Talks and Media
This page shares some selected talks, interviews and conference presentations. And some pictures of me looking variously energetic, apprehensive and older than I would like to be.
This page shares some selected talks, interviews and conference presentations. And some pictures of me looking variously energetic, apprehensive and older than I would like to be.
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Selected recent interviews and speeches 'Never mind the gap year: local volunteers, poverty and development'. Slides from my Pint of Science talk, Newcastle, May 2017. Link here. Interview with DEVEX on volunteer payment at 32nd International conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, December 2015. Link here. 'Volunteer cultures: global resource or management headache'. Presentation to IFRC Global Volunteering Forum, Bangkok, December 2014. Link here. 'R.E. - P.L.A.C.E Global Citizenship'. Plenary talk at Global Citizenship Matters, IDEAScotland Conference, Conforti Institute, 25th September, 2014. 'The changing development landscape and new development paradigms: the end of development education or a chance to find its voice?', Opening address, DEEEP (Developing Europeans’ Engagement for the Eradication of Poverty) International Conference on ‘Global Justice Through Global Citizenship: the Role of Global Education and Public Awareness’, Brussels, November 21st, 2013. Click here for the paper, and here for the powerpoint slides. ‘Creating spaces, empowering citizens’. Keynote address to Euro-Mediterranean Civil Society Souk, ‘Citizens as actors of change’, UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia, Cyprus, 12th October 2012. ‘Development education, citizenship and global civil society’. Keynote to European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development, Development Awareness Raising and Education Forum, Brussels, 13th October, 2011. |
Selected recent academic conference papers and talks Baillie Smith M., Thomas, N., Fadel, B. and Cadesky J. 2018 ‘Questioning the ‘local’ in ‘local’ volunteering in humanitarian contexts’ ISTR Conference, Amsterdam, July 2018. Contact me for a copy. Baillie Smith M. and Hazeldine, S. 2018 ‘Donor funded volunteer remuneration in the global South: creating hiearchies and disrupting definitions’, ISTR Conference, Amsterdam, July 2018. Link here. ‘Young people, global solidarities and development’. Speech to ‘Questioning the Logic of the System: A Critical look at Global Learning and Global Youth Work’, De Montfort University, March 14th, 2013. ‘Development education and development: a (new) relationship for changing economic and geopolitical times’. Keynote address to international conference on ‘Development discourses and development education’, Institute of Education, London, January 23rd, 2012. ‘Cosmopolitanism, faith and global citizenship: negotiating difference, development and justice’. Paper presented to International symposium on‘Religion, Cosmopolitanism and the Public Sphere’, York St John University, Feb 4 – 6 2011. |
Global Review on Volunteering launch, IFRC, Geneva
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'Thinking across sectors', Global Challenges Summit, Newcastle, July 2018. Photo Credit: Veronica Proa.
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