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Padfield, P. and G. Cameron (2009). Inclusive Education for Children and Young People with Interrupted Learning in Scotland Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education. P. A. Danaher, M. Kenny and J. R. Leder. New York / London, Routledge: 17.

Padfield, P. (2008). Education at the margins: Learners outside mainstream schooling. Scottish Education: Beyond Devolution 3rd ed. T. G. K. Bryce and W. M. Humes. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press.

Lloyd, G. and G. McCluskey (2008). Education and Gypsies/Travellers:'contradictions and significant silences'. International Journal of Inclusive Education: 331–345. Download as PDF

Padfield, P. (2006). Learning at a Distance Supported by ICT for Gypsies and Travellers: Young peoples' views. Edinburgh, SEED Sponsored Research: 55

Padfield, P. (2006). Impact of the National Guidance: Inclusive Educational Approaches for Gypsies and Travellers, within the context of interrupted learning, schools and practice. Project 7 Final Report. Edinburgh Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh: 68.

Padfield, P. (2005). Inclusive Educational Approaches for Gypsy/Traveller Pupils and their Families: an ‘urgent need for progress’? http://www.ser.stir.ac.uk/pdf/241.pdf Scottish Educational Review Nov: 127-144.

Padfield, P. and E. Jordan (2004). Issues in school enrolment, attendance, attainment and support for learning for Gypsy/Travellers and school-aged children and young people based in Scottish local authority sites. Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh: 115.

Jordan, E. and Padfield, P. (2003) Education at the margins; outsiders and the mainstream, in T.G.K. Bryce and W.M. Humes (eds.) Scottish Education; Post-Devolution, 2nd edition, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Padfield, P. and B. Jordan (2003). "Are these really for us?" Laptops for Teachers of Pupils Educated in outwith school settings. Edinburgh, School of Education, The University of Edinburgh.

Padfield, P. and E. Jordan (2002). Interrupted Learning: laptops and their communicative possibilities. Edinburgh, Scottish Traveller Education Programme.

Jordan, E. (2002) Partnership approaches: new futures for Travellers, in J. Wearmouth, J. Soer and G. Reid (eds.) Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development, RoutledgeFalmer, London.

Jordan, E. (2001) Exclusion of travellers in state schools, in Educational Research, 43 (2); 117-132.

Jordan, E. (2001) From interdependence, to dependence and independence; home and school learning for Traveller children, in Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 8 (1); 57-74

Jordan, E. (2001) Interrupted Learning; the Traveller paradigm in British Journal of Learning Support, 16 (3); 128-134.

Bancroft, A. (2000). Current Gypsy Research (Review Article). Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 6(3): 123-125.

Jordan, E. (2000) Outside the mainstream, in A. Hill (ed.) Scottish School Board Association Millennium Book.

Jordan, E. (2000) The exclusionary comprehensive school system; the experience of showground families in Scotland, in P.A. Danaher (ed.) Mapping International Diversity in Researching Traveller and Nomadic Education, International Journal of Educational Research, 33 (3) 253- 263.

Jordan, E. (2000) The inclusive school; effective education for secondary age Travellers, in E. Hornburg (ed.) Die Schulsituation von Sinti und Roma in Europa, Frankfurt-am-Main. (Publisher??)

Jordan, E. (2000) Traveller Pupils and Scottish Schools, in SCRE Spotlights, 76, http://www.scre.ac.uk/spotlight/spotlight76.html.

Jordan, E. (1999) Travelling towards inclusion, in EFECOT Newsline, 23.

Jordan, E. (1998) Teacher Training for Inclusion, paper for Gypsy Traveller Conference, Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, Universite Rene Descartes, Perpignan.

Jordan, E. (1998) The Interrupted Learner; the Traveller paradigm, paper for Association of Teachers of Travelling People, Dublin.

Jordan, E. (1997) Education for Travellers or Creating Equality of Opportunity in State Education, in J. de Heer-Deuhe (ed.) Intercultural Education and Education of Migrant Children, Utrecht.

Jordan, E. and Homes, P. (1997) The interrupted learner; whose responsibility? in J. Bastiani (ed.) Home-School Work in Multi-cultural Settings, David Fulton, London.

Jordan, E. (1996) Education for Travellers in E. Befring (ed.) Teacher Education for Equality, ATEE, Oslo

Lloyd, G and Stead, J. (2002) Including Gypsy Travellers in education, in Race Equality Teaching,21(1);21-24.

Lloyd, G and Stead, J. (2001) 'The boys and girls not calling me names and the teachers to believe me'.  Name calling and the experiences of Travellers in school, in Children and Society, 15; 361-374.

Lloyd, G. and Norris, C. (1998) From difference to deviance: the exclusion of gypsy-traveller children from school in Scotland in International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2 (4); 359-369.

Lloyd G., Stead, J., Jordan, E. and Norris, C. Teachers and Gypsy Travellers, in Scottish Educational review, 31(1);48-65.

McKinney, R. (2003) Views from the margins; Gypsy/travellers and the ethnicity debate in the new Scotland, in Scottish Affairs, 42.

Scottish Office (1998) Travellers and Education in 8th Term Report 1995-97, the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Scotland's Travelling People, Scottish Office Development Department, Edinburgh.

Levinson, M. (2009). Cultural Difference or Subversion among Gypsy Traveller Youngsters in Schools in England: A Question of Perspective. Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education P. A. Danaher, M. Kenny and J. R. Leder. London New York, Routledge: 59-73.

Levinson, M. P. (2005). The Role of Play in the Formation and Maintenance of Cultural Identity: Gypsy Children in Home and School Contexts. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 34 (No. 5): 499-532.

Levinson, M. P. and A. C. Sparkes (2005). Gypsy children, space, and the school environment. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 18(6 November - December): 751-772.

Bhopal, K. (2004) Gypsy Travellers and education: changing needs and changing perceptions, in British Journal of Special Educational Studies, 54 (1); 47-64.

Levinson, M. P. (2004). Gypsy Identity and Orientations to Space. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 33, (No. 6,): 704-734.

Levinson, M. and Sparkes, A. (2003) Gypsy masculinities and the school-home interface; exploring contradictions and tensions, in British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24 (5); 587-603.

Reynolds, M., McCartan, D. and Knipe, D. (2003) Traveller culture and lifestyle as factors influencing children's integration into mainstream secondary schools in West Belfast in Inclusive Education, 7 (4);403-414.

Okely, J. (2000). Rootlessness againsy spatial fixing: Gypsies, border intellectuals and 'others'. Managing ethnicity: perspectives from folklore studies, history and anthropology R. Bendix and H. Roodenburg: