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Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia (2022). Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. Abingdon: Routledge.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Rowsell, Jennifer (2022). Living with digital materialisations of self. Learning, Media and Technology, 47(3) pp. 305–309.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2022). The explanatory power of sensory reading for early childhood research: The role of hidden senses. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (Early access).

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). The Educational Power—and the Limits—of Personalized Children’s Books. Scientific American.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). Digital Personalized Learning: Conceptualization, Operationalization and Impact. In: The 19th Biennial EARLI Conference, 23.08.2021-27.08.2021, Online.

Furenes, May Irene; Kucirkova, Natalia and Bus, Adriana G. (2021). A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen: A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research, 91(4) pp. 483–517.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Bus, Adriana (2021). A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper versus Screen: A Meta-analysis conference presentation. In: Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Annual Meeting, 13-16 Jul 2021, Online.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). The Digitized and Quantified "You": Where Is Our Agency? Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). Socio-material directions for developing empirical research on children’s e-reading: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the literature across disciplines. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 21(1) pp. 148–174.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). The Future of the Self: Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond. Emerald Books.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Gerard, Libby and Linn, Marcia C. (2021). Designing personalised instruction: A research and design framework. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(5) pp. 1839–1861.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Cremin, Teresa (2021). Reciprocal reading for pleasure in online and offline reading communities. In: UKLA International Conference, 2-4 Jul 2021, Online.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Cremin, Teresa (2021). Peering out the children’s literature window into children’s engagement with multimedia texts. In: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature International Conference, 23-26 Jun 2021, Online.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2021). What is next for children who grew up with the personalisation revolution? London School of Economics (LSE).

Kucirkova, Natalia (2020). Why Fathers Who Read to Their Children Are the Coolest. Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2020). Next Time We Zoom, Show Me Your Hands. Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2020). A Time Without Touch Is an Opportunity to Rethink Its Place. Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Cremin, Teresa (2020). Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age: Mapping Reader Engagement. SAGE.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Hoel, Trude (2020). The silver lining in corona times: video-call shared reading with children. London School of Economics (LSE).

Kucirkova, Natalia (2020). And a Selfie Must Follow, as the Night the Day. Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Mackey, Margaret (2020). Digital literacies and children’s personalized books: Locating the 'self'. London Review of Education, 18(2) pp. 151–162.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Littleton, Karen (2020). The Distance between the 'Self' and the 'Other' in Children's Digital Books. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, article no. 589281.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2020). Digital Shadows Remain Even if You Can't See Them. Psychology Today.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2019). Children’s reading with digital books: past moving quickly to the future. Child Development Perspectives, 13(4) pp. 208–214.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2019). Children’s agency by design: Design parameters for personalization in story-making apps. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 21 pp. 112–120.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David J. and Sheehy, Kieron (2019). Investigating the effectiveness of the Our Story App to increase children’s narrative skills: Lessons learnt from one English preschool classroom. In: Veneziano, Edy and Nicolopoulou, Ageliki eds. Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention. Studies in Narrative (25). John Benjamins, pp. 265–281.

Critten, Valerie and Kucirkova, Natalia (2019). ‘It Brings it all Back, all those Good Times; it Makes Me Go Close to Tears’. Creating Digital Personalised Stories with People who have Dementia. Dementia, 18(3) pp. 864–881.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2019). How Could Children’s Storybooks Promote Empathy? A Conceptual Framework Based on Developmental Psychology and Literary Theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, article no. 00121.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2018). How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners. UCL Press.

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Messer, David; Thomas, Lucy; Holliman, Andrew and Kucirkova, Natalia (2018). Evaluating the effectiveness of an educational programming intervention on children’s mathematics skills, spatial awareness and working memory. Education and Information Technologies, 23(6) pp. 2879–2888.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Littleton, Karen and Kyparissiadis, Antonios (2018). The influence of children’s gender and age on children’s use of digital media at home. British Journal of Educational Technology, 49(3) pp. 545–559.

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Cremin, Teresa; Flewitt, Rosie; Swann, Joan; Faulkner, Dorothy and Kucirkova, Natalia (2018). Storytelling and story-acting: co-construction in action. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 16(1) pp. 3–17.

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FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Kucirkova, Natalia; Jones, Ann; Cross, Simon; Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Hillaire, Garron and Scanlon, Eileen (2018). Dimensions of personalisation in technology-enhanced learning: a framework and implications for design. British Journal of Educational Technology, 49(1) pp. 165–181.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Cremin, Teresa (2018). Personalised reading for pleasure with digital libraries: Towards a pedagogy of practice and design. Cambridge Journal of Education, 48(5) pp. 571–589.

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FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Jones, Ann; Kucirkova, Natalia and Scanlon, Eileen (2018). A literature synthesis of personalised technology-enhanced learning: what works and why. Research in Learning Technology, 26, article no. 2095.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Cremin, Teresa (2017). How can digital library systems help teachers support-children's reading for pleasure. IOE London Blog, UCL, London.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Littleton, Karen (2017). Digital learning hubs: theoretical and practical ideas for innovating massive open online courses. Learning, Media and Technology, 42(3) pp. 324–330.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Littleton, Karen and Cremin, Teresa (2017). Young children’s reading for pleasure with digital books: six key facets of engagement. Cambridge Journal of Education, 47(1) pp. 67–84.

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Littleton, Karen (2017). Developing personalised education for personal mobile technologies with the pluralisation agenda. Oxford Review of Education, 43(3) pp. 276–288.

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Messer, David and Kucirkova, Natalia (2016). Digital and new technologies: Research tools and questions. In: Prior, Jess and Van Herwegen, Jo eds. Practical Research with Children. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 264–284.

Critten, Val and Kucirkova, Natalia (2016). Digital Personal Stories: A Case Study of Two African Adolescents, with Severe Learning and Communication Disabilities. Journal of childhood and developmental disorders, 1(1), article no. 7.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Sheehy, Kieron and Messer, David (2015). A Vygotskian perspective on parent-child talk during iPad story sharing. Journal of Research in Reading, 38(4) pp. 428–441.

Kucirkova, N. and Sakr, M. (2015). Child-Father creative text-making at home with crayons, iPad, collage & PC. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 17 pp. 59–73.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2015). Book Review: The thinking teacher. Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 41(4) pp. 451–452.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2015). Towards truly transformative technology-enhanced education. In: Using Technology in Education, Westminster Education Forum, pp. 75–77.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2015). Story-Making with iPad Apps: Baking Stories in the 21st Century. Exchange

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David; Critten, Val and Harwood, Jane (2014). Story-making on the iPad when children have complex needs: two case studies. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36(1) pp. 44–54.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David and Sheehy, Kieron (2014). The effects of personalization on young children's spontaneous speech during shared book reading. Journal of Pragmatics, 71 pp. 45–55.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2014). iPads in early years, separating assumptions and evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, article no. 715.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Willans, Deb and Cremin, Teresa (2014). Spot the Dog; with iPads: spot the difference! English 4-11, 51 pp. 11–14.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David and Sheehy, Kieron (2014). Reading personalized books with preschool children enhances their word acquisition. First Language, 34(3) pp. 227–243.

Kucirkova, Natalia and Tompkins, Virginia (2014). Personalization in mother-child emotion talk across three contexts. Infant and Child Development, 23(2) pp. 153–169.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David; Sheehy, Kieron and Fernandez-Panadero, Carmen (2014). Children's engagement with educational iPad apps: insights from a Spanish classroom. Computers & Education, 71 pp. 175–184.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2014). iPads in early years and foundation classrooms. Teach Nursery, 5(1)

Flewitt, Rosie; Kucirkova, Natalia and Messer, David (2014). Touching the virtual, touching the real: iPads and enabling literacy for students with learning disabilities. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 37(2) pp. 107–116.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2014). iPads and Tablets in the Classroom: Personalising Children’s Stories. Minibook, 41. Leicester: UKLA.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2014). How can iPad apps enrich psychology research? Psychology Teaching Review, 20(2) pp. 121–125.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2013). Children interacting with books on iPads: research chapters still to be written. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, article no. 995.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David; Sheehy, Kieron and Flewitt, Rosie (2013). Sharing personalized stories on iPads: a close look at one parent-child interaction. Literacy, 47(3) pp. 115–122.

Cremin, Teresa; Swann, Joan; Flewitt, Rosie; Faulkner, Dorothy and Kucirkova, Natalia (2013). Evaluation Report of MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Technique of Storytelling and Storyacting. MakeBelieveArts/The Open University.

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Kucirkova, Natalia (2013). iPads in early education. Early Years Educator, 14(9) pp. 24–26.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David and Whitelock, Denise (2012). Parents reading with their toddlers: the role of personalisation in book engagement. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 13(4) pp. 445–470.

Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David and Sheehy, Kieron (2012). Deti ako autori vlastnych kniziek na ipadoch: Hl'Adanie strednej cesty(Children as authors of their own iPad books: searching for a balance. In: Miňová, Monika ed. Predprimárne vzdelávanie v súčasnosti. Presove, Slovakia: Presovska univerzita v Presove, Pedagogic fakulta. Slovensky vybor Svetovej organizacie pre predskolsku vychovu, pp. 285–298.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2012). Our Story - Eine App zur Herstellung von Bilderund Geschichtenbüchern [Our Story - an app for creating digital picture books]. In: Brinkmann, Erika and Valtin, Renate eds. Lesen- und Schreibenlernen mit digitalen Medien [Reading and writing learning with digital media]. Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lesen und Schreiben, pp. 92–101.

Kucirkova, Natalia (2011). Parents' and Childrens' Engagement When Sharing Personalised Books. MRes thesis The Open University.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David and Whitelock, Denise (2010). Sharing personalised books: a practical solution to the challenges posed by home book reading interventions. Literacy Information & Computer Education Journal, 1(3) pp. 263–272.

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