Conference presentations
Keynote Speaker Presentation
Citizenship: Potential and Transitions
City Lit College: Deaf Potentials Open Day
April 1, 2009. London, UK
Conference Presentations given
Use of genetic services in the NHS: thoughts from deaf and hard of hearing people
UK Council on Deafness Conference
November 7, 2008. London, UK
(Joint authored with Anna Middleton, Graham H. Turner, A. Clarke, S. Sarangi, M. Bitner-Glindzicz)
The End of Deafness? Transition in Times of Genetic Legislation
Deaf and Other Lives: Living in Multiple Cultures Conference.
September 25-26, 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(Joint-authored with Anna Middleton and Graham H. Turner)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: Genetic Selection and the Deaf Community
4th International Deaf Academics & Researchers Conference
June 25-27, 2008. Dublin, Ireland.
(Joint-authored and co-presented with Alison Bryan and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke)
‘I was told I had a moral responsibility to society to abort my son as he would be deaf’: the Deaf/Genetics interface
Society for Social Studies and Science (4S) 2007 Conference
October 11-13, 2007. Montreal, Canada.
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting.htm
(Joint-authored with Anna Middleton and Graham H. Turner)
Emerging from the Ashes of Linguistic Imperialism and Lighting the Fires of Sign Bi-lingualism – Sign Language Communities and the case for Linguistic Human Rights and Citizenship
The 11th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML 11)
July 5-6, 2007. Pecs, Hungary.
(Colloquia organizer, chair and presenter; paper given as part of colloquia)
It’s not over till it’s over: realising British Sign Language
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9
December 7, 2006. Florianopolis, Brazil.
(Joint-authored with Graham H. Turner)
Cross-Cultural Collaboration within Deaf Studies Departments – what does Deaf Academics mean in practice
3rd International Deaf Academics Conference
August 10-12, 2006. Stockholm, Sweden.
(Joint-presented with Nicola Nunn; joint-authors: Nicola Nunn and Gavin Lilley)
Rights and Citizenship in the Sign Language Community
Sociolinguistics Symposium 16
July 6-8, 2006. University of Limerick, Ireland.
(Joint-authored with Graham H. Turner)
On the global politics of sign language plurilingualism and Deaf Identities: reflection and analysis at an atypical intersection in social theory
Language and Global Communication Conference
July 7-9, 2005. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
http://www.global.cf.ac.uk/lgc2005/details.asp_id=166.html
(Joint-authored with Graham H. Turner)
Deaf Communities, Citizenship and Group Rights
International Society for Third Sector Research
July 11-14, 2004. Toronto, Canada.
http://www.istr.org/conferences/toronto/abstracts/Emery.pdf
Citizenship: Deaf-Centred Perspectives
2nd International Deaf Academics Conference
February 19-21, 2004. Washington DC, USA.
Citizenship and Deaf People: Globalisation, Class and Group Rights
14th World Federation of the Deaf Congress
July 20-25, 2003. Montreal, Canada.
Counselling and Deaf People
Leeds Mental Health Services and Leeds Crisis Centre
November, 2001. Leeds, UK.
The Impact of Political Campaigning in the Deaf Community
Deafhood Conference
July 10-12, 2001. London, UK.
Counselling in Derby College for Deaf People
European Society of Mental Health and Deafness Conference
September, 1997. Manchester, UK.
