| “I ‘feel’like I am at university even though I am online.” Exploring how students narrate their engagement with higher education institutions in an online learning environment S O’Shea, C Stone, J Delahunty Distance Education 36 (1), 41-58, 2015 | 359 | 2015 |
| Avoiding the manufacture of ‘sameness’: First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment S O’Shea Higher Education 72, 59-78, 2016 | 348 | 2016 |
| The impact of ‘learning at home’on the educational outcomes of vulnerable children in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic C Drane, L Vernon, S O’Shea National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University, 2020 | 261 | 2020 |
| Older, online and first: Recommendations for retention and success C Stone, S O'Shea Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 35 (1), 2019 | 211 | 2019 |
| Shifting the blame in higher education–social inclusion and deficit discourses S O'Shea, P Lysaght, J Roberts, V Harwood Higher Education Research & Development 35 (2), 322-336, 2016 | 192 | 2016 |
| Time, money, leisure and guilt-the gendered challenges of higher education for mature-age students C Stone, S O'shea Australian Journal of Adult Learning 53 (1), 90-110, 2013 | 188 | 2013 |
| Opportunity through online learning: Experiences of first-in-family students in online open-entry higher education Cathy Stone, Sarah O'Shea, Josephine May, Janine Delahunty … C Stone, S O'Shea, J May, J Delahunty, Z Partington Australian Journal of Adult Learning 56 (2), 146-169, 2016 | 155 | 2016 |
| Vulnerable learners in the age of COVID-19: A scoping review CF Drane, L Vernon, S O’Shea The Australian Educational Researcher 48 (4), 585-604, 2021 | 143 | 2021 |
| Transformations and self-discovery: mature-age women's reflections on returning to university study S O'Shea, C Stone Studies in Continuing Education 33 (3), 273-288, 2011 | 134 | 2011 |
| Transitions and turning points: Exploring how first-in-family female students story their transition to university and student identity formation S O’Shea International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 27 (2), 135-158, 2014 | 128 | 2014 |
| First-in-family students, university experience and family life: Motivations, transitions and participation S O'Shea, J May, C Stone, J Delahunty Springer Nature, 2024 | 117 | 2024 |
| Getting through the day and still having a smile on my face! How do students define success in the university learning environment? S O'Shea, J Delahunty Higher Education Research & Development 37 (5), 1062-1075, 2018 | 101 | 2018 |
| Arriving, surviving, and succeeding: First-in-family women and their experiences of transitioning into the first year of university S O'Shea Journal of College Student Development 56 (5), 499-517, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| The politics of widening participation and university access for young people: Making educational futures V Harwood, A Hickey-Moody, S McMahon, S O'Shea Routledge, 2016 | 77 | 2016 |
| Filling up silences—first in family students, capital and university talk in the home S O’Shea International Journal of Lifelong Education 34 (2), 139-155, 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| Recognising aspiration: The AIME program’s effectiveness in inspiring Indigenous young people’s participation in schooling and opportunities for further education and employment V Harwood, S McMahon, S O’Shea, G Bodkin-Andrews, A Priestly The Australian Educational Researcher 42, 217-236, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| Discourses of betterment and opportunity: Exploring the privileging of university attendance for first-in-family learners S O’Shea, C Stone, J Delahunty, J May Studies in Higher Education 43 (6), 1020-1033, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| The implications of COVID-19 for student equity in Australian higher education S O’Shea, P Koshy, C Drane Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 43 (6), 576-591, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
| Transformations and self discovery: Stories of women returning to education C Stone, S O'Shea Common Ground Publishing, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Crossing boundaries: Rethinking the ways that first-in-family students navigate ‘barriers’ to higher education S O’Shea British Journal of Sociology of Education 41 (1), 95-110, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
