JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH (2025)
Ward, K., Purcell, M. E., Beresford-Dey, M., Searle, B., Birch, R., & MacDonald, T. (2025). Learning for Sustainability in Scotland: When Best Practice is Not Enough. Environmental Education Resarch. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2464242
Palgrave: Contemporary Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Animals, the Environment and New Methods | Chapter (2022)
Birch, R. (2022). Ecological Identity Work. In R. Cutting, & R. Passy (Eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Animals, the Environment and New Methods (1 ed.). (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education). Springer
Journal of Philosophy of Education Special Issue 54/4 - Climate Crisis: Environment, Education, Sustainability (2020)
Birch, R (2020) Discerning Hope: Intra-Actions of a Philosophy for Children Workshop and the Eco-Socially Just Potential of Practicing Hope, in Journal of Philosophy of Education Special Issue - Climate Crises: Education, Environment, Sustainability, 54(4)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9752.12484
The University of Plymouth: Institute of Education ‘In-house Student Journal’ (2020)
Birch, R. (2020) Intra-Active ‘World-Making’: Hope, Education, Utopias and Potential Eco-Socially Just Futures, in Plymouth’s Institute of Education Student In-House Journal.
RESEARCH REPORT PUBLICATiONS
ZERO WASTE SCOTLAND & THE JUST TRANSITION TEAM, DUNDEE (2023)
Presentation: Just Transition Annual Conference (May 2023) and Report Launch (Sept 2023) Report: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/sustainable-citizen-decision-making-impact-of-the-cost-of-living-
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT RESEARCH: Learning for Sustainability: Young People and Practitioner Perspectives (2022)
Presentation: Scottish Government Analytics Division and Education Scotland. Report: https://www.gov.scot/publications/learning-sustainability-young-people-practitioner-perspectives/
Plymouth City Council: Natural Plymouth TEAM (2015)
Co-Editor - The Plymouth LINE (Learning in Natural Environment) Directory
Abstract: The publication was a ‘collaborative authoring’ between teachers in Plymouth working through Natural Connections schools who wanted to contribute to a Plymouth Directory that covered a range of creative ways of learning outdoors and links to spaces across the city.
BOOK REVIEWS
Birch, R. (2021) Book Review: Chave, S. (2020) Sustainable and Democratic Education: Opening Spaces for Complexity, Subjectivity and the Future, in Journal of Education for Teaching, https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2021.1967090