Sims, Kearrin (2024) Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience: Laos as 2024 ASEAN Chair. Australian Outlook, 19 January 2024.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) Book review of "Silencing of a Laotian son: the life, work, and enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone" by Ng Shui Meng. Bangkok, Thailand, Spirit in Education Movement & INEB, 2022. ISBN: 978-616-8209-51-6. Asian Studies Review, 47 (4). pp. 855-856.

DiCarlo, Jessica, and Sims, Kearrin (2023) Corridors of Connectivity and Infrastructural Land Grabbing in Laos. In: Neef, Andreas, Ngin, Chanrith, Moreda, Tsegaye, and Mollett, Sharlene, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 333-344.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness, by Simon Rowedder. Asian Studies Review, 47 (3). pp. 634-635.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) How Last Week’s High-profile Resignation Will Impact the AIIB. The Diplomat, 21 June 2023.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) Is Laos a Criminal State? The Diplomat, 5 May 2023.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) Laos in limbo heading into 2023. East Asia Forum, 28 January 2023.

Sims, Kearrin (2023) The dual face of India’s democracy. East Asia Forum, 18 October 2023.

Sims, Kearrin, and Scali, Emma Luce (2022) What’s Driving Laos’ Debt Crisis? The Diplomat Magazine.

Sims, Kearrin (2022) BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic Violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 43 (3). pp. 309-324.

Sims, Kearrin (2022) Economic progress brings new challenges in Laos. East Asia Forum, 16 February 2022.

Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, and Salamanca, Albert (2022) Introduction. In: Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, and Rigg, Jonathan, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 1-12.

Engel, Susan, and Sims, Kearrin (2022) Introduction: changing development configurations. In: Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, Salamanca, Albert, and Yeophantong, Pichamon, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Sims, Kearrin, and Rigg, Jonathan (2022) Introduction: inequality and inequitable development. In: Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Hodge, Paul, Engel, Susan, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, Salamanca, Albert, and Yeophantong, Pichamon, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Rigg, Jonathan, and Sims, Kearrin (2022) Poverty: no meeting of minds. In: Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, Salamanca, Albert, and Yeophantong, Pichamon, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, Salamanca, Albert, and Yeophantong, Pichamon (2022) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Sims, Kearrin (2022) Shifting boundaries of development and activism: the case of Sombath Somphone. In: Barrow, Amy, and Fuller, Sara, (eds.) Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia. Politics in Asia . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 42-55.

Hayes, Anna, and Sims, Kearrin (2022) Violent development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In: Sims, Kearrin, Banks, Nicola, Engel, Susan, Hodge, Paul, Makuwira, Jonathan, Nakamura, Naohiro, Rigg, Jonathan, Salamanca, Albert, and Yeophantong, Pichamon, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Perera, Nirukshi, Tsey, Komla, Heyeres, Marion, Whiteside, Mary, Baird, Leslie, McCalman, Janya, Cadet-James, Yvonne, Calabria, Bianca, Hamilton, Michael, Yan, Li, Zuchowski, Ines, Sims, Kearrin, and Udah, Hyacinth (2022) “We are not stray leaves blowing about in the wind”: exploring the impact of Family Wellbeing empowerment research, 1998–2021. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21. 2.

Po, Sovinda, and Sims, Kearrin (2022) The myth of non-interference: Chinese foreign policy in Cambodia. Asian Studies Review, 46 (1). pp. 36-54.

Sims, Kearrin, and Roy, Sajal (2021) Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh: the need for community-based approaches. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, 62 (2). pp. 143-150.

Sims, Kearrin (2021) Infrastructure violence and retroliberal development: connectivity and dispossession in Laos. Third World Quarterly, 42 (8). pp. 1788-1808.

Sims, Kearrin (2021) Lao PDR in 2020: pandemic, debt and resource extraction. In: Singh, Dalit, and Cook, Malcolm, (eds.) Southeast Asian Affairs 2021. Southeast Asian Affairs . ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 141-168.

Sims, Kearrin (2021) On China’s doorstep, Laos plays a careful game of balancing. The Diplomat, July 07, 2021.

Sims, Kearrin (2021) Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: the work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone. Development Policy Review, 39 (4). pp. 604-620.

Sims, Kearrin (2020) Laos set its own debt trap. East Asia Forum.

Sims, Kearrin (2020) The ADB and AIIB: cooperation, competition and contestation. In: Jakupec, Viktor, Kelly, Max, and Makuwira, Jonathan, (eds.) Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid: beyond the neoliberal hegemony. Routledge Explorations in Development Studies . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 145-159.

Sims, Kearrin (2020) High modernism in a small country: China "develops" Laos. In: Emmerson, Donald K., (ed.) The Deer and The Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, pp. 271-298.

Sims, Kearrin (2020) Looking ahead: Laos in 2020 and beyond. New Mandala, 22 May 2020.

Sims, Kearrin (2019) Cooperation and contestation between the ADB and AIIB. East Asia Forum, 24 October 2019.

Sims, Kearrin, and Pinto, Chrisantha (2019) Can the land of a million elephants survive the belt and road? The Diplomat, 03 January 2019.

Sims, K. (2018) More growth, less freedom? charting development pathways in Lao PDR. In: Howe, Brendan, (ed.) National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia. Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 127-149.

Sims, Kearrin (2018) Teaching development studies in times of change. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 59 (2). pp. 147-158.

Sims, Kearrin (2017) Book review of "Changing Lives in Laos: society, politics, and culture in a post-socialist state" ed. by Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena. Singapore, NUS Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-981-4722-26-1. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 39 (3). pp. 583-586.

Sims, Kearrin (2017) Gambling on the future: casino enclaves, development, and poverty alleviation in Laos. Pacific Affairs, 90 (4). pp. 675-700.

Sims, Kearrin (2017) Economic growth and development in Lao PDR: who pays for progress? Human Rights Defender, 26 (1). pp. 20-21.

Sims, Kearrin (2016) Is Laos’ ASEAN chairmanship a threat to southeast Asian regionalism? The Diplomat, 15 April 2016. pp. 1-3.

Sims, Kearrin (2016) Book review of "Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos: perspective for today’s world", by S.P. Stobbe. Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 978-1138774766. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 38 (2). pp. 324-326.

Sims, Kearrin, and Winter, Tim (2016) In the slipstream of development: World Heritage and development-induced displacement in Laos. In: Labadi, Sophia, and Logan, William, (eds.) Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: international frameworks, national and local governance. Key Issues in Cultural Heritage . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 23-36.

Sims, Kearrin (2016) Uneven geographies of transnational capitalism in Laos. In: Sprague, Jeb, (ed.) Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 199-213.

Sims, Kearrin (2015) The Asian Development Bank and the production of poverty: neoliberalism, technocratic modernization and land dispossession in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36 (1). pp. 112-126.

Sims, Kearrin (2015) Culture, community-oriented learning and the post-2015 development agenda: a view from Laos. Third World Quarterly, 36 (10). pp. 1922-1943.

Sims, Kearrin (2014) The disappeared. Southeast Asia Globe, 18 June 2014.

Sims, Kearrin (2014) Missing Sombath a test for ASEAN. Asian Currents, 14 June 2014.

Sims, Kearrin, and Arvanitakis, James (2013) Why a missing Lao activist should concern us all. New Matilda, September 11 2013. p. 1.

Sims, Kearrin (2013) Raising homes for a rising Asia: development-induced displacement and regionalism in Laos. David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) Working Paper Series, 37. 121. pp. 1-22.

Sims, Kearrin (2013) La Chine dans la région du Mékong / China in the Mekong region. Report Section. Asia Centre, Paris, France.

Sims, Kearrin (2013) Playing dirty: everyday Laotians are finding that joining the Asian Century comes with hidden costs. Southeast Asia Globe, March 20 2013. pp. 38-41.

Sims, Kearrin (2013) The case of Sombath Somphone. New Mandala, 2 October 2017. p. 1.

Sims, Kearrin (2012) Finding Laos a place in the Asian century. Asian Currents, October 2012. pp. 10-12.

Howe, Brendan, and Sims, Kearrin (2011) Human Security and Development in Lao PDR: a responsibility to provide and protect. Asian Survey, 51 (2). pp. 333-355.