With over 80+ keynote and plenary speaker invitations across my career, I am passionate about communicating complex concepts in engaging ways. I have chaired, facilitated or responded as discussant at numerous conferences, seminars and workshops and given more than 140 conference presentations. My guest teaching has included lectures, seminars and workshops both in the UK and abroad, including in Europe, Canada, Australia and South Africa. My external speaking, chairing and teaching invitations reflect my broad substantive and method/ological interests and expertise.
Amongst other things I speak about and teach feminist sociological understandings of reproductive and non/parental identities (including pregnancy loss, infertility and involuntary childlessness and non/motherhood/ing); meanings and experiences of love; solitude and loneliness and the differences between them; gender, health and wellbeing; loss and the aftermath of death; travel and transport mobility and teaching, learning and being in higher education. As recognised for my method/ological work as much as my substantive areas of interest I also regularly speak and teach about feminist, auto/biographical / autoethnographic, and creative approaches to research.
