Nikki Fairchild

612 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 361 citations indexed

About

Nikki Fairchild is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikki Fairchild has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 361 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Cultural Studies and 10 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Nikki Fairchild's work include Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (11 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (9 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (7 papers). Nikki Fairchild is often cited by papers focused on Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (11 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (9 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (7 papers). Nikki Fairchild collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Nikki Fairchild's co-authors include Carol Taylor, Karen Gravett, Neil Carey, Angelo Benozzo, Mirka Koro‐Ljungberg, Marek Tesař, Michela Cozza, Amy Warhurst, Jayne Osgood and Carol Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and British Educational Research Journal.

In The Last Decade

Nikki Fairchild

28 papers receiving 341 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Pedagogies of mattering: re-conceptualising relational pedagogies in higher education
    2021 104 citations Carol Taylor, Nikki Fairchild et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikki Fairchild United Kingdom 10 157 157 76 37 33 32 361
Rachel Holmes United Kingdom 13 301 1.9× 198 1.3× 97 1.3× 26 0.7× 50 1.5× 32 486
Christina MacRae United Kingdom 11 265 1.7× 147 0.9× 103 1.4× 24 0.6× 54 1.6× 26 411
Malou Juelskjær Denmark 9 138 0.9× 88 0.6× 79 1.0× 29 0.8× 16 0.5× 29 289
Dennis Carlson United States 12 185 1.2× 262 1.7× 34 0.4× 44 1.2× 32 1.0× 47 461
Sharn Rocco Australia 7 136 0.9× 147 0.9× 23 0.3× 35 0.9× 30 0.9× 13 322
Sylvia Kind Canada 7 165 1.1× 119 0.8× 58 0.8× 26 0.7× 47 1.4× 12 397
Lesley Gallacher United Kingdom 4 470 3.0× 282 1.8× 22 0.3× 20 0.5× 18 0.5× 7 538
Nick Mansfield Australia 6 125 0.8× 37 0.2× 19 0.3× 17 0.5× 42 1.3× 31 268
Margaret Cohen United States 10 81 0.5× 50 0.3× 32 0.4× 20 0.5× 125 3.8× 47 363
Melisa Cahnmann‐Taylor United States 13 168 1.1× 283 1.8× 20 0.3× 25 0.7× 157 4.8× 39 562

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikki Fairchild

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikki Fairchild

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Taylor, Carol & Nikki Fairchild. (2025). Image-Text-Riffs: Intermezzo Walking-Encounter-ings for Thinking-Doing Qualitative Research Otherwise. Qualitative Inquiry. 32(2). 149–163.
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Fairchild, Nikki, Carol Taylor, Neil Carey, et al.. (2023). Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies. Culture and Organization. 30(3). 263–289. 2 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2023). Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. 30(6). 493–501. 3 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki, et al.. (2023). Quality Early Childhood Education and Care practices: the importance of skills, knowledge and the Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner competences. International Journal of Early Years Education. 33(2). 411–425. 2 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki & Carol Taylor. (2022). Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning. 10(1). 7 indexed citations
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Warhurst, Amy, et al.. (2022). Covid-19 and the lost hidden curriculum: locating an evolving narrative ecology of Schools-in-Covid. Pastoral Care in Education. 41(3). 325–345. 9 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2022). Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 51(6). 494–495. 7 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki, et al.. (2021). The SAGE Handbook of Global Childhoods. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 23 indexed citations
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Carey, Neil, et al.. (2021). Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry: de/composing the ghoulish hu/man gaze. Qualitative Research. 22(4). 499–520. 4 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2021). Pedagogies of place-spaces: walking-with the post-professional. Portsmouth Research Portal (University of Portsmouth). 5(sup1). 4–20. 9 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki, et al.. (2020). Working with (post)theories to explore embodied and unrecognised emotional labour in English Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). ChiPrints (University of Chichester). 7(2). 75–89. 8 indexed citations
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Osgood, Jayne, Carol Taylor, Angelo Benozzo, et al.. (2020). Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment. Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 20(6). 596–609. 11 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2020). Queering the Data: The Somatechnics of English Early Childhood Education and Care Teachers. Portsmouth Research Portal (University of Portsmouth). 10(1). 52–72. 3 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki, et al.. (2020). The early years foundation stage (2021): Challenges and opportunities. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Carol, et al.. (2019). Feeling Medusa: Tentacular Troubling of Academic Positionality, Recognition and Respectability. Open Access Journals at Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslo Metropolitan University). 10(2-3). 87–111. 7 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2019). Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods – Generative Entanglements. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 20(4). 422–424. 8 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2018). The micropolitics of posthuman early years leadership assemblages: Exploring more-than-human relationality. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 20(1). 53–64. 8 indexed citations
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Taylor, Carol, et al.. (2018). Improvising Bags Choreographies: Disturbing Normative Ways of Doing Research. Qualitative Inquiry. 25(1). 17–25. 12 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2012). All that effort to get here: now what? – Early Years Professionals reflect on their journey in light of the Nutbrown Review in England. 2 indexed citations
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Fairchild, Nikki. (2012). More important than ever. Early Years Educator. 14(3). 14–16. 1 indexed citations

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