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Anisimovich, Antonina, Chapple, Melissa, Worsley, Joanne, Watkins, Megan, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Balabanova, Ekaterina (2022) Back to live: Returning to in-person engagement with arts and culture in the Liverpool City Region. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. 1011766-.

Lingwood, Jamie, Levy, Rachael, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Rowland, Caroline (2020) Barriers and solutions to participation in family-based education interventions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, 23 (2). pp. 185-198.

Chapple, Melissa, Davis, Philip, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Williams, Sophie and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2022) Challenging Empathic Deficit Models of Autism Through Responses to Serious Literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. 828603-.

Lingwood, Jamie, Lampropoulou, Sofia ORCID: 0000-0001-9072-1394, De Bezenac, Christophe, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Rowland, Caroline (2022) Children's engagement and caregivers' use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach. JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE. pp. 1-23.

Chapple, Melissa, Anisimovich, Antonina, Worsley, Joanne, Watkins, Megan, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Balabanova, Ekaterina (2023) Come together: The importance of arts and cultural engagement within the Liverpool City Region throughout the COVID-19 lockdown periods. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. 1011771-.

Davis, Philip, Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Frank, Arthur (2023) Editorial: Reading, literature, and psychology in action. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 13. 1068030-.

Lingwood, Jamie, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Rowland, Caroline ORCID: 0000-0002-8675-8669 (2020) Evaluating the Effectiveness of a 'Real-World' Shared Reading Intervention for Preschool Children and Their Families: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Journal of Research in Reading, 43 (3). pp. 249-271.

Chapple, Melissa, Davis, Philip, Billington, Josie and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2023) Exploring the different cognitive, emotional and imaginative experiences of autistic and non-autistic adult readers when contemplating serious literature as compared to non-fiction. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 14. 1001268-.

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X (2017) Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language. [Book Review]

Worsley, Joanne, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Balabanova, Ekaterina and Chapple, Melissa (2022) Lifting lockdown: Renewed access to arts and cultural activities. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 22 (1). 1887-.

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Steenberg, Mette (2021) Literary Reading and Mental Wellbeing. In: Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies. De Gruyter,Berlin, pp. 393-420. ISBN 9783110644784

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Balabanova, Katia, Worsley, J, Watkins, Megan and Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place (2021) The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture. [Report]

Billington, Josie, Balabanova, Ekaterina, Worsley, Joanne and Watkins, Megan (2021) The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture. [Report]

Chapple, Melissa, Davis, Philip, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Myrick, Joe Anthony, Ruddock, Cassie and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2021) Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem Within Pairs of Autistic and Non-autistic Adults Through the Contemplation of Serious Literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 708375-.

Worsley, Joanne, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Balabanova, Ekaterina and Watkins, Megan (2022) Regional Innovation in Arts Provision Spawned by COVID-19: "It Became a Lifeline for a Lot of People Who Are Stuck at Home". FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 10. 753973-.

O'Sullivan, Noreen, Davis, Philip, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Gonzalez-Diaz, Victorina ORCID: 0000-0001-8856-342X and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2015) “Shall I compare thee”: The neural basis of literary awareness, and its benefits to cognition. Cortex, 73. pp. 144-157.

Longden, Eleanor, Davis, Philip, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Lampropoulou, Sofia ORCID: 0000-0001-9072-1394, Farrington, Grace, Magee, Fiona, Walsh, Erin and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2015) Shared Reading: assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention. Medical Humanities, 41 (02). pp. 113-120.

Farrington, Grace Shared reading: A practice-based study of The Reader Organisation reading model in relation to Mersey Care provision and the English literary tradition. Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Liverpool.

Billington, Josie (2023) ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her' (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda). In: A Space of Their Own. Among the Victorians and Modernists . Routledge,London, pp. 129-142. ISBN 978-1-032-21809-0

Solnick, Samuel ORCID: 0000-0001-8852-3217, Povall, Sue, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Ross-Williams, Rebecca and Rotheram, Clare (2021) The Life Rooms at The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre: Preliminary evaluation of the pilot. [Report]

Watkins, Megan (2019) Turn the Page: Using Diverse Methodologies to Assess the Outcomes of Reading for Mental Health and Wellbeing within Community and High Secure Settings. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

Davis, Philip and Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X (2016) The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease. CHANGING ENGLISH-STUDIES IN CULTURE AND EDUCATION, 23 (4). pp. 396-408.

Chapple, Melissa (2022) What reading fiction can do: The value of literature in challenging deficit-based understandings of autistic people. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

Green, KL (2018) When Literature Comes to our Aid: Investigations into Psychological Understanding in the Writing of Seneca and Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

Chapple, Melissa, Williams, Sophie, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Davis, Philip and Corcoran, Rhiannon ORCID: 0000-0001-8900-9199 (2021) An analysis of the reading habits of autistic adults compared to neurotypical adults and implications for future interventions. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 115. 104003-.

Longden, Eleanor, Davis, Philip, Carroll, Janine, Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X and Kinderman, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-8972-8548 (2016) An evaluation of shared reading groups for adults living with dementia: preliminary findings. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH, 15 (2). pp. 75-82.

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Carroll, Janine, Davis, Philip, Healey, Christine and Kinderman, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-8972-8548 (2013) A literature-based intervention for older people living with dementia. PERSPECTIVES IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 133 (3). pp. 165-173.

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Humphreys, Anne Louise, Jones, Andrew and McDonnell, Kate (2016) A literature-based intervention for people with chronic pain. ARTS & HEALTH, 8 (1). pp. 13-31.

Billington, Josie ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-612X, Longden, Eleanor and Robinson, Jude ORCID: 0000-0001-5491-4893 (2016) A literature-based intervention for women prisoners: preliminary findings. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRISONER HEALTH, 12 (4). pp. 230-243.