Conferences

Podcasting Pedagogy: current podcasting practice in Radio and Media Production and Journalism in HE - panel discussion with MeCCSA RSN colleagues, Morley College, June 2024.

The Place of Community Radio in a Nation’s Media Matrix (the UK’s predicament) - on the MeCCSA LCM Panel for Locating Media Industries Conference, King’s College, London, June 2023.

Researching Community Radio Guest Lecture for Dept of Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland (online), March 2023

Local Community Radio and Covid-19 for MeCCSA local and community media and radio studies networks webinar, Online, April 2021.

Reflexive research on social sites of practice: How experience informs research – Techne (online) Conference for postgraduate students on reflexive, practice-based research at Brunel University, Jan 2021

Commercial Vibes: promotional cultures on local community radio in England – ECREA Conference, Complexity, hybridity, liminality: Challenges of researching contemporary promotional cultures, LSE, Feb 2020

Sites and sociality in community radio: a contextural analysis of featuring the local – MeCCSA Annual Conference, University of Brighton, Jan 2020

The Word on the Street: examining the role of local community radio in place-based socialities – 6th ECREA Radio Research Section Conference, University of Siena, Italy, Sept 2019

Doing Local Radio, Doing Good: a reflexive practice theory approach to research on community radio – Emerging Voices Conference 2019, Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s, London, June 2019

The Localized Practice of Interfaith Radio – MeCCSA Annual Conference, Stirling University, Jan 2019

Fieldwork in Practice: making radio features and making contacts for ‘Talk of the Town’ – 6th FMACS & Arts &Hums Doctoral Conference, Birkbeck, June 2018

Reflexive Radio Research: intellectualizing practice in local community radio – Creative Practice Research Conference in the Age of Neo-Liberalism, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, May 2018

Reflexive Radio Research: intellectualizing creative practice in local community radio – MeCCSA Annual Conference, London South Bank University, Jan 2018

Are they content with the content? Is there still a place for local radio? – Reaching Out: the past, present and future of BBC Local Radio Audiences, De Montfort University, Leicester, Nov 2017

Building Bridges on air – BBC Local Radio 50th Anniversary Symposium, Uni of Westminster, Nov 2017

Talk of the Town: Practice makes perfect? – Film and Screen Media with Arts and Humanities (formerly BIRMAC) 5th Doctoral Student-led Conference, Birkbeck, June 2017

Harking Back. The development of a genre – Media and Time, CRCC, Loughborough University, June 2017

Local Voices, Global Rhythms – BIRMAC Student-led conference, Birkbeck, July 2016

Local community internet radio – a contradiction in terms? – MeCCSA Annual Conference: Communities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Jan 2016

Talk of the Town: Defining the Boundaries – BIRMAC student-led conference, Birkbeck, June 2015

The Question of Texture in Audio/Radio – Corkscrew seminar presentation, Birkbeck, June 2015.

Virtual Spaces and Meaningful Places: Radio on the Internet – School of English Postgraduate Symposium: Space and Place, University of Sheffield, May 2015.

Talk of the Town: Programming the local on internet community radio – BIRMAC, Birkbeck, Dec 2014