presentations and conferences

2015
Glasgow School of Art. First Year Design 
True North Conference  Timespan Museum and Arts Centre 

2014
Festival of imagination Glasgow
Arts in Care Seminar. Luminate. Perth.
Homeground craft and a sense of place. Devon.


2012

Craft net . Crafts Council + Craftspace

Glasgow School of Art . 1st year design.
Bath Spa University  Fine art department

cultural threads. edinburgh college of art 
cutting through time symposium . collins gallery glasgow 
craft in practice , craft in process . MMU manchester
smile. park gallery , falkirk
interweaving : future trends in making. Dovecot Studios is partnership with V&A Dundee ( september 26th )

2011
cultural threads. edinburgh college of art 
rejigging the venacular. crafts council of ireland.
function and form . cork textiles network conference  
Edinburgh college of art ( textile department)

2010
Manchester metropolitan university ( textile department)
in the loop 2  shetland museum keynote speaker
threading conversation cove park
bath college of art 
stroud international textile festival
st sirius arts centre, cobh, cork, Ireland


2009  
making futures (the crafts in the context of emerging sustainability agendas).Plymouth Universtity
dummyjim V knitting fog  filmcraft  Innovative craft Edinburgh
textile study day @Innovative craft Edinburgh College of Art
swansea metropolitan university
shetland museum
museum of wales