Public Engagement

 

SELECT KEY CONFERENCE ATTENDENCE

• British Educational Research Association Annual Conferences 2002-2009
• 3^rd Global Conference on Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease Monday 5th July – Friday 9th July 2004, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
• Invited to give guest lecture at the International Olympic Academy (unable to attend) 2003
• 2nd Global Conference Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease, St Hildas College Oxford, UK. July 2003
• Women and Sport World Conference, Montreal Canada, May 2002
• International Olympic Academy, Post-Graduate Research Seminar, Olympia Greece, 2001
• International Sociology of Education Conference, Sheffield, January 2001
• Women and Sport Conference, UK, 2000
• Feminism and Educational Research Methodologies, Manchester 1999

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

• Organising Committee: ESRC Seminar Series Fat Studies and Health at Every Size, 2010-2012
• Seminar Organiser: Performative Health and Body pedagogies, Loughborough University. Funded by Society for Educational Studies. 2007.

I have been interviewed on research related matters for the following media

Television

• 15/03/2009 – The Big Questions – obesity debate
• 09/01/2006 – TV3 and Irish National Television – obesity debate
• 09/01/2006 – RTE1 Irish National Television – obesity debate 
• 09/01/2006 – SKY News Ireleand – obesity debate 
• 04/06/2005 – Channel 4 News Television Interview on the ‘Obesity epidemic’

Radio 

• 29/01/2007 – Australian Radio, Obesity debate.
• 04/07/2006 – BBC Radio 4 Womens Hour ‘How useful are Government measures against childhood obesity?’  
• 22/05/2003 – BBC world service radio interview on women and sport
• 22/06/2006 – Leicester Sound – Discussion on Body Mass Index Measurements in schools

Newspapers (print and online)

• 30/06/2006 – The Times Educational Supplement ‘Stigma of Topping the Fat League’ p.2 
• 29/06/2006 – Loughborough Mail ‘Fears over school weigh-ins’, front page 
• 22/06/2006 – Medindia.com – ‘Study says screening of children’s weight in schools would put them under pressure’
• 21/06/2006 – Guardian – Society Health Section online – ‘Warning over ‘damaging’ school weight screenings 
• 21/06/2006 – Guardian – Education school sports section online  – ‘Warning over ‘damaging’ school weight screenings’
• 21/06/2006 – SCENTA – Science, engineering and technology news, ‘Weighing threat for children’ Childhood obesity measurements in schools could do more harm than good, warn researchers’ 
• 20/06/2006 – Freemarketnews.com ‘childhood obesity measurements harmful’
• 20/06/2006 – news-medical.net ‘Childood obesity measurements could do more harm than good’ 
• 10/01/2006 – Irish Independent – ‘Fights against the flab ‘could be worse than the flab itself’ 
• 16/11/2005 – Leicester Mercury – School stress ’link to cases of anorexia’
• 11/11/2005 – Times Education – ‘When Cakes are good for you’ , p.5