| A counter-narrative of a ‘failed’interview K Nairn, J Munro, AB Smith Qualitative Research 5 (2), 221-244, 2005 | 251 | 2005 |
| Demystifying academic writing: Reflections on emotions, know-how and academic identity J Cameron, K Nairn, J Higgins Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33 (2), 269-284, 2009 | 239 | 2009 |
| Destabilizing dualisms: Young people's experiences of rural and urban environments K Nairn, R Panelli, J McCormack Childhood 10 (1), 9-42, 2003 | 189 | 2003 |
| The problems of utilizing ‘direct experience’in geography education K Nairn Journal of Geography in Higher Education 29 (2), 293-309, 2005 | 152 | 2005 |
| ‘It's Just Like the Teenage Stereotype, You Go Out and Drink and Stuff’: Hearing from Young People who Don't Drink K Nairn, J Higgins, B Thompson, M Anderson, N Fu Journal of Youth Studies 9 (3), 287-304, 2006 | 148 | 2006 |
| Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school KM Nairn, J Higgins, J Sligo Otago University Press, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| “We make our own fun”: Reading the politics of youth with (in) community R Panelli, K Nairn, J McCormack Sociologia Ruralis 42 (2), 106-130, 2002 | 121 | 2002 |
| Embodied fieldwork K Nairn Journal of geography 98 (6), 272-282, 1999 | 119 | 1999 |
| 'Professionalising'Participation: From Rhetoric to Practice C Freeman, K Nairn, J Sligo Children's Geographies 1 (1), 53-70, 2003 | 113 | 2003 |
| New Zealand’s neoliberal generation: Tracing discourses of economic (ir) rationality K Nairn, J Higgins International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 20 (3), 261-281, 2007 | 108 | 2007 |
| Rights important to young people: Secondary student and staff perspectives N Taylor, AB Smith, K Nairn The International Journal of Children's Rights 9 (2), 137-156, 2001 | 97 | 2001 |
| ‘In transition’: choice and the children of New Zealand’s economic reforms J Higgins, K Nairn British Journal of Sociology of Education 27 (02), 207-220, 2006 | 88 | 2006 |
| International perspectives on fieldcourses K Nairn, D Higgitt, D Vanneste Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24 (2), 246-254, 2000 | 87 | 2000 |
| Disaster impact and recovery: what children and young people can tell us C Freeman, K Nairn, M Gollop Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 10 (2), 103-115, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| The emotional geographies of neoliberal school reforms: Spaces of refuge and containment K Nairn, J Higgins Emotion, Space and Society 4 (3), 180-186, 2011 | 85 | 2011 |
| Polarizing participation in local government: Which young people are included and excluded? K Nairn, J Sligo, C Freeman Children Youth and Environments 16 (2), 248-271, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Taking students seriously: Their rights to be safe at school K Nairn, AB Smith Gender and Education 15 (2), 133-149, 2003 | 70 | 2003 |
| (Re) performing emotions in diary-interviews L Spowart, K Nairn Qualitative Research 14 (3), 327-340, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
| Skateboarding beyond the limits of gender? Strategic interventions in Sweden Å Bäckström, K Nairn Leisure Studies, 1-16, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Unpacking the narrative of non-positional leadership in academia: Hero and/or victim? A Juntrasook, K Nairn, C Bond, R Spronken-Smith Higher education research & development 32 (2), 201-213, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
