Books
Brooks, R. and Waters, J. (forthcoming) Post-Brexit Educational Mobilities, Policy Press.
Brooks, R., Gupta, A., Jayadeva, S., Lainio, A. and Lazetic, P. (2022) Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe, Bristol, Policy Press.
Hook, G., Moreau, M.P. and Brooks, R. (eds) (2022) Student Carers in Higher Education London, Routledge.
Waters, J. and Brooks, R. (2021) Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities London, Palgrave.
Brooks, R. and O’Shea, S. (eds) (2021) Re-imagining the Higher Education Student. Constructing and Contesting Identities London, Routledge.
Brooks, R. and Hodkinson, P. (2020) Sharing Care. Equal and Primary Caregiver Fathers and Early Years Parenting Bristol, Policy Press.
Brooks, R. (2018) Education and Society: Places, Policies, Processes London, Macmillan International.
Brooks, R. and Waters, J. (2017) Materialities and Mobilities in Education London, Routledge.
Brooks, R. (ed) (2016) Student Politics and Protest: International Perspectives London, Routledge.
Brooks, R., Te Riele, K. and Maguire, M. (2014) Ethics and Education Research London, Sage.
Brooks, R., McCormack, M. and Bhopal, K. (eds) (2013) Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. (Paperback edition published 2015)
Brooks, R., Fuller, A. and Waters, J. (eds) (2012) Changing Spaces of Education: New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning London, Routledge.
Te Riele, K. and Brooks, R. (eds) (2012) Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research New York, Routledge.
Brooks, R. and Waters, J. (2011) Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. (Paperback edition published 2013)
Brooks, R. (ed) (2009) Transitions from Education to Work: new perspectives from Europe and beyond Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Heath, S., Brooks, R., Cleaver, E. and Ireland, E. (2009) Researching Young People’s Lives London, Sage.
Brooks, R. (2005) Friendship and Educational Choice: peer influence and planning for the future Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Special issues of journals
2025 International Journal of Educational Research (Special issue: Regional Spaces in Higher Education). With Lee Rensimer, Maia Chankseliani, David Mills and Tristan McCowan. (Forthcoming)
2025 Sociology (Special issue: Teaching Sociology in Higher Education: Pedagogical Practices and Possibilities). With Carli Rowell. (Forthcoming)
2024 Higher Education (Special issue: Challenges to International Student Mobility within Europe). With Sazana Jayadeva, Suzanne Beech, Daniel Faas and Aline Courtois. (Forthcoming)
2023 International Studies in the Sociology of Education (Special issue: Constructing the ‘ideal’ contemporary higher education student). With Eurostudents research team.
2021 Sociological Research Online. (Special section: Students in Marketised Higher Education Landscapes), 26, 1. With Achala Gupta, Sazana Jayadeva and Anu Lainio.
2020 International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Special issue: Using Creative Methods to Research Across Difference), 20, 1. With Anu Lainio and Predrag Lazetic.
2020 Population, Space and Place (Special issue: Mobilities and Materialities in Education: new spatial perspectives), 26, 3. With Johanna Waters.
2013 Young (Special issue: Exploring Ethical Issues in Youth Research), 21, 3. With Kitty te Riele.
2012 Youth Studies Australia (Special issue: Youth Research Ethics). With Kitty te Riele.
2012 Sociological Research Online (Special section: Young People and Educational Inequalities).
2011 Globalisation, Societies and Education (Special issue: Transnational/International Education), 9, 2. With Johanna Waters.
2009 Citizenship Studies (Special issue: Citizenship, Learning and Education), 13, 2. With John Holford.
2008 Journal of Youth Studies (Special issue: Young People, New Technologies and Political Engagement), 11, 5. With Paul Hodkinson.
2007 International Journal of Lifelong Education (Special issue: Transitions from education to work) 26, 5.