Ayliffe, Paula; Sapsed, Ruth; Sayers, Esther and Whitley, David. 2020. ArtScapers: being and becoming creative. Cambridge: Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. ISBN 9780992625962
Book Section
Sayers, Esther. 2025. Learning for Life: skateboarding, public pedagogy and belonging. In: Sander Holsgens and Adelina Ong, eds. Skate/Worlds: new pedagogies for skateboarding. Groningen, Netherlands: Groningen University Press, pp. 73-94. ISBN 9789403430607
Sayers, Esther. 2015. From Art Appreciation to Pedagogies of Dissent: Gallery Education Rethinks the Inclusion Agenda. In: Anna Hickey Moody and Tara Page, eds. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. London: Rowman and Littlefield.
Sayers, Esther. 2011. Subjectivities and school art education. In: Dennis Atkinson, ed. Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies Against the State. Sense Publishers, pp. 49-66. ISBN 978-9460914522
Article
Sayers, Esther. 2025. Activating concrete: participatory design for DIY skate dots. City Mill Skate’s practice-based methodology at the UCL east campus. CoDesign, ISSN 1571-0882
Clark, Sheryl and Sayers, Esther. 2025. Skateparks as communities of care: the role of skateboarding in girls’ and non-binary youth’s mental health recovery during lockdown. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 33(2), pp. 613-632. ISSN 1468-1366
Sayers, Esther. 2024. Book Review: Pedagogies of Taking Care by Dennis Atkinson. Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Blog,
Sayers, Esther. 2023. Skateboarding, Time and Ethics: An auto ethnographic adventure of motherhood and risk. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 17(3), pp. 306-326. ISSN 1751-1321
Sayers, Esther. 2021. Skater Girlhood: A snapshot of now. Grey Skateboard Magazine, 05(12), pp. 62-74.
Sayers, Esther and Sutton, Josh. 2020. Senior Skateboarding. Slam City Skates blog,
Sayers, Esther and Kingsford, Henry. 2020. The Bumps - a grassroots community project. Grey Skateboard Magazine, 5(6),
Sayers, Esther and Griffin, Sam. 2020. City Mill Skate: Skateboarding Architecture and Community. Urban Pamphleteer(8), pp. 6-8. ISSN 2052-8647
Hay, Penny; Sapsed, Ruth; Sayers, Esther; Benn, Melissa and Rigby, Sue. 2020. Creative Activism – learning everywhere with children and young people. FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 62(1), pp. 91-106. ISSN 0963-8253
Sayers, Esther. 2019. The Artist Teacher. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education,
Sayers, Esther. 2018. Enabling the 'Other' community through creative pedagogies for urban renewal. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 35,
Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine; Palmer, Helen and Sayers, Esther. 2016. Diffractive Pedagogies- dancing across new materialist imaginaries. Gender and Education, 28(2), pp. 213-229. ISSN 0954-0253
Sayers, Esther. 2014. 'Equality of Intelligences': Exploring the Barriers to Engagement in Modern and Contemporary Art through a Peer-to-Peer Workshop at Tate Modern. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 33(3), pp. 355-364. ISSN 1476-8062
Sayers, Esther. 2012. Gifted by Nature for Seeing Through. Tate online,
Sayers, Esther. 2012. Public participation as a tool for museums to take a meaningful place in the city. Display for a Display, pp. 10-11.
Sayers, Esther. 2011. Investigating the Impact of Contrasting Paradigms of Knowledge on the Emancipatory Aims of Gallery Programmes for Young People. International Journal Of Art & Design Education, 30(3), pp. 409-422. ISSN 1476-8062
Sayers, Esther; Griffin, Sam and Wilkinson, Sam. 2022. City Mill Pool Street.
Thesis
Sayers, Esther. 2014. Making ‘Culture Vultures’: an investigation into the socio-‐cultural factors that determine what and how young people learn in the art gallery. Doctoral thesis, ӣƵ
Other
Sayers, Esther. 2024. Common Grounds: Skateboarding, Learning and the Built Environment. City Mill Skate and UCL, London.