Blurring the Groove: Layered Breakbeats and Rhythmic Ambiguity
2020
'Muddy Rhythms and Broken Beats', RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Rebecoming Analogue: Sampling as Collaboration
2019
Art of Record Production Conference, Berklee College of Music, Boston USA
In Dub Conference: Empathy, Groove and Technology in Reggae
2017
Reggae Research Network: Scoping the Field
What Does it Mean to ‘Feel’ Music? Cross-Cultural Perspectives from European Classical and Jamaican Popular Musicians (co-presented with Dr Elaine King)
2017
Musical Cultures Conference
The Most Forward Sound Around: Reggae Aesthetics in Jungle Music
2017
Reggae Research Network: Reggae Futures
Britcore Breaks: The Distinctive Groove of UK Hip Hop Production (1989-92)
2016
‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At’: International Hip Hop Studies Conference
Metonymic Groove: The Breakbeat as Time Capsule
2016
'Making Time in Music' conference
The Evolution of Hip Hop
2015
Guest Panellist at British Science Festival, Bradford
How Small is a Piece of Funk? Groove, Sound and Sampling
2013
International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music
Breakbeat Syncretism: The Drum Sample in African American Popular Music
2013
'The African American Experience Since 1992' Conference
Rebecoming Analogue: Old Beats in the New World
2013
Critical MASS – American Studies seminar series
Signifiyin’ on the Changing Same: Rhythmic Synergy Between the Improvising MC’s Flow and the Breakbeat’s Groove in Hip Hop
2010
Leeds International Jazz Conference
External Examiner – BA Creative Music Production & Technology and BA Commercial Music – Canterbury Christ Church University
2021 - 2025
External Examiner – Music & Sound Technology modules – Imperial College London
2018 - 2022
External Examiner – BA Singing – Institute of the Arts, Barcelona
2016 - 2020
External Examiner – BA Music Production & Performance – Leeds Beckett University
2015 - 2019
External Examiner – UG popular music programmes – University of Salford
2014 - 2019
External Examiner – PG performance programmes – London College of Music (University of West London)
2012 - 2017