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

Sambo, Daniele; Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2016). Nature Light Truth: An exploration of Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent. Glasgow: TWTD Press.

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

Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve eds. (2018). Spaces of Spirituality. Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity. London: Routledge.

MacKian, Sara and Simons, Joan eds. (2013). Leading, Managing, Caring: Understanding Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care. Abingdon: Routledge in association with The Open University.

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

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.

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 (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). 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.

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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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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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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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.

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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Willson, Catherine Louise; Tetley, Josie; Lloyd, Cathy; Messmer Uccelli, Michele and MacKian, Sara (2018). The impact of multiple sclerosis on the identity of mothers in Italy. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(12) pp. 1456–1467.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.