Dobson, Tom

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Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2024) Towards Boundary Crossing: Primary and Secondary School Teachers Teaching Creative Writing and its Redrafting. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.

Clark, Tim and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2024) Going Against the Grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice. (In Press)

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Curtis, Abi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6747-4356, Collins, Jane, Eckert, Paul and Davis, Paige E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-9991 (2024) Envisaging intergenerational spaces for co-creating creative writing: developing reflective functioning for positive mental health. English in Education, 58 (3). pp. 291-307.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Clark, Timothy (2024) Embracing hybridity: the affordances of arts-based research for the professional doctorate in education. Teaching in Higher Education, 29 (7). pp. 1862-1878.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Gilbert, Francis (2024) Becoming the Falconer: Productive Feedback for the Redrafting of Creative Writing. New Writing, 21 (3). pp. 259-278.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2023) Competency and affective skill outcomes for 11-19-year-olds through progressive and reconstructionist pedagogies: a systematic review. Educational Review. pp. 1-22.

Stephenson, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7469-5640, Sanches, Ana, Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Ali, Jay (2023) Story making in brave spaces of wilful belonging: co-creating a novel with British-Pakistani girls in primary school. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29 (1). pp. 95-116.

Fleet, Lucy and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2023) Growing and Fixing: Comparing the Creative Mindsets of Teachers and Artist Practitioners. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 48 (101312).

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2022) How community projects can promote students’ critical thinking skills. Times Higher Education.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Stephenson, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7469-5640 (2022) A trans-European perspective on how artists can support teachers, parents and carers to engage with young people in the creative arts. Children & Society, 36 (6). pp. 1336-1350.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2022) “A structure that other people are directing”: Doctoral Students’ Writing of Qualitative Theses in Education. The Qualitative Report, 27 (4). pp. 997-1010.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Stephenson, Lisa and De Arede, Ana (2021) Writing a Novel with Roma Primary School Children: Tensions in Disrupting Aetonormativity. Children's Literature in Education, 52. pp. 511-527.

Dobson, Julia and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2021) Empowering student voice in a secondary school: Character Education through project-based learning with students as teachers. Teacher Development, 25 (2). pp. 103-119.

Stephenson, Lisa and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2020) Releasing the socio‐imagination: children's voices on creativity, capability and mental well‐being. Support for Learning, 35 (4). pp. 454-472.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Stephenson, Lisa and De Arede, Ana (2019) Disrupting aetonormativity: involving children in the writing of literature for publication. English in Education, 55 (1). pp. 4-19.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Rose, Anthea (2019) The use of technology to enable school governors to participate remotely in meetings: A solution to skilled governor shortages in schools? Management in Education, 33 (3). pp. 134-139.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Stephenson, Lisa (2018) Challenging boundaries to cross: primary teachers exploring drama pedagogy for creative writing with theatre educators in the landscape of performativity. Professional Development in Education, 46 (2). pp. 245-255.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Rose, Anthea, Parton, Graham and Hart, Melissa (2018) Boundary crossing in school governing bodies: Perspectives from the business community. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 48 (3). pp. 532-548.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Stephenson, Lisa (2018) “I think it fits in”: using process drama to promote agentic writing with primary school children. Literacy, 53 (2). pp. 69-76.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Stephenson, Lisa (2017) Primary pupils' creative writing: enacting identities in a Community of Writers: Enacting identities in a Community of Writers. Literacy, 51 (3). pp. 162-168.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2016) “Just because I’m not a published author does not mean that I’m not a writer”: Primary Trainee Teachers’ Identities as Creative Writers. Writing in practice, 2.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2015) Developing a Theoretical Framework for Response: Creative Writing as Response in the Year 6 Primary Classroom. English in Education, 49 (3). pp. 252-265.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2014) The mad genie in the attic: performances of identity in Year 6 boys' creative writing. Gender and Education, 27 (1). pp. 37-52.

Wheldon, Joanna and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 “Until now, nobody’s ever actually said straight out how do you feel about them”: children’s experiences of the impact of high-stakes testing through participatory methods. Education 3-13.

Book Section

Haines Lyon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-744X, Clare, Isobel, Holmes, Amy and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2024) Navigating Co-creation in Participatory Ethnographic Youth Research: Flexibility, Intensity, and an Ethical Path Towards Meaningful Collaboration. In: Sage Methods. SAGE (Submitted)

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Rose, Anthea (2023) Diverse landscapes of school governing body practices: the business sector learning cross boundaries. In: Tierney, Robert J, Rizvi, Fazal and Erkican, Kadriye, (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Education. Vol. 4. 4th ed. Elsevier, pp. 420-428

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2017) Disrupting hegemonic masculinity though creative writing. In: Alvinius, Aida, (ed.) Gender Differences in Different Contexts. IntechOpen

Monograph

Green, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0446, Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Haines Lyon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-744X (2023) 'I want to make the biggest difference': A case study of project-based learning through the NextGenLeaders programme. Project Report. Enactus/York St John University, Institute for Social Justice.

Book

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2024) The Poppy Project. Blossom Spring Publishing

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2014) Naming the Unnamable : Researching Identities through Creative Writing. Springer