Presentations

“Parasocial Contact in Factual Media.” Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) Conference. June 2022. Valencia Polytechnic University in Gandia.

“Documentary and the Reduction of Social Stigma.” SCSMI Conference. June 2021. online.

“Categorizing the Monstrous: Social Cognition in Fiction Film and the Documentary (with Tico Romao).” SCSMI Conference. June 2021. online.

“Reducing Social Stigma of Blindness through Media.” Normal Now! Art and Dis/ability in a Digital World Symposium. October 2020. University of Stockholm.

“Cognitive Dissonance and Documentary Spectatorship.” SCSMI Conference. June 2020. Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“Mediating the Editor-Filmmaker Habitus.” Visible Evidence Conference. July 2019. University of Southern California.

“Schematic Expectations Discrepancy Between Paratext and Film Text.” Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities Conference. June 2019. University of Mainz.

“First-person Documentary and Performativity (with Mette Kramer).” SCSMI Conference. June 2019. University of Hamburg.

“Challenging Othering Stereotypes through Alterity and Materiality.” Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival Conference. March 2019. Watershed Bristol.

“Enabling, Preserving and Shifting African Womanhood through Digital Documentary.” ICA Africa-Ghana Conference. November 2018. University of Ghana.

“A Social Cognition Approach to Stereotyping in Documentary.” SCSMI Conference. June 2018. Montana State University.

“Cognitive Approaches to Documentary Film.” Cognitive Futures in the Art and Humanities. July 2018. University of Kent.

“Visual Impairment and Medical Education (with Rosie Gilbert).” UCL Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability. May 2018. University College London.

“Disability Activism in Film Practice.” British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Conference. April 2018. University of Kent.

“Clashing Agencies – A Seeing Filmmaker Filming a Blind Painter.” MeCCSA. London. January 2018. South Bank University.

“Documentary and Disability.” Visible Evidence Conference. Buenos Aires. August 2017. Universidad Nacional de Tres Febrero.

“Critical Practice-Led Research in Documentary.” Creative Practice-Research Workshop. July 2017. Bournemouth University.

“A Cognitive Framework of Documentary Spectatorship.” Film-Philosophy Conference. July 2017. Lancaster University.

“Cognitive Film Studies and Documentary Film.” (with Mette Kramer). Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Images Conference. Helsinki. June 2017. Aalto University.

Pornography: The Musical – Performativity on the Margin.” Sex and the Cinema Conference. December 2016. University of Kent.

“Embodied Experience, Disruptions and Failures in Documentary.” Embodied Methodologies Conference. November 2016. Royal Holloway, University of London.

“Blindness, Sound and Documentary Spectatorship.” Sound and the Screen Symposium. November 2015. University of West London.

“Cognitive Innovation in Documentary Film Practice.” Off the Lip – Transdisciplinary Approaches to Cognitive Innovation Conference. September 2015. University of Plymouth.

“Documentary Film Praxis and Cognitive Film Theory.” Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Images (SCSMI) Conference. June 2015. Birkbeck, University of London.

“Documentary Film Practice and the Alterity of the Disabled Individual.” Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies. July 2015. Liverpool Hope University.

“Focusing on the Ordinary: Alternative Visions of Disability.” Rethinking Disability on Screen Symposium. May 2015. University of York.

“An Ethnophenomenographic Approach to Subjectivity.” Directions and Connections across Anthropology. June 2014. University College London.

“Documentary Practice and the Resistance to Cultural Norms.” (with Florence Ayisi). Football and Communities of Resistance Conference. June 2014. Manchester Metropolitan University.

“The Domestication of Disability Stereotypes through Film.” Domestic Imaginaries: Homes in Film, Literature and Popular Culture Symposium. January 2014. University of Nottingham.

“Blindness and the Everyday: A Documentary Perspective.” Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian Conference. September 2013. University of York.

“The Representation of Blindness in Media.” Documentary and (Dis)ability Symposium. Guildford, UK. September 2013. University of Surrey.

“Development through trans-national Filmmaking.” (with Florence Ayisi). International Development Dialogue Day. Llandrindod Wells, UK. May 2013. Welsh Network of Development Researchers.

“Conceptualising Practice-as-research in Media through cross‐disciplinary Approaches to Audience Reception.” Theorising Practice, Practicing Theory – Postgraduate Training Workshop. April 2013. University of Roehampton.

“A Cognitive-hermeneutical Approach to Audience Reception of ‘Sisters in Law’.” (with Florence Ayisi). Women and Film in Africa Conference. November 2011. University of Westminster.

“The Paratext in Dexter.” Television Narrative Symposium. May 2011. University of York.