Past presentations
2012
'Mountains, manliness and post-war recovery: C.E. Montague's Action', British Society of Sport History annual conference, Glasgow University, September 2012.
'Seaside towns and social tone: the petition against the Bexhill and Hastings greyhound racing stadium', Coastal Cultures one day conference, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, 1 June 2012.
'The British sporting hero through the ages', Society of Bexhill Museums, Bexhill-on-Sea, 18 January 2012.
2011
'Localism, embodied knowledge and the environment: the limits of 'Big Society' in a sport policy field', PSA Sport and the Big Society one-day conference, University of Brighton, 16 December 2011.
'Insensate folly: pioneering climbers from the Alps to Beachy Head', Bexhill Museum, 3 December 2011.
'The emergence of parkour in the UK: transnational sport/local cultures', presentation for 'Sport cultures: capturing sport in a globalised world', ESRC Festival of Social Science event, organised by the Royal Anthropological, University of Sussex, 5 November 2011.
'Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of property rights', School of Environment & Technology research seminar series, University of Brighton, 20 October 2011.
'Beyond the brink: Beachy Head as a climbing landscape', British Society of Sport History annual conference, London Metropolitan University, 3 September 2011.
'Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure', Leisure Studies Association annual conference, Southampton Solent University, 6 July 2011.
2010
'Sport, jurisgenesis and moral regulation', Political Studies Association annual conference, Edinburgh, 1 April 2010.
'A palingenetic paladin? George Mallory and the resurrection of English heroic masculinity', paper presented to the Sport and Leisure History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 15 February 2010.
'The cultural politics of recreational access in North-West Europe', paper presented to the AHRC Sport and Modern Europe Networks's 3rd symposium, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, January 2010.
2009
'Coast, cultures and the creative class' (with A. Church and N. Ravenscroft), 'Theorising the Coast', Hastings/St Leonards-on-Sea, 4-5 June 2009
'The cultural politics of heroism in British mountaineering, 1921-1995: methodological notes', graduate research student seminar, Chelsea School Research Centre, May 2009
2008
'The (sub)politics of sport: space hijacking and culture jamming', Political Studies Association sport and politics group 2nd annual conference, Liverpool Hope University, 15 February 2008
2007
‘The revitalisation of public space? Leisure and the cultural industries in Hastings’’, British Sociological Association annual conference, University of East London, 13 April 2007
‘Tourism, cultural and creative industries’ (with A. Church and N. Ravenscroft), On the Edge – Seaside towns and coastal areas, the community solution, British Urban Regeneration Association, Brighton, 24-25 May 2007
‘Re-membering the English hero: George Mallory, 1924 and 1999’, graduate research student seminar, Chelsea School Research Centre, May 2007
‘The emerging working society of leisure’ (with N. Ravenscroft), ‘Whatever happened to the leisure society? Critical and multidisciplinary (retro)spectives’, Leisure Studies Association annual conference, University of Brighton, July 2007
'Towards a working society of leisure' (with N. Ravenscroft), Presentation to the Sport and Leisure Cultures Research Seminar series, University of Brighton, November 2007
2006
‘‘Power from the paddlers! Governance, discipline and the gift’ (with N. Ravenscroft), Presentation to the Sport and Leisure Cultures Research Seminar series, University of Brighton, March 2006
‘‘Power to the paddlers!’ Hegemony, protest and collective action on the River Dee’ (with N. Ravenscroft) Paper for the inaugural sport and politics study group panel, Political Studies Association annual conference, University of Reading, April 2006
‘Heroic leadership, mountain adventure and Englishness: John Hunt and Chris Bonington compared’, Paper for ‘Heroines and Heroes: symbolism, embodiment, narratives and identities’, International Institute for the Study of Englishness conference, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Majorca, Spain, September 2006
‘Subcultural media responses to British mountaineering heroics (1966-1977)’: North American Society for the Sociology of Sport annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2006
2005
‘Still a heroic golden age? The ascent of Everest remembered’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, May 2005
‘Festivals of transgression: governance, discipline and reworking the carnivalesque’ (with N. Ravenscroft), Paper for the Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference, Napier University, July 2005
‘Still a heroic golden age? The ascent of Everest remembered’, Paper for the British Society of Sport History Annual Conference, University of Glamorgan, September 2005
‘Heroic white leadership, (post)colonial identity and corporeal representation: the case of Tenzing Norgay’, Paper for Lost in transl-Asian: British Asians, sport, leisure and popular culture, University of Brighton, in conjunction with the British Sociological Association ‘race and ethnicity’ and ‘sport’ study groups, November 2005
2004
‘Heroism: the challenge of meaning’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, June 2004
‘‘Motherhood, ambition and risk’: the social construction of a heroine in Conservative Britain’, Paper for the Political Studies Association Post-Graduate Network Central and Northern England Conference, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, November 2004
2003
‘The contexts of sporting heroism’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, June 2003
'Mountains, manliness and post-war recovery: C.E. Montague's Action', British Society of Sport History annual conference, Glasgow University, September 2012.
'Seaside towns and social tone: the petition against the Bexhill and Hastings greyhound racing stadium', Coastal Cultures one day conference, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, 1 June 2012.
'The British sporting hero through the ages', Society of Bexhill Museums, Bexhill-on-Sea, 18 January 2012.
2011
'Localism, embodied knowledge and the environment: the limits of 'Big Society' in a sport policy field', PSA Sport and the Big Society one-day conference, University of Brighton, 16 December 2011.
'Insensate folly: pioneering climbers from the Alps to Beachy Head', Bexhill Museum, 3 December 2011.
'The emergence of parkour in the UK: transnational sport/local cultures', presentation for 'Sport cultures: capturing sport in a globalised world', ESRC Festival of Social Science event, organised by the Royal Anthropological, University of Sussex, 5 November 2011.
'Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of property rights', School of Environment & Technology research seminar series, University of Brighton, 20 October 2011.
'Beyond the brink: Beachy Head as a climbing landscape', British Society of Sport History annual conference, London Metropolitan University, 3 September 2011.
'Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure', Leisure Studies Association annual conference, Southampton Solent University, 6 July 2011.
2010
'Sport, jurisgenesis and moral regulation', Political Studies Association annual conference, Edinburgh, 1 April 2010.
'A palingenetic paladin? George Mallory and the resurrection of English heroic masculinity', paper presented to the Sport and Leisure History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 15 February 2010.
'The cultural politics of recreational access in North-West Europe', paper presented to the AHRC Sport and Modern Europe Networks's 3rd symposium, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, January 2010.
2009
'Coast, cultures and the creative class' (with A. Church and N. Ravenscroft), 'Theorising the Coast', Hastings/St Leonards-on-Sea, 4-5 June 2009
'The cultural politics of heroism in British mountaineering, 1921-1995: methodological notes', graduate research student seminar, Chelsea School Research Centre, May 2009
2008
'The (sub)politics of sport: space hijacking and culture jamming', Political Studies Association sport and politics group 2nd annual conference, Liverpool Hope University, 15 February 2008
2007
‘The revitalisation of public space? Leisure and the cultural industries in Hastings’’, British Sociological Association annual conference, University of East London, 13 April 2007
‘Tourism, cultural and creative industries’ (with A. Church and N. Ravenscroft), On the Edge – Seaside towns and coastal areas, the community solution, British Urban Regeneration Association, Brighton, 24-25 May 2007
‘Re-membering the English hero: George Mallory, 1924 and 1999’, graduate research student seminar, Chelsea School Research Centre, May 2007
‘The emerging working society of leisure’ (with N. Ravenscroft), ‘Whatever happened to the leisure society? Critical and multidisciplinary (retro)spectives’, Leisure Studies Association annual conference, University of Brighton, July 2007
'Towards a working society of leisure' (with N. Ravenscroft), Presentation to the Sport and Leisure Cultures Research Seminar series, University of Brighton, November 2007
2006
‘‘Power from the paddlers! Governance, discipline and the gift’ (with N. Ravenscroft), Presentation to the Sport and Leisure Cultures Research Seminar series, University of Brighton, March 2006
‘‘Power to the paddlers!’ Hegemony, protest and collective action on the River Dee’ (with N. Ravenscroft) Paper for the inaugural sport and politics study group panel, Political Studies Association annual conference, University of Reading, April 2006
‘Heroic leadership, mountain adventure and Englishness: John Hunt and Chris Bonington compared’, Paper for ‘Heroines and Heroes: symbolism, embodiment, narratives and identities’, International Institute for the Study of Englishness conference, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Majorca, Spain, September 2006
‘Subcultural media responses to British mountaineering heroics (1966-1977)’: North American Society for the Sociology of Sport annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2006
2005
‘Still a heroic golden age? The ascent of Everest remembered’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, May 2005
‘Festivals of transgression: governance, discipline and reworking the carnivalesque’ (with N. Ravenscroft), Paper for the Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference, Napier University, July 2005
‘Still a heroic golden age? The ascent of Everest remembered’, Paper for the British Society of Sport History Annual Conference, University of Glamorgan, September 2005
‘Heroic white leadership, (post)colonial identity and corporeal representation: the case of Tenzing Norgay’, Paper for Lost in transl-Asian: British Asians, sport, leisure and popular culture, University of Brighton, in conjunction with the British Sociological Association ‘race and ethnicity’ and ‘sport’ study groups, November 2005
2004
‘Heroism: the challenge of meaning’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, June 2004
‘‘Motherhood, ambition and risk’: the social construction of a heroine in Conservative Britain’, Paper for the Political Studies Association Post-Graduate Network Central and Northern England Conference, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, November 2004
2003
‘The contexts of sporting heroism’, Paper for the graduate research student seminar. Chelsea School Research Centre, University of Brighton, June 2003