Courtney, S.J., Gunter, H.M., Niesche, R., and Trujillo, T. (Eds.), (2021). Understanding educational leadership: Critical perspectives and approaches. London. Bloomsbury.
Courtney, S.J., McGinity, R., and Gunter, H.M. (Eds.), (2017). Educational leadership: Theorising professional practice in neoliberal times. London: Routledge.
Courtney, S.J., and Mann, B., (2020). Thinking with ‘lexical’ features to reconceptualize the ‘grammar’ of schooling: Shifting the focus from school to society. Journal of Educational Change. Advance online publication. DOI :10.1007/s10833-020-09400-4
Hughes, B., Courtney, S.J., and Gunter, H.M., (2019). Researching professional biographies of educational professionals in new dark times. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(3), 275–293.
Rayner, S.M., Courtney, S.J., and Gunter, H.M., (2018). Theorising systemic change: learning from the academisation project in England. Journal of Education Policy, 33(1), 143–162.
Courtney, S.J., (2015). Mapping school types in England. Oxford Review of Education, 41(6), 799-818.
Gunter, H.M., and Courtney, S.J. (2020). School segregation in England and the logic of exiting from the public education system. In: Hudson, B., Leask, M. and Younie, S. (Eds.). Education System Design: Foundation, Policy Options and Consequences. Abingdon: RoutledgeTaylorFrancis, chapter 9.
Courtney, S.J. (2020). Why you should reject entrepreneurial leadership. In: J.S. Brooks and A. Heffernan (Eds.). The school leadership survival guide: What to do when things go wrong, how to learn from mistakes and why you should prepare for the worst. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, pp. 409–421.
Courtney, S.J., and McGinity, R. (2020). Conceptualising constructions of educational-leader identity. In: A. Heffernan and R. Niesche (Eds.). Researching identity and subjectivity in educational leadership. London: Routledge, pp. 8–23.
Courtney, S.J., and Gunter, H.M., (2019). Corporatised fabrications: The methodological challenges of professional biographies at a time of neoliberalisation. In: J. Lynch, J. Rowlands, T. Gale, and S. Parker (Eds.), (2019). Practice Methodologies in Education Research. London: Routledge, pp. 27–47.
Courtney, S.J., McGinity, R., and Gunter, H.M., (2017). Introduction: Theory and theorising in educational leadership. In: S.J. Courtney, R. McGinity, and H.M. Gunter (Eds.). (2017), Educational leadership: Theorising professional practice in neoliberal times. London: Routledge, pp. 1–11.
Courtney, S.J., McGinity, R., and Gunter, H.M., (2017). Conclusion: Educational leaders and leadership re-theorised for the present and beyond. In: S.J. Courtney, R. McGinity, and H.M. Gunter (Eds.), (2017), Educational leadership: Theorising professional practice in neoliberal times. London: Routledge, pp. 151–165.
Gunter, H.M., Courtney, S.J., McGinity, R., and Hall, D., (2018). School principals in neoliberal times: a case of luxury leadership? In: K. Saltman, and A. Means (Eds.), Handbook of Global Education Reform. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 113–130.
Courtney, S.J., and Gunter, H.M., (2017). Privatizing leadership in education in England: The multiple meanings of school principal agency. In: D. Waite and I. Bogotch (Eds.), The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 295–310.
Courtney, S.J., (2017). The courtier’s empire: A case study of providers and provision. In: H.M. Gunter, D. Hall, and M.W. Apple (Eds.), Corporate elites and the reform of public education. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 177–189.
Courtney, S.J., (2016). BERA Doctoral Thesis Award Winner 2016: Investigating school leadership at a time of system diversity, competition and flux. Research Intelligence, Issue 131, pp. 8–9.
Courtney, S.J., (2018). Teachers’ and school leaders’ career pathways: A review of international approaches in five case studies. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. Available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/career-pathways-for-teachers-independent-panel-literature-review/
Courtney, S.J., (2018). Modernising School Governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(3), 1–5. Invited review.
Gartland, C., Ingram, N., and Courtney, S.J., (2017). Research and Policy in Education: Evidence, Ideology and Impact. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(3), 403–414. Invited review.
Courtney, S.J., (2015). Book review: Mortimore, P., Education Under Siege: Why There is a Better Alternative. Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 43(4), 662–664.