Conference Papers
August 2007, Dedicated Instrument Sniffers: the pleasure of technology enthusiasm, RGS-IBG conference, London, as part of the Enchanting Geographies session (convenor)
June 2007, An Enthusiasm for Technology: museum volunteers, International Association of Transport and Communications Museums annual conference, York, as part of the Volunteer Enthusiasm session (convenor)
December 2006, Tomorrow’s World: technology enthusiasm and museum collections, TAG annual conference, Exeter, as part of the Future Archaeologies – Future Geographies session
November 2006, “If you can walk down the street and recognise the difference between cast iron and wrought iron, the world is altogether a better place.” The Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society: a case study, CHAT annual conference, Bristol, as part of the Method in Community Archaeology and Contemporary Archaeology session
March 2006, ‘The Great Un-displayed’: stories from the Science Museum’s stores, AAG annual conference, Chicago, as part of the Ordering/Disordering Space and Matter session
September 2005, Enthusiasts and their individual, collective and material pasts, People and their Pasts: international public history conference, Oxford, as part of a session on museums
September 2005, Woolly-hats, Rivet-counters and Curators: the spaces, materials and knowledges of enthusiasm, RGS-IBG annual conference, London, as part of the Spaces of Knowledge, Communities of Knowing session (convenor)
August 2005, The Virtual Spaces of Telecommunications Enthusiasm: the Internet, Yahoo! Groups and eBay,Cultures of eBay: making sense of social and economic aspects of the eBay ‘phenomenon’, Essex, as part of Collecting in an e-Society session
