BOOKS
Fook, J., Ryan, M., & Hawkins, L. (2000). Expertise in professional practice: practice, theory and education for working with uncertainty. London: Whiting & Birch.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Ryan, M. (In press). Social work practice and debt problems. In P. Swain & S. Rice (Eds.), In the shadow of the law (3rd. ed.). Sydney: Federation Press.
Ryan, M. (2004). Interviewing the stigmatised: Experiences of collecting data from consumer bankrupts in Australia. In M. Pawar (Ed.), Data collecting methods and experience: A guide to social researchers (pp. 61-78). New Delhi: New Dawn Press.
M. Ryan. (2003). Research in community and social development: The rhetoric, the reality and the road ahead. In R. Doyle, H. Babacan & G. Gopalkrishnan (Eds.), Strengthening community capacity: Asia Pacific perspectives (pp. 71-80). Naresuan, Thailand: Phitsanulok, Naresuan University.
Ryan, M. (2002). Social work practice and debt problems. In P. Swain (Ed.), In the shadow of the law (2nd. ed., pp. 219-29), Sydney: Federation Press.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ryan, M. (In press to be published in 2008 issue). Much more important than I first thought it was: A report on an Australian study aimed at attempting to change social work students’ attitudes in a beginning research subject. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education (August ).
Coyne, E., & Ryan, M. (2007). Mapping the knowledge bereavement counsellors use in practice. Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, 10(3), 64-68.
Ryan, M. (2007). Teaching loss and grief to social work students: Some reflections. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 9(1), 69-81.
Nilsson, D., Ryan, M., & Miller, J. (2007). Applying a theory of expertise in health social work administration and practice in Australia. Social Work in Health Care, 44(4), 1-16.
Ryan, M., Cleak, H., & McCormack, J. (2006). Student performance in field education placements: The findings of a six year Australian study of admission data. Journal of Social Work Education (U.S.), 42 (1), 67-84.
Camilleri, P., & Ryan, M. (2006). Social work students’ attitudes toward homosexuality and their knowledge and attitudes toward homosexual parenting as an alternative family unit: An Australian study. Social Work Education (U.K.), 25 (3), 288-304.
Ryan, M., Dowden, C., Healy, B., & Renouf, N. (2005). Watching the experts: Findings from an observational study of expert Australian mental health social worker. Journal of Social Work, 5(3), 279-298.
Merighi, J., Ryan, M., Renouf, N., & Healy, B. (2005). Reassessing a theory of professional expertise: A cross-national investigation of expert mental health social workers. British Journal of Social Work, 35, 709-725.
Ryan, M., Renouf, N., & Healy, B. (2004). Doing it well: an empirical study of expertise in mental health and paediatric social work. Social Work in Mental Health (U.S.), 2( 2/3), 21-37.
Ryan, M., Merighi, J., Healy, B., & Renouf, N. (2004). Belief, optimism and caring: Findings from a cross-national study of expertise in mental health social work. Qualitative Social Work, 3 (4), 411-29.
Craft, C., Murray, D., Rowley, D., Ryan, M., & Taylor, S. (2002). Breaking into the game: a mentoring program in research. Writing and publication for social work academics. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 4(1), 15-22
Sheehan, R., & Ryan, M. (2001). Educating for mental health practice: Results of a survey of mental health content in bachelor of social work curricula in Australian schools of social work. Social Work Education (U.K.), 20(3), 351-361.
Hawkins, L., Fook, J., & Ryan, M. (2001). Social workers' use of the language of social justice, The British Journal of Social Work, 31(1), 1-13.
Ryan, M., Cleak, H., Brophy, L., & Furlong, M. (2000). An exploratory study of the relationship of admission criteria and field education performance in an Australian B.S.W. course. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 3(1), 117-135.
Ryan, M., & Sheehan, R. (2000). Research education in Australian B.S.W. programs: Results of a survey. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 3(1), 136-151.
Hawkins, L., Ryan, M., Murray, H., Grace, M., Hess, L., Mendes, P., & Chatley, B. (2000). Supply and demand: a study of labour market trends and the employment of new social work graduates in Victoria. Australian Social Work , 53(1), 35-42.
Ryan, M., Sheehan, R., & Hawkins, L. (1999). Postgraduate social work education in Australia: Findings of a preliminary survey. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 2(2), 109-117.
Ryan, M., Habibis, D., & Craft, C. (1998). Towards better gatekeeping: Discussion of the findings of a survey of gatekeeping mechanisms in Australian Bachelor of Social Work programs. Australian Social Work, 51(1), 9-15.
