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Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2019). Spirit knows: materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent. Social & Cultural Geography, 20(8) pp. 1114–1137.

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Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2018). Spaces of spirituality: an introduction. In: Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve eds. Spaces of Spirituality. Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity. London: Routledge, pp. 1–20.

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Bartolini, Nadia; Chris, Robert; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2017). The place of spirit: Modernity and the geographies of spirituality. Progress in Human Geography, 41(3) pp. 338–354.

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Bartolini, Nadia; Chris, Robert; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2013). Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: alternative spiritualities and the question of their esoteric economies. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(4) pp. 367–388.

Banks, Mark and MacKian, Sara (2000). Jump in! The water’s warm: a comment on Peck's 'grey geography'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25(3) pp. 249–254.

Dodge, Martin; Jayne, Mark; Perkins, Chris; MacKian, Sara and Smyth, Fiona (2007). EBL from the very first day: developing new senses of place. University of Manchester, Manchester.

Edge, Dawn and MacKian, Sara C. (2010). Ethnicity and mental health encounters in primary care: help-seeking and help-giving for perinatal depression among Black Caribbean women in the UK. Ethnicity and Health, 15(1) pp. 93–111.

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Goldring, J.; Bellaby, P. and MacKian, S. (2008). Health Literacy and the Framing of Health Messages in the Gay Community. Final Report to ESRC. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

MacKian, Sara (2025). Using Stories to Explore the Everyday Place of Spirit Agency. In: Woodhead, Linda; Cadman, Louisa and Graham, Nicole eds. Messy Methods in Researching Religion. UK: Oxford University Press (In press).

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MacKian, Sara (2024). Reframing death: life-affirming messages from the dead through the lens of Spiritualism and tarot. Mortality (Early access).

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MacKian, Sara (2019). ‘The constant hum of the engine…’: A story about extraordinary interdisciplinary dialogues in spirituality and wellbeing. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 11(1) pp. 15–31.

MacKian, Sara (2018). Spiritual transformations. In: Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve eds. Spaces of Spirituality. Routledge, pp. 199–203.

MacKian, Sara; Bartolini, Nadia; Pile, Steve and Sambo, Daniele (2016). Spiritualism in Stoke-on-Trent. Glasgow: TWTD Press.

MacKian, Sara (2012). Touched by spirit: sensing the material impacts of intangible encounters. In: Paterson, Mark and Dodge, Martin eds. Touching Space, Placing Touch. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 249–268.

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MacKian, Sara (2012). Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

MacKian, Sara (2011). Crossing spiritual boundaries: encountering, articulating and representing otherworlds. Methodological Innovations Online, 6(3) pp. 61–74.

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MacKian, Sara (2011). Me and ME: therapeutic landscapes in an unfamiliar world. In: Lloyd, Cathy and Heller, Tom eds. Long-term Conditions: challenges in health and social care. London: Sage.

MacKian, Sara and Goldring, John E. (2010). 'What's he looking at me for?' Implications of age and generation for gay men's health promotion. In: Jones, Rebecca L. and Ward, Richard eds. LGBT Issues: Looking Beyond Catagories. Policy & Practice in Health and Social Care (10). Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, pp. 16–29.

MacKian, Sara (2009). The art of geographic interpretation: Making sense of qualitative data. In: DeLyser, Dydia; Aitken, Stuart; Crang, Mike; Herbert, Steve and McDowell, Linda eds. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Human Geography. UK: Sage.

MacKian, Sara C. (2008). What the papers say: Reading therapeutic landscapes of women’s health and empowerment in Uganda. Health & Place, 14(1) pp. 106–115.

MacKian, Sara C. (2008). Complex cultures: rereading the story about health and social capital. In: Gupta, K. R.; Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase and Maiti, Prasenjit eds. Social Capital (Vol. 2). New Delhi: Atlantic, pp. 110–134.

Mallinson, Sara; Popay, Jennie; Kowarzik, Ute and MacKian, Sara (2006). Developing the public health workforce: a 'communities of practice' perspective. Policy and Politics, 34(2) pp. 265–285.

MacKian, Sara (2004). Mapping reflexive communities: visualising the geographies of emotion. Social & Cultural Geography, 5(4) pp. 615–631.

MacKian, Sara; Bedri, Nafisa and Lovel, Hermione (2004). Up the garden path and over the edge: where might health-seeking behaviour take us? Health Policy and Planning, 19(3) pp. 137–146.

MacKian, Sara; Elliott, Heather; Busby, Helen and Popay, Jennie (2003). 'Everywhere and nowhere': locating and understanding the 'new' public health. Health & Place, 9(3) pp. 219–229.

MacKian, Sara (2002). Complex Cultures: rereading the story about health and social capital. Critical Social Policy, 22(2) pp. 203–225.

MacKian, Sara (2000). Contours of coping: mapping the subject world of long-term illness. Health & Place, 6(2) pp. 95–104.

MacKian, Sara (1998). The Citizen’s New Clothes: care in a Welsh community. Critical Social Policy, 18(54) pp. 27–50.

MacKian, Sara (1995). 'That great dust-heap called history': recovering the multiple spaces of citizenship. Political Geography, 14(2) pp. 209–216.

Pile, Steve; Bartolini, Nadia and MacKian, Sara (2019). "Creating a World for Spirit": affectual infrastructures and the production of a place for affect. Emotion, Space and Society, 30 pp. 1–8.

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Pile, Steve; Bartolini, Nadia and MacKian, Sara (2018). Talking with the dead: spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke-on-Trent. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(2) pp. 170–183.

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Paterson, Mark; Dodge, Martin and MacKian, Sara (2012). Introduction: placing touch within social theory and empirical study. In: Paterson, Mark and Dodge, Martin eds. Touching Space, Placing Touch. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1–28.

Popay, Jennie; Kowarzik, Ute; Mallinson, Sara; MacKian, Sara and Barker, Jacqui (2007). Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part I: the GP perspective. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61 pp. 966–971.

Popay, Jennie; Kowarzik, Ute; Mallinson, Sara; MacKian, Sara and Barker, Jacqui (2007). Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part II: lay perspectives. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61 pp. 972–977.

Popay, Jennie; Mallinson, Sara; Kowarzik, Ute; MacKian, Sara; Busby, Helen and Elliott, Heather (2004). Developing public health work in local health systems. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 5(4) pp. 338–350.