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Pat Thomson

Emeritus Professor of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Professor Pat Thomson PSM PhD FAcSS is Professor Emerita. She works part time at Adelaide University, South Australia. Pat is also currently Senior Evidence Adviser for the Cultural Learning Alliance. Pat continues to work on her . This blog is known and used in almost every country and has had over 5 million visitors since it began. Patter is archived by the British Library and posts are frequently republished elsewhere. She is on various socials as @ThomsonPat and has an academic writing .

Pat is known for her interdisciplinary engagement with questions of creative and socially just learning and change. Much of this work has been in collaboration with Professor Christine Hall. Shes also recently worked with Professor Toby Greany on research around at the across the UK nations.

Her research activities can be seen on a range of websites - , the , the project, , and . She worked collaboratively with to investigate , this led to an ESRC project looking

At present, she is an Adjunct Professor at the Free State University, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria.

Pat chaired the research group of the In 2023 they published a major report on Art and design education - She has been 'resident ethnographer' with the Tate Schools and Teachers team with whom she has a long term partnership, she has also researched with Nottingham Contemporary and the Serpentine galleries.

Some history: Pat joined the School of Education in 2003 and completed a five year term as Director of Research during which time she coordinated the School's successful RAE submission. She also worked for five years as Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies. Before coming to The 糖心原创, she directed the professional doctorate in education and an offshore PhD programme at the University of South Australia. She was Deputy Director of the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures. She previously managed strategic planning in the state education department. Before that, she was principal of Paralowie R- 12 for eleven years, deputy principal at The Parks, and founding Coordinator of Bowden Brompton Community School. She has represented Australian principals on national policy making bodies and at international conferences, and was President of the South Australian Secondary Principals Association. She was a member of national and state policy making bodies and has extensive experience in equity policy development. She was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1991, a Fulbright Scholarship in 1992, the Garth Boomer Curriculum prize from the Australian Curriculum Studies Association in 1995, and the Australian Association for Research in Education Outstanding Thesis award in 2000.

Other scholarly service: Pat is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Educational Administration and History, Teaching Education, Education Review, the Journal of Education Policy, International Journal of Leadership in Education, International Journal of Research and Methods in Education, the Australian Educational Researcher, Ethnography and Education, Improving Schools and the Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations.

She reviews regularly for the Australian Research Council and other research funding bodies.

Teaching Summary

I offer various academic writing courses to PhDers at Nottingham and in universities around the world

Research Summary

Her current research focuses on creativity, the arts and change in schools and communities, and postgraduate writing pedagogies. She maintains an interest in the changing work of school… read more

Selected Publications

  • THOMSON, PAT, 2020. School scandals: Blowing the whistle on the corruption of our education system Policy Press.
  • 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.
  • HEFFERNAN, AMANDA, THOMSON, PAT and BLACKMORE, JILL, eds., 2024. Resistance in educational leadership, management and administration Routledge.

Pat is a member of the . Her research interests are underpinned by a commitment to social justice and an interest in questions of power, identity, place and agency. Current research focuses on:

  • the changing work of school administrators
  • postgraduate writing pedagogies and creativity
  • the arts
  • school reform

She has had extensive involvement in school, family and community programmes and is keen to work closely with practitioners and pupils as co-researchers. She has expertise in:

  • policy
  • sociology
  • cultural geography
  • text-based and arts informed research methods

Research proposals: please email Pat if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also:

Current Research

Her current research focuses on creativity, the arts and change in schools and communities, and postgraduate writing pedagogies. She maintains an interest in the changing work of school administrators and in children and young people who do not get the full benefits of education. All of her research is underpinned by a commitment to social justice and an interest in questions of power, identity, place and agency. She has had extensive involvement in school, family and community programmes and works closely with practitioners and pupils as co-researchers. She has expertise in policy, sociology and cultural geography and has a particular interest in text-based and arts informed research methods. She frequently uses visual research methods in her work.

Current research

Researching Arts in Primary Schools - - funded by the Freelands Foundation. There are two components - a survey of arts and creativity teaching in initial primary teacher education,and a case control study of twenty arts rich primary schools. With Prof Christine Hall, Dr Zhe Liang, and Dr Liam Maloy.

and career plans. Currently doing a national survey with NAHT and ASCL. With Prof Toby Greany and Dr Nick Martindale. Funding from ESRC IAA fund.

learning benefits, funded by U Nottingham Policy Impact, in partnerhship with the APPG on Art Craft and Design (reporting end 2021)

ESRC collaborative doctoral programme: Investigating learning in Nottingham Contemporary education programmes, with Nottingham Contemporary. Doctoral researcher: Cassie Kill

AHRC collaborative doctoral programme with TATE: How can gallery education support the development of art-rich schools. Doctoral researcher: Maddy Gilliam

ESRC collaborative doctoral programme: Childhood in the camps with Deborah Youdell, University of Birmingham and Ash Perrin, Flying Seagull Project. Doctoral researchers: Bobby Beaumont

Recently completed research projects:

Arts Council England: Royal Shakespeare Company Education and Tate Schools and Teachers, With Christine Hall. 拢296,985.

Tate Learning: Circuit Longitudinal 糖心原创 of young people. With Becky Coles. 拢60,000

Serpentine Gallery evaluation of the World Without Walls programme, with Anton Franks Tate Schools and Teachers team: Summer schools 2012 -2015; and In Site of Learning, a co-constructed research pilot project.

Popup Evaluation of teacher writer programme. With Jenny Elliott and Chris Hall. 拢13000

with IFF and Martin Mills, UCL.

Past Research

Recently Completed Research Projects:

AHRC collaborative doctoral programme: Partnerships to involve hard to reach young people in the Circuit youth arts programme. With Emily Pringle, Tate Learning. Doctoral researcher: Nicola Sims.

Tate Circuit Scoping a longitudinal study, with Rebecca Coles

New Art Exchange: Bubble arts partnership, with Rebecca Coles

The Princes Trust: What's the alternative? Effective support for young people disengaging from the mainstream. With Jodie Pennachia

AHRC Cultural value programme. The value of live art: What can making and editing film tell us? with Emily Pringle, Tate Learning

AHRC cultural value programme: Cultural value in the CCE archive. (with additional funding from CCE)

Culture, Creativity and Education Signature pedagogies: ethnographic studies of artists at work ( with Chris Hall), see www.signaturepedagogies.org.uk

Get Wet: the Papplewick water literacies project with Mary Biddulph, Natasa Lackovic, Gary Mills and Andy Townsend, local schools and Nottingham artists. ( Esmee Fairbairn, Garfield Weston Trust), see www.getwet.org.uk

AHRC Connected Communities Scoping 糖心原创 Performing Impact: narratives, texts and performances in community theatre, with Christine Hall, Julie Sanders and Jem Bloomfield ( School of English)

Culture, Creativity and Education: Evaluation of knowledge transfer in the Royal Shakespeare Company Leading Practitioner Network ( with Chris Hall, Ken Jones, Anton Franks)

Pupil mobility in the county ( with Kay Hawe)

Leading school case studies (CCE)

NCSL Models of change leadership ( with Chris Day)

Arts Council UK/Creative Partnerships (2006-2008) The impact of Creative Partnerships on whole school change, with Christine Hall, and Ken Jones and Nafsika Alexiadou (Keele)

Nottinghamshire Arts Partnership (2008-2009) Evaluation of Nottinghamshire Arts Partnership, with Christine Hall and Edd Sellman

Pupil research project with Helen Gunter (U Manchester) and Knutsford High School

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2005-2006) Mapping the provision of alternatives to permanent exclusion with Belinda Harris and Lisa Russell

ESRC Seminar series RES-451-26-0165 (2004-2006) Engaging critically with pupil voice: children and young people as partners in school and community change, with Bridget Somekh, (MMU), Michael Fielding, (Sussex) and Jane MacGregor, (Networked Learning Communities)

ESRC RES-000-22-0834 (2004-2006) , with Chris Hall and Lisa Russell (Nottingham)

Australian Research Council (2002-March 2005) An investigation of the declining supply of principals in Australia, with Jill Blackmore (Deakin) and Judyth Sachs (Sydney)

BECTA bursary. (2004) Enhancing a networked learning community with ICT, with Liz Brown and PSLN schools The full report is available on

Children's Fund: (2005), Pat Thomson, Belinda Harris, Kerry Vincent Richard Toalster, (CREDE, 糖心原创)

DfES Innnovations ( 2004) Evaluation of innovations in Knutsford High School with Helen Gunter ( U Manchester)

DfES (2003-2004) An investigation of queries that school offices receive from parents/carers, with Linda Ellison, Tina Byrom and Donna Bulman (Nottingham) The final report is available on

McWilliam, E; Taylor, P; Thomson, P; Green, W; Maxwell, T Wildy, H; Simons, D (2002) Research training in doctoral programs: what can be learnt from professional doctorates? Canberra: Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs The final report is available from .

Sanderson V and Thomson, P ( 2002) Discipline and diversity: The impact of punishment on the learning of Aboriginal students. ARC funded research: Final Report .

Thomson, P (2002) Active citizenship action research projects. Final report. Canberra: Civics and Citizenship Education Professional Development Programme

Thomson, P ( 2002) Strengthening school-family relationships. Policy and professional development materials. Hobart: Tasmanian Education Department.

  • 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. 鈥淭he way I know is by looking back鈥�: English primary school children鈥檚 views of making progress in arts subjects Education 3-13. 52(1),
  • THOMSON, PAT and GREANY, TOBY, 2024. Educational Management Administration & Leadership.
  • THOMSON, PAT, 2024. Why bother with the arts in schools? Australian Educational Researcher. (In Press.)
  • THOMSON, PAT, 2024. Doctoral memes as public pedagogy?: Or, Heaven knows I鈥檓 miserable now Studies in Continuing Education. (In Press.)
  • 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 鈥渁uthentic鈥� 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.
  • 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
  • THOMSON, PAT, 2022. A reflection/reflexion on student participation and system change. In: BRASOF, MARC and LEVINE, JOSEPH, eds., The Student Voice Research Methods Handbook Teachers College Press.
  • MILLS, MARTIN and THOMSON, PAT, 2022. English schooling and little e and big E exclusion: What鈥檚 equity got to do with it? Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 27(2), 185-198
  • THOMSON, PAT, GREANY, TOBY, COUSINS, SUSAN and MARTINDALE, NICK, 2022. Journal of Educational Administration and History.
  • THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2022. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
  • 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. International Journal of Art and Design Education. 40(3), 599-614
  • THOMSON, PAT, GREANY, TOBY and MARTINDALE, NICK, 2021. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 53(3-4), 296-300
  • THOMSON, PAT and MALOY, LIAM, 2021. 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. Critical Studies in Education. 61(5), 545-560
  • THOMSON, PAT, 2019. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 51(2), 87-102
  • THOMSON, PAT, HALL, CHRISTINE, EARL, LEXI and GEPPERT. CORINNA, 2019. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 40(2), 239-253
  • FRANKS, ANTON and THOMSON, PAT, 2019. 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 鈥榪uality鈥� and 鈥榲ulnerability鈥�. 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. 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. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 20(6), 622-640
  • THOMSON, PAT and PENNACCHIA, JODIE, 2016. Critical Studies in Education. 57(1), 84-99
  • HALL, CHRISTINE and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. Research Papers in Education. 32(1), 106-120
  • PENNACCHIA, JODIE and THOMSON, PAT, 2016. 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. (In Press.)
  • THOMSON, PAT and HALL, CHRISTINE, 2015. 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. Educational Action Research. 23(1), 36-50
  • COLES, REBECCA and THOMSON, PAT, 2015. 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. 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. . 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. 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
  • 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. 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 鈥�: or - should all school leaders read Foucault? International Journal of Leadership in Education. 16(2), 155-172
  • THOMSON, P., 2013. 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. 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 鈥� 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. 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 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. International Journal of Research and Methods in Education. 34(1), 17-30
  • THOMSON, P, 2011. 鈥楾he local鈥� 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
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  • 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
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  • 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 affuent countries Routledge. (In Press.)
  • THOMSON, P, 2009. Bringing Bourdieu to 鈥榳idening participation鈥� 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. Professional Voice. 7(3),
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  • 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. 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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. International Journal of Educational Development. 29, 99-106
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  • THOMSON, P, ed., 2008. Doing visual research with children and young people London: Routledge.
  • KAMLER, B and THOMSON, P, 2008. Educational Researcher. 37(8), 507-514
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  • HALL, C.J. and THOMSON, P.L., 2007. British Educational Research Journal. 33(3), 315-329
  • HALL, C., THOMSON, P. and RUSSELL, L., 2007. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 28(5), 605-619
  • THOMSON, P and HALL, C AND RUSSELL, L, 2007. Ethnography and Education. 2(3), 381-400
  • BYROM, R., THOMSON, P. and GATES, P., 2007. Improving Schools. 10(1), 29-40
  • VINCENT, K, HARRIS, B, THOMSON, P and TOALSTER, R., 2007. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 12(4), 283-298
  • THOMSON, P.L., ELLISON, L., BYROM, T. and BULMAN, D., 2007. Gender and Education. 19(2), 141-158
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • BLACKMORE, J., THOMSON, P.L. and BARTY, K., 2006. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. 34(3), 297-318
  • HOLLINS, K., GUNTER, H. M. and THOMSON, P.L., 2006. Improving Schools. 9(2), 141-152
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  • THOMSON, P.L., 2006. Miners, diggers, ferals and show-men: school-community projects that affirm and unsettle identities and place
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  • THOMSON, P.L., BLACKMORE, J. and SACHS, J., 2005. An investigation of the declining supply in principals in Australia,
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  • 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, dilemas and promising directions. In: HIATT-MICHAEL, DIANA B., ed., Promising Practices for Family Involvement Across the Continents Greenwich: Information Age Publishing Inc.
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  • 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. DfES. (Research Report RR57)
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  • 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 principleship - sleepless nights, heart attacks and sudden death accountabilities: reading media representations of the US principal shortage Australian Journal of Education. 42(2), 118
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  • 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,
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  • THOMSON, P.L., 2003. Just curriculum work Education Review. 17(1), 82-89
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  • THOMSON, P and REID A, 2003. Introduction: what's public about curriculum?. In: , ed., Rethinking public education: towards a public curriculum
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  • 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),
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  • 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. Elementary School Journal. 101(4), 451-464
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  • THOMSON, P.L., 2001. Lessons from Alberta?: choice, equity, diversity and democracy in public education Curriculum Perspectives. 21(3), 39-50
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  • THOMSON, P.L., 2000. Like school, educational disadvantage and thisness. Australian Educational Researcher. 27(3), 151-166
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