‘Evaluating engagement with discipline-specific academic literacy support’. 2nd international conference on English Across the Curriculum, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 3-5 December 2018. (with Tilisi Bryce)
‘Chinese within the multilingual fabric of the Pacific island region’. International summit on the teaching of Chinese in the Pacific, Massey University, 24 September 2018.
‘Moving into the mainstream: Embedding research skills within a core academic course’. Pacific People’s Research Skills Symposium, Suva, 29-30 August 2018. (with Ralph Buadromo)
‘Please can we talk about language and literacy?’ Pacific Update, Australian National University and University of the South Pacific, Suva, 5-6 July 2018.
‘The dismantling of ethnic borders within multiracial, postcolonial Fiji: Classroom interaction in an era of new nationalism’. Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Auckland, 27-30 June 2018. (with Rajendra Prasad)
‘Colonial and neo-colonial layers of contact’. Multilingual landscapes: Planning, policy, and contact linguistic perspectives, University of Manchester, 21-22 May 2018. (with Salanieta Koro and Jim Gure)
'A SUSTAINABLE LINGUISTIC FUTURE FOR THE PACIFIC: WHAT ROLE DOES THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC PLAY?’ INAUGURAL FESTPAC INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE CONFERENCE: “MOVING, OWNING, HAVING, SHARING OUR PACIFIC HERITAGE LANGUAGES INTO OUR OCEANIC PACIFIC FUTURES!”, UNIVERSITY OF GUAM, 27-28 MAY 2016.
‘A MAJOR STRATEGY TO IMPROVE ENGLISH: BUT WHAT DO WE ALL MEAN BY “ENGLISH”?’ ALAA/ALANZ/ALTANZ JOINT CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 30 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER 2015.
‘CORPUS DEVELOPMENT OF BISLAMA FOR ANGLOPHONE AND FRANCOPHONE EDUCATION: BAE YUMI YUSUM BLAKBOD O TABLO?’ PAPER PRESENTED AS PART OF SYMPOSIUM ON ‘RESHAPING LANGUAGE POLICY IN VANUATU EDUCATION: COMPLEXITY, CHALLENGES AND CHANCES’ (WITH ROBERT EARLY, HELEN TAMTAM, CHRISTELLE THIEFFRY, LESLIE VANDEPUTTE-TAVO AND CHARLEY ROBERT). LANGUAGE, EDUCATION, DIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, 23-26 NOVEMBER 2015.
“RESHAPING LANGUAGE POLICY IN VANUATU EDUCATION” INVITED SYMPOSIUM (ROBERT EARLY, USP; HELEN TAMTAM, VANUATU EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM; FIONA WILLANS, USP; CHRISTELLE THIEFFRY, DFAT VANUATU; CHARLEY ROBERT, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT UNIT VANUATU) AT THE OCEANIA COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY (OCIES) CONFERENCE HELD AT EMALUS CAMPUS, PORT VILA IN NOVEMBER 2015.
‘QUALITY EDUCATION THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ENGLISH: WHAT DOES (OR CAN OR SHOULD) THIS MEAN FOR THE PACIFIC REGION?’ PACIFIC CIRCLE CONSORTIUM, UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, SUVA, 1-5 JULY, 2015.
‘HEM I BROKEN ENGLISH NOMO: INTERRUPTING THE SAME OLD STORY ABOUT PIDGINS AND CREOLES IN SCHOOL’. CHARLENE J. SATO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʿI, 9 APRIL 2015.
‘THE MULTILINGUAL TURN IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS: WHAT USE IS IT TO EDUCATORS?’ COLLEGE OF EDUCATION SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʿI, 8 APRIL 2015.
‘LEARNING MULTILINGUALLY IN VANUATU? TRACES OF GLOBALISED DISCOURSES IN NATIONAL POLICY TEXTS’, BAAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, 4-6 SEPT 2014.
‘FLEXIBLE MODELS OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION: THE WITHDRAWAL OF TOP-DOWN LANGUAGE PLANNING’, AILA WORLD CONGRESS, BRISBANE, 10-15 AUGUST 2014.
“MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION IN VANUATU: IS IT POSSIBLE, AND WHAT MIGHT IT LOOK LIKE?” (PRESENTATION TO THE VANUATU MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, AUGUST 2014)
“THE BLOZZ PLIMPED HAGGILY TO THE WEMBONG: HOW LITTLE LANGUAGE WE NEED IN ORDER TO SURVIVE IN THE L2 MEDIUM CLASSROOM; HOW MUCH WE NEED IN ORDER TO SUCCEED.” (FINDINGS SHARED WITH TEACHERS AT A RURAL VANUATU SECONDARY SCHOOL, AUGUST 2014)
‘HANGING ON TO ALL THE LANGUAGES, OR JUST ENOUGH BITS OF THEM: SEEKING SPACES FOR CHANGE IN LANGUAGE-IN-EDUCATION POLICY’, LANGUAGE AND SUPER-DIVERSITY: EXPLORATIONS AND INTERROGATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, 5-7 JUNE 2013.
‘ONE OF MY CHILDREN MUST SCHOOL FRENCH IN CASE A VISITOR COMES TO OUR HOUSE: LANGUAGE-IN-EDUCATION POLICY IN VANUATU THROUGH THE EYES OF A WELL-MEANING MOTHER’, 34TH ETHNOGRAPHY IN EDUCATION FORUM, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 22-23 FEBRUARY 2013.
‘OL PROBLEM/S BLONG TRANSCRIPTION: HOW CAN THE ‘FLEXIBLY BILINGUAL’ USE OF ENGLISH AND AN ENGLISH-LEXIFIED PIDGIN BEST BE CAPTURED?’ BAAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 6-8 SEPT 2012.
‘BEING “GOOD” TEACHERS AND LEARNERS: A CONFLICT BETWEEN POLICY DISCOURSES IN VANUATU’, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PUBLIC POLICY ANNUAL CONFERENCE, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, 25 JUNE 2012.