| Children's social and emotional wellbeing in schools: A critical perspective D Watson, C Emery Policy Press, 2012 | 211 | 2012 |
| Learning through child observation M Fawcett, D Watson Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016 | 170 | 2016 |
| The PMLD Ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities B Simmons, D Watson Routledge, 2018 | 85 | 2018 |
| Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks: The role of narrative in the formation of identities DL Watson, S Latter, R Bellew Children and Youth Services Review 58, 90-98, 2015 | 67 | 2015 |
| From individualism to co-construction and back again: Rethinking research methodology for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities B Simmons, D Watson Valuing Disabled Children and Young People, 71-87, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
| Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books D Watson, S Latter, R Bellew Adoption & Fostering 39 (2), 119-134, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Listen to me, too! Lessons from involving children with complex healthcare needs in research about multi‐agency services D Watson, D Abbott, R Townsley Child: care, health and development 33 (1), 90-95, 2007 | 56 | 2007 |
| Interventions that enhance health services for parents and infants to improve child development and social and emotional well-being in high-income countries: a systematic review L Hurt, S Paranjothy, PJ Lucas, D Watson, M Mann, LJ Griffiths, S Ginja, ... BMJ open 8 (2), e014899, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| From rhetoric to reality: The problematic nature and assessment of children and young people's social and emotional learning DL Watson, C Emery British Educational Research Journal 36 (5), 767-786, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Closing the chasm: reconciling contemporary understandings of learning with the need to formally assess and accredit learners through the assessment of performance D Watson, J Robbins Research Papers in Education 23 (3), 315-331, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| Pond life that ‘know their place’: exploring teaching and learning support assistants’ experiences through positioning theory D Watson, P Bayliss, G Pratchett International journal of qualitative studies in education 26 (1), 100-117, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Working together: multi-agency working in services to disabled children with complex health care needs and their families-a literature review D Watson, R Townsley, D Abbott, P Latham Norah Fry Research Centre University of Bristol, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| Storying special objects: Material culture, narrative identity and life story work for children in care D Watson, R Hahn, J Staines Qualitative Social Work 19 (4), 701-718, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Examining whiteness in a children's centre V Clarke, D Watson Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 15 (1), 69-80, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| Decision-making for the infant sleep environment among families with children considered to be at risk of sudden unexpected death in infancy: a systematic review and … A Pease, JJ Garstang, C Ellis, D Watson, J Ingram, C Cabral, PS Blair, ... BMJ paediatrics open 5 (1), 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
| Children’s voices in physical activity research: A qualitative review and synthesis of UK children’s perspectives L Emm-Collison, R Cross, M Garcia Gonzalez, D Watson, C Foster, ... International journal of environmental research and public health 19 (7), 3993, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Adopted children’s co-production and use of ‘trove’(a digitally enhanced memory box) to better understand their care histories through precious objects D Watson, C Meineck, B Lancaster Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 23 (4), 614-628, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| ‘We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life’: Using sandboxing to understand children and young people’s everyday conversations about care DL Watson, E Staples, K Riches Children & Society 35 (5), 663-679, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Challenging the developmental reductionism of ‘profound and multiple learning disabilities’ through academic innovation B Simmons, DL Watson PMLD link 26 (3), 25-27, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| trove: A digitally enhanced memory box for looked after and adopted children S Gray, R Hahn, K Cater, D Watson, C Meineck, T Metcalfe Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design …, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
