During her time administering the Creativity and Cognition Studios, Deborah contributed both as an editor and co-author on two peer reviewed publications.  Copies of these are available through CCS Administration. The catalogues published from 2008 onwards are published by and available from DABPublications or the Centre for Media Arts Innovation, both at UTS.

• Turnbull, D. (ed.). Memory Flows @ Newington Armory. With essay contributions from Norie Neumark, Tally Palmer and Sophia Kouyoumidjian. Foreward by Judith Blackall. Focus Press, copyright CMAI @ UTS: 2010. ISBN: 978-0-9808082-0-9. Copies available from the Centre for Media Arts Innovation.
• Turnbull, D. (ed.) Image Ecologies. With essay contributions from Deborah Turnbull, Matthew Connell, Ian Gwilt, Norie Neumark, Maria Miranda, Sarah Gibson, Ernest Edmonds, and Brigid Costello. DABdoc [9]. 25 June 2009. UTS, Sydney: 2009. Copies available from DABPublications
• Gwilt, I., and Turnbull, D. (eds.). Mundane Traces: essays on transitional art practises.  With essay contributions by Kees Dorst, Deborah Turnbull, Ian Gwilt, and Melinda Rackham. DABdoc [8]. 25 November 2008. UTS, Sydney: 2008. Copies available from DABPublications.
• Bilda, Z., Edmonds, E., and Turnbull, D. Interactive Experience in a Public Context. Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & Cognition, Washington, DC, USA, 13-15 June 2007. ACM Press, NY, USA: pp. 243-244.
• Edmonds, E., Muller, L., and Turnbull, D. (eds). Engage: Interaction, Art and Audience Experience - A CCS/ACID Symposium. Creativity and Cognition Studios Press, 2006. Sydney, Australia.
• Turnbull, Deborah. Old Myths, New Meanings: Border Crossing and the Recontextualization of Space in Alladeen and Theft of Sita. MA Thesis. Faculty of Arts, 2006, University of Sydney, Australia.