This podcast episode is with the wonderful minds behind the Conference Inference blog, Jamie Burford and Emily Henderson, both based in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. They both research in the area of International Higher Education, with a shared focus on conferences, doctoral education, academic mobilities, gender, and queer theory. Together, they founded the academic blog Conference Inference, which is a hub for thinking about and researching conferences.

• Conference Inference blog
• John Adlam's article on the spiral configuration

Read more about Jamie and Emily's research on conferences: 

• Emily’s 2020 book with Routledge Gender, Definitional Politics and 'Live' Knowledge Production: Contesting Concepts at Conferences
• Special issue that Jamie and Emily co-edited for the Gender and Education journal called “Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community” (2020)
• Insider’s Guide to Success in Academia - Making sense of academic conferences (2023)