1. 'Making a difference': Exploring job retention issues in child protection and welfare social work;Burns,2008
2. Burns, K. (2009). Job Retention and Turnover: A Study of Child Protection and Welfare Social Workers in Ireland (PhD Thesis). Cork: University College Cork.
3. Career preference’, ‘transients’ and ‘converts’: A study of social workers’ retention in child protection and welfare;Burns;British Journal of Social Work,2011
4. Politics, democracy and protecting children;Burns,2012
5. An impossible task? Implementing the recommendations of child abuse inquiry reports in a context of high workloads in child protection and welfare;Burns;Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies,2012