| The centrality of ethical leadership LC Ehrich, J Harris, V Klenowski, J Smeed, N Spina Journal of educational administration 53 (2), 197-214, 2015 | 241 | 2015 |
| The global testing culture: Shaping education policy, perceptions and practice N Spina Journal of Education for Teaching 43 (2), 267-269, 2017 | 191 | 2017 |
| A Summative Evaluation of the Stronger Smarter Learning Communities Project: 2013 Report-Volume 1 and Volume 2 A Luke, C Cazden, R Coopes, V Klenowski, J Ladwig, J Lester, ... Queensland University of Technology, 2013 | 86 | 2013 |
| Promoting equity in schools J Harris, S Carrington, M Ainscow Collaboration, inquiry and ethical leadership. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Literature review: Student-centred schools make the difference J Harris, N Spina, L Ehrich, J Smeed Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| ‘Once upon a time’: Examining ability grouping and differentiation practices in cultures of evidence-based decision-making N Spina Cambridge Journal of Education 49 (3), 329-348, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| Children of refugee families as artists: Bridging the past, present and future F McArdle, N Spina Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 32 (4), 50-53, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’early career researchers, a life-course approach N Spina, K Smithers, J Harris, I Mewburn British Journal of sociology of Education 43 (4), 534-549, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| Data culture and the organisation of teachers’ work: An institutional ethnography N Spina Routledge, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| More than 70% of academics at some universities are casuals. They’re losing work and are cut out of JobKeeper J Harris, N Spina, K Smithers | 27 | 2020 |
| Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction L Scholes, N Spina, B Comber British Educational Research Journal 47 (1), 163-180, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Governing by numbers: Local effects on students’ experiences of writing N Spina English in Education 51 (1), 14-26, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| A formative evaluation of the stronger smarter learning communities project: 2011 report A Luke, C Cazden, R Coopes, V Klenowski, J Ladwig, J Lester, ... Queensland University of Technology, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |
| The quantification of education and the reorganisation of teachers' work: an institutional ethnography NJ Spina Queensland University of Technology, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Leadership attributes that support school improvement: a realist approach S Carrington, N Spina, M Kimber, R Spooner-Lane, KE Williams School Leadership & Management 42 (2), 151-169, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| 'Making it'as a contract researcher: a pragmatic look at precarious work N Spina, J Harris, S Bailey, M Goff Routledge, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Disrupting dominant discourses of the other: Examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy J Harris, K Smithers, N Spina, T Heffernan Studies in Higher Education 48 (1), 37-48, 2023 | 17 | 2023 |
| Teacher education for inclusive education in Bhutan: perspectives of pre-service and beginning teachers K Chhetri, N Spina, S Carrington International Journal of Inclusive Education 27 (3), 303-318, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity K Smithers, J Harris, M Goff, N Spina, S Bailey Journal of Educational Administration and History 54 (1), 37-53, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Caught in the frontline: Examining the introduction of a new national data collection system for students with disability in Australia J Gallagher, N Spina International Journal of Inclusive Education 25 (12), 1410-1424, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
