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O'Connor, Jane (2024) Social media, kidinfluencers and the changing discourse on childhood. In: Children's Media Yearbook. The Children’s Media Foundation. ISBN 9781916135369

Bowen, Clair (2024) An Exploration of ‘Evental Learning’: a New Pedagogical Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

O'Connor, Jane and Ludgate, Shannon and Le Quang, Vuong and Le Thanh, Huy and Pham Dung Phat, Huynh (2023) Lessons from the pandemic: teacher educators’ use of digital technologies and pedagogies in Vietnam before, during and after the Covid-19 lockdown. International Journal of Educational Development, 103. p. 102942. ISSN 0738-0593

O'Connor, Jane (2023) Britney Spears’ memoir is a reminder of the stigma and potential damage of child stardom. The Conversation.

Gaywood, D (2023) The post migration lived experiences of Syrian refugee children in Early Childhood Education and Care in England: four children’s stories. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Madsen, Siri and O'Connor, Jane and Janes, Aleksander and Klančar, A. and Brito, Rita and Demeshkant, N. and Konca, A.S. and Krasin, S. and Saure, H.I. and Gjesdal, B. and Ludgate, Shannon and Jwaifell, M. and Almuhtadi, R. and Thorvaldsen, S. (2023) International Perspectives on the Dynamics of Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers’ Digital Competences. Education Sciences, 13 (7). p. 633. ISSN 2227-7102

O'Connor, Jane and Fotakopoulou, Olga and Ludgate, Shannon and Kewlramani, Sarika and Johnston, Kelly (2023) Resisting hyperreality?: talking to young children about YouTube and YouTube Kids. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. ISSN 1463-9491

Glanville, Kate (2023) Exploring Outdoor Learning in Primary Education for Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

O'Connor, Jane and Fotakopoulou, Olga (2022) Using rhythmanalysis to explore the synchronicities and disruptions in children’s everyday lives in England and Greece during the 2020 lockdown. Methodological Innovations. ISSN 2059-7991

O'Connor, Jane and Wheatcroft, L. and Chun, Cao and Thanh, Hai Pham Thi and Wiyarsi, Antuni and Doan, Huy Nguyen Hoang and Nguyen, Huu and Thu, Lieu Le Thi and Huynh, Tan and Luu, Hanh (2022) ‘This object really touched me’: Using Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory to explore stories of the self on an international professional doctorate development programme. Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education. ISSN 2578-3858

Colliles, Sharon Angeletta (2020) Exploring How Play-Based Pedagogies Support Mixed Ethnic Identity Formation. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Dardanou, Maria and Brito, Rita and Dia, Patricia and Fotakopoulou, Olga and Sakata, Yoko and O'Connor, Jane (2020) Use of touchscreen technology by 0-3-year-old children: Parents’ practices and perspectives in Norway, Portugal and Japan. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. ISSN 1468-7984

Fotakopoulou, Olga and Hatzigianni, Maria and Unstad, Torstein and Dardanou, Maria and O'Connor, Jane (2020) A cross-cultural exploration of early childhood educators’ beliefs and experiences around the use of touchscreen technologies with children under three years of age. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. ISSN 1752-1807

O'Connor, Jane (2019) Document Analysis. In: Practical Research Methods in Education: An Early Researcher's Critical Guide. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780815393566

Ludgate, Shannon (2018) Exploring the affordances of touchscreen technologies in early years settings in the West Midlands. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

O'Connor, Jane and Lowe, Rose and Every, Sian and Wolhuter, Caroline (2018) Evaluating Holiday Kitchen: capturing children’s perspectives on a summer holiday food and activities programme. Social Research Practice, 5 (Winter). pp. 24-32.

O'Connor, Jane (2017) Under 3s and Technology. In: Digital Technologies and Learning in the Early Years. Sage, London, pp. 87-98. ISBN 978-1-41296-242-1

O'Connor, Jane and Mercer, John (2017) Childhood and Celebrity. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138855274

O'Connor, Jane and Fotakopoulou, Olga (2016) A threat to childhood innocence or the future of learning? Parents’ perspectives on the use of touch-screen technology by 0–3 year-olds in the UK. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 17 (2). pp. 235-247. ISSN 1463-9491

O'Connor, Jane (2014) An analysis of British Newspaper Coverage of the Teenage Swimming Gold Medallists at the London 2012 Olympics. Journal of Children and Media, 8 (2). pp. 95-109. ISSN 1748-2798

O'Connor, Jane (2014) Children and Media. In: An Introduction to Early Childhood. Sage Publications, pp. 166-180. ISBN 9781446254851

McDougall, Julian and O'Connor, Jane (2013) ‘Orphans and Rich People’: A Discourse Analysis of the ‘Children's Lives’ Exhibition in Birmingham, UK. Children & Society, 29 (4). pp. 321-330. ISSN 09510605

O'Connor, Jane (2010) Is It Good to be Gifted? The Social Construction of the Gifted Child. Children & Society, 26 (4). pp. 293-303. ISSN 09510605

O'Connor, Jane (2009) Beyond Social Constructionism: A Structural Analysis of the Cultural Significance of the Child Star. Children & Society, 23 (3). pp. 214-225. ISSN 09510605

Jane, O'Connor (2008) The Cultural Significance of the Child Star. Routledge. ISBN 9780415542678