Publications


Publications (please find full texts on Scherto’s Page on ResearchGate)

Book Series: Editor, DeGruyter Book Series Re-Imagining Public Governance: Opportunities for Innovation and Promises for Transformation

Selected Books and Papers

Gill, S. (ed.) (2025). New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma, London: Routledge.

Gill, S. (2025). “Politics of Dignity Structural Justice for Collective Healing and Global Flourishing”, in S.R. Gill (ed.) New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma, London: Routledge.

Gill, S. (ed.) (2025). Beyond Inhumanity: Towards Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Well-Being, Berlin: DeGruyter

Gill, S. R. (2025). “Understanding and Addressing Harms of Inhumanity: Mogobe Bernard Ramose and Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Ubuntu”, in S.R. Gill (ed.) Beyond Inhumanity: Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Flourishing, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 9-34. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111651217-004

Gill, S. (2024). (with Garrett Thomson) Beyond Instrumentalised Politics: Re-Conceptualising Public Governance, Berlin: DeGruyter

Gill, S. (2023) (ed.). “Governance for the Human Future: The Centrality of Dialogue”, Journal of Dialogue Studies, Volume. 11 

Gill, S. (2023). “Toward a New Political Project: Resetting by Reconceptualizing governance,” New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 35: Iss. 1, Article 6.

Gill, S. (2021) (ed.) Mass Atrocity and Collective HealingJournal of Genocide Studies and Prevention Volume 15, Issue 3

Gill, S. (2024). Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Well-Being: A Handbook for Facilitators, Paris: UNESCO

Gill, S. (2022). Lest we Lose Love, London: Anthem Press

Gill, S. (2021). Healing the Wounds of Slavery: A Conceptual Framework, Paris: UNESCO/Brighton: Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace

Gill, S. (2020). (with Kenneth Gergen) Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education, New York: Oxford University Press / Danish translation, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag (2022), Japanese (2023), Mandarin (2025), Greek translation in process.

Gill, S. (2020). “Peace from the Perspectives of Harmony”, The Harmony Debates, Wales: Sophia Centre Press

Gill, S. (2020). (with Garrett Thomson) Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision of Human Well-Being, London: Routledge.

Thomson, G. & Gill, S. (2021). “Well-Being: Preliminaries for a Framework”, in Thomson, G. Gill, S. & Goodson, G. (2021). Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being, Routledge

Gill, S. & Thomson, G. (eds.) (2020). Ethical Education: Towards an Ecology of Human Development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Gill, S. & Thomson, G. (2019). Understanding Peace Holistically: From the Spiritual to the Political, New York: Peter Lang

Gill, S. (2017). “Community as Communing”, in S. Gill & D. Cadman (eds.). Peacefulness: Being Peace and Making Peace, Reykjavik: Spirit of Humanity Press

Gill, S. & Cadman, D. (eds.) (2017). Peacefulness: Being Peace and Making Peace, Reykjavik: Spirit of Humanity Press

Gill, S. & Thomson, G. (2016). Human-Centred Education: A practical guide, London: Routledge

Gill, S. & Niens, U. (eds.) (2016). Education as Humanisation, London: Routledge

Gill, S. & Cadman, D. (eds.) (2015). Why Love Matters: Values in Governance, New York: Peter Lang

Gill, S. & Thomson, G. (eds.) (2014). Redefining Religious Education: Spirituality and Human Flourishing, New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Gill, S. & Goodson, I. (2013). Critical Narrative as Pedagogy, London: Bloomsbury

Gill, S. & Thomson, G. (2012). Rethinking Secondary Education: A Human-Centred Approach. Oxford: Pearson Education

Goodson, I. & Gill, S. (2010). Narrative Pedagogy. New York: Peter Lang

Gill, S. (2010). Learning across cultures. Berlin: Lambert Academic Publishing

Gill, S. (2009). (ed.) Exploring Selfhood: Finding Ourselves, Finding Our Stories, Brighton: Centre for Research in Human Development