I have built a strong international reputation in the field of urban studies. I have been invited to present at a range of academic and professional events / conferences, in the UK, France and Switzerland. This includes:

  • 15 May 2014, Usages temporaires ou pérennes de lieux : quels enseignements tirer de Liverpool 2008 ? Conference ‘Ville, culture et grands projets’, Marseille
  • 04 January 2012, The role of ‘persistent resilience’ in a context of austerity: the importance of networks and impact-minimizing coping tactics, Research Seminar “Cities are Back in Town”, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris
  • 27 June 2011 Capital Européenne de la culture et regeneration urbaine. Regard critique sur Liverpool. Research Seminar, EHESS, Marseille
  • 08 March 2010 Synthesis and wrap up, Seminar “Urban renewal projects in Europe”, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, Paris
  • 21 October 2010 Des activités culturelles aux industries créatives à Marseille et à Birmingham : vers un système complexe de gouvernance multi-échelles, 5th international symposium on territorial planning, Grenoble (with Caroline Chapain)
  • 21 September 2010 L'éphémère, le temporaire et la veille comme enjeux d'une ville réversible et éminemment mutable, Conference of Cerisy ‘Villes et territoires réversibles’, Cerisy-la-Salle, 20-27 September 2010
  • 15 July 2010 Creative cities, built environment and urban regeneration in Europe: An overview, Creative Regions Summer School, University of Birmingham, 12-16 July 2010
  • 10 April 2009 Friches et mutabilité précursive. Retour d’expériences franco-helvétique sur le rôle des acteurs transitoires dans la reconquête culturelle de territoire délaissés, Seminar Cities and Culture in the Mediterranean, MMSH, UMR Telemme, University of Provence
  • 28 May 2009: Urban regeneration, culture and industrial brownfields – the case of Marseille (European Capital of Culture 2013), Department of Civic Design Seminar Series, University of Liverpool (GB)
  • 09 December 2008 Les friches dans le paysage urbain : quelles alternatives ?, ConferenceTranstopies, Superior School of Art and Design, Reims, 9 December 2008
  • 19 November 2008: Decrypting cities in mutation in regard to Brownfield trajectories: Evidences from France and Switzerland, Departmental seminar series Michaelmas, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy
  • 9 January 2007: Relire la ville par ses friches. Trajectoires de mutabilité et référentiels urbains, Seminar Espace, Matières et Société, ENSAG, L’Isle d’Abeau
  • 9 February 2006: Pensées aménagistes, normes internationales: Territorialisations et distorsions du référentiel dans les politiques urbaines de développement durable, Seminar construction d’objets urbains de recherches (UMR Pacte-Territoires), Grenoble School of Planning
  • 21 March 2006: Confrontations des pensées aménagistes et des stratégies d’acteurs  dans les trajectoires de reconquête des territoires en déshérence. La friche : une ressource urbaine?, Seminar ressource territoriale, UMR Pacte-Territoires, Institute of Geography
  • 18 November 2005: Présentation de la recherche doctorale, Seminar construction d’objets urbains de recherches, UMR Pacte-Territoires, Grenoble School of Planning

Invitation as keynote to present to non-academic audiences
 
  • Invited as keynote speaker to the event ‘Made in Kazan’ (Kazan - Russia) to talk about the “impacts and challenges of urban transformations through cultural and creative industries in western economies” (29 September 2012)
  • Invited as keynote speaker at ‘La Friche’ (Marseille - France) to speak about “culture, gentrification and European Capital of Cultures” (16 December 2010)
  • Invited as keynote speaker to the ‘ADEF’ Annual Conference (Paris – France) to talk about “the issues facing urban regeneration in the UK post credit-crunch” (October 2009)
  • Invited twice to present my work on « cultural and urban regeneration » to planning professionals  at  ‘UrbaLyon’ the Regional Development Agency of Lyons area (Lyon – France) (14 May and 17 December 2009)
I have been actively presenting the results of my work in a wide range of international conferences in the fields of urban studies, planning and geography. This includes for example the Annual American Association of Geographers (AAG), the Annual Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Conference, the European Urban Research Association (EURA) and the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference or the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) RGS/IBG Annual Conference. In the past few years, my ability to travel has been limited by my motherhood activities and commitments which led to various other travels and discoveries!
 
  • 31 August 2017 (Re) considering and (re) imagining urban planning curriculum in South African Higher Education with Lorena Melgaço, RGS-IBG, London.
  • 18 June 2013, Can we learn from the past or start from scratch? Rethinking cities’ futures in a regeneration context, EURA UAA Conference, Paris
  • 24-28 February 2012 The role of 'persistent resilience' in a context of austerity: the importance of networks and gatekeepers in sustaining creative communities, AAG, New York
  • 15/16 December 2011: The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: communities coping with instability in post-crisis England, Coping with Instability in Market Societies Max Planck–Sciences Po Conference, Sc Po Paris, Paris (with John Round)
  • 1 September 2011: Conceptualising and theorising persistent resilience, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
  • 28-30 October 2011 Creating creative spaces in Moscow: the role of state policy and creative networks in Moscow’s new cultural spaces, Urban Development and Politics in Europe and Russia conference, St Petersburg (with John Round)
  • 28-30 October 2011 The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: The role of place, identity, networks and public spaces in coping with the European urban everyday, Urban Development and Politics in Europe and Russia conference, St Petersburg (with John Round)
  • 12-16 April 2011 The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: communities coping with marginality, AAG Conference, Seattle (with John Round)
  • 7-11 July 2010 Temporary uses a luxury for tomorrow planning?, AESOP, Helsinki
  • 24 September 2009 The role given to creative industries in regeneration policies: lessons from Marseille (France), Third Research Seminar. Creative industries and regional policies: making place and giving space, Birmingham
  • 17 July 2009 Urban regeneration and alternative participatory practices in France: components, benefits and limits, AESOP, Liverpool
  • 10-12 September 2008 Creative hopes in the Technopolis. Industrial innovation VS informal dynamics in Grenoble, Symposium The sustainability and development of cultural quarters: international perspectives, Gotland university, Visby (with Stéphane Sadoux and Charles Ambrosino)
  • 7-8 February 2008 Planification et mutabilité urbaine : une conciliation impossible ?, 4th International symposium on territorial planning, Grenoble School of Planning, UMR PACTE
  • 11-13 July 2007 La mutabilité à l’épreuve de la durabilité ou comment relire la réutilisation des territoires urbains délaissés sous le couvert de la ville durable, Symposisum ASRDLF,  Les dynamiques territoriales : débats et enjeux des différentes approches disciplinaires, University of Grenoble, University of Savoie, Chambéry (with Béatrice Bochet)
  • 15-16 March 2007 Entre chancre et chance, éphémère et pérennité, les friches urbaines comme atouts dans l’invention d’une ville durable ? Les paradoxes temporels des espaces en déshérence dans le cas marseillais, Symposium « Pérennité urbaine », Department of Geography, Paris 10 University,
  • 8-9 June 2006 La ville face aux incessants changements de ses formes et de ses fonctions : la mutabilité comme constitutive du fait urbain, Symposium Les dynamiques du changement : Culture, citoyenneté, économie dans les régions alpines occidentales entre époque moderne et globalisation, CSAAO – University of Turin, CRHIPA – University of Grenoble, Alba
  • 22-23 June 2006 Les espaces en marge et en déshérence dans la ville d'aujourd'hui : des trajectoires d'évolution à l'épreuve des politiques urbaines et de la population locale, Symposium Territoire(s) et action sociale, CNAM, ED ETE, Research center UMR LISE, Paris
  • 21-22 September 2006 Les « cultural clusters » et la mutabilité urbaine : comparaison franco-britannique, Symposium L'économie culturelle et ses territoires, Department of Geography- Toulouse le Mirail University, Toulouse (with Charles Ambrosino)
  • 15 -16 June 2006 Pensées aménagistes, normes internationales: Territorialisations et distorsions du référentiel dans les politiques urbaines de développement durable, Symposium Les politiques publiques à l'épreuve de l'action territoriale, AFSP, IEP, University of Grenoble, Grenoble (with Benoit Faraco)
  • 2-3 June 2005 La question des échelles d'intervention dans les processus participatifs en faveur du développement durable : les cas français et britannique, Symposium Le développement durable : du global au local, une démarche transversale au service du développement territorial, University of Brittany, Brest (with Stéphane Sadoux)
  • 21-23 September 2005 Reconstruire la ville sur la ville : densités et centralités en France et en Grande Bretagne, Symposium Développement urbain durable, gestion des ressources et gouvernance, IGUL, University of Lausanne, Lausanne (with Stéphane Sadoux)