‘Treading on Thin Ice: Horticultural Education for Women in New Zealand’, presentation to the Aotearoa Gender History Network, 22 July 2026
‘Sounds of the drawing room and the New Zealand bush: the bound collections of Caroline Lush’, – paper presented to the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Auckland, June 2026

‘”The Garden’s Girls”: horticultural training for women at the Dunedin Botanic Garden’ – paper presented to the New Zealand Historical Association, Auckland, November 2025

‘The Music Seller in Colonial New Zealand’ – paper presented at the Music in Colonial New Zealand Cities Symposium – November 2022

‘”500 Pieces of New Music This Week”: Music Selling in New Zealand c1869’ – paper presented to the 1869 Conference, Dunedin, 2019

‘The Owner Bound Volume and its contents: popular sheet music for the piano in New Zealand 1840 to 1940’ – paper presented to the New Zealand Historical Association, Auckland 2017

‘The Owner Bound Volume: Collector’s Album, Family Artefact or Cultural Object?’ – paper presented to the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, Melbourne, 2016.

‘Charles Begg & Co Ltd: ‘the Story of Music in New Zealand is the History of Begg’s’ – paper presented at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 2016

‘Unbinding New Zealand’s Musical Past: Owner Bound Volumes of Music and the Popular Sheet Music Trade 1840-1940’ – paper presented to IAML (NZ), Dunedin, 2015.