Read the Guardian article where Emily Henderson comments on how Brexit is affecting academic conferences

The academic blog 'Conference Inference: Blogging the World of Conferences' was launched in early 2017 by Dr Emily Henderson (CES, Warwick) and Dr James Burford (La Trove University), as a platform for the sharing of critical commentary on academic conferences. Given the paucity of literature in this field, the blog has provided a key site for the development of this field. The blog includes guest contributions and topics range across care, knowledge production, precarity, bodies and beyond. The blog has celebrated its 2nd anniversary and is now into its third year. With readers in over 100 countries and over 10,000 unique visitors to the site, this blog is making significant inroads into an under-researched area.

A new co-edited volume entitled Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research has recently been published by Routledge in the 'Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education' series. The book, which is co-edited by Dr Emily Henderson (CES, Warwick) and Dr Z Nicolazzo (Arizona State University), provides a point of reference for students, researchers and consultants who are working on higher education issues and are considering working with gender - or expanding their existing repertoire of gender concepts. Each chapter 'starts with' a concept that is related to gender (eg. women, men, LGBT, Trans), and includes discussions of contestations around the concept and applications of that concept to higher education research.

On 8th February 2019, Dr Emily Henderson (CES) joined a prestigious panel of speakers as an invited speaker for the annual 'Inclusion, Diversity and Equity' colloquium at the University of Huddersfield. The other speakers were: Professor Judith Rankin (Dean of Diversity at Newcastle University), Professor Claire Warwick (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research at Durham University) and Shakira Martin (NUS President). Dr Henderson was invited to deliver a presentation entitled 'An intersectionality perspective on diversity in higher education - theory, method or practice?', which provided the theoretical/conceptual foundations for the following discussions. The event was attended by approx. 100 attendees from Huddersfield and nearby institutions, and attendees included academics, students and EDI professionals.

Dr Henderson (Assistant Professor, CES) delivered an invited presentation in the closing panel of a conference entitled 'Conferencing the International', hosted by the Royal Geographical Society in London on 18-19 December 2018. The conference was the culminating event of a major AHRC project at Nottingham, led by Prof Stephen Legg. Dr Henderson's presentation was in a panel entitled 'Contemporary Conferencing' and focused on the exclusionary aspects of contemporary conferences from an international perspective.