Keynotes

• Building cultural citizenship with women seeking refuge and asylum to the ConferenceFemale Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change,

  25 June 2015

  United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in St Pau, Barcelona,

  My keynote at the conference on Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change at the  United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) took place in  St Pau, Barcelona, 11^th /12^th June 2015.

  See: https://www.opendemocracy.net/womenoftheworld/building-cultural-citizenship-with-women-seeking-refuge-and-asylum

• Walking, Sensing, Belonging

  19 November 2014

  Dept Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

  The Annual Sociology Lecture showcases new work by leading academics and thinkers in the field of sociology internationally. I spoke on walking and biographical methods in my work on sex work and asylum and migration

• Searching for Asylum: women, community and well being to International Deviancy Conference

  30 June 2014

  Teesside University

• Building Resources for citizenship: mothers' cultural intervention

  07 March 2014

  Open University

  The keynote was given to the AHRC network Migrant mothers caring for the future: creative interventions in making new citizens.

• Advances in Ethnographic Research: arts based biographical methods.

  10 May 2013

  University of Exeter, UK

  HEA funded conference - Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Network (QERN): Sharing and shaping pedagogies - learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama

• Community, Politics and Resistance in Downtown Eastside Vancouver: using biographical and participatory arts methods

  04 December 2011

  University of Hamburg

  German Biographical Section of the German Sociological Association