, 2012. Creativity and cross-curriculum strategies in England: Tales of doing, forgetting and not knowing International Journal of Educational Research. 55, 6-15

THOMSON, P and LINGARD, B, WRIGLEY, T, 2011. Reimagining school change: the necessity and reasons for hope. In: WRIGLEY, T and THOMSON, P , LINGARD, B, eds., Changing schools.: Alternative ways to make a world of difference Routledge. 1-14

THOMSON, P., 2011. Creative leadership: a new category or more of the same? Journal of Educational Administration and History. 43(3), 249-272

THOMSON, P AND SANDERS, E, 2011. Introduction. In: SANDERS, E, ed., Leading a creative school.: Initiating and sustaining school change Routledge. 1-16

WRIGLEY, T, THOMSON, P AND LINGARD, B, 2011. Resources for changing schools: Ideas in and as practice. In: WRIGLEY, T, THOMSON, P and LINGARD, B, eds., Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference Routledge. 194-214

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

THOMSON, P, 2011. Miners. diggers, ferals and showmen: creative school-community projects. In: SEFTON-GREEN, J, THOMSON, P, JONES, K and BRESLER, L, eds., The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning Routledge. 295-304

THOMSON, P. and GUNTER, H., 2011. Inside, outside, upside down: the fluidity of academic researcher ‘identity’ in working with/in school International Journal of Research and Methods in Education. 34(1), 17-30

THOMSON, P, 2011. ‘The local’ and its authority: the Coalition, governance and democracy. In: HATCHER, R and JONES, K, eds., No country for the young: Education from New Labour to the Coalition Tufnell Press. 85-99

MCGREGOR, G, MILLS, M and THOMSON, P, 2011. Educating in the margins: lessons for the mainstream: Australia. In: WRIGLEY, T, THOMSON, P and LINGARD, B, eds., Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference Routledge. 47-60

SEFTON GREEN, J, THOMSON, P, JONES, K and BRESLER, L, eds., 2011. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning Routledge. 

RUSSELL, L and THOMSON, P, 2011. Girls in alternative provision Ethnography and Education. 6(3), 293-308

THOMSON, P and HALL, C, 2011. Sense -making as a lens on everyday change leadership practice: The case of Holly Tree Primary school International Journal of Leadership in Education. 1-19

KAMLER, B and THOMSON, P, 2011. Working with literatures. In: SOMEKH, B and LEWIN, K, eds., Research methods in the social sciences 2nd ed. Sage. 16-24

THOMSON P, ROSE, L, 2011. Creative learning in an inner-city primary school: England. In: WRIGLEY, T, THOMSON, P and LINGARD, T, eds., Changing schools: Alternative ways to make a world of difference Routledge. 128-139

THOMSON, P, 2011. Coming to terms with ‘voice’. In: CZERNIAWSKI, G and KIDD, W, eds., The International handbook of student voice Emerald. 19-30

HALL, C. and THOMSON, P., 2010. Grounded literacies: the power of listening to, telling and performing community stories Literacy. 44(2), 69-75

THOMSON, P., HALL, C. and JONES, K., 2010. Maggie’s day: a small-scale analysis of English education policy Journal of Education Policy. 25(5), 639-656

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

THOMSON, P, 2010. Involving children and young people in educational change: Possibilities and challenges. In: HARGREAVES, A, HOPKINS, D and LIEBERMAN, A, eds., The International Handbook of Educational Change 2nd ed. Springer. 809-824

THOMSON, P and SANDERS, E, 2010. Creativity and whole school change: an investigation of English headteachers’ practices Journal of Educational Change. 11(1), 63-83

THOMSON, P and WALKER, M, 2010. Doctoral education in context. The changing nature of the doctorate and doctoral students. In: THOMSON, P AND WALKER, M, ed., The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion: getting to grips with research in Education and the Social Sciences Routledge. 9-26

VINCENT, K and THOMSON, P, 2010. ‘Slappers like you don’t belong in this school: the educational inclusion/exclusion of pregnant school girls International Journal of Inclusive Education. 14(4), 371-385

HALL, C, JONES, K , THOMSON, P, 2010. Snapshots, illustrations and portraits: re-presenting research findings.. In: THOMSON, P, SEFTON-GREEN, J, ed., Researching Creative Learning: Methods and issues Routledge. 126-142

THOMSON, P and WALKER, M, 2010. Last words: Why doctoral study?. In: THOMSON, P AND WALKER, M, ed., The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion: getting to grips with research in Education and the Social Sciences Routledge. 390-403

THOMSON, P, 2010. Whole school change: a literature review 2nd ed.. Creativity, Culture and Education. 

GUNTER, H and THOMSON, P, 2010. Life on Mars: headteachers before the National College Journal of Educational Administration and History. 42(3), 203-222

WALKER, M and THOMSON, P, eds., 2010. The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor’s Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences Routledge. 

THOMSON, P and KAMLER, B, 2010. It’s been said before and we’ll say it again – research is writing. In: THOMSON, P AND WALKER, M, ed., The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion: getting to grips with research in Education and the Social Sciences Routledge. 149-160

THOMSON, P and WALKER, M, eds., 2010. The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion: Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences. Routledge. 

THOMSON, P, 2010. Leading/Managing Schools in Communities Made Poor. In: EVA BAKER, PENELOPE PETERSON,BARRY MCGAW,, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Education 3rd edition. Elsevier. 

THOMSON P, BYROM, T, ROBINSON, C and RUSSELL, L, 2010. Learning about journal publication: the pedagogies of editing a ‘special issue’.. In: AITCHISON, C, KAMLER, B and LEE, A, eds., Publishing pedagogies for the doctorate and beyond Routledge. 137-155

THOMSON, P., 2010. Headteacher autonomy: a sketch of a Bourdieuian field analysis of position and practice Critical Studies in Education. 51(1), 5-20

THOMSON, P., 2009. School leadership: heads on the block? Routledge. 

BASKWILL, J. and THOMSON, P.L., 2009. Jane and Pat think and do: A basal reader story. In: KNOWLES, J.G., COLE, A.L., NEILSEN, L. and PROMISLOW, S., eds., Creating scholartistry: imagining the arts-informed thesis or dissertation Halifax, Nova Scotia: Backalong Books. 70 -83

THOMSON, P, 2009. A critical pedagogy of global place – regeneration in and as action. In: RAFFO, C, DYSON, A, GUNTER, H, HALL, D, JONES, L and KALAMBOUKA, A, eds., Education and poverty in affluent countries Routledge. 

THOMSON, P, 2009. Bringing Bourdieu to ‘widening participation’ policies in higher education: a UK case analysis.. In: APPLE, M, BALL, S and GANDIN, L A, eds., Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Education Routledge. 318-328

THOMSON, P, MCGREGOR, J, SANDERS, E and ALEXIADOU, N, 2009. Changing schools: more than a lick of paint and a well-orchestrated performance? Improving Schools. 12(1), 43-57

THOMSON, PAT, 2009. Principals and black lagoons: Reflections from England on headteachers and power.Professional Voice. 7(3), 

THOMSON, P and GUNTER, H, 2009. Students’ participation in school change: action research on the ground. In: SOMEKH, B AND NOFFKE, S, ed., The Handbook of Educational Action Research Sage. 

THOMSON, P, 2009. Lessons for Australia?: Learning from England’s curriculum ‘black box’ English in Australia. 43(3), 13-20

BAILEY, S and THOMSON, P, 2009. Routine (dis)order in an infant school Ethnography and Education. 4(2), 211-228

THOMSON, P and RUSSELL, L, 2009. Data. data everywhere – but not all the numbers that count?: Mapping alternative provisions for students excluded from school International Journal of Inclusive Education. 13(4), 423-438

GUNTER, H and THOMSON, P, 2009. The makeover: a new logic in leadership development in England? Education Review. 61(4), 469-483

THOMSON, P and GUNTER, H, 2008. Researching bullying with students: A lens on everyday life in an innovative school International Journal of Inclusive Education. 12(2), 185-200

HARRIS, A and THOMSON, P, 2008. Leading schools in poor communities?: What do we know?. In: TOWNSEND, T and BOGOTCH, I, eds., The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The essential leadership questions for school leaders and educational researchers Rotterdam: Sense. 73-84

THOMSON, P, 2008. Schools and urban regeneration. Challenges and possibilities. In: LINGARD, B, NIXON, J and RANSON, S, eds., Transforming learning in schools and communities. The remaking of education for a cosmopolitan society Continuum. 

HARRIS A and THOMSON P, 2008. Leading schools in poor communities: How do we know?. In: TOWNSEND, T and BOGOTCH I, eds., The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 165-180

THOMSON, P, 2008. Field. In: GRENFELL, M, ed., Pierre Bourdieu: Key concepts Acumen.; Stocksfield. 

JONES, K and THOMSON, P, 2008. Policy rhetoric and the renovation of English schooling: the case of Creative Partnerships Journal of Education Policy. 23(6), 715-727

GUNTER, H, THOMSON, P, 2008. Learning about student voice Support for Learning. 22(4), 181-188

THOMSON, P, 2008. Children and young people: voices in visual research. In: THOMSON, P, ed., Doing visual research with children and young people Routledge. 1-19

THOMSON, P, 2008. Scales of policy intervention: Problematising high poverty contexts in South Australia Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 10(2), 97-116

THOMSON, P. and HALL, C., 2008. Opportunities missed and/or thwarted?: ‘Funds of knowledge’ meet the English national curriculum Curriculum Journal. 19(2), 87-103

MERTKAN-OZUNLU, S and THOMSON, P, 2008. Educational reform in North Cyprus: towards the making of a nation/state? International Journal of Educational Development. 29, 99-106

THOMSON, P, 2008. Answering back to policy?: Headteachers’ stress and the logic of the sympathetic interview Journal of Education Policy. 23(6), 649-667

THOMSON, P, 2008. Headteacher critique and resistance: A challenge for policy and for leadership/management scholars Journal of Educational Administration and History. 40(2), 85-100

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

KAMLER, B and THOMSON, P, 2008. The failure of dissertation advice books: Toward alternative pedagogies for doctoral writing Educational Researcher. 37(8), 507-514

THOMSON, P. and HALL, C. J., 2008. Dialogues with artists; learning about childen’s self portraits. In: THOMSON, P, ed., Doing visual research with children and young people Routledge. 

HALL, C.J. and THOMSON, P.L., 2007. Creative partnerships?: cultural policy and inclusive arts practice in one primary school British Educational Research Journal. 33(3), 315-329

HALL, C., THOMSON, P. and RUSSELL, L., 2007. Teaching like an artist: the pedagogic identities and practices of artists in schools British Journal of Sociology of Education. 28(5), 605-619

THOMSON, P and HALL, C AND RUSSELL, L, 2007. If these walls could speak: reading displays of primary children’s work Ethnography and Education. 2(3), 381-400

BYROM, R., THOMSON, P. and GATES, P., 2007. My school has been quite pushy about the Oxbridge thing Improving Schools. 10(1), 29-40

VINCENT, K, HARRIS, B, THOMSON, P and TOALSTER, R., 2007. Managed moves: schools collaborating for collective gain Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 12(4), 283-298

THOMSON, P.L., ELLISON, L., BYROM, T. and BULMAN, D., 2007. Invisible labour: home-school relations and the front office Gender and Education. 19(2), 141-158

THOMSON P and GUNTER, H, 2007. The methodology of students-as-researchers: valuing and using experience and expertise to develop methods Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 28(3), 327-342

THOMSON, P., 2007. Whole School Change: a review of the literature (978-0-7287-1336-9)

THOMSON, P. and RUSSELL, L., 2007. Mapping the Alternatives to Permanent Exclusion (978 1 85935 589 3)

THOMSON, P., 2007. Working the in/visible geographies of school exclusion.. In: GULSON, K. and SYMES, C., eds., Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters London: Routledge. 111-130

THOMSON, P.L., 2007. Leading schools in high poverty neighbourhoods: The National College for School Leadership and beyond. In: PINK, W.T. and NOBLIT, G.W., eds., The International Handbook of Urban Education Dordrecht: Springer. 1049-1078

THOMSON, P, 2007. Making education more equitable: What can policymakers learn from the Australian Disadvantaged Schools Programme?. In: TEESE, R, LAMB, S and DURU-BELLAT, M, eds., International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy: Inequality: Educational Theory and Public Policy 3. Dordrecht: Springer. 239-256

GUNTER, H and THOMSON P, 2007. But, where are the children Management in Education. 21(1), 23-28

GUNTER, H and THOMSON, P, 2007. Learning about student voice Support for Learning. 22(4), 181-188

THOMSON, P.L., 2007. Making it real: engaging students in active citizenship projects.. In: THIESSEN, D. and COOK-SATHER, A., eds., The international handbook of student experience in elementary and secondary schools Dordrecht: Springer. 775-804

KAMLER, B and THOMSON, P, 2007. Rethinking doctoral writing as text work and identity work. In: SOMEKH, B and SCHWANDT, T, eds., Knowledge production: Research Work in Interesting Times London: Routledge. 

THOMSON, P.L., HALL, C. and RUSSELL, L., 2006. An arts project failed, censored or…? A critical incident approach to artist-school partnerships Changing English. 13(1), 29-44

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

THOMSON, P.L., 2006. Policy scholarship against de-politicisation. In: OZGA, J., SEDDON, T. and POPKEWITZ, T.S., eds., World yearbook of education 2006 London: Routledge. 

THOMSON, P.L. and GUNTER, H., 2006. From ‘consulting pupils’ to ‘pupils as researchers’: a situated case narrative.British Educational Research Journal. 32(6), 839-856

BLACKMORE, J., THOMSON, P.L. and BARTY, K., 2006. Principal selection: homosociability, the search for security and the production of normalized principal identities Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. 34(3), 297-318

HOLLINS, K., GUNTER, H. M. and THOMSON, P.L., 2006. Living improvement: a case study of a secondary school in England Improving Schools. 9(2), 141-152

HARRIS, B, VINCENT, K, THOMSON, P and TOALSTER, R, 2006. Does every child know they matter?: Pupil’s views of one alternative to exclusion Pastoral Care in Education. 24(2), 28-38

THOMSON, P AND GUNTER, H, 2006. Stories from commissioned research In: BERA Conference Proceedings. 

THOMSON, P.L. and BLACKMORE, J., 2006. Beyond the power of one: redesigning the work of schools and their principals. Journal of Educational Change. 7(3), 161-177

THOMSON, P.L., NIXON, H. and COMBER, B., 2006. A case of intention deficit disorder? ICT policy, disadvantaged schools and leaders. School Effectiveness and School Improvement: an international journal of research, policy and practice. 17(4), 465-482

THOMSON, P.L., 2006. Miners, diggers, ferals and show-men: school-community projects that affirm and unsettle identities and place British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27(1), 81–96.

THOMSON, P.L., BROWN, L., DAY, C. and TOWNSEND, A., 2005. Developing A Networked Learning Community with ICT – Learning the Hard Way

THOMSON, P.L., 2005. Bringing Bourdieu to policy sociology: codification, misrecognition and exchange value in the UK context Journal of Education Policy. 20(6), 741-758

HALL, C.J. and THOMSON, P., 2005. Creative tensions? Creativity and basic skills in recent educational policy English in Education. 39(3), 5-18

THOMSON, P.L., BLACKMORE, J. and SACHS, J., 2005. An investigation of the declining supply in principals in Australia, 

THOMSON, P.L., 2005. Who’s afraid of Saul Alinsky?: radical traditions in community organising Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education. 47(2/3), 199-206

THOMSON, P.L., MCQUADE, V. and ROCHFORD, K., 2005. ‘My little special house’: re-forming the risky geographies of middle school girls at Clifftop College. In: Problem Girls: working with troubled and troublesome young women. London: Routledge Falmer,. 

THOMSON, P.L., 2005. Building family-school relationships in Australia and New Zealand: debates, dilemmas and promising directions. In: HIATT-MICHAEL, DIANA B., ed., Promising Practices for Family Involvement Across the Continents Greenwich: Information Age Publishing Inc. 

BARTY, K., THOMSON, P.L., BLACKMORE, J. and SACHS, J., 2005. Unpacking the issues: researching the shortage of school principals in two states in Australia Australian Educational Researcher. 32(3), 1-18

THOMSON, P.L., 2005. Developing the textual turn: tracking the grammar of research case records Educational Action Research. 13(1), 137-159

THOMSON, P., 2005. Globalising the rust belt and public education. In: MICHAEL APPLE and JANE KENWAY. MICHAEL SINGH, eds., Globalising Education: Policies, Pedagogies and Politics Bern: Peter Lang AG. 79-92

THOMSON, P.L., ELLISON, L., BYROM, T. and BULMAN, D., 2004. An investigation into queries that school offices receive from parents and carers DfES. (Research Report RR57)

REID, A. and THOMSON, P.L., 2004. Democracy and the official curriculum. In: WILLIS, P, ed., Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination: revisioning justice, freedom and community 415-430

KAMLER, B. and THOMSON, P.L., 2004. Driven to abstraction: doctoral supervision and writing pedagogies Teaching in Higher Education. 9(2), 195-210

BLACKMORE, J. and THOMSON, P.L., 2004. Just `good and bad news’?: disciplinary imaginaries of head teachers in Australia and English print media Journal of Education Policy. 19(3), 301-320

THOMSON, P.L., 2004. Severed heads and compliant bodies?: a speculation about principal identities Discourse. 25(1), 43-60

REID, A. and THOMSON, P.L., 2003. Challenging the dominant discourse of the state aid debate. Change: Transformations in Education. 6(1), 19-33

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

THOMSON, P.L., BLACKMORE, J., SACHS, J. and TREGENZA, K, 2003. High stakes principalship – sleepless nights, heart attacks and sudden death accountabilities: reading media representations of the US principal shortage Australian Journal of Education. 42(2), 118

THOMSON, P.L., 2003. No more Managers-R-Us! Researching/teaching about head teachers and ‘schools in challenging circumstances’ Journal of Education Policy. 18(3), 333-345

THOMSON, P.L., MCQUADE, V. and ROCHFORD, K., 2003. “No-One’s a good or bad student here”: changing identities in an active citizenship project International Journal of Learning. 10, 

THOMSON, P.L. and COMBER, B., 2003. Deficient “disadvantage students” or media-savvy new meaning makers?: engaging new metaphors for redesigning classrooms and pedagogies McGill Journal of Education. 38(2), 305-328

THOMSON, P.L., 2003. Just curriculum work Education Review. 17(1), 82-89

THOMSON, P.L. and HOLDSWORTH, R., 2003. Theorizing change in the educational `field’: re-readings of `student participation’ projects International Journal of Leadership in Education. 6(4), 371-392

THOMSON, P and REID A, 2003. Introduction: what’s public about curriculum?. In: , ed., Rethinking public education: towards a public curriculum ACSA

SANDERSON, V. and THOMSON, P.L., 2003. Towards a just indigenous education: a continuing challenge for state schooling. In: REID, A. and THOMSON, P.L., eds., Rethinking public education: towards a public curriculum 95-120

THOMSON, P., 2002. Schooling the rustbelt kids: making the difference in changing times Sterling USA, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books Ltd. 

SANDERSON, V. and THOMSON, P., 2002. Diversity and Discipline: the impact of punishment on the learning of Aboriginal students 

THOMSON, P.L., 2002. Our families : strengthening school-family relations. 

THOMSON, P.L., 2002. Muddy waters and dirty discourse(s): teaching about social justice in teacher education Teaching Education. 13(1), 103-111

THOMSON, P.L., 2002. Strengthening family-school relationships: a story about using research to develop policy and practice in Tasmania International Electronic Journal for leadership in learning. 6(13), 

BRENNAN, M., KENWAY, J., THOMSON, P.L. and ZIPIN, L., 2002. Uneasy alliances: university, workplace, industry and profession in the education doctorate Australian Educational Researcher. 29(3), 63-84

MCWILLIAM, E., TAYLOR, P. and THOMSON, P., 2002. Research training in professional doctoral programs: What can we learn from professional doctorates? Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training. 

COMBER, B., THOMSON, P.L. and WELLS, M., 2001. Critical literacy finds a “place”: writing and social action in a low-income Australian grade 2/3 classroom Elementary School Journal. 101(4), 451-464

THOMSON, P.L., 2001. How principals lose `face’: a disciplinary tale of educational administration and modern managerialism Discourse. 22(1), 5-22

THOMSON, P.L., 2001. Lessons from Alberta?: choice, equity, diversity and democracy in public education Curriculum Perspectives. 21(3), 39-50

THOMSON, P.L., 2001. The sound of one hand grasping at straws?: the struggle for equity and the quality in public education. In: NURSEY-BRAY, P. and BACCHI, C.L., eds., Left directions : is there a third way? 178-192

THOMSON, P.L., 2001. Ambiguous practice: a professional doctorate for public sector leaders. In: Doctoral education and professional practice: the next generation Armidale: Kardoorair Press. 247-274

THOMSON, P.L., 2001. From DSP to CLP: literacy, educational disadvantage and policy English in Australia. 19-34

THOMSON, P.L., 2000. The sorcery of apprenticeships and new/old brooms: thinking about theory, practice, “the practicum” and change Teaching Education. 11(1), 67-74

THOMSON, P.L., 2000. Like school, educational disadvantage and thisness. Australian Educational Researcher. 27(3), 151-166

THOMSON, P.L., 2000. Move over Rover!: an essay/assay of the field of educational management in the UK Journal of Education Policy. 15(6), 717-732