24 April: Curated and chaired panel discussion ‘Invisible disabilities and wayfinding’ for the Sign Design Society, London.
18 April: Paper ‘Contextualising the social dimensions of wayfinding’ presented at the Collective Spatial Cognition Specialist Meeting, Santa Barbara, California.
29 March: PhD awarded by the University of Reading for my thesis A comparison of seeking-finding behaviours across the contexts of environmental space, paper documents, and on-screen.
2018
13 November: Paper ‘Navigating life’ presented at the CogNav symposium as part of the Royal Institute of Navigation’s International Navigation Conference, Bristol.
11 October: Talk ‘Measuring design effectiveness’ for the Sign Design Society, London.
February: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Product Design degree course at Brunel University.
2016
1 December: Research seminar ‘Using other people: an overview of social navigation’ presented in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
4 August: Poster ‘The secret life of wayfinding: an insight into wayfinding strategies used for unfamiliar journeys in everyday life’ presented at the 10th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Philadelphia.
14 January: Talk ‘How did you get here? The secret life of wayfinding’ for the Sign Design Society, London.
2015
3 December: Research seminar ‘“What did you do?” User research as a means to gain insight into wayfinding behaviour’ presented in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
15 January: Research seminar ‘Wayfinding taxonomies identified in a survey of research and practitioner literature’ presented in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
2014
27 February: Research seminar ‘“What were they thinking?” Some observations about user behaviour and designers’ presented in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
January: Invited juror (one of four) selecting work for the Association of American University Presses’ annual book design show.
25 April: Research seminar ‘Wayfinding in books and elsewhere’ presented in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
2012
November: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Publishing masters course at University College, London.
20 September: Talk ‘“Plays well with others” – designers and editors’ at the annual conference of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, York.
2011
November: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Publishing masters course at University College, London.
6 January: Talk ‘No unauthorised admission. Wayfinding for a military site’ for the Sign Design Society, London.
2010
November: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Publishing masters course at University College, London.
2009
November: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Publishing masters course at University College, London.
June: Article ‘Take your audience by the hand: some notes on visitor navigation’ in the Theatres Trust’s journal Theatres Magazine.
2008
November: Visiting lecturer teaching book design on the Publishing masters course at University College, London.
2007
January: Talk ‘The black art of book design’ at St Bride’s Printing Library, London.
2006
September: Talk ‘The black art of book design’ at the ATypI annual conference, Lisbon.
2003
September: Talk ‘A new design for Penguin Classics’ at the ATypI annual conference, Vancouver.
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