Dobson, Tom

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Clark, Timothy, Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Drury, Graham, Hemmins, Jayne, Houselander, Ronnie, O'Dempsey, Gillian, Scott, Alec and Temperton, John (2026) “Why ABR? Illustrating the affordances of arts-based research for the professional doctorate in education”. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

Carr, Amy, Kumar, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9045-2446 and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2026) ‘Square pegs, round holes’- A qualitative case study investigating pupils with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and their perception of barriers to inclusion in classrooms in the North of England.’. Support for Learning. (In Press)

Clark, Tim and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2026) Going Against the Grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 11 (1). pp. 20-27.

Clare, Isobel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-7807, Haines Lyon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-744X, Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Holmes, Amy (2025) Realising Identities of Youth Researchers: Weakly Framed Capacity Building in a Community Centre Setting. Journal of Participatory Research Methods. (In Press)

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Ingram-Brown, Daniel (2025) Capturing the process of knowledge creation: creative approaches for disrupting IMRaD in PhD theses and duoethnography articles. International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 and Ingram-Brown, Daniel (2025) Capturing the process of knowledge creation: creative approaches for disrupting good form in PhD theses and duoethnography. International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

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 (2025) Student voice is not as important compared to teachers/adults’: critical capacity building for co-curricular youth participatory action research. Quality Education for All, 2 (2). pp. 41-57.

Gilbert, Francis and 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, 24 (1). pp. 17-32.

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, 77 (3). pp. 978-999.

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 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-7807, Holmes, Amy and Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 (2025) Navigating Co-creation in Participatory Ethnographic Youth Research: Flexibility, Intensity, and an Ethical Path Towards Meaningful Collaboration. In: Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy. SAGE

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

Clare, Isobel, Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041, Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978, Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150, Gillet, Adam, Lightfoot, Rob, Lowe, Hilary, Haines Lyon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-744X, McCarthy, Ann, Walker, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4494-8093 and Wheatley, Rebecca (2025) In their own words: removing barriers for ‘more able’ disadvantaged students in secondary schools - Scoping Review. Project Report. York St John University.

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

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Dobson, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-9150 How community projects can promote students’ critical thinking skills. UNSPECIFIED.