McWhirter, PR and Lam, MC (2021) Time-resolved Low-resolution Spectra of BLAP-009 and BLAP-014. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Association RN AAS, 5 (6). ISSN 2515-5172

Lam, MC, Smith, RJ, Veitch-Michaelis, J, Steele, IA and McWhirter, PR (2021) An update on the development of ASPIRED. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 532. pp. 537-540. ISSN 1050-3390

McWhirter, PR, Lam, MC and Steele, IA (2020) Confirmation of Monoperiodicity Above 20 Seconds for Two Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496 (2). pp. 1105-1114. ISSN 0035-8711

Burke, C, McWhirter, PR, Veitch-Michaelis, J, McAree, O, Pointon, HAG, Wich, SA and Longmore, SN (2019) Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and Coastal Areas. Drones, 3/4. ISSN 2504-446X

McWhirter, PR, Hussain, A, Al-Jumeily, D, Steele, IA and Vellasco, M (2019) Classifying Periodic Astrophysical Phenomena from non-survey optimized variable-cadence observational data. Expert Systems with Applications. ISSN 0957-4174

Spaan, D, Burke, C, McAree, O, Aureli, F, Rangel-Rivera, C, Hutschenreiter, A, Longmore, SN, McWhirter, PR and Wich, SA (2019) Thermal Infrared Imaging from Drones Offers a Major Advance for Spider Monkey Surveys. Drones, 3 (2). ISSN 2504-446X

McWhirter, PR (2018) An Automated Pipeline for Variability Detection and Classification for the Small Telescopes Installed at the Liverpool Telescope. Doctoral thesis, Liverpool John Moores University.

McWhirter, PR, Hussain, A, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D and Vellasco, M (2018) GRAPE: Genetic Routine for Astronomical Period Estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 (4). pp. 5196-5213. ISSN 1365-2966

Kifayat, K, Shi, Q, Askwith, RJ and McWhirter, PR (2018) SQL Injection Attack Classification through the Feature Extraction of SQL Query strings using a Gap-Weighted String Subsequence Kernel. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 40. pp. 199-216. ISSN 2214-2126

McWhirter, PR, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D and Hussain, A (2017) The Classification of Periodic Light Curves from non-survey optimized observational data through Automated Extraction of Phase-based Visual Features. In: Neural Networks (IJCNN) . (2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), 14 May 2017 - 19 May 2017, Anchorage, Alaska, USA).

McWhirter, PR, Wright, S, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D, Hussain, A and Fergus, P (2016) A Dynamic, Modular Intelligent-Agent framework for Astronomical Light Curve Analysis and Classification. In: Intelligent Computing Theories and Application: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 9771. pp. 820-831. (2016 International Conference on Intelligent Computation, 02 August 2016 - 05 August 2016, Lanzhou,China).