public engagement
Presenter, “Navigating Wicked Futures through More-than-Human Perspectives: Experiments in Design Education.” SDN Research Summit – Counterparts. (Zurich: Swiss Design Network & Zurich University of the Arts). 27-28 October, 2022.
Presenter, “Navigating Wicked Futures through More-than-Human Perspectives: Experiments in Design Education.” RSD11: Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD) Symposium 11. (Brighton: Systemic Design Association & University of Brighton). 12-16 October, 2022.
Curator, Luminous: Interactive and Immersive Experience Design [public exhibition]. Old Street Gallery. (London: Royal College of Art & LG Display). 28 Sept to 3 October, 2022.
Curator, POD: Post-Anthropocentric Design [public exhibition]. UN World Oceans Day. (London: Royal College of Art & British Academy). 8-30 June, 2022.
Director, Expanded Museums Symposium: The Marine Frontier (London: Royal College of Art), 2021.
Panellist, “Cornwall as a Living Lab.” Creative Bridge. (Falmouth: Falmouth University & Cornwall Council), 2019.
Presenter, “Wild Listening: Ecology of a Science Podcast”. The Podcast: Forms, Functions, Futures— An International Symposium (Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz), 2018.
Presenter, “Immersion and Playspace in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Emma Donaghue’s Room”. American Conference for Irish Studies (Washington, DC: Georgetown University), 2017.
Invisible Belfast. BBC Radio 4. [radio documentary]. Writer, presenter. 2016.
Presenter, “The Game in the Text”. Picteilin Creative Media Conference: Narrative, Interactivity, and Emergent Digital Practices (Dundalk, Ireland: Dundalk IT). 2016.
Presenter, “Future Energy Networks and the Role of Interactive Gaming as Simulation”. Renewable Futures Conference (Riga: RIXC), 2015.
Presenter, “Social networks and the energy landscape: Toward a dynamic communications model”. Energy Landscapes Conference: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power (Dresden: Landscape Research Group), 2015.
Presenter, “Stakeholder Engagement for Renewable Energy: A Dynamic Engagement System.” Northern Ireland Energy Forum (Belfast: Agenda NI), 2014.
Panellist, “Research and Development in Arts and Culture” (London: The Guardian Professionals Network), 2012.
Writer, Director, The Water Clock. Brian Friel Theatre. (Belfast: Belfast Book Festival), 2011.
Director, Constellations of Belfast (with Ciaran Carson and Glenn Patterson) [interactive performance]. Crescent Arts Centre. (Belfast: Belfast Book Festival), 2011.
Presenter, “Education, Entertainment and Gameful Design”. Q-Ed: Entertainment and Design (Belfast: Digital Circle/Queen’s University Belfast), 2011.