Full list of publications follows:

The architecture of school governance: Rebuilding democratic legitimacy within an academized system, (with Andrew Allen), Management in Education 2022, Vol 36(1).

The Great Education Robbery: How the government took our schools and gave them to big business, Austin Macauley, 2021

Enabling the community to be a host leader, Host Leadership, http://hostleadership.com/nigel-gann-enabling-the-community-to-be-a-host-leader/, November 2020

Recapturing the Castle: looking to the de-corporatisation of schools and a post-viral revival of educational values, Forum Vol 62, Number 3, 2020

(with Andrew Allen) Embedding Democratic Engagement in School Leadership: comprehensive schooling structures in an academized system, Forum Vol 60 Number 2, 2018

Capturing the Castle: an exploration of changes in the democratic accountability of schools, Forum Vol 58 Number 2, Symposium Books, 2016

Improving School Governance: How better governors make better schools, Second Edition, Routledge, 2016

The Business of Governing Schools, Forum Vol 57 Number 3, Symposium Books, 2015

Educating Ethics: The probity of school governance, Forum Vol 56 Number 3, Symposium Books, 2014

What can schools do about declining morale. The Guardian, 4.1. 2013

The Guest Book, The Guardian, 15.12.2012 (Runner-up, Guardian Travel Writing Competition)

Playground Robbery, The Land Magazine, June 2012

Academies: Stewards or Stakeholders?, Governing Matters, January/February 2012

Heads & Governors: A Critical Friendship, NCSL, January 2012

Academy Conversion: A View from the Governing Body, Forum Vol 53 Number 3, Symposium Books, 2011

Caring for Your Greatest Asset: The well-being of staff, School Leadership Today, Vol 3.2, July 2011

INSET in a Box: Developing an Effective Governing Body, Philip Allan, 2010

INSET in a Box: Managing the New Self-Evaluation Form, Philip Allan, 2010

Community Cohesion and Pupil Voice Toolkit (with Suzanne O’Connell and Tony Powell), Forum Business Media, 2010

Inspection & Self-Evaluation for Children’s Centres, Forum Business Media, 2010

Teachers and the Law, Education Today, Spring 2009

Now is the Time for Stocktaking, TES 5.9.08

Gold-dust Governors, TES 15.6.07 (with Jeremy Sutcliffe)

Talking to parents must not be shirked, TES 24.3.06

Seven Steps to a Better Body: What are the obstacles that prevent governors working together well?, TES 13.5.05

A Dream Start (Dechrau Delfrydol), Cadwyn: All Wales Centre for Governor Training & Research, Issue 11, Summer 2005

No more heroes: Heads have to drop the super TES 7.1.05

British teams are champs: This nation leads the world in governance, TES 18.6.04

Comment: Commitment is the hallmark of good governors, TES 21.5.04

School Leadership:  Don't be the weakest link, TES 16.4.04

Perfect performance:  The new round of performance management training, TES 3.10.03

Question time for inquisitors:  A performance management checklist for governors, TES 12.9.03

No apron strings attached, by Alison Shepherd, TES, 17.1.03

Don't be scared of challenging heads, TES, 31.1.03

(with T McClellan): Schools in the Spotlight, Falmer Press, 2002

Parents in The Governor's Handbook, PFP, 2002

Strategic Partnerships, in Governors' Agenda, September, 2002

A Review of Best Practice: Supplementary Schools Support Service, CfBT, 2002

Relegated to the Sidelines: OFSTED should listen to governors views on inspection, TES, 2.11.2001

How to succeed on judgment days, TES, 7.9.2001

The Governing Body Survival Pack, CfBT, 2000

Television & Radio:

Managing Schools: My Door is Always Open; and Whose Timetable, BBCTV OU 1979

Governing Schools: Four programmes, BBCTV OU 1981

Making Schools Work: 12 programmes, BBC Radio World Service, 2001

Power Struggle: Governing Bodies and Local Authorities, TES, 8.11.85

An Innovation in Community Education, Network, April 1987

School for Thought, Municipal Journal, February 1988

Managing Community Education, Network, April 1988

Leisure in an Education Centre, Network, April 1989

Left Out in the Cold: How local management can affect community groups, TES, 4.1.91

The Way Ahead: Community Use of Schools after ERA, Network, January 1991

Right Side of the Counter: Governors and LEAs, TES, 5.7.91

Shared Use of Schools in Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets Education Dept., 1992

The Council for Voluntary Service in Sandwell, Sandwell Borough Council, 1992

Advancing Good Management: An interim evaluation, NCVO, 1992

Demystifying the School Budget, in The Education Funding Guide (Ed. Forrester,  Mountfield & Patel), Directory of Social Change, 1995

Managing Change in Voluntary Organizations, Open University Press, 1996

In Place of Strife, The Guardian, 4.12.96

Training for Work in Southampton Communities, Southampton City Council, 1996

The Start of Something Big: School governors and development planning, TES, 30.5.97

Fight for Control of Top Task: Governing bodies and the appointment of head teachers, TES, 9.1.98

Improving School Governance: How better governors make better schools, Falmer Press, 1998

Speculate to Evaluate: How governors can check their performance, TES, 18.9.98

Targets for Tomorrow’s Schools: A guide to whole school target-setting for governors and head teachers, Falmer Press, 1999

The Beacon in Barnstaple, Teachers Magazine, DfES, December 1999

Rowland Hill Centre for Childhood: An interim evaluation, London Borough of Haringey, 1999