Davies, Scott and Linda Quirke (2005). “Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in an Emerging Educational Market” American Journal of Education. 111(4): 523-547.

Quirke, Linda and Scott Davies (2002). “The New Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: The Impact of Tuition Increases at an Ontario University” Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 32(3): 85-110.

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

(2013, August) "From Plump to Problematic: Child Obesity and Advice to Parents, 1987-2012" American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.

(2013, August) With Shane Dixon. "Construction Work: The Social Construction of 'Work' in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks" American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.

(2013, March) With Deanna Sim. "Parenting Advice and Child Obesity" Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.

(2012, June)  "The Social Construction of Children's Physical Activity and Body Weight: Canadian Parenting Advice from 1975-2011" Qualitative Analysis Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

(2012, May) With Shane Dixon. "Construction Work: The Social Construction of 'Work' in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks" Canadian Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Waterloo. 

(2011, August). " Rogue Resistance: Sidestepping Isomorphic Pressures in a Patchy Institutional Field", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas

(2011, February). With Janice Aurini. "Permeable Boundaries: Jurisdictional Encroachment in Private Education", Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

(2010, August). With Janice Aurini. "Does Competition Encourage Strategic Action in the Private Education Sector?", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

(2010, May). "Narratives of Private Schooling" 27th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus

(2010, March). "Patchiness at the Periphery: Heterogeneity and Weak Isomorphic Pressures in Institutional Fields", Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.

(2006, August). With Janice Aurini. “The Impact of Markets on a ‘Weak’ Profession: Teacher Deprofessionalization in Ontario’s Private Education Sector”; American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Montreal

(2006, June). “Schooling without Teachers: Recreating the Myth of Professionalism in ‘Rogue’ Private Schools”; Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, York University

(2005, August).  “‘Keeping Young Minds Sharp’: Schooling, Children’s Cognitive Stimulation and the Rose of Parenting Magazines, 1959-2003”; American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

(2005, August).  With Scott Davies. “Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in a Private School Market”; American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

(2005, April). With Janice Aurini. “The New Institutionalism Goes to the Market: The Challenge of Private Education Organizations”; American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting,Montreal

(2005, April) “Teaching as an Entrepreneurial Activity: Jurisdictional Encroachments on ‘Weak’ Professions”; International Comparative Workshops on Critical Perspectives on the Professions, McMaster University

(2004, August).  “Immune from Isomorphism? Segmentation and Private ‘Niche’ Schools in Ontario, Canada”; American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco

(2004, August).  “Do Educational Markets Promote Innovation? An Organizational Analysis of New Private Schools in Toronto”; American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco

(2003, May).  “When ‘Parent’ Becomes a Verb: Changes to Parenting and the Rise of Cognitively Intensive Education”; Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University

(2003, May). “Why Private Education? Evaluating Traditional and Emerging Rationales”; Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University

(2002, August).  With Janice Aurini. “In the Business of Education: The Transformation of Tutoring Businesses and Private Schools”; American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago

(2002, May).  “New Sector Schools and the Expanding Marketplace of Private Education”; Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, University of Toronto/Ryerson University

Other Publications:

Quirke, Linda (2012). Review of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life  2nd Edition by Annette Lareau. Canadian Journal of Sociology. 37(1): 89-91.

Quirke, Linda (2010). Review of Social Class: How Does it Work?  by Annette Lareau & Dalton Conley (eds.) Canadian Journal of Sociology. 35(1): 173-5.

Quirke, Linda (2008). Review of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, by Sudhir Venkatesh. Canadian Review of Sociology.

Quirke, Linda (2008). Review of Young People and Offending: Education, Youth Justice and Social Inclusion, by Martin Stephenson. Canadian Review of Sociology.

Quirke, Linda (2006). Review of Schools and Societies, 2nd Edition by Steven Brint. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, fall 2006.

Quirke, Linda and Scott Davies (2004). “Principals’ Choice: New For-Profit Private Schools In Toronto” Dialogue. 1(1).

Quirke, Linda and Scott Davies (2004). “The Changing Face of Private Education” Our Kids Go To School: 2005 Private Education Directory. Vol. 6.

Davies, Scott, Janice Aurini and Linda Quirke (2002).  “New Markets for Private Education in Canada”.  Education Canada.  42(3).

Quirke, Linda (2000). “Access in Jeopardy?  Social Class, Finances and University Attendance” in Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Vol. 2, pp. 63-70.

Walsworth, Scott, Kara Somerville and Linda Quirke (2006). “An After School Program Needs Assessment Report”. Ward 15, Toronto District School Board, June 2006.