Abbott, Ian, 1955-, Rathbone, Michael and Whitehead, Phillip (2012) Education policy. London: Sage Publications Ltd.. ISBN 9780857025760 (In Press)

Abbott, Ian, 1955- and Bush, Tony, 1943- (2012) Establishing and maintaining high-performing leadership teams : a primary perspective. Education 3-13 . pp. 1-17. ISSN 0300-4279 (In Press)

Gleeson, Denis, Abbott, Ian, 1955- and Hill, Ron. (2011) Governing the governors : a case study of college governance in English further education. British Educational Research Journal, Vol.37 (No.5). pp. 781-796. ISSN 0141-1926

Gleeson, Denis, Abbott, Ian, 1955- and Hill, Ron (2009) Creative Governance in Further Education : the art of the possible? London : The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)..

Abbott, Ian, 1955- (2008) Celebrating 60 years of teacher training. Leadership group publications . Coventry: Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

Abbott, Ian, 1955- (2008) Gli studi economici nel regno unito. In: Pedrizzi, Tiziana and Castrovilli, Enrico, (eds.) Cultura economica nei licei. Milano: F. Angeli,. ISBN 9788846498311