• October 2013, NAVSA Annual Conference, Pasadena, 'Association objects and contagion in the nineteenth century museum'. I was the recipient of the Sally Ledger Memorial Travel Bursary, awarded jointly by BAVS and NAVSA.
• July 2013, Birkbeck, University of London, The Victorian Tactile Imagination, 'Collecting in the nineteenth-century: a tactile alternative to museum display'
• May 2013, Warwick University, English Postgraduate Symposium, 'Nineteenth century collections as an alternative to museum display'
• June 2012, Keele University, Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar: Victorian Things, 'Exploring the collection of Richard and Henry Cuming'.
• June 2012, Warwick University, English Postgraduate Symposium, 'Dislocating objects: the collection of Richard and Henry Cuming'.
• May 2012, University of Glasgow, Spaces of (Dis)Location, 'Dislocating objects: Nineteenth century collections as empire in microcosm'.