TRAINING & GUEST SPEAKING
Invited webinar presenter: Hosted by Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS): Festivalization & Festival Reclamation:
Mapping the Communicative Ecology of Festivalscapes and Tourism in Islands, August 1, 2024. (see recorded youtube video here)
Co-facilitator/trainer/program developer: Kuumba Facilitators Training: Co-Witnessing Social Change Through the Lens, June-July 2022 (funded by the NZ High Commission in Vietnam)
Invited guest lecturer: Mapping Pacific Islands Communicative Ecology. USP Friday Forum Series, School of PAcific Arts, Communication and Education, 27 May 2022.
Invited guest speaker: Community Voices webinar series: Community Voices – What’s Your Tūrangawaewae? Part 4 [Fri 22 Apr 2022]
Invited moderator: Local government roundtable, Virtual Island Summit, Sept 2020.
Invited trainer: community radio curriculum development for Kyrgyz media faculty, Oct-Dec 2019, Kyrgyz Community Media Association & UNESCO.
Invited research seminar/workshop speaker: Mapping the communicative ecology of island resilience. 2019-2021 RISS Project "Creating an inter-island network through multi-disciplinary research on island vitality and resilience" 2019 1st Workshop/seminar/lecture series. Research Institute for Island Sustainability, The University of the Ryuykyus, Okinawa, Japan, June 17, 2019.
Invited guest speaker: 'Making Waves: Radio's role in communicating social change'. VI International Winter School of Journalism and Communication: Radio-Tolerance, Dialogue and Peace, dedicated to the World Radio Day, Kazakhstan, Ile-Alatau, 6-9 Feb 2019.
Research trainer: research methods training workshop, Vientiane College, Laos (NZaid and AusAid scholarship program), 7-10 Dec. 2014 & 3-8 Dec. 2015
Invited Guest speaker: ‘Communicating Climate Change, Disaster and Crisis in the Pacific’. Pacific Islands Research Centre, Kagoshima University, 8 Dec-2014
Invited Guest speaker: Indigenizing Visual Research for Participatory Communication: The Komuniti Tok Piksa Approach. Research Seminar Presentation Hisoraki University 18 Oct-2013
Invited Guest speaker: ‘Challenges Facing Research Universities in the Developing World’ for the ‘Managing, Stimulating and Quality Assuring Research in Jordanian Universities’ symposium, United Nations University, International Leadership Institute, Amman, Jordan, 28-29 October 2008
Invited Guest speaker: ‘Challenges Facing Research Universities in the Developing World’ for the ‘Managing, Stimulating and Quality Assuring Research in Jordanian Universities’ symposium, United Nations University, International Leadership Institute, Amman, Jordan, 28-29 October 2008
Trainer: ‘Participatory Research Methods for Community Workers Workshop’, HELP Resource Centre (NGO), Wewak, Papua New Guinea, May 2006
Guest Speaker: ‘Media and Development Issues in Papua New Guinea’. Journalism Dept, QUT, Australia May 2004
Panel Discussant: ‘Contemporary Political and Social Issues in the Caucasus’, CEP International Student Conference, Yerevan, Armenia, 1-3 May 2003
Panel Discussant: ‘Caucasus Today: Same Problems, Alternative Solutions’,
CEP 5th Regional Student Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 27-30 March 2003
Facilitator/trainer: Youth Forum, Ganja Azerbaijan, 16-18 May 2003
Panel Discussant: ‘The Necessity for Civic Education in Higher Education
Curricula’. CEP Regional Round-Table discussion on Caucasus Higher
Education in Transition, Goudauri, Georgia, 19-21 Oct. 2002
Trainer/facilitator: Workshop on Student Newspapers, Open Society Institute, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, April 2002
Guest Speaker & Workshop Trainer: Political Reporting (seminar for journalism students and workshop training with Mongolian journalists), Press institute Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 2002
With the late Prof. Ron Crocombe and Naomi Strictland at the Cool Islands Association Conference
Guest Speaker/Trainer: Seminar followed by Workshop on the Significance of Running Student Newspapers in Post-Soviet Higher Education Institutions, Journalism School, Tashkent University, Uzbekistan, April 2001
Panel Participant: ‘Views on International Comparative Politics Studies', CEP Eastern Scholars Round Table Discussion, Creating and Developing an International and Comparative Politics Faculty, CEP/AUCA Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 9-12 March 2001
Guest Speaker: Seminar on French Cultural & Audiovisual Policy, given to the European Journalism MA program students, Wales, Oct 1999
