Recent publications
Book
Kitching, K 2020, Childhood, Religion and School Injustice. Cork University Press.
Article
Kitching, K & Gholami, R 2023, 'Towards Critical Secular Studies in Education: Addressing secular education formations and their intersecting inequalities', Discourse. <https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/CDIS>
Kitching, K 2022, 'Contemporary, racialised conflicts over LGBT-inclusive education: more strategic secularisms than secular/religious oppositions?', Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2054959
Horgan, D, Fernandez, E & Kitching, K 2022, 'Walking and talking with girls in their urban environments: a methodological meandering', Irish Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035221088408
Kiely, E, Ging, D, Kitching, K & Leane, M 2021, 'Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland', Families, Relationships and Societies. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321x16358719361010
Kitching, K, Fernandez, E & Horgan, D 2021, 'Sweets are my 'best friend': belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls' food and health relationships', Children's Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.1937522
Fernández, E, Kitching, K & Horgan, D 2021, 'Young girls’ experiences of ‘good’ food imperatives in a working class school community: rethinking food desire?', Cambridge Journal of Education, vol. 2021, no. 5, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2021.1877618
Kiely, E, Ging, D, Kitching, K & Leane, M 2021, '“A source of anxiety like never before”: unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourse', Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 89-113. <https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/500>
Kitching, K, Kiely, E, Ging, D & Leane, M 2020, 'Parents' encounters with 'the sexualisation of childhood': Paying attention differently?', Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1786011
Ging, D, Kiely, E, Kitching, K & Leane, M 2019, '#Slane Girl, beauty pageants and padded bras: flashpoints in the sexualisation of children debate in Irish media and political discourse', Feminist Media Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 4122-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1467943
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Fernandez, E, Kitching, K & Horgan, D 2022, Experiencing school food policy and practice: learning from eleven-year-old girls in a working-class community in Ireland. in D Ruge, I Torres & D Powell (eds), School Food, Equity and Social Justice: Critical Reflections and Perspectives. 1st edn, Critical Studies in Health and Education, Routledge, pp. 78-94. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112587-7
Editorial
Hall, T, Byrne, D, Bryan, A, Kitching, K, Ní Chróinín, D, O’Toole, C & Addley, J 2021, 'COVID-19 and education: positioning the pandemic; facing the future', Irish Educational Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 147-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2021.1915636
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Kitching, K 2020, Communion, Holy. in The Sage Handbook of Children and Childhood Studies. SAGE Publications, pp. 545-546.
Review article
Kitching, K 2020, 'Book Review: White privilege: the myth of a post-racial society by Kalwant Bhopal', Journal of Education Policy.
Working paper
Gillborn, D, Bhopal, K, Crawford, CE, Demack, S, Gholami, R, Kitching, K, Kiwan, D & Warmington, P 2021 'Evidence for the commission on race and ethnic disparities' University of Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00003389
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