Conferences, Talks and Related Activities

Forthcoming: ‘Postgraduate Learning Strategies, Gender and Aspiration’, 8-10 October, 2009 - Researching Gender, Participation, Flexibility and Identity in Adult Learning, ESREA Gender Network Conference, Hull.

Forthcoming: ‘Conflicting Imaginings of Postgraduate Formal Training’, 25 - 27 November 2009 - Roles, Rights and Responsibilities: Negotiating Relationships, C-SAP Annual Conference 2009, Birmingham.

September 2009, ‘Opportunity knocking: strategic choice in postgraduate training programmes’, fringe session at Vitae researcher development conference 2009: Realizing the potential of researchers, Warwick University

April 2009, ‘Cyberbullying, Child Protection and Internet Safety’, invited talk at Chigwell, Essex.

January 2008, ‘Online child protection:  rules and regulations protecting children in the digital age’, invited paper at 4th Annual 14 - 19 Child Protection Conference, Centennial Centre, Birmingham.

July 2007, ‘Cyberbullying: Risks and Opportunities of Digital Technologies’, invited paper at Cyber Safety Conference, “Staying Safe from Strangers & Bullying by Phone, E-mail or On-line”, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, Manchester.

June 2007, ‘Cyberbullying’, invited talk at ‘Every Child matters ‘Staying Safe’ – in the Digital World’, Essex County Council, Billericay, Essex.

March 2007, ‘Cyberbullying’, invited talk at Mossley Hollins High School Conference on Cyberbullying, Manchester.

February 2007, ‘Cyberbullying: Safety in Education’, invited paper at Protecting Children Update 3rd Annual Conference, The Barbican, London.

February 2007, ‘Crossing Borders and Dissolving Boundaries: Promoting Safe and Responsible ICT Use by Children and Young People’, keynote address at European Safer Internet Day, Barbican, London.

January 2007, ‘Child Protection and Internet Safety’, invited paper at 3rd Annual 14 - 19 Child Protection Conference, Lakeside Conference, Aston University Birmingham.

January 2007, ‘Risks of Emerging Technologies and Education’, invited paper at North of England Education Conference, Preston Guildhall.

December 2006, ‘Cyberbullying and education: bridging the divide’, invited paper at Internet Safety and Education: where the two worlds meet, Bruges, EU INSAFE.

November 2006, ‘Cyberbullying: Defining the Problem’, keynote paper at the Cyberbullying Workshop hosted by the Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire.

April 2006, ‘Order and Disorder in the Virtual City’, The BSA Annual Conference 2006  - “Sociology, Social Order(s) and Disorder(s)”, Harrogate International Centre.

December 2005, 'New Locations: The Virtual City', invited e-paper as part of the ‘e-city’ online training/learning platform: EU-project ‘Future Urban Research in Europe’.

March 2005, ‘Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences: An E-Primer’, at the C-SAP reference group meeting, University of Hull.

January 2005, ‘Education and the Market: The Consequences of Casualisation for Teaching and Learning’, half day workshop at the University of Hull, organised in conjunction with C-SAP.

October, 2004, ‘Anthropologists and Identities in Virtual Communities’, invited paper at The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.

June 2004, ‘Learning and Teaching in Sociology and Anthropology’, at the C-SAP reference group meeting, UCL.

March 2004,'Virtually There: Fieldwork in Cyberspace' at the ASA 2004 in Durham, 'Locating the Field: Metaphors of Space, Place and Context in Anthropology', Durham.

March 2004, ‘Academic liminality: Is the Role of Teaching Assistant Process or Result?’, ASA conference 2004, ‘Locating the Field: Metaphors of Space, Place and Context in Anthropology’, Durham.

March 2004, 'In Search of El Dorado: Paydirt or Fool’s Gold' at the C-SAP Conference, ‘Looking Back, Taking Stock: Reflecting on five years of learning and teaching’, Birmingham, 18th-19th.

September, 2003, ‘Living in Virtual Communities: An Ethnography of Human Relationships in Cyberspace’, at "A Research Symposium for the international journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS)", held at Balliol College and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

June 2003, ‘Living in Digital Communities: Making Friends Online and Offline’, at "Digital Communities: Organizing in a Networked World" conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference was jointly organized by The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Göteborg University, School of Economics and Commercial Law, and Michigan State University, E•Space: The Electronic Space Project.