| Cultural policy: Management value and modernity in the creative industries D O'Brien Routledge, 2014 | 336 | 2014 |
| Measuring the value of culture: A report to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport D O'Brien | 310 | 2010 |
| Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries O Brook, D O’Brien, M Taylor Culture is bad for you, 2020 | 281* | 2020 |
| Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey D O’Brien, D Laurison, A Miles, S Friedman Cultural Trends 25 (2), 116-131, 2016 | 266 | 2016 |
| ‘Like skydiving without a parachute’: How class origin shapes occupational trajectories in British acting S Friedman, D O’Brien, D Laurison Sociology 51 (5), 992-1010, 2017 | 187 | 2017 |
| Panic! Social class, taste and inequalities in the creative industries O Brook, D O’Brien, M Taylor https://createlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Panic-Social-Class-Taste …, 2018 | 131* | 2018 |
| Cultural value and inequality: A critical literature review D O'Brien, K Oakley Arts and humanities research council, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Learning to labour unequally: Understanding the relationship between cultural production, cultural consumption and inequality K Oakley, D O'Brien Social Identities 22 (5), 471-486, 2016 | 120 | 2016 |
| Cultural capital: Arts graduates, spatial inequality, and London’s impact on cultural labor markets K Oakley, D Laurison, D O’Brien, S Friedman American Behavioral Scientist 61 (12), 1510-1531, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
| ‘Culture is a meritocracy’: Why creative workers’ attitudes may reinforce social inequality M Taylor, D O’Brien Sociological Research Online, 1360780417726732, 2017 | 92 | 2017 |
| Producing and consuming inequality: A cultural sociology of the cultural industries D O’Brien, K Allen, S Friedman, A Saha Cultural Sociology 11 (3), 271-282, 2017 | 88 | 2017 |
| The “scouse wedding” and other myths: reflections on the evolution of a “Liverpool model” for culture-led urban regeneration T Cox, D O'Brien Cultural Trends 21 (2), 93-101, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia G Windle, S Gregory, T Howson-Griffiths, A Newman, D O’Brien, ... Dementia 17 (6), 702-727, 2018 | 74 | 2018 |
| Cultural engagement and the economic performance of the cultural and creative industries: An occupational critique P Campbell, D O’brien, M Taylor Sociology 53 (2), 347-367, 2019 | 73 | 2019 |
| Deflecting privilege: Class identity and the intergenerational self S Friedman, D O’Brien, I McDonald Sociology 55 (4), 716-733, 2021 | 69 | 2021 |
| After urban regeneration D O’Brien, P Matthews Bristol: Policy Press, 2015 | 67* | 2015 |
| The social life of measurement: How methods have shaped the idea of culture in urban regeneration P Campbell, T Cox, D O’Brien Journal of Cultural Economy 10 (1), 49-62, 2017 | 66 | 2017 |
| Who is in charge? Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 and the governance of cultural planning D O'Brien The Town Planning Review, 45-59, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Resistance and resignation: Responses to typecasting in British acting S Friedman, D O’Brien Cultural Sociology 11 (3), 359-376, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality: a comparative analysis of policy making in the peripheral north of England D O'Brien, S Miles Cultural Trends 19 (1-2), 3-13, 2010 | 57 | 2010 |
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