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Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 (2024) "'It's sharing a point in time': the temporal dimensions of shared reading in families. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45 (7-8). pp. 1025-1041. ISSN 0142-5692

Hackett, Abi, Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278, Pahl, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-1121 and Kraftl, Peter (2024) Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’. Qualitative Research. ISSN 1468-7941

Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 (2024) ‘That was our little five minutes of shush…a kiss and cuddle and have our books’: sensory affinities among families during shared reading with children. Sociology, 58 (4). pp. 929-946. ISSN 0038-0385

Hall, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 and van Hooff, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8735-8758 (2024) Otherland: accounts of ordinary childless/freeness on Mumsnet. Families, Relationships and Societies: an international journal of research and debate, 13 (1). pp. 140-156. ISSN 2046-7435

Pahl, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-1121, Scott, Fiona, Hall, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 and Kurcikova, Natalia (2023) Editorial: Lockdown literacies. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 23 (1). pp. 3-7. ISSN 1468-7984

Harrison, Annie, Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278, Money, Annemarie, Mueller, Julia, Waterson, Hannah and Verma, Arpana (2021) Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study. Journal of Aging Studies, 58. p. 100936. ISSN 0890-4065

Sikes, Pat and Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 (2020) Too close for comfort?: ethical considerations around safeguarding the emotional and mental wellbeing of researchers using auto/biographical approaches to investigate ‘sensitive’ topics. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 43 (2). pp. 163-172. ISSN 1743-727X

Hall, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 and Sikes, Pat (2020) ‘It’s just limboland’: parental dementia and young people’s life courses. The Sociological Review, 68 (1). pp. 242-259. ISSN 0038-0261

Hall, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278, Levy, Rachael and Preece, Jenny (2018) ‘No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!’: Understanding Shared Reading as Family Practice and Family Display. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 16 (4). pp. 363-377. ISSN 1476-718X

Hall, Mel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 and Sikes, Pat (2018) How do young people ‘do’ family where there is a diagnosis of dementia? Families, Relationships and Societies, 7 (2). pp. 207-225. ISSN 2046-7435

Levy, Rachael, Hall, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-0278 and Preece, Jenny (2018) Examining the Links between Parents’ Relationships with Reading and Shared Reading with their Pre-School Children. International Journal of Educational Psychology, 7 (2). pp. 123-150.

Hall, Melanie and Sikes, P (2018) The impact of parental young onset dementia on children and young people’s educational careers. British Educational Research Journal, 44 (4). pp. 593-607. ISSN 0141-1926

Sikes, P and Hall, M (2017) ‘Every time I see him he’s the worst he’s ever been and the best he’ll ever be’: grief and sadness in children and young people who have a parent with dementia. Mortality, 22 (4). pp. 324-338. ISSN 1357-6275

Hall, M and Sikes, P (2017) “It Would Be Easier If She’d Died”: Young People With Parents With Dementia Articulating Inadmissible Stories. Qualitative Health Research, 27 (8). pp. 1203-1214. ISSN 1049-7323

Hall, M and Sikes, P (2016) From “What the Hell Is Going on?” to the “Mushy Middle Ground” to “Getting Used to a New Normal”. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 26 (2). pp. 124-144. ISSN 1054-1373

Sikes, P and Hall, M (2016) "It was then that I thought 'whaat? This is not my Dad": The implications of the 'still the same person narrative for children and young people who have a parent with dementia. Dementia, 17 (2). pp. 180-198. ISSN 1471-3012