2025
‘Maternal Mental Illness in Letters, on the Radio and through Telephone Hotlines in 1970s Britain’. Health Humanities Seminar Series, University College London.
‘Paternal Postnatal Depression Activism in Britain, 1995 - 2018’. Women, Reproduction and Agency in Modern Europe workshop, University of Warwick and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Eutopia collaboration), Venice.
2024
‘The Dark Side of Sunbeds’. Light in Our Lives – The Role of Light in Science, Technology and Culture Symposium (scientist conference), University of Warwick.
2023
‘Baby Blues on BBC Television in 1970s Britain’. Generation to Reproduction Group, University of Cambridge.
‘Maternal Mental Illness in the BBC’s Play for Today, 1970-1990’. Kindly organised by television academics and former BBC employees, BBC Viewing/Reading Group.
Speaker on the ‘Networking and Leadership’ panel. Women in Academia: Breaking Barriers, Creating Opportunities, Sociology Department, PAIS, Law, and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.
‘Dr Fabiola Creed and Turning Women’s History into Policy’. ‘Broadly Conceived’ Reproductive Network and Reading Group, Birkbeck, University of London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
2022
‘Sensitive Histories: Roundtable Discussion’. Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick.
2021
‘Nicorette gum advertisements from the 1980s to 2000s in Britain’. Centre for History in Public Health Series, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
‘Chewing Industry: Gum as an Alternative for Oral Health Care, Medicine and Smoking in Britain, 1950 – 2000’. Medical Humanities China-UK Consortium, Shanghai University (virtual).
‘Tanning Boosters and Injections: “Safer” Substitute Technologies to Prevent Skin Cancer? Or a Revival of Tanning Culture?’ Medical Humanities China UK Roundtable Discussion, Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare Seminar Series, University of Strathclyde.
2019
‘Secondment Fellowships – Perspectives from a POST Fellow’. Research Skills and Career-Building Conference, Wellcome Trust.
‘Sunbed Consumers and Affluence in Liverpool, 1978 - 1980’. PhD WiP Seminar, Centre for the Science Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.
2017
‘A Gendered Addiction: The Framing of ‘Tanorexia’ by the British Media and Medical Authorities, 1978 - 2010’, Contemporary Applications of Historical Research Conference, University of Nottingham.
‘Advertising Sunbeds in British Newspapers, 1978-88’. Cambridge Body and Food Histories, University of Cambridge.
Invited Papers + Talks
2025
‘‘A Completely Free Bet on Every England Game… for the Fans': Historicising 'Addictive' Sports Sponsorship, 1965-2025', Medical Humanities Research Centre Annual Showcase (June), Sociological and Cultural Studies Research Day (September), University of Glasgow.
2024
‘‘Sad Dad’ or ‘Bad Dad’: Paternal Postnatal Depression Emergence and Resistance in Britain, 1980-2010’. Resistance Conference, Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM), University of Strathclyde.
‘Postnatal Depression on Woman’s Hour Radio in Post-World War Two Britain: Airing Narratives, Treatments and Reception’. American Association for the History of Medicine Conference, Kansas City, North America.
(with Hilary Marland) ‘Exploring Postnatal Mental Illness and its History through Audio Plays’. Museums and Beyond: Public Histories of Mental Illness in the 21st Century Conference, University of Huddersfield/Mental Health Museum.
“These Ultraviolet Rays Contain Vitamin E…Good for a Hangover”: Working Class “Cowboy” Sunbed Sellers and Consumers, 1983-7. "Bad Habits" in Historical Perspective 1750-2000 Workshop, University College Dublin.
‘‘Streaky yellow, orange or red': the invention and evolution of DHA fake tan, 1950-99’. Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long Twentieth Century Workshop, University of Nottingham.
2023
‘‘Drama out of Crisis’: Lethbridge’s Play Baby Blues’. Crisis in Health and Medicine, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, University of Oslo.
‘“Dropp[ing] in and out”: Mental Health, Marriage, Motherhood and Education, c.1960-1975’. Women and Mental Illness in Post-war Britain Workshop, University of Warwick.
‘‘Sticky Issues’: The Chewing Gum Industry and Consumers in Britain’. Midlands Hub: Misconduct and Misbehaviour Conference, British Academy ECR Network, University of Birmingham, 2023.
2022
‘Autobiographical Fiction as Mental Health Narratives’. Ethics, Accountability, and Responsibility for Researchers Working with Health Narratives Workshop, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, University of London.
2021
‘Fake Tan vs. Sunbeds in the 1990s Skin Cancer Wars’. Technology and the Patient Consumer, McGill University.
‘“Bimbos”, “Gold Diggers” and “Escorts”: Sunbed Consumers Before the Sex and The City Era’. Negotiating Body Aesthetic Presentations, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.
‘The ‘Grilling’ of ‘Tanorexic’ Mothers on British Television’ from our accepted panel ‘The ‘Beautiful’ Female Body as a Site of Health, Pleasure and Harm in Modern Britain’ (with Dr Peder Clark and Dr Katrina Louise Moseley). Gender, Subjectivity, and ‘Everyday Health’ Conference, University of Essex.
2019
‘A “Healthy Investment” for Sensible Consumers: The Rise of the Health, Fitness and Sunbed Industry, 1980 - 1982’ from our accepted panel ‘Publicity, Health Rhetoric and Consumer Knowledge in the Medical Marketplace’ (with Dr Jessica Borge and Dr Cynthia Tang). Sense and Nonsense Conference, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham.
2018
‘“SUNBEDS FOR YOUR HEALTH & SAFETY”: Sunbed advertisements in the Mersey Yellow Pages, 1978 – 2002’. Conformity, Resistance, Dialogue and Deviance in Health and Medicine Conference, Social History of Medicine, University of Liverpool.
‘From ‘overuse’ to ‘addiction’: Translating sunbed health advice on television in 1990s England’. American Association for the History of Medicine Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, North America.
‘“A visual feast [of] muscle builders”: Men, Sunbeds and Television in Thatcher’s England’. Broadcasting health and disease, 1950s-1980s Conference, Wellcome Trust.
2017
‘The Emergence and Persistence of Sunbed Addiction, 1978 - 2010’. Society for the Study of Addiction Conference, Newcastle University.
‘From “Healthy Golden” to “Tanorexics Dying for a Tan”: Sunbed Visual Culture in British Media, 1978 – 2013’. PG Medical Humanities Conference, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter.
‘Medical Authorities and the Sunscreen Industry in the 1960s’. Contested History Conference, University of Warwick.