Conferences at Middlesex and Salford

I’ve been on ‘tour’ in the past week presenting at conferences at the University of Middlesex and the University of Salford. Before doing a quick recap of those, first I’ll introduce what I presented myself. Compared to my previous conference presentations, this is a more rounded analysis of my pilot study because it includes material from the

The Sociality of Sharing, University of Warwick, 23 Sept 2015

This was originally posted on the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research blog. It’s been a while since I’ve had chance to attend a conference and the Sociality of Sharing symposium at the University of Warwick was as thought provoking as I thought it would be. Hosted jointly by Celia Lury and Adam Arvidsson the

Reframing Media/Cultural Studies, University of Westminster, 19-20 June

This was originally posted on the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research blog. On 19 and 20 June I attended the Reframing Media/Cultural Studies in the Age of the Global Crisis conference at the University of Westminster. It was held by the university’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) in partnership with Fluminense Federal University

University of Birmingham Research Poster Conference

On 16 June I presented at the University of Birmingham’s research poster conference. My poster covered the performing expertise aspect of my PhD, and I designed it to look like Twitter to make it a bit more eye-catching. It was a productive day and definitely good practice for talking about my research to a variety

Cultures in Disarray, Kings College London 11-12 June 2015

This was originally posted on the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research blog. Last week I presented externally for the first time at the Cultures in Disarray conference at Kings College London. It was a thoroughly enjoyable two days with many interesting talks from a variety of disciplines. The first keynote speech was by

Melissa Gregg at the University of Leicester

This was originally posted on the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research blog. On 12 May 2015 I attended a research seminar at the University of Leicester with Melissa Gregg, whose work has been particularly useful for my own research on social media, especially the book Works Intimacy (2011), about mobile technology, the internet and how it impacts the

AfRE research ethics event: Social media and the internet – all in this together?

This was originally posted at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) blog. I have also blogged there about my research seminar presentation and my attendance to Prof Mark Banks’ research seminar, both in February 2015.  On 23 April 2015 I attended an event at Bristol University organised by the Association for Research Ethics (AfRE). The

Presentation at RESCON14

Today I presented at Birmingham City University’s annual research conference, RESCON. I presented the slides I talked about in my previous post but since that last entry I’ve decided not to pursue the work of Butler further, which I had to explain in my presentation. Further engagement highlighted criticisms of Butler’s approach to performativity, notably the

Picturing the Social Conference, 7 November 2014

Last year’s Researching Social Media conference was one of the best I had ever been to, so when I found out Farida Vis was organising another conference about researching social media I jumped at it, and again it didn’t disappoint. The conference was again part of the ESRC Festival Social Science and part of the

Co-producing Cultural Policy Workshop

Today I attended a workshop held at the University of Warwick about co-producing cultural policy. The workshop is part of an AHRC-funded Collaborative Skills Development project hosted by the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and University of Warwick. It was aimed at PhD and early career researchers and sought to facilitate discussion and ideas