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I can provide slides or events texts for most of these papers, so do please get in touch if you are interested in any of them.

  • ‘Unpacking Harold Silver’s Library: a talk about book collecting’, Senses, Emotions and Experience in the History of Education, History of Education Society, University of Sheffield, 17-19 November 2023.‘Where was my Heartstopper? Using ideas of reparative reading to understand older readers of queer YA literature’ proposed for Un/disciplining reading, proposed for Un/Discipling Reading, University College Dublin, 15-16 September 2023.
  • ‘The emotional labour of management consultants reorganizing a family business: George Farmiloe and Sons Limited 1953-56’, British Academy of Management, 2 September 2023. Awarded Management and Business History Track Best Developmental paper.
  • With Richard Hyde, Lucy McCarthy, Louise Morgan, and Anne Touboulic, ‘A (hi)story of milk safety in the UK: A critical narrative approach across disciplines’, British Academy of Management, 2 September 2023.
  • With Richard Hyde, Lucy McCarthy, Louise Morgan, and Anne Touboulic, ‘Who is driving the agenda in food safety and why?: piloting a new discourse analysis tool’, British Society for the History of Science, Digital Festival of the History of Science, 3 July 2023. 
  • ‘Ways and zines: towards a queer bibliography’, Gender and the Book Trades, USTC conference, U. St Andrews/online, 16-19 June 2021.
  • with Daniel Cox, Lata Narayanaswamy and Cilla Ross, ‘Making Knowledge Together Through Radical Learning’, Learning LIVE! Co-operative College/online, 30 September 2020.
  • with Lucas Ihlein, Cath Muller, and Joss Winn ‘Re-imagining the University as a Co-op’, panel discussion, U-topias, University of Wollongong/online, 18 July 2020.
  • Roundtable seminar, Active Citizenship in the crisis of Democracy, Toynbee Hall, November 2019. Invited.
  • ‘Co-operative research and age-friendly cities: lessons from the Community Explorers project at Leicester Vaughan College’, with Ann Stones, The way ahead: linking new research on co-operatives and the social economy with new practical initiatives, CERN (Co-operative Early Researcher Network) and UCLAN, Preston, November 2019.
  • ‘For what might come: recasting co-operative education’, with Cilla Ross, The way ahead: linking new research on co-operatives and the social economy with new practical initiatives, CERN (Co-operative Early Researcher Network) and UCLAN, Preston, November 2019.
  • The way ahead: linking new research on co-operatives and the social economy with new practical initiatives, CERN (Co-operative Early Researcher Network) and UCLAN, Preston, November 2019.
  • ‘Who owns our past? (re)claiming an institutional history through public engagement: Vaughan College 1862-2019’, History of Education Society Annual Conference, November 2019.
  • ‘Small group learning in a teach out: a practice-based research exercise’, with Miriam Gill, ‘Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope’, SCUTREA, University of Sheffield, July 2019.
  • ‘Leicester Vaughan College’ Co-operative Education, Past and Future, Co-ops East Midlands, July 2019.
  • Self-governing communities of scholars? Securing a future for adult education through co-operation, Canadian Association for University Continuing Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, May 2019.
  • ‘Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning Learning (Very) Small Groups project: exploring a practice-based tool-kit’, with Miriam Gill, UALL, University of Wolverhampton, Telford Campus, April 2019.
  • ‘Developing co-operative Higher Education materials: an interactive activity’, Co-operative University Information Day, Manchester, Co-operative college, March 2019. Invited.
  • ‘Responses to the Great Fires of Edinburgh, 1824’, Fires and Communities in the Early-Modern and Modern Periods, Maison Française d’Oxford, February 2019. Invited.
  • ‘The Practicalities and pedagogies of adult learning co-operatives: Vaughan resurgam’ with Richard Hall, SCUTREA, University of Sheffield, July 2018.
  • ‘Good things coming in very small packages: an interim report on toolkits for very small group teaching’, with Miriam Gill, Discovering Teaching Excellence, University of Leicester, July 2018.
  • ‘Sense and sensitivity: the ethical implications of oral history interviews for business histories’, Oral History Society, QUB, June 2018.
  • ‘Square pegs and round holes: the governance of co-operative higher education under the Office for Students, Co-operative Education Conference, Manchester, May 2018.
  • ‘The political economy of municipal boundaries: rates, responsibilities and rivalries, Edinburgh and Leith 1830-1860’, Economic History Society, Keele University, April 2018.
  • ‘Haunted by the past, dismantling the future: nostalgia as public history’, Imagined Futures: Unsettling Scientific Stories, University of York, March 2018.
  • ‘Co-operation is the answer: how to save adult education for the last time’, University Association for Lifelong Learning’, Dowling College, Cambridge, March 2018.
  • ‘Leicester Vaughan College: a new kind of higher education institution in an established tradition’, with Miriam Gill, Making the co-operative university: new places, spaces and models for learning, Co-operative College, Manchester, November 2017.
  • ‘Rudolf Bing and the establishment of the Edinburgh International Festival in civic, national and international perspective’, Opéra sans frontières: Musicians and migration in a globalised world, OBERTO conference, Oxford Brookes, September 2017.
  • ‘The challenges of building co-operative HEIs’, with Fenella Porter, RED Learning Co-operative, UK Co-operative Studies Conference, Northumbria Business School, September 2017.
  • ‘Co-operative by design: co-operative pedagogies for higher education’, with Mike Neary, University of Lincoln, UK Co-operative Studies Conference, Northumbria Business School, September 2017.
  • ‘From bad TV to good history: facing colonialism through media representations to resolve a barrier to learning’, Discovering Teaching Excellence, University of Leicester, July 2017.
  • ‘Teaching very small groups: developing alternative classroom activities’ with Miriam Gill, Discovering Teaching Excellence, University of Leicester, July 2017.
  • ‘Beyond franchise reform: the challenges of reforming local government in Edinburgh, 1833-56’, Revolution, Reformation and Re-formation, Institute of Historical Research, June 2017
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