Public Speaker

I am available to design and deliver talks, workshops or consultancy on the following indicative topics:

  • Digital entrepreneurship, technology culture and social inequality
  • Intersectional and anti-racist feminism in theory and practice
  • Community building and entrepreneurial social movement organising
  • Critical realism, especially in relation to feminism, anti-racism, decoloniality and liberatory struggle
  • Epistemic coloniality and decolonising knowledge generation
  • Anti-racist strategy, pedagogy and history for higher education and especially entrepreneurship studies
  • Public speaking, vocal coaching and academic presentation training

Both my academic presentations and public scholarship are contemporary, knowledge-rich, evidence-based and offer clear practical applications for a wide range of audiences.

I can deliver sessions online or in person in a variety of formats, ranging from short talks to half day workshops.

Rates vary by time and topic. Get in touch to discuss.

PREVIOUS INVITATIONS

Industry and Practitioner

2023– 2025       Project Evaluation, Amplify Venture

2018 – 2021       Project Evaluation and Strategic Transformation Advisor, OneTech

2019 – 2020         Advisor to Innovate UK: Supporting Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation Study and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data collection for COVID19 support.

July 2020             Panellist, Technology and its role in racialised surveillance. Webroots Democracy.

July 2020             Gaining Clarity with Structured Thinking. Words of Colour Creative Wellbeing Series.

May 2020            Consultant to Diversity VC regarding data collection for Diversity VC Standard

Oct 2019             Panellist, Inclusive Events Workshop. Knowledge Transfer Network, Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation

Sep 2019             Panellist, “Decolonising spaces: Global lessons from campaigns to address the legacy of the British Empire.” Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Inclusion Week.

2017 – 2020         Advisor to John Smith Trust Central Asian Fellows as expert on women’s enterprise and social entrepreneurship.

Apr 2018              Digital Entrepreneurship Problem-Solving. Seminar presentation for Plexiglass programme targeting women tech founders. Plexall.

Sep 2017             Employability Skills and Entrepreneurial Possibilities. Workshop for domestic violence survivors in partnership with Newham Council.

2015 – 2019         Missing in Action: Women in Digital Enterprise in the UK. Personal and professional development seminar series for women creatives, entrepreneurs, and techies. Developed and delivered as Academic Partner of Digital Women UK.

Academic and Public Engagement

Jun 2025 Panellist, Tech Futures: AI, Bias and Belonging. Here East and Hackney Council.

May 2025 Panel Chair, Race Erased – Continuing Anti-Racist Work in Times of Institutional Denial. Queen Mary University of London.

Mar 2025 Keynote Speaker, Diana International Research Institute Research Roundtable

Nov 2022 Panellist, International Social Research Foundation Book Launch: “Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth” by Dr Dave Elder-Vass.

Nov 2022 Host, The Common Press Book Launch: “Talking about a Revolution” by Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Jun 2022 “Disturbing the Peace: Women Digital Disruptors and Anti-racist Feminist Tech Futures” Keynote Address, Diana International Research Conference on Women’s Entrepreneurship. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

Mar 2022 Panellist, Research Initiative on Policy & Management in the Digital Economy Symposium. IE University, Madrid, Spain.

Sep 2021 Panellist, Chartered Association of Business Schools. Decolonising the curriculum: A toolkit for business & management educators. [Online]

17 Sep 2020        Ulster University Centre for Public Policy and Edinburgh Futures Institute: Tech and Inequalities in the Public Sector Webinar and Workshop Co-Moderator and Curator.

19 Aug 2020       Nottingham University Business School PhD Webinar. Invited speaker.

11 June 2020       DeMontfort University Webinar: Inclusive Entrepreneurship. Invited speaker.

20 May 2020       University of Newcastle School of Management Webinar. Invited speaker.

11 Mar 2020        University of Kent Canterbury. Voices of (Un)belonging. Invited speaker and workshop facilitator.

18-19 Sept 2019  University of Leeds. #resistance: Exploring digital protest by marginalised groups. 2 day workshop, invited speaker.

4 Sept 2019         Aston University. Gender and Enterprise Panel. British Academy of Management Conference. Invited speaker.

15-16 June 2019 Leeds Beckett University. Building the Anti-Racist Classroom. Sponsored by Northern Advanced Research Training Institute. 2-day workshop – co-organiser, proposer and invited speaker.

23 May 2019       University of Kent, Canterbury. Building the Anti-Racist Classroom half-day workshop for staff and PG students. Co-organiser and invited speaker.

15-16 May 2019  Newcastle University Business School. Think-Space for Intersectionality. Collaboration with Gender and Enterprise Network, sponsored by Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Co-organiser and invited speaker.

10 May 2019       Webinar – Introduction to Intersectionality. Collaboration with Gender and Enterprise Network, sponsored by Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Co-organiser and invited speaker.

April 2019            Queen Mary University of London, Women’s Café. Invited speaker on entrepreneurship for employability talks for undergraduate women of colour and staff.

20 March 2019   University of Kent, Canterbury. Building the Anti-Racist Classroom workshop supporting Decolonise UKC Manifesto Launch. Co-organiser and invited speaker.

20 Feb 2019        Queen Mary University of London. Building the Anti-Racist Classroom workshop for staff at annual Teaching and Learning conference. Co-organiser and invited speaker.

18-19 October 2018         Queen Mary University of London, Building the Anti-Racist Classroom. Sponsored by Queen Mary University of London and Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. 2-day workshop – co-organiser, proposer and invited speaker.

26 July 2018        Digital Economy Crucible, London Digital Catapult. Alumna guest speaker, women in tech

April 2018            University of Surrey, Ethical and Methodological Considerations for Management Research in the Digital Economy. Symposium at Academy of Management Special Conference on Big Data in the Digital Economy. Panel symposium – designed, proposed, recruited, organised and delivered, including presentation.

8 Nov 2017          Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Belfast, UK. Borders, Prosperity and Entrepreneurial Responses. Collaboration with Gender and Enterprise Network. Webinar – online facilitator.

27-28 April 2017 Loughborough University London, Think-Space for Gender Theory. Collaboration with Gender and Enterprise Network, sponsored by Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and British Academy of Management. 2-day workshop – designed, recruited, organised, delivered, including presentation.

Feb 2017             University of Warwick Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies. Emancipation through Digital Entrepreneurship? Seminar – invited speaker.

Jan 2017             SOAS. London Realist Network. A Question of Emergence: Can a Stratified Reality Help Address Contemporary Gender Issues? Seminar – invited speaker.

Oct 2015 and 2016          King’s College London Intersectional Feminist Society – BME Women in Education Conference – invited speaker.

Dec 2015            Örebro University, Sweden. Intersectionality and Critical Realism. Seminar – invited speaker.

Sep 2015             University of Cambridge. Notes on Gender. Cambridge Realist Workshop 25th Anniversary. Conference – invited speaker.

May 2015            Durham University Business School.  An Intersectional and Positional Approach to Entrepreneurship Studies. Seminar – invited speaker.

Feb 2014             University of Cambridge. Advancing Intersectionality through Realist Ontology. Cambridge Gender Studies Seminar Series. Seminar – invited speaker.

Jan 2014             University of Nottingham. Theorising Entrepreneurial Activity in the Online Environment. Horizon Doctoral Training Centre. Seminar – invited speaker.