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Sambrook, Neil (2025) Rhythms of Vocational Education: A Lefebvrian Perspective. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Tauzer, Jayme (2024) 'Male magnets', 'Firecrackers', and 'Fussy Englishmen': An Ethnographic Investigation of the Influence of Gender Norms on Well-being in an English Care Home. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Sumner, Bethany (2023) Higher Education as a pathway to ‘the good life’: hope, risk and regret in the post-92 university. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Smith, Rob and French, Amanda and Garbett, Georgina (2023) The impact of the Aimhigher Plus partnership: stakeholders’ perspectives. Project Report. Birmingham City University, Birmingham.

Smith, Rob (2023) A reflection on doctoral supervision as the co-production of differential space. In: Critical Education Policy and Leadership Studies: The Intellectual Contributions of Helen M. Gunter. Critical Education Policy and Leadership Studies . Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 9783031368004

Smith, Rob and Gadsby, Jonathan (2023) Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy. Research Papers in Education. ISSN 0267-1522

Groll, Anne (2023) Socio-collegial discursive spaces: an exploration of the importance of informal interactions and relationships within post compulsory education. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Brockmann, Michaela and Smith, Rob (2023) ‘Invested’ Partnerships as key to high quality Apprenticeship Programmes as evidenced in On and Off the Job training. Journal of Education and Work. ISSN 1363-9080

Bennett, Peter and Lambert, Louise and Smith, Rob (2022) Introduction Rethinking and Reviving Subject English. In: Rethinking and Reviving Subject English: The Murder and the Murmur. Routledge, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781032202181

Dewes, Ian (2021) Neoliberal tensions in the English education system: What factors influence schools’ decisions about joining a multi academy trust? Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Khatun, Fatema and French, Amanda and Smith, Rob (2021) Reconceptualising student experiences: exploring embodiment and identity through differential higher education space. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 7 (1). ISSN 2055-4990

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2021) Digital research as a resource for reimagining Further Education. In: Navigating through Contemporary World with Adult Education Research and Practice. University of Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 489-504. ISBN 9788680712406

Duckworth, Vicky and Smith, Rob (2020) Creative Dissemination, Learners’ Lives and Further Education. In: Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education. Brill / Sense, Boston, pp. 217-228. ISBN 9789004420755

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2020) Leadership, further education and social justice. Project Report. FETL, London.

McKnight, K. Louise (2020) ‘So, What Are We Looking at Here?’ - Research, its Position and Pedagogy in the UK Radiography Profession. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Dakka, Fadia and Smith, Rob (2019) An Exploration of Rhythms in the Contemporary Academy: Time, Space and Affect. In: Theory and Method in Higher Education Research. Emerald Publishing, pp. 153-171. ISBN 9781838678425

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2019) Research, adult literacy and criticality: catalysing hope and dialogic caring. In: Resisting the neo-liberal discourse in Education: local, national and transnational perspectives. Policy Press, London.

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2019) Transformative teaching and learning in further education: summative report. Project Report. University and College Union, London.

O'Leary, Matt and Smith, Rob and Cui, Vanessa and Dakka, Fadia (2019) The role of leadership in prioritising and improving teaching and learning in further education. Project Report. Further Education Trust for Leadership, London.

Duckworth, Vicky and Smith, Rob (2019) Further educations: transformative teaching and learning for adults in times of austerity. In: Being an Adult Learner in Austere Times: Exploring the Contexts of Higher, Further and Community Education. Palgrave, London, pp. 151-177. ISBN 9783319972084

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2019) Transformative Learning in English Further Education. In: Handbook of Vocational Education and Training. Springer. ISBN 9783319497891

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2018) Women, adult literacy education and transformative bonds of care. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 58 (2). pp. 157-183.

Smith, Rob and Duckworth, Vicky (2018) Breaking the Triple Lock: Further education and transformative teaching and learning. Education + Training, 60 (6). pp. 529-543. ISSN 0040-0912

O'Leary, Matt and Smith, Rob (2018) Editorial. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1359-6748

Bates, S. and Groll, A. and Saunders, C. and Smith, Rob (2018) The teacher educator experience: “Guardians of the Pedagogy”? In: Identity and resistance in Further Education. Routledge, London, pp. 28-37. ISBN 9781351232951

Smith, Rob and Gallagher, Katherine (2018) The Experience of Ofsted: fear, judgement and symbolic violence. In: Identity and resistance in further education. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781351232951

Drew, Donna and Love, Emma and Davis, Alan and Smith, Rob (2018) “Feeding the monster”: vocational pedagogy and the further education policy present. In: Identity and resistance in further education. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781351232951

Duckworth, Vicky and Smith, Rob (2017) Adult Literacy: Further Education as a space for resistance. RaPAL, 93. pp. 9-17. ISSN 2054-5355

Smith, Rob (2017) Area Reviews and the End of Incorporation: a Machiavellian Moment. In: The Principal: power and professionalism in FE. IOE UCL, pp. 6-17.

BenDavid-Hadar, Iris and Case, Stephoni and Smith, Rob (2017) School Funding Formulae: Designed to Create a Learning Society? Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Smith, Rob (2017) Building Colleges for the Future: Pedagogical and Ideological Spaces. Journal of Education Policy, 32 (6). pp. 855-870. ISSN 0268-0939

Duckworth, Vicky and Smith, Rob (2017) Women's stories of empowerment and empowering. Project Report. University and College Union, London.

Duckworth, Vicky and Smith, Rob (2017) Further Education in England: transforming lives and communities Interim report. Project Report. University and College Union, London.

Smith, Rob and Wright, Victoria (2015) The possibilities of re-engagement: cultures of literacy education and so-called NEETs. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20 (4). pp. 400-418. ISSN 1359-6748

Smith, Rob and O'Leary, Matt (2015) Partnership as cultural practice in the face of neoliberal reform. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47 (2). pp. 174-192. ISSN 0022-0620

Gleeson, Denis and Hughes, Julie and O'Leary, Matt and Smith, Rob (2015) The state of professional practice and policy in the English further education system: a view from below. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20 (1). pp. 78-95. ISSN 1359-6748

Smith, Rob (2014) College re-culturing, marketisation and knowledge: the meaning of incorporation. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47 (1). pp. 18-39. ISSN 0022-0620

Smith, Rob and O'Leary, Matt (2014) Partnership as cultural practice: forging a Higher and Further Education alliance in the face of neo-liberal reform. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47 (2). pp. 174-192. ISSN 0022-0620

Wright, Victoria and Smith, Rob (2014) Literacy education and NEETs: skills-based versus socially situated approaches to curriculum. Research and Practice in Adult Literacy (RaPAL), 83. pp. 7-15. ISSN 2054 - 5355

Smith, Rob and O'Leary, Matt (2013) New Public Management in an age of austerity: knowledge and experience in further education. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45 (3). pp. 244-266. ISSN 0022-0620

O'Leary, Matt and Smith, Rob (2012) Earthquakes, cancer and cultures of fear: qualifying as a Skills for Life teacher in an uncertain economic climate. Oxford Review of Education, 38 (4). pp. 437-454. ISSN 0305-4985