| Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries O Brook, D O’Brien, M Taylor Culture is bad for you, 2020 | 482* | 2020 |
| Cultural policy: Management value and modernity in the creative industries D O'Brien Routledge, 2014 | 390 | 2014 |
| Measuring the value of culture: A report to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport D O'Brien | 357 | 2010 |
| Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey D O’Brien, D Laurison, A Miles, S Friedman Cultural Trends 25 (2), 116-131, 2016 | 322 | 2016 |
| ‘Like skydiving without a parachute’: How class origin shapes occupational trajectories in British acting S Friedman, D O’Brien, D Laurison Sociology 51 (5), 992-1010, 2017 | 215 | 2017 |
| Panic! Social class, taste and inequalities in the creative industries O Brook, D O’Brien, M Taylor https://createlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Panic-Social-Class-Taste …, 2018 | 156* | 2018 |
| Cultural value and inequality: A critical literature review D O'Brien, K Oakley Arts and humanities research council, 2015 | 156 | 2015 |
| Learning to labour unequally: Understanding the relationship between cultural production, cultural consumption and inequality K Oakley, D O'Brien Social Identities 22 (5), 471-486, 2016 | 140 | 2016 |
| Deflecting privilege: Class identity and the intergenerational self S Friedman, D O’Brien, I McDonald Sociology 55 (4), 716-733, 2021 | 136 | 2021 |
| Cultural capital: Arts graduates, spatial inequality, and London’s impact on cultural labor markets K Oakley, D Laurison, D O’Brien, S Friedman American Behavioral Scientist 61 (12), 1510-1531, 2017 | 127 | 2017 |
| ‘Culture is a meritocracy’: Why creative workers’ attitudes may reinforce social inequality M Taylor, D O’Brien Sociological Research Online, 1360780417726732, 2017 | 112 | 2017 |
| Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia G Windle, S Gregory, T Howson-Griffiths, A Newman, D O’Brien, ... Dementia 17 (6), 702-727, 2018 | 103 | 2018 |
| Producing and consuming inequality: A cultural sociology of the cultural industries D O’Brien, K Allen, S Friedman, A Saha Cultural sociology 11 (3), 271-282, 2017 | 103 | 2017 |
| The “scouse wedding” and other myths: reflections on the evolution of a “Liverpool model” for culture-led urban regeneration T Cox, D O'Brien Cultural Trends 21 (2), 93-101, 2012 | 96 | 2012 |
| Cultural engagement and the economic performance of the cultural and creative industries: An occupational critique P Campbell, D O’brien, M Taylor Sociology 53 (2), 347-367, 2019 | 93 | 2019 |
| Culture in Crisis: Impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and where we go from here A Gilmore, D O'Brien, B Walmsley, A Torrigiani Centre for Cultural Value, 2022 | 87 | 2022 |
| After urban regeneration D O’Brien, P Matthews Bristol: Policy Press, 2015 | 82* | 2015 |
| ‘There's no way that you get paid to do the arts’. Unpaid labour across the cultural and creative life course O Brook, D O'Brien, M Taylor Sociological Research Online, 2020 | 77 | 2020 |
| Social mobility and ‘openness’ in creative occupations since the 1970s O Brook, A Miles, D O’Brien, M Taylor Sociology 57 (4), 789-810, 2023 | 74* | 2023 |
| The Routledge handbook of global cultural policy V Durrer, T Miller, D O'Brien Routledge, 2017 | 73* | 2017 |
Orian BrookChancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of EdinburghVerified email at ed.ac.uk
