1998 Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere: Elizabeth Gaskell and Romanticism
2001 Salford Postgraduate Research Conference, Salford University, Romanticism and the Nineteenth-Century
2001 British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, Lancaster University, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Performance
2002 Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, The Romanticism of Mary Barton and Hard Times
2003 British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Aberystwyth, Social Experiments and Literary Innovations
2003 Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Conference on The Woman Question, Nineteenth-Century Cultural Representations of the Woman Question
2004 Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, The Frontiers of Romanticism: Gaskell, Eliot and the Brontës
2005 Midlands Romantic Seminar One-Day Conference: The Romantic Novel 1790-1840, Tyranny and Liberty in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams ABSTRACT
2005 Victorian Life-Writing Conference, Lancaster University, Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë as a Case Study ABSTRACT
2005 British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Gloucester, Romanticism Before, During, and After the Victorian Age ABSTRACT
2006 Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, Milton and Wordsworth: Paradise Lost, Book Two and The Prelude, Book Six
2006 Gaskell International Conference: University of Salford, The Presence of Wordsworth in Gaskell's Early Writing
2007 British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Salford, The Literary Shrine as a Victorian Icon ABSTRACT
2008 (June) Heritage and the Victorians Conference, St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Art Treasures in Manchester, 1857 and 2007
October 1998, Portico Library and Gallery, Manchester, Elizabeth Gaskell and Witchcraft: A Consideration of Lois the Witch
March 2003, Manchester Literary Club, The Poetry in Mary Barton
November 2004, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, William Gaskell’s Poetry and Poetry Lectures
May 2008, Portico Library and Gallery Manchester, Letters to America: Mrs Gaskell's Daughters and the Harvard Professor
TALKS
Gaskell Society, Knutsford, Lunchtime Talks: 1995-1998, Selection of Gaskell's Shorter Fiction; 1998-1999, Selection of Gaskell Correspondence.
Wilmslow Guild, March 2003, 'Elizabeth Gaskell as Short Story Writer: An Overview'.
Trafford Libraries Readers' Group, April 2008, 'Cranford, Mrs Gaskell's favourite novel'.
Trafford Libraries Readers' Group, July 2008 'Jane Austen: Her Life and work'