Keynote lecture, ‘Mercy Not Sacrifice: Reflections on a Healthy Prophetic Climate Movement’, Centre for the Study of Theology and Health ‘An Ecology of Health’, 21st-25th June 2021, Holy Rood House, Thirsk
Roundtable panellist, ‘Theory, Policy and Praxis: Ecocriticism and Energy Futures’, Theory Now: A Symposium for Theory and its Futures, 22nd March 2019, University of Glasgow
Panellist, ‘Textiles and Wellbeing’, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, 10th May 2019, Paisley
Guest lecture, ‘Crafting Spiritualities: Knitting and Making Meaning’, Open House: Encounters and Reflections, Kelvinbridge Church, Feb 2018, Glasgow
Guest lecture, ‘Feminism and Religion: Beyond Equal Rites’, December 2014, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury,
Media
Feature interview with The Herald: ‘Rebel knitters. How craftivism is changing the world, one cross stitch at a time’, October 2019
‘Stitch for Stitch You Are Remembering’. Faith Lives of Women and Girls, Queen’s Foundation Birmingham, March 2019.
Review Panel: The Bible and Feminism. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, November 2018.
‘“Behold the Rhino”: Collective Guilt and Redemption in Popular Representations of Nature’. International Society of Religion, Literature and Culture Biennial Conference, Uppsala, September 2018.
‘Patterns of the Breath: Knitting, Spirituality and Mindfulness’. Implicit Religion Annual Conference, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, May 2018.
‘Stitches in Time: Craft, Temporality, and Hope’. Annual Meeting of International Network for Experimental Philosophy and Theology, University of Chichester, March 2018.
‘“So That You’ve Got Something for Yourself”: Knitting, Spirituality and Gender’. Seminar for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, September 2017.
‘Crafted Narratives: Knitting, Storytelling and Auto/Ethnography’. Annual Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions, University of Chester, Sept 2017.
‘Knitting as Material Memorialisation’. Implicit Religion Annual Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury, May 2017.
‘Towards a Personal Theopolitics of Pessimism’. Annual Meeting of International Network for Experimental Philosophy and Theology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, March 2017.
‘Crafting Ecotheologies: Autoethnographic Reflections on Knitting and Nature’. ISRLC, University of Glasgow, September 2016.
‘Sorrow in Feminist Revisioning of Passion and Resurrection Narratives’. Sorrow in Literature, Theology and the Arts, Glasgow and Gothenburg Day Colloquium, March 2016.
‘Knit Together: Sociality and Spirituality in Knitting Groups’. SocRel (British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group) Annual Conference, Kingston University London, July 2015.
‘Reimagining Other-than-Human: Pagan Engagement with Indigenous Animism’. ISRLC, Leuven, September 2014.
‘A Religious Thing: Ursula’s Blanket’. Theology, Poetics and Religious Things Seminar, University of Stirling, June 2013.
‘Craft, Spirituality and the Material World’. SocRel (British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group) Annual Conference, Durham University, April 2013.
‘Theological Life-Writing and the Trouble with Narrative’. Seminar of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, May 2011.
‘Sex, Spirituality and Submission to the Other’. ISRLC, University of Oxford, September 2010.
‘“Not Simple, Not Pure”: Sara Maitland’s Anti-Tales of Wicked Women’. Anti-tales: The Uses of Disenchantment Symposium, University of Glasgow, August 2010.
Chair of ‘Feminist Revisioning of the Bible’, keynote panel with Sara Maitland and Michelene Wandor. Re-Writing the Bible: Devotion, Diatribe and Dialogue Symposium, University of Glasgow, June 2010.
‘The Female Body in Agony and Ecstasy: Ascetic Women in Michèle Roberts and Sara Maitland’. Biennial Conference of the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network, ‘Writing Bodies/Reading Bodies’, University of Oxford, September 2009.
