Public Engagement

2025

Interview

Narrating Disaster – what’s it like to live through a hurricane or volcanic eruption?

Small Islands Big Picture Podcast. Overseas Development Institute.

Article


2024

Interview/feature

Research Spotlight: South-South aid in the Caribbean

Royal Geographical Society. London.


Policy briefing


Post-performance panellist

Engaging Stakeholders in Building Climate Resilience

Creative Manchester and Sustainable Future. UK.


2022

Interview

Climate Change literacy and research

COP27 UNFCCC: We Don’t Have Time.


GCSE teaching module/resource


Secondary teaching resource

‘Everyday Stories of Climate Change’ Comic

Geography Teachers Association of Victoria. Australia.


Art exhibition

Everyday Stories of Climate Change

ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, Whitworth Art Gallery. Manchester. UK.


Interview

Everyday Climate Change on the Breakfasters Show

3RRR radio station. Melbourne.


Interview

The human geography of the climate crisis

GeoPod Podcast. Geographical Association. UK.


Comic

Everyday Stories of Climate Change

RMIT University and The University of Manchester.


Article

Reframing resilience as resistance: Feminising food sovereignty

In ‘Feminism and the City?’ by GRIPP Digital Magazine.


2021

Article

Silencing and speaking for participants: The problems of concealing researcher sexuality

In ‘Pride in the Field’ by Royal Geographical Society. UK.


Photography exhibition

Staying put after disasters: Being immobile in a world of movement

Royal Geographical Society. UK.


Photography exhibition

Staying put: Resistance after disasters

The People’s History Museum. Manchester. UK.


2020

Article

Research on welcome culture in Bass Coast

Sentinel Times Newspaper. Australia.


Exhibition feature

Illustrating Anthropology at the Being Human Festival

Open Eye Gallery. Liverpool, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK.


Digital exhibition feature

Illustrating Anthropology

Royal Anthropological Institute, UK.


Project video

Emotional Mapping at Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Funded by the Watson Institute at Brown Univeristy. USA.


Interview

Representation and Storytelling

Disaster Deconstructed Podcast.


Interview


2019

Comic

After Maria: Everyday recovery from disaster

University of Manchester. UK.


Comic


Panel Chair

Creative Disasters: What role for the artist in the coming disaster?

Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Melbourne.


Photography exhibition

Voices from the margins of disaster 

Royal Geographical Society, UK.


Feature

After Maria – Putting the GRAPHIC in ETHNOGRAPHIC

Broken Frontier Magazine: Exploring the Comics Universe. London. UK.


Feature

After Maria: a graphic novella

The University of Manchester Magazine. UK.


Interactive exhibtion

‘After Maria: a graphic novella’ Interactive Multimedia display

Bluedot Music Festival. UK.


Interview

How do graphic novels help understanding of disaster?

Ask the Geographer Podcast. Royal Geographical Society. UK.


Article

Four reasons to graphically illustrate your research

London School of Economics Impact Blog. UK.


Speaker

Disasters in “developing” countries

Whalley Range High School. Manchester. UK.


2018

Article

When the lights go out after disasters: the disproportionate burden on women

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. University of Manchester. UK.


2017

Interview

About Hurricane Irma

BBC Breakfast Show.


Interview

About Hurricane Irma

BBC Radio Scotland.


Interview

About Hurricane Irma

BBC Radio Manchester.


Post-show discussant


Panel chair

Not the Fake News: Activism and The Art of Displacement

Journeys International Festival. Contact Theatre. UK.


Panel chair

Palmyra Post-Show Discussion

Journeys Refugee International Festival. HOME Arts and Culture Centre. UK.


Contributing researcher

Not the Fake News: Real stories of refuge and asylum

Pathway Arts and Migration Lab. UK.


Research station

After Hours Science Uncovered

European researchers night: Horizon 2020. Manchester Museum. UK.


Consultant


2016

Article

‘Cultures and Disasters’.

Arts Research. Issue 6. School of Arts, Languages and Culture. University of Manchester. UK.


Article

A very warm welcome to our first cohort of BSc students!

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. University of Manchester. UK.


Article

Compassion for refugees: Is it more about us than them?

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. University of Manchester. UK.


2015

Article

Feeding back findings: Disaster risk reduction in urban Bolivia

Global Development Institute. University of Manchester. UK.


Speaker

Three Minute Thesis Competition

University of Manchester. UK.


2014

Article

Strivers and Skivers: Lessons from the Global South

Brooks World Poverty Institute. University of Manchester. UK.


Article

Levelling the playing field for researchers

London School of Economics Impact Blog. UK.


Article

Podcast your research

Development @ Manchester. University of Manchester. UK.


Article

About Viva Voce

Campaign for Social Sciences. USA.


Speaker

300 Seconds: Women in Science

Spaceport. UK.