Invited contributor to Music and Documentary Film panel discussion at 'Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns' conference, University of Liverpool, 14 March 2014. Link to conference website here.

'Liqufruta', invited participant at 'Tourism Object Relations' workshop, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 13 March 2014. Download presentation here.

'Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space', invited speaker at 'Practising Place' event: 'Liminal Landscapes: Assembly, Enclosure and the West Lancs Coast', University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 11 March 2014. Link to Practising Place programme here.

'Locating the City in Film | Navigating the Archive City', invited speaker at 'Location London' conference, Senate House and University College London, 7 & 8 March 2014. Download powerpoint slides here. Link to conference website here.

'Making Connections: Amateur Transport Films and Merseyside's Historical Geography', invited speaker at Getting There: Exploring the History of the North West’s Transport Links - Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Study Day, Museum of Liverpool, 18 September 2013.

Invited speaker at 'Practicing Place / Placing Morecambe' symposium, Dept. of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, 13 June 2013. Link to website here.

'Cinematic Cartography: Mobilising the Archive City', invited speaker at Cinematic Bologna Workshop: Mapping the Archive City, Urban Centre (Biblioteca Sala Borsa), Bologna, Italy, 15 December 2012. Link to Cinematic Bologna programme here. Link to exhibition website here.

'Marketing Musicscapes, or, The Political Economy of Contagious Magic', presentation at IASPM (UK & Ireland) 2012 conference, University of Salford, 5-7 September 2012. Link to conference website here.

'Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism', (with Sara Cohen), Keynote presentation at Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel conference, Liverpool, 6-9 July 2012. Link to conference website here.