Downes, P. (2023). Rethinking the Interplay between Schooling, Mental Health, Wellbeing and Poverty: Key Issues for Sociology of Education Regarding Structure, Space and Agency. In SAGE Handbook on the Sociology of Education (Berends, M., Schneider, B. & Lamb, S.)
Downes, P. (2023). Reframing Cooper’s Emotional-Relational, Commodification and Biopsychosocial Concerns as a Spatial Turn towards Concentric Systems of Inclusion. In C.Cefai (Ed), Nurturing Students’ Wellbeing: Essays in Honour of Paul Cooper. London: Peter Lang.
Downes, P. (2023). Inclusive systems as relational space in and around schools for supporting migrants in education: A spatial focus on transitions from diametric to concentric spatial systems. In Research Handbook on Migration and Education (D.Devine, Pinson, H. & N.Bunar Eds.) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Downes, P. & Cefai, C. (2019). “Strategic Clarity on Different Prevention Levels of School Bullying and Violence: Rethinking Peer Defenders and Selected Prevention”. Journal of School Violence.
Downes, P. (2019). “Transition as a displacement from more fundamental system concerns: Distinguishing four different meanings of transition in education“. Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Downes, P. (2018). “Postscript – The Emotional-Relational Turn for Early School Leaving Prevention: Building on The Neglected Shadow for Inclusive Systems in and around Schools”. International Journal of Emotional Education, 10.
Downes, P., Anderson, J., Nairz-Wirth E. (2018). Editorial Conclusion: Developing conceptual understandings of transitions and policy implications. Special Issue, European Journal of Education, 53.
Downes, P. (2018). “An Emerging Paradigm of Structural Indicators to Examine System Supports for Children’s and Adolescents’ Education and Wellbeing”. Child Indicators Research, 11.
Downes, P. (2014) Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for System Change. Dordrecht: Springer, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union/EU bookshop.
Edwards, A. & Downes, P. (2013). Alliances for Inclusion:Developing Cross-sector Synergies and Inter-Professional Collaboration in and around Education. Foreword by Jan Truszczynski, Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture. NESET report, Brussels: European Commission, DG Education and Culture
Downes, P. (2012) The Primordial Dance: Diametric and Concentric Spaces in the Unconscious World. Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang.