de Vries, MJ, Williams, PJ, Buckely, J, McLain, MN, Dooley, K, Gu, J, Du, Y, Tao, Y, Yang, Q and Zhu, W (2024) The Proceedings of the 41st International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Educational Research Conference: K-12 technology and engineering education and student development. Nanjing Normal University, pp. 1-310.

Shukor, NA, Noor, NMD, MA’ROF, AM, HALIM, NDABD, McLain, MN, Downes, G, Rothwell, P and Tracy, F (2023) Designing an Online Course on Learning Analytics for Educators: Preliminary Insights from a Scoping Review. In: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education . pp. 899-901. (International Conference on Computers in Education, 4th - 8th December 2023, Matsue, Japan).

McLain, MN and Finnigan-Moran, S (2023) Facilitating: The role of learning environments in technology education curricula. In: Gill, D, Irving-Bell, D and McLain, M, (eds.) Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.. ISBN 9781350238411

Irving-Bell, D, McLain, MN and Wooff, D (2022) 'Shaping Things': The impact of using Design Fiction as a pedagogical tool within technology and design education. Australasian Journal of Technology Education, 7. ISSN 2382-2007

McLain, MN, McLain, D, Wooff, D and Irving-Bell, D (2021) Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on Modelling and Explaining in STEM Subjects: a Q Methodology Study. Techne Series: Research in in Sloyd Education and Crafts Science A, 28 (2). pp. 367-374. ISSN 1893-1774

McLain, MN (2021) Towards a signature pedagogy for design and technology education: a literature review. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

Tynan, RJ and McLain, MN (2019) Attitudes to assessing trainee teachers on school experience placement within a group involved in an initial teacher education partnership at an 11-16 academy: a Q-methodology approach. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 11 (4). pp. 3-20. ISSN 2054-5266

McLain, MN, Irving-Bell, D, Wooff, D and Morrison-Love, D (2019) How technology makes us human: cultural and historical roots for design and technology education. Curriculum Journal, 30 (4). pp. 464-483. ISSN 0958-5176

McLain, MN (2019) Developing perspectives on ‘the demonstration’ as a signature pedagogy in design and technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN (2019) Helping new D&T teachers to analyse and develop knowledge and understanding in design and technology (product design). In: Mentoring Design and Technology Teachers in the Secondary School A Practical Guide. Mentoring Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers . Routledge. ISBN 1138541109

McLain, MN, Irving-Bell, D and Wooff, D (2019) Humanising the design and technology curriculum: Why technology education makes us human. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 24 (2). pp. 8-19. ISSN 1360-1431

Rowe, J and McLain, MN (2018) The challenges of curriculum design in initial teacher education (ITE): a perspective from Liverpool John Moores University. Impact Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching. ISSN 2514-6955

McLain, MN, Bell, D, Wooff, D and Morrison-Love, D (2018) How technology makes us human: cultural and historical roots for design and technology education. In: 2018 PATT36 International Conference: Research and Practice in Technology Education , 36. pp. 223-230. (36th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference, 18 June 2018 - 21 June 2018, Athlone Institute of Technology, Co. Westmeath, Ireland).

McLain, MN (2017) A new paradigm for design and technology education? [a book review of Critique in Design and Technology Education, by P.J. Williams and K. Stables (eds)]. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 22 (3). pp. 116-118. ISSN 1360-1431

McLain, MN (2017) Emerging perspectives on teacher modelling and explaining in design and technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28 (14). pp. 985-1000. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN (2017) Emerging perspectives on the demonstration as a signature pedagogy in design and technology education. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. ISSN 0957-7572

McLain, MN, McLain, MH, Tsai, J, Martin, MC, Bell, D and Wooff, D (2017) Traditional tales and imaginary contexts in primary design and technology: a case study. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 22 (2). pp. 26-40. ISSN 1360-1431

Bell, D, Morrison-Love, D, Wooff, D and McLain, MN (2017) STEM education in the twenty-first century: learning at work-an exploration of design and technology teacher perceptions and practices. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28 (3). pp. 721-737. ISSN 0957-7572

Bell, D, Wooff, D, McLain, MN and Morrison-Love, D (2017) Analysing design and technology as an educational construct: an investigation into its curriculum position and pedagogical identity. Curriculum Journal, 28 (4). pp. 539-558. ISSN 0958-5176

McLain, MN and Welsh, R (2016) Design and technology GCSE subject content. Department for Education (DfE), London.

McLain, MN (2016) Teacher educator perspectives on pedagogical modelling and explaining in Design and Technology: a Q Methodology Study. In: PATT-32 Proceedings . pp. 329-343. (Pupils' Attitutdes Towards Technology (PATT): Technology Education for 21st Century skills, 22 August 2016 - 26 August 2016, Delft University of Technology and HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht).

Welsh, R and McLain, MN (2015) Design and technology GCE AS and A Level subject content. Department for Education (DfE), London.

McLain, MN, Bell, D, Smith, J and Martin, M (2014) Reviewing the Impact of the National Strategies Design and Technology Framework for Key Stage Three. The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences EJSBS, 2 (IX). pp. 1355-1366. ISSN 2301-2218

McLain, MN (2013) The challenges facing Postgraduate Trainees in Initial Teacher Education coming from practical or vocational degrees. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 5 (2). pp. 39-56. ISSN 2054-5266