Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Post-Pandemic Imaginaries: Culture, Space and Memory After Lockdown (Guild, University of Liverpool, 2024)
- Doing and Undoing the Anthropology of Place in an Increasingly Digitalized World at Against Place: Spatial Anthropology and the Production of Dwellspace (European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference 2024, UNiversity of Barcelona, Spain, 2024)
- Ethnography of (Im)Mobilities Summer School at Grounding the nomad: rethinking mobility through the lens of spatial anthropology, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, 2022)
- Ethnography of (Im)Mobilities Summer School at Doing spatial anthropology: movement, rhythms, and the everyday poetics of space, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, 2022)
- Territories, Environments, Politics, Explorations in Territoriology, online book launch at Territory Through Lache Eyes, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (via Zoom), 2022)
- Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Seminar Series at Killing Space, Giving Life to Space: Interdisciplinary Excursions in Spatial Anthropology, by Invitation (RAI Zoom webinar., 2021)
- Digital Memories: Art, Archives and Activism Conference (co-organiser) (University of Liverpool in London, 2019)
- Eighth International Tourism and Media Conference (co-organiser) (2018)
- Sites of Popular Music Heritage Conference (co-organiser) (2011)
- Liminal Landscapes: Remapping the Field Conference (co-organiser) (2010)
- Mapping, Memory and the City Conference (co-organiser) (2010)
- City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image Conference (co-organiser) (2008)
- Mapping Music History: Travel and Tourism, School of Music, Liverpool, September 2017, by Invitation (2019)
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, January 2020., Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2020)
- I-Media-Cities Conference, Cinematek, Brussels, March 2019., Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2019)
- Geomedia conference, Karlstad, Sweden, May 2019, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2019)
- Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2017, by Invitation (2017)
- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Italy, May 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2017)
- Location London Conference, University of London/UCL, March 2014, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2014)
- Cinematic Bologna Workshop, Urban Centre (Biblioteca Sala Borsa), Bologna, Italy, December 2012, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2012)
- Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, July 2012, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2012)
Editorships
- Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (Editorial Board Member, 2012 - present)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- Programme Director - MA Digital Culture and Communication (Department, 2016 - present)
- Department Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies (Department, 2019 - 2022)
- Culture, Space and Memory Research Group Lead (Department, 2018 - present)
Professional Body Memberships
- Higher Education Academy (Associate Fellow, 2015 - present)
- (Institutional member, 2013 - present)