'Employers’ Responses to the Introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy: Will it increase employer investments in human capital?' at 12th JVET Conference, Worcester College, University of Oxford, 8 July 2017. [presentation]

'Conceptualizing Employer Engagement with Apprenticeships in England and Their Reactions to a Levy' at Celebrating 50 Years of Economics at Memorial University: A Sample of What We Do, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1 March 2017. [presentation]

'Aligning school to work: Assessing the impact of employer engagement with schools in assisting young people make the transition from school to work' with co-presenter, Terence Hogarth, at International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training, London, 21 July 2016. [presentation ]

'Employer and Learner Engagement in Apprenticeships: the case of Higher Apprenticeships in Accounting’ at Workshop on Educational Choices in Further and Higher Education, University of Sheffield, 22 June 2015. [Invited speaker] [presentation]

'Vocational Education and Training for Young People: evidence of what works and for whom and how new research can complement what is already known' at the Edge Foundation Research Conference, Birmingham. 18 November 2014. [Oral Presentation]

‘Measuring Early Leaving from VET: Critical insights from the United Kingdom’, Workshop on The Role of VET in Reducing Early Leaving from Education and Training, Cedefop, Thessaloniki, 3-4 June 2014. [Invited speaker] [presentation]

'Employer investment in apprenticeships and work-based learning – Evidence from the UK' at Memorial University Harris Centre, Synergy Session , St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. 15 November 2013 [Invited Oral Presentation]

‘Costs and benefits of apprenticeships for employers,’ invited presentation, ESRC Seminar Series: Organizational Innovation, People Management and Sustained Performance: Towards a Multi-level Framework for Medium- Sized Businesses, Seminar 4: The Bedrock for Innovation: Building Skills at the Individual Level. 18 September 2013.

‘The impact of employment changes on poverty in 2020,’ Presentation to Anti-Poverty Seminar, NI Department for Social Development, Belfast, 6 December 2012.

'The impact of employment changes on poverty in 2020,’ Presentation to Welsh Labour Market 2020, Cardiff, 22 November 2012.

Poverty and Inequality in 2020: Implications of Changes in the Structure of Employment’, Presentation at Welfare to Work Scotland 2012, Glasgow, 20 September 2012.

'The impact of health on wages in Europe – Does gender matter?' , Presentation at EPUNet 2005 Conference, Colchester, 30 June – 2 July 2005.

'The impact of health on wages in Europe – Does gender matter?' , Presentation at Work Pensions and Labour Economics (WPEG) Conference 2005, York, 18 – 20 July 2005).

'Gender differences in the effect of health on wages in Britain', Presented at ECuity III Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, 3 – 4 June 2004.