Speaking

Speaking at the 2022 CCRI Winter School (Cheltenham, UK).

 

I have been invited to speak (in-person and online) at a range of academic, public, and private organisations. Topics include conducting best practice and evidence-led public engagement strategies, digital engagement during the COVD-19 pandemic, the practical and ethical issues of online participation, and digital research methods (including automated transcription).

If you're interested in inviting me to speak at your organisation or institution, please get in touch.

 

Chairing a panel discussion at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference, 2019.

  

Recent selected talks   

  • "Institutionalising stakeholder participation", CCRI Winter School, University of Gloucestershire (2022).
  • "The practical and ethical issues of digital engagement", School of Natural and Social Sciences PGR Seminar Series, University of Gloucestershire (2021).   
  • “Automated transcription for qualitative research”. Countryside & Community Research Institute seminar (2021). 
  • The UK Consult Podcast - the rapid shift towards online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021). 
  • “What is best practice engagement?”. Natural England (internal seminar, 2021). 
  • Science communication panel - "#GeogComm: Engaging with your audience". RGS-IBG Midterm Conference panel discussion (panellist) (2021).  
  • "Lunch & Learn" session with Commonplace, discussing academic and market trends forming in online community engagement and promoting a 'blended' (online and face-to-face) approach (2020).
  • “Using technology for engaging people in environmental decisions”. People and Nature in a Pandemic, Surrey University and Natural England (2020). 
  • “Navigating online fieldwork during COVID-19”. Liquid Lab, Loughborough University (2020). 
  • “Digital tools for stakeholder engagement”. Commonplace UK (internal talk). (2020). 
  • “Meaningful digital engagement and adapting research”. University of Gloucestershire internal PGR seminar (2020). 
  • “Digital participation during COVID-19”. RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) seminar. (2020). 
  • Online workshop on 'doing participatory research online/remotely' with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Participatory Geographies Research Group (2020).

 

Recording of my GISRUK 2022 conference presentation on geo-information tools for stakeholder engagement (view the paper here).
Public webinar on automated transcription (online), 2021.

Selected academic conference presentations 

  • Geo-information tools for stakeholder engagement in environmental decision-making. Presented at the 29th Annual GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK), Cardiff, Wales, UK (online). 2021. This presentation was awarded 'Best Early Career Paper', has been viewed over 480 times and downloaded over 250 times online (view here). The recording of this talk is available on YouTube.
  • Digital tools for participation. Presented at Contemporary Issues in Participatory Geography: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions. RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Research Group (online). 2021.
  • Digital public and stakeholder engagement: what works, what doesn’t work, and future innovation. Presented at the RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group Virtual Symposium 2020 (online).
  • 'Digital short' presenter at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group Virtual Annual Symposium (2020).
  • QUALMAP: Qualitative Geospatial Methods for Active Participation. Presented at the 14th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 2019, Regensburg, Germany.
  • Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making: A mixed-methods mapping approach. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019, London, UK.
  • Mixed-methods GIS: Developing qualitative geospatial technologies for participatory environmental decision-making. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019, London, UK.
  • The future of stakeholder engagement: the use of digital geospatial technologies for active participation in environmental decision-making. British Environmental Psychological Society Conference 2019, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
  • Engaging the public with landscapes and greenspaces: a qualitative geospatial mapping approach. RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conference 2019, Manchester, UK. 2019. 


    Speaking at the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Regensburg, Germany, 2019.

    Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference, 2019.