General Editor, Gothic Studies, the journal of the International Gothic Association
Dr Emily Alder's Recognition (63)
Co-organiser and co-host of 'Moving Creatures: Frankenstein on Screen': panel at National Library of Scotland and screenings at Filmhouse (May 2017)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Grant Funding Panel: British Society for Literature and Science Postgraduate and Early Career Conference Fund
Grant Funding Panel: British Society for Literature and Science Small Grants
Convenor of British Society for Literature and Science 2022 Book Prize judging panel
Book Proposal Reviewer: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Proposal Reviewer: Edinburgh University Press
Reviewer for Edited Book Proposal and Manuscript: Palgrave Macmillan
Journal Reviewer: Fantastika
Co-organiser of public talk 'Staging Frankenstein: Nick Dear in Conversation' hosted by Donna Soto-Morettini, Surgeons' Hall Museums (November 2018)
Panel Chair at Fourteenth British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2019)
Lead organiser of Scottish Shores symposium 'Casting Off' (December 2022)
Lead organiser of public engagement event 'Scottish Shores: Folktales of the Coast' with storyteller Tom Muir
Article for The Wordsworth Blog, 'H. G. Wells and the Natural World'
Invited panel member: Unfashioned Creatures book launch, with Lesley McDowell (author) and Louise Welsh (chair). Waterstone's, Glasgow, 31 October 2013.
Invited public talk: 'Demon frigates and spectre barques: the supernatural seas of nineteenth-century literature’, Anster Nichts, Anstruther (January 2015)
Invited speaker: ‘Paleobotany and Plant Agency in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park’, Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Curious Minds series, online February 2022
Public talk: 'Unquiet Dreams: Ghost Stories at the Villa Diodati'. National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 16 June 2016.
Co-editor of Journal of Literature & Science Special Issue 'Literature, Science, and the Natural World in the Long Nineteenth Century' (2012) 5:2