On "making it" in academia and on writing about such things autoethnographically: Leeds Beckett University, PhD Seminars, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management. (2023)
Dr Phiona Stanley's Recognition (47)
Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage & the Digital Realm (co-convenor, with Craig Wight and Anne Schwan, 2022). https://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-search/events/dark-tourism-research-symposium-memory-pilgrimage-and-th
Messodology: Celebrating the messiness of qualitative enquiry (co-chair, conference segment), European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Edinburgh 2019
Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism (Invited keynote, 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), Florida/Online.
A trouble walks into a bar: Standup and therapy (Edinburgh Futures Institute, Firestarter Festival). Invited guest presentation (2021)
Netnography research methods lecture series (Pandemic shorts): PART ONE: https://youtu.be/FDrRuo5DKkU?si=7dgcskHySI1eDVX5 PART TWO: https://youtu.be/8i6H3Vvw0_4?si=y6B9mAibw-X6D1jy PART THREE: https://youtu.be/9j33KjrySVI?si=owIXu9xuOknkJUqT PART FOUR:
Autoethnography as Activism (Opening plenary). British Autoethnography Conference, University of Bristol (2019)
Winner of The Moth (Sydney) Story Slam (true stories, told live, no notes; 2018): https://youtu.be/0EY6xZBai50?si=ISp3KXNci4uUtN5T
Unlikely hikers? Autoethnographies of unlikely human bodies in the outdoors. (Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, University of Edinburgh, 2020)
Critical intercultural competence and the learning of Spanish on "The Gringo Trail". York St John University. Languages and Linguistics Colloquium Series (2021).
Chair: Autoethnography across cultures (conference panel). International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois (2017).
Writing Autoethnography: University of Edinburgh Seminars: Autoethnographic Research Methods in the Social Sciences (2023)
Autoethnography and Selfhood: University of Edinburgh Seminars: Autoethnographic Research Methods in the Social Sciences (2024)
Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry.
External DPsych Examiner: Ryan Bittinger, University of Edinburgh (UK, 2020). Thesis: Homos in the woods: Queer shame and body shame in the context of trekking experiences.
External PhD Examiner: Alison Williams, University of Warwick (UK, 2021). Thesis: A critical autoethnography of fostering transformative relationships in a neoliberal university.
External PhD Examiner: Ahn Ngoc Quynh Phan, University of Auckland (New Zealand, 2022). Thesis: Moving though space, pausing in place: Vietnamese doctoral sojourners' transnational experiences of identity (re)negotiation, belonging, and home.
External PhD Examiner: Rasoul Jafari, Deakin University (Australia, 2023). Thesis: Subnational ethnolinguistic diversity in the Iranian diaspora: A critical study of Iranian Azerbaijanis in Australia.
Australian Postgraduate Award (PhD Scholarship) (2007-2010)
Winner of Monash University Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal 2010