- Webinar: Addressing unconscious bias and white privilege in career guidance practice (with Uuganaa Ramsay), Skills Norway (2020)
- Guest Host: CareerServ Twitter Chat August 2020: Addressing Gendered Career decision-Making
- You're Biased! The implications of unconscious bias for careers professionals Career Development Institute Student Conference England (2020) [April 2020 - video accompanied slide deck]
- Domestic abuse and career development practice Career Guidance and Development CPD Conference Scotland (2020)
- Dementia in the workplace: the implications for career development practice (with Dr Louise Ritchie) Career Guidance and Development CPD Conference Scotland (2020)
- Establishing practitioner-led research processes: integrating labour market research into practitioner training Nice Academy (2019)
- Dementia in the workplace: the implications for career development practice (with Dr Valerie Edgell and Dr Louise Ritchie) British Society of Gerontology 48th Annual Conference - Resilience and Living Well in Local Communities (2019)
- Addressing Gendered Career Decision-Making: Adapting career guidance and counselling practice to the contemporary family unit NICEC (2019) [Slides]
- Paper Presentation: Professional Education in Career Guidance and Development: placing equality and diversity activity at the forefront of curriculum design and programme delivery Equality Challenge Unit Conference, Scotland (2018) [Slides]
- Keynote Speech: The `Blueprint´ framework for career learning in Scotland Nordiskt nätverk för vuxnas lärande (2017) Conference Details
- Equality-Aware Career Conversations Career Development Institute Student Conference Scotland, (2017) [Slides]
- E-learning applications in guidance counselling: a Scottish Perspective Guest lecture, Dublin City University (2017) [Slides]
- Hybrids and metatheories: are 'new' career development theories over complicating things? AGCAS Scotland (2017) [Slides]
- Keynote Speech: Equality, inclusion and the career development professional Skills Development Scotland Annual Career Guidance Research Symposium (2017) [Abridged audio and slides]
- Working together to Progress Equalities Career Development Institute (2016)
- Embedding equalities in workbased learning pathways Skills Development Scotland Annual Career Guidance Research Symposium (2016) [Slides]
- The Writer's (Career) Journey National Association of Writers in Education Annual Conference (2015) [Post]
- Doctoral Research in Career Education, Information, Advice and Guidance Skills Development Scotland Annual Career Guidance Research Symposium (2015) [Slides]
- Creative Writing MFAs in the UK The Open University Arts Lecturers Conference (2011)
- International Young Writers National Association of Writers in Education Annual Conference (2009)
- Making Skills Work Network Project/University of Salford (Conference Coordinator) (2007)
- Addressing gendered career decision-making: adapting career guidance and counselling practice to the contemporary family structure International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance Conference (2019)
- Addressing under-representation in our sector Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe, Academy Conference (2018)
- Poster accepted - unable to attend (maternity leave) International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance Conference (2018)
- PhD Colloquium Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (Business and Management Pathway) (2015)
- Addressing unconscious bias and white privilege in career guidance practice (with Uuganaa Ramsay), Skills Norway (2020)
- Applying the CDI Code of Ethics to Practitioner Research in Career Matters, The CDI (2019)
- The Medium is the Message: Taking a Career Development Approach to Curriculum Design and Delivery at the University of the West of Scotland (with Marjorie McCrory) in Career Matters, The CDI (2018)
- Doctoral Studies in CIAG in Career Matters, The CDI (2016)
- Career History in a Flash (with Janet Moffett) in Career Matters, The CDI (2015)
- Creative Writing Graduates/Career Paths in Writing in Education, NAWE (2010)
- A Story About Nothing - Finding Form in Swamp (2010)
- HE Teaching in WordPlay, English Subject Centre (2009)
- Creative Writing in Higher Education in Writing in Education, NAWE (2004)
- The Reflection Toolkit, early reflections on its usage at Bridges Programmes The Open University (2013)
- Occupational Profiles, AGCAS, Sheffield (2005 –2008)
- Making Skills Work Employability Resource Pack, University of Salford/Northwest Development Agency (2007)
Other Publications
- Comment in Scotland Policy Conferences Keynote Seminar: 'Developing the Young Workforce' - next steps for skills development and apprenticeships in Scotland (2016)
