Books

• Low, R. (2023). Learning to stop: mindfulness meditation as anti-violence pedagogy. Online: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2021). The Mind and Teachers in the Classroom: Exploring Definitions of Mindfulness. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

Edited Books

• Low, R., Egan, S., Bell, A. (2024). Using social theory in higher education. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Welch, A., Bagnall, N., Burns, K., Cuervo, H., Foley, D., Groundwater-Smith, S., Harwood, V., Low, R., Mockler, N., Proctor, H., Rawlings, V., Wood, J., et al (2022). Education, change and society (5th edition). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Welch, A., Connell, R., Mockler, N., Sriprakash, A., Proctor, H., Hayes, D., Foley, D., Vickers, M., Bagnall, N., Burns, K., Low, R., Groundwater-Smith, S. (2018). Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

• Low, R. (2025). ROKEYA’S DREAM: SPECULATIVE WRITING AND THE MAKING OF AN UNREAL EDUCATION. In Susan Groundwater-Smith (Eds.), Hope, Wisdom and Courage, (pp. 115-124). New York: Peter Lang. [More Information]
• Low, R., Egan, S. (2024). Other people's ideas: An introduction to using social theory in higher education. In R. Y. S. Low, S. Egan & A. Bell (Eds.), Using social theory in higher education, (pp. 1-23). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2024). Students, biopolitics, and state racism: A response to Ren-Hao Xu. In R. Y. S. Low, S. Egan & A. Bell (Eds.), Using social theory in higher education, (pp. 163-170). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2024). The historian as pedagogue: On Hayden White's practical past. In R. Y. S. Low, S. Egan & A. Bell (Eds.), Using social theory in higher education, (pp. 227-237). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2024). The power, passions, and perils of identity: On Chantal Mouffe. In R. Y. S. Low, S. Egan & A. Bell (Eds.), Using social theory in higher education, (pp. 105-118). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Low, R., Burns, K. (2023). Gender. Education, change and society (5th edition), (pp. 263-298). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Thomas, M., Iromea, J., Low, R., Rawlings, V., Banki, S. (2022). Teaching and learning at Australian universities in uncertain times. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
• Soutphommasane, T., Low, R. (2022). Tomorrow's Australia: Race and racialization in Australian education. In J. Scott & M. Bajaj (Eds.), World yearbook of education 2023: Racialization and educational inequality in global perspective, (pp. 119-138). London: Routledge.
• Low, R., Rawlings, V. (2022). Young people in educational institutions. Education, change and society (5th edition), (pp. 1-24). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Rawlings, V., Low, R. (2020). Distributed violence. In D. T. Cook (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage. [More Information]
• Rawlings, V., Low, R. (2020). Relational violence. In D. T. Cook (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage. [More Information]
• Rawlings, V., Low, R. (2020). Structural violence. In D. T. Cook (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage. [More Information]
• Rawlings, V., Low, R. (2020). Violence. In D. T. Cook (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2019). Little Ego Deaths in the Social Justice Classroom: An Existential Perspective on Student Resistance. In K. Freebody, S. Goodwin, H. Proctor (Eds.), Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice, (pp. 173-188). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Low, R., Burns, K. (2018). Gender. In A. Welch (Eds.), Education, Change and Society: Fourth Edition, (pp. 228-262). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2018). MOOCs and widening participation in higher education: From competency to capability in the evaluation of educational technologies. In Liam Grealy, Catherine Driscoll, Anna Hickey-Moody (Eds.), Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience: Adults Understanding Young People, (pp. 141-157). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]

Journals

• Low, R. (2025). The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political. Teaching in Higher Education.
• Low, R. (2024). Decolonising education otherwise: Rabindranath Tagore and the spirit of secular criticism. Globalisation, Societies and Education. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2023). Beyond zero sum thinking in teacher education: cognitive science, educational neuroscience, and the history of education. History of Education Review. [More Information]
• Chia, Y., Jackson, L., Rizvi, F., Takayama, K., Jun, A., Low, R., Coloma, R., Horse, A., Stanley, T., Jeung, R., Park, J., et al (2023). Education and #StopAsianHate: a global conversation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(13), 1450-1463. [More Information]
• Low, R., Proctor, H. (2023). Oceania and the history of education. History of Education, Online only. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2023). Teachers taking spiritual turns: A practice-centred approach to educators and spirituality via Michel Foucault. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Online first. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2022). Follow the breath: mindfulness as travelling pedagogy. History of Education Review. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2022). Recovery as resistance: Bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought. Critical Studies in Education, Online first. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2019). Education as/against cruelty: On Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(6), 640-649. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2019). Mindfulness for teachers: Notes toward a discursive cartography. History of Education Review, 48(1), 91-108. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2019). Secularism, race, religion and the Public Instruction Act of 1880 in NSW. History of Education Review, 48(2), 171-182. [More Information]
• Low, R., Mayes, E., Proctor, H. (2019). Tracing the radical, the migrant, and the secular in the history of Australian schooling: Contrapuntal historiographies. History of Education Review, 48(2), 137-141. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2016). Facing Symbolic Violence: A Cruel Tale of Competitive University Admissions. Critical Education, 7(12), 1-21. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2016). Making up the Ummah: The rhetoric of ISIS as public pedagogy. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 38(4), 297-316. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2015). Raised parental expectations towards higher education and the double bind. Higher Education Research and Development, 34(1), 205-218. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2014). 'Fulfilling their God-given talents': Neo-Calvinist 'parent-controlled' schooling and neo-liberal education policy. Crucible, 6(1), 1-13. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2014). A genealogy of the religious versus secular schooling debate in New South Wales (Part II): populism and patriotism. Journal of Religious Education, 62, 53-64. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2014). A genealogy of the secular versus religious schooling debate in New South Wales (part I): terror and suspicion. Journal of Religious Education, 62(1), 25-38. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2014). Between Bethan and me: A dialogue on the uncertain promise of education, precarious employment and what it means to be productive. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 12(2), 112-142.
• Low, R. (2014). Reassembling visions through visual texts: A case study of higher education through English in a Mount Druitt high school. Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement, 9(1), 23-40. [More Information]
• Low, R. (2013). Can the 'under-represented' student speak? Discerning the subjects amongst the objects of widening participation in higher education. Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement, 8(1), 1-24.
• Low, R. (2012). From Religion in Politics to the Politics of Religion: Beyond liberal obfuscation. Uniting Church Studies, 18(2), 41-50.
• Redden, G., Low, R. (2012). My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 34(1-2), 35-48. [More Information]

Conferences

• Low, R. (2015). Digitised necrophilia: Technology and psychosocial orientations in the age of ISIS and drone warfare. The 27th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI 2015), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2010). The Inevitability of Religious Politics: Juan Luis Segundo and religion as faith and ideology. Challenging Politics: New Critical Voices Emerging Scholars Conference, Brisbane: University of Queensland, School of Political Science and International Studies.

Textual Creative Works

• Low, R. (2015). Beyond the phantasm of deprivation: Fragments from a dinner conversation in Mount Druitt. Zadok Perspectives, 128, (pp. 10 - 14). Melbourne, Australia: Zadok Institute for Christianity & Society.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Low, R. (2019). Unlearning as Learning: A conversation with Keg de Souza. Peril, 36. [More Information]

Other

• Low, R. (2017), Eating settler-colonialism: A meditation (In Media Res post). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2016), Drone Seeing: On the banality of petrification (In Media Res post). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2015), The Internet of Things: Having, being, or being had? (In Media Res post). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2014), From Francis Bacon to Francis Bacon: The Slice of Life (In Media Res post). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2013), Curing Vision (In Media Res post). [More Information]
• Low, R. (2013), Schooling Faith: Religious discourse, neo-liberal hegemony and the neo-Calvinist 'parent-controlled' schooling movement.

Research Reports

• Low, R. (2014). Experiences of Alienation at University: Some themes amongst Mount Druitt youth, Mount Druitt University Hub, Report No. 4, (pp. 1 - 36). Sydney, Australia: Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta.
• Low, R. (2013). MOOCs and widening participation in higher education: Case studies from Mount Druitt, Mount Druitt University Hub, Report No. 2, (pp. 3 - 33). Mount Druitt, Australia: Mount Druitt University Hub.
• Low, R. (2013). Raised parental expectations: Some possible pitfalls, Mount Druitt University Hub, Report No. 1, (pp. 3 - 29). Mt Druitt, Australia: Mount Druitt University Hub.
• Low, R. (2013). The Pleasures and Displeasures of Student Life: Experiences of low socioeconomic status youth in higher education, Mount Druitt University Hub, Report No. 3, (pp. 3 - 37). Mount Druitt, Australia: Mount Druitt University Hub.