Davies, A., Greensmith, C., Spring, L., Adam, S., Richardson, B., Rice, C., Smoliak, Ol, Menon, N., Purnelle, A., Beaton, J. (2026). Regulation of Madness in Early Childhood Education: Exploring Undergraduates’ Understanding of Professional Identity and Mental Health. Journal of Childhood Studies 51(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs511202622323

Menon, N., Johnston, L., Powell, A., Richardson, B., & Straker, A. (2024). (Care)fully reconstituting cruel professionalism with and for early childhood educators: how caring activism can resist uncaring conditions. Early Years, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2024.2393150 

Davies, A., Richardson, B., Abawi, Z. (2024). Re-Imagining the Image of the Teacher in Post-Secondary Early Childhood Education: Calling for Onto-Epistemological Justice. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2355100 

Richardson, B., Vickerson, R., & Bader, N. (2023). Falling by the “wasteside”: Defining and moving towards educator well-being from the perspective of ECEs in Ontario, Canada. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391231211023 

Richardson, B., Cook, K., Breitkreuz, R., & Wu, B. (2023). Writing gender in: Pandemic childcare policy responses in Australia and Canada.  Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1554477X.2023.2201916 

Richardson, B., Powell, A., Johnston, L. & Langford, R. (2023). Reconceptualizing activism through a feminist care ethics in the Ontario, Canada early childhood education context: Enacting caring activism. Social Sciences, 12(2). https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/2/89 

Richardson, B., Prentice, S., & Lero, D. (2021). “I’m kind of in a dilemma”: The Challenges of Non-standard Work Schedules and Childcare. Community, Work and Families. http://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2021.2007048

Richardson, B., Powell, A., & Langford, R. (2021). Critiquing Ontario’s childcare policy responses to the inextricably connected needs of mothers, children and early childhood educators. Journal of Childhood Studies, 46(3) 1-15.  https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs463202119951

Richardson, B. (2021). Commodification and care: An exploration of workforces’ experiences of care in private and public childcare systems from a feminist political theory of care perspective. Critical Social Policy, April 2021. http://doi.org/10.1177/0261018321998934

Richardson, B. (2021). Review of the book [Seeing the child in child protection social work, Sue Kennedy, London: Red Globe Press]. The Journal of Social Work, http://doi.org/10.1177/1468017321999513

Langford, R. & Richardson, B. (2020). Ethics of care in practice: An observational study of interactions between children and educators in Canadian early childhood settings. Journal of Childhood Studies, 45(1), 33-47. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/19398

Jones, M., Richardson, B. & Powell, A. (2019). Reconceptualizing our work: The connection between ECE students and political action. Journal of Childhood Studies, 44(1), 123-133. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/18782/8042

Langford, R., Richardson, B., & White, J., (2017). Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610617747978

Langford, R., Richardson, B., Prentice, S. & Albanese, P. (2017). Caring about Care: Repositioning Care as Integral to Early Childhood Education and Care Politics and Policies in Canada. Global Studies of Childhood, 7(4), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610617747978

MacDonald, L. & Richardson, B. (2015). ECEs as childcare advocates: Examining the scope of advocacy carried out by ECEs from the perspective of childcare movement actors in Ontario and Manitoba. Canadian Children, 40(1), 100-110. https://childcarecanada.org/sites/default/files/Canadian%20Children%20Macdonald_et%20al.FINAL_.pdf

Richardson, B. & Langford, R. (2015). A shifting collective identity: A critical discourse analysis of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada’s public messaging in 2005 and 2008. Critical Discourse Studies, 12(1), 78-96. http://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2014.962068

Richardson, B., Langford, R., Friendly, M., Rahaula, A. (2013). From Choice to Change: An analysis of the “choice” discourse in Canada’s 2006 federal election. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 14(2), 155-167. http://doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2013.14.2.155

Langford, R., Prentice, S., Richardson, B., & Albanese, P. (2016). Conflictual and cooperative childcare politics in Canada. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 10(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-016-0017-3

Langford, R., Prentice, S., Albanese, P., Messina-Goertzen, B., Summers, B., & Richardson, B. (2012). Early childhood education professionalization as an advocacy strategy: A content analysis of Canadian child care social movement organizations’ 2008 discursive resources. Early Years: An International Research Journal, 33(3), pp.302- 325. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2013.789489

Richardson, B. (2013). Exploring mother-infant-bedsharing through a cross-cultural lens: Western versus non-Western mother-infant sleep arrangements. Journal of Motherhood Institute, 4(2), p.120-129.