OUTPUTS

2026

Wilkins, A.W. (2026). Assemblages of teacher wellbeing: Tracing entanglements of science, governance, policy, and technology. British Journal of Sociology of Education. [In development]

Wilkins, A.W. (2026). Computational school governance: Data publics, artificial intelligence and soft privatisation. In L. Cone, K. Brøgger & A. Giudici (eds), Afterstates: Paradoxes of Privatization in an Age of Geopolitical Unrest. Policy Press: London. [In development]

Karnovsky, S., Gobby, B., Variyan, G., Wilkins, A.W., & Olmedo, A. (2026). ‘Be That Teacher’ campaign: Mobilising public affect as a policy response to teacher recruitment within Australia. Journal of Education Policy. [Under review]

Bertotti, V. & Wilkins, A.W. (2026). The neurotic parent: Affect, risk and school choice. Journal of Education Policy. [Under review]

Wilkins, A.W. (2026). Foreword. In C. Skerritt (ed.), Opportunities and Challenges for Policy Advice and Policy Making in Education. Bloomsbury: London.

2025

Wilkins, A.W., Olmedo, A., Gobby, B., & Karnovsky, S. (2025). The teacher wellbeing turn: Neuropolitics, education and the psy-complex. Critical Studies in Education, iFirst.

Romualdo, V. & Wilkins, A.W. (2025). Rethinking educational federalism: Using assemblage theory to analyse policy travel and transformation in Argentina. Journal of Education Policy, iFirst.

Mifsud, D. & Wilkins, A.W. (2025). A systematic review of school governance literature between 2000 and 2023. Leadership and Policy in Schools, iFirst.

Tsang, K.K. & Wilkins, A.W. (2025). The politics of teacher wellbeing: ‘Sung baang’, neoliberalism and power struggles in Hong Kong. Globalisation, Societies and Education, iFirst.

Gobby, B., Karnovsky, S., & Wilkins, A.W. (2025). Using Foucault to interrogate teacher wellbeing as discourse. In R. Niesche & D. Mifsud (eds), Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges. Bloomsbury: London.

2024

Nicholson, P. & Wilkins, A.W. (2024). Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: Partnership building and policy enactment during times of crisis. Journal of Education Policy, 40(1), 89–110.

Wilkins, A.W. & Mifsud, D. (2024). What is governance? Projects, objects and analytics in education. Journal of Education Policy, 39(3), 349–365.

Wilkins, A.W., Collet-Sabe, J., Esper, T., Gobby, B., & Grimaldi, E. (2024). Assembling New Public Management: Actors, networks and projects. In D.B. Edwards, A. Verger, K. Takayama & M. McKenzie (eds), Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 253–278.

Wilkins, A., Courtney, S.J., & Piattoeva, N. (2024). Keywords in education policy research: A conceptual toolbox. Policy Press: Bristol.

2023

Keddie, A., MacDonald, K., Blackmore, J., Boyask, R., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Heffernan, A., Hursh, D., McGrath-Champ, S., Møller, J., O-Neill, J., Parding, K., Salokangas, M., Skerritt, C., Stacey, M., Thomson, P., Wilkins, A., Wilson, R., Wylie, C. & Yoon, E. (2023). What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?. Australian Education Researcher, 50, 1571-1597.

Wilkins, A. (2023). Publics in education: Thinking with Gunter on plurality, democracy and local reasoning. In T. Fitzgerald & S.J. Courtney (eds), Critical education policy and leadership studies: The intellectual contributions of Helen M. Gunter. Springer: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 113-126.

Wilkins, A. (2023). Mapping the field: Education policy research and theory. In A. Wilkins (ed.), Policy Foundations of Education. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 9-32.

Wilkins, A. (2023). Introduction. In A. Wilkins (ed.), Policy Foundations of Education. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 1-8.

Wilkins, A. (ed.) (2023). Policy foundations of education. Bloomsbury: London.

2022

Wilkins, A. & Gobby, B. (2022). Objects and subjects of risk: A governmentality approach to education governance. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 22(5), 915-928.

Wilkins, A. (2022). Academisation and the law of ‘attraction’: An ethnographic study of relays, connective strategies and regulated participation. In C. Kulz, K. Morrin & R. McGinity (eds), Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 35-59.

2021

Wilkins, A. (2021). Deconstructing governance: Perspectives in post-positivist thinking. In M.A. Peters & R. Heraud (eds), Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer: Singapore.

Wilkins, A. & Gobby, B. (2021). Governance and educational leadership. In S. Courtney, H. Gunter, R. Niesche & T. Trujillo (eds), Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 309-322.

2019

Wilkins, A., Collet-Sabé, J., Gobby, B. & Hangartner, J. (2019). Translations of New Public Management: A decentred approach to school governance in four OECD countries. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(2), 147-160.

Wilkins, A. (2019). The processual life of neoliberalisation: Permutations of value systems and normative commitments in a co-operative trust setting. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(11), 1180-1195.

Wilkins, A. (2019). Technologies in rational self-management: Interventions in the ‘responsibilisation’ of school governors. In J. Allan, V. Harwood & C.R. Jørgensen (eds), World Yearbook of Education 2020: Schooling, Governance and Inequalities. Routledge: London & New York, pp. 99-112.

Wilkins, A. (2019). Wither democracy? The rise of epistocracy and monopoly in school governance. In S. Riddle & M. Apple (eds), Re-imagining Education for Democracy. Routledge: London & New York, pp. 142-155.

Wilkins, A. (2019). Reframing Education as a Public and Common Good: Enhancing Democratic Governance by Rita Locatelli. Journal of Education Policy, 36(1), 155-158. Book review.

Wilkins, A. (2019). The Handbook of Global Education Policy edited by Karen Mundy et al. Journal of Education Policy, 35(2), 284-286. Book review.

2018

Wilkins, A. (2018). Neoliberalism, citizenship and education: A policy discourse analysis. In A. Peterson, G. Stahl & H. Soong (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Palgrave: Basingstoke, pp. 141–153.

Wilkins, A. & Olmedo, A. (2018). Conceptualising education governance: Framings, perspectives and theories. In A. Wilkins & A. Olmedo (eds), Education Governance and Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 1-20.

Wilkins, A. (2018). Assembling schools as organisations: On the limits and contradictions of neoliberalism. In M. Connolly, C. James, S. Kruse & D.E. Spicer (eds), SAGE International Handbook on School Organization. Sage: London, pp. 509-52.

Wilkins, A. & Olmedo, A. (eds) (2018). Education Governance and Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research. Bloomsbury: London.

2017

Wilkins, A. (2017). Rescaling the local: Multi-academy trusts, private monopoly and statecraft in England. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49(2), 171–185.

Olmedo, A., & Wilkins, A. (2017). Governing through parents: A genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England. Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education, 38(4), 573–589.

Wilkins, A. (2017). Creating expert publics: A governmentality approach to school governance under neo-liberalism. In S. Courtney, R. McGinity & H. Gunter (Eds.), Educational Leadership: Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times (pp. 97–110). Routledge.

Wilkins, A. (2017). The business of governorship: Corporate elitism in public education. In H.M. Gunter, D. Hall & M.W. Apple (Eds.), Corporate Elites and the Reform of Education (pp. 161–176). Policy Press.

Wilkins, A. (2017). Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Science Look at the Neoliberal University by Margaret Thornton (Ed.). Journal of Education Policy, 32(3), 386–387. Book review.

2016

Wilkins, A. (2016). Gobernanza escolar y racionalidad de la política neoliberal: ¿Qué tiene que ver la democracia con ello?. In J. Collet-Sabé & A. Tort (Eds.), La governanza escolar democrática: Más allá de los modelos neoliberal y neoconservador (pp. 84–100). Morata.

Wilkins, A. (2016). Modernising School Governance: Corporate Planning and Expert Handling in State Education. Routledge. Awarded joint-second prize by the Society for Educational Studies (SES) for books published in 2016.

2015

Wilkins, A. (2015). Professionalizing school governance: The disciplinary effects of school autonomy and inspection on the changing role of school governors. Journal of Education Policy, 30(2), 182–200.

Wilkins, A., & Burke, P.J. (2015). Widening participation in British higher education: The role of professional and social class identities and commitments. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(3), 434–452.

Wilkins, A. (2015). STEM Strategies: Student Ambassadors and Equality in Higher Education by Clare Gartland. Journal of Education Policy, 30(5), 747–748. Book review.

2014

Olmedo, A., & Wilkins, A. (2014). Gobernar la educación a través de los padres: política educativa y construcción de subjetividades neoliberales en Inglaterra. Revista Profesorado, 18(2), 99–116.

Wilkins, A. (2014). Affective Labour and Neoliberal Fantasies: The Gendered and Moral Economy of School Choice in England. In M. Vandenbeld Giles (Ed.), Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism (pp. 265–282). Demeter Press.

2013

Wilkins, A. (2013). Libertarian paternalism: Policy and everyday translations of the rational and the affective. Critical Policy Studies, 7(4), 395–40.

Wilkins, A. (2013). Social Theory and Education Research by Mark Murphy (Ed.). Social Theory Applied. Book review.

Wilkins, A. (2013). Local Democracy, Civic Engagement and Community: From New Labour to the Big Society by Hugh Atkinson. LSE Review of Books. Book review.

2012

Wilkins, A. (2012). Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics of educational governance. Journal of Pedagogy, 3(1), 11–29.

Wilkins, A. (2012). Commodifying diversity: Governance and education in the age of neoliberalism. Human Affairs, 22(2), 122–130.

Wilkins, A. (2012). The spectre of neoliberalism: Pedagogy, gender and the construction of learner identities. Critical Studies in Education, 53(2), 197–210.

Wilkins, A. (2012). Push and pull in the classroom: Gender, competition and the neoliberal subject. Gender and Education, 24(7), 765–768.

Wilkins, A. (2012). School choice and the commodification of education: A visual approach to school brochures and websites. Critical Social Policy, 32(1), 70–87.

Wilkins, A. (2012). (Guest editor) Pedagogy of the consumer: The politics of neo-liberal reform. Special issue Part 1: Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and the Curriculum: A Global Perspective. Journal of Pedagogy, 3(2), 161–173.

Wilkins, A. (2012). (Guest editor) Shades of Freire: Exorcising the spectre haunting pedagogy. Special issue Part 2: Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and the Curriculum: A Global Perspective. Journal of Pedagogy, 4(1), 5–10.

2011

Wilkins, A. (2011). School choice, consumerism and the ethical strand in talk. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32(3), 357–370.

Wilkins, A. (2011). Community and school choice: Geographies of care and responsibility. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21(1), 1–13.

2010

Wilkins, A. (2010). Citizens and/or consumers: Mutations in the construction of meanings and practices of school choice. Journal of Education Policy, 25(2), 171–189.

2009

Wilkins, A. (2009). School Choice and Constructing the Active Citizen: Representations and Negotiations of Active, Responsible Parenting. Open University. PhD Thesis