Peer-reviewed journal articles & book chapters
O’Connor, M. and Refslund Christensen, D. (Eds.). Creative and Aesthetic Grief Ways of Grief: All Things Reimagined. Routledge. In Press [Out July 2026].
O’Connor, M and Refslund Christensen, D. Introduction. In O’Connor, M. and Refslund Christensen, D. (Eds.). Creative and Aesthetic Grief Ways of Grief: All Things Reimagined. Routledge. In Press [Out July 2026].
O’Connor, M. Narrating Nabber: The creativity of posthumously storying complex people. In O’Connor, M. and Refslund Christensen, D. (Eds.). Creative and Aesthetic Grief Ways of Grief: All Things Reimagined. Routledge. In Press [Out July 2026].
O’Connor, M. (2024) Grief Universalism: A Perennial Problem Pattern Returning in Digital Grief Studies? Social Sciences. 2024, 13(4), 208; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040208.
Al-Oraibi, A., Fothergill, F., Yildirim, M., Knight, H., Carlisle, S., O’Connor, M., Briggs, L., Morling, J.R., Corner, J., Ball, J.K., Denning, C., Vedhara, K., Blake, H. Exploring the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on international university students: A qualitative study (2022)The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(13): 7631 doi: 10.3390/ijerph19137631.
O’Connor, M. & Kasket, E. (2022). What grief isn’t: Dead grief concepts and their digital-age revival. In T. Machin, C. Brownlow, J. Gilmour, & S. Abel (2021), Social Media and Technology Across the Lifespan (pp. 115–130). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99049-7_8
Knight, H., Carlisle, S., O’Connor, M., Briggs, L., Fothergill, L., Al-Oraibi, A., Yildirim, M., Corner, J., Vedhara, K., Morling, J., Blake, H. (2021). Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and self-isolation on students and staff in higher education: A qualitative study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(20), 10675 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182010675
O’Connor, M. (2020). Posthumous digital material: Does it ‘live on’ in survivors’ accounts of their dead? In M. Savin-Baden & V. Mason-Robbie (Eds.), Digital Afterlife: Death matters in a digital age (pp. 39-56). New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. DOI:10.1201/9780429322198.
Caswell G. & O’Connor, M. (2019) ‘I’ve no fear of dying alone’: exploring perspectives on living and dying alone. Mortality, 24(1), 17-31, DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2017.1413542.
Caswell G. & O’Connor, M. (2017). Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home. In Králová, J. & Walter, T. (Eds.). Social Death: Questioning the life-death boundary (pp.15-27). Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367075712
Caswell, G. & O’Connor, M. (2015). Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home. Contemporary Social Science, 10(3), 249-261. DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2015.1114663.
Williams, J., O’Connor, M., Windle, R., Wharrad, H. (2015) Using Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) in injection skills education: Evaluations from multiple user types. Nurse Education Today, 35 (12), 1275–82. DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.06.001.
*Ní Chonchúir, M. (2009). Is It Possible to Design for Aesthetic Experience without Damaging Agency? Proceedings of The European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Designing beyond the product – Understanding Activity and User Experience in Ubiquitous Environments. October 30th – October 2nd, Helsinki, Finland. (pp.442-5). Retrieved from: https://www.vttresearch.com/sites/default/files/pdf/symposiums/2009/S258.pdf.
Ní Chonchúir, M., and McCarthy, J. (2007). The Enchanting Potential of Technology: A Dialogical Case Study of Enchantment and the Internet. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Human Technology Special Issue: Culture, Creativity and Technology. 12(5), 401-9. DOI: 10.1007/s00779-007-0157-0.
*Ní Chonchúir is Irish Gaelic equivalent of O’Connor.
