Conferences & Publications

2019

‘Waltzers, Women, and Wikipedia: Open knowledge and increasing participation with communities’ cultural heritage’, co-authored with Wikimedia UK Scotland Programme Coordinator Dr. Sara Thomas, Heritage Dot Conference, University of Lincoln. Audio recording online.

‘(Re)voicing solidarity for women in shipbuilding: walking through the lines of the dominant heritage narrative’, co-authored with Professor Katarzyna Kosmala and Anna Miler, part of Gendered Solidarities, Fragmented Responsibilities: Researchers’ Responses to Challenging Times (panel), IUAES Congress Conference, 31 August, Poznań, Poland. 

‘A Fair Run for Scotland’s Showpeople: Participatory Practice and (limited) policy impact in Govan’s Water Row’, Participatory Methods and Affective Domains: Walking, Documenting, and Sensing as Practice, UWS, 1 May, Film City, Govan.

2018

Conference Session Chair: Gender Construction and Heritage – Tackling Marginalisation, Assoc. for Critical Heritage Studies Conference (ACHS), 6 September, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

‘Intangible heritage practice as feminist practice: Historical narratives of working women in maritime protest actions’, conference paper co-authored with Prof. Kosmala and Anna Miler, 6 September, ACHS, Hangzhou, China.

‘Problematizing silences in intangible heritage: unsettling the historical records of women in protests’, co-authored with Katarzyna Kosmala, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25:4, 348-364 (online).

‘Scars of Memory’ Workshop convened by University of Dearborn, Michigan in Gdansk Poland.

Glasgow’s Showpeople, with Glasgow Museum Curator Heather Robertson, Scottish Local History Forum, Perth.

Fair Glasgow, with Dr Mitch Miller and Mr Alex James Colquhoun, Invisible Stories Conference on Scottish Intangible Heritage, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus.

2017

‘Govan-Gdansk: Heritage, Regeneration and Alternative Futures’, publication as part of Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe: Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Network Publishing, ed. Katarzyna Kosmala. Available online.

‘Strong Women of the Clydeside’, with Trish Caird, 15 April, House for An Art Lover, Glasgow.

2016

‘All the Fun of the Fairground: Challenges Representing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Scotland’s Travelling Showpeople’, co-authored with Curator Heather Robertson, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal, Canada.

‘Problemetizing Silences in Intangible Heritage: Unsettling Historical Records of Women in Protest’, co-authored with Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal, Canada.

‘Heritage is actually something new: durational practice and reciprocal collaborations in glorious Govan’, Then/Now Symposium on public art, place-making, heritage and ecology. 9th December, Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Video available.

2014 ‘Revealing hidden histories: connecting the Riverside Museum to Govan’s Riverside’, Velocity Talk, 23rd January, Lighthouse, Glasgow. Video available.