School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

PRESENTATIONS

Conferences

• Waite, L. & Lewis, H. (2011) Paper on ‘Unfree Labour’ at session at RGS-IBG conference, London.
• Waite, L. (2011) Paper on ‘Precarious lives’ for session ‘Between absence and presence: hiding, dissimulation, invisibility and silence’. AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle.
• Waite, L. (2011) Invited paper on ‘Precarious lives: asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of forced labour’ at University of Sussex, Centre for Migration Research seminar series.
• Waite, L. (2011) Paper on ‘Precarious lives: asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of forced labour’ at an ESRC seminar series based at Keele University on ‘The impact of migrant workers on the functioning of labour markets and industrial relations’.
• Valentine, G. and Waite, L. (2010) Paper presented at AAG session ‘Geographies of Difference and Co-existence’ entitled ‘Negotiating difference through everyday encounters: The case of sexual orientation and religion and belief’. Washington D.C., April.
• Waite, L. (2009). Invited presentation at University of Durham conference on Urban Marginality, June.
• Waite, L., Cook, J. & Dwyer, P. (2009). Invited presentation at University of Newcastle on Post-Accession Migration in Europe, June.
• Waite, L., Cook, J. & Aigner, P. (2009). Presentation at University of Surrey conference on Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions. Paper entitled ‘Settlement, belonging and place: Intergenerationality amongst African migrants in the UK, June.
• Waite, L., Cook, J. & Dwyer, P. (2009). Presentation at RGS-IBG Conference entitled ‘‘There is only a pot so big’: Accession 8 migration and the proactive and defensive engagement of social citizenship’, August.
• Waite, L. (2009). Paper presentation at the Centre for Development Studies seminar series entitled 'Creating a space for young women’s voices: Using ‘participatory video drama’ in Uganda', Leeds, January.
• Waite, L. (2008). Paper presentation at WUN seminar series on Geographies of Crisis: Paper entitled ‘Migrants in Crisis? Precarity and Migrant Labourers in the UK. Leeds, December.
• Waite, L. (2008). Paper presentation at RGS-IBG session ‘Migration and Everyday Matters: Sociality and Materiality’ entitled ‘The everyday worlds of Eastern European migrants in Leeds’. London, August.
• Waite, L. (2008). Paper presented at AAG session ‘The Politics and Practices of Participatory Video in Geographic Research’ entitled ‘Participatory Video: How to see without gazing’? Boston, April.
• Waite, L. and Conn, C. (2008). Paper presentation at international conference on ‘Connecting People, Participation and Place. Paper entitled ‘Thinking through visual participatory methods’. Durham, January.
• Waite, L. & Hodkinson, S. (2007) Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations entitled ‘Forced Migration and Social Exclusion: The Right to Work for Asylum Seekers in the UK', July.
• Waite, L. and Conn, C. (2007). Paper presentation at a workshop on Methodological Challenges of using Participatory Methods in the Social Sciences entitled ‘Ethics with participatory video’. Leeds, September.
• Waite, L.  (2007). Participation in 2-day ESRC round table discussion on ‘Migration, Health and Wellbeing: Comparative perspectives from Britain and France’. Durham, September.
• Waite, L. (2007) ‘Migrant labourers: The new ‘precariat?’ Presentation at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, ‘Migrant Labour: Geographical Perspectives?’ session, San Francisco, April.
• Waite, L. (2005) “Nasty, Brutish and Short”? Alternative Readings of Manual Labourers’ Lives in Rural India. Presentation at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, ‘Borders, Bodies and Biometrics’ session, Denver, April.
• Waite, L. (2002) 'The embodied work and well-being of seasonal labourers' lives in Maharashtra, India'. Presentation at the British Association of South Asian Studies Conference, University of Lancaster, April.
• Waite, L. (2001) 'The embodiment of labour: some preliminary thoughts from fieldwork'. Seminar presentation to the Sociology Department, Delhi  University, India, September.
  

Panels

• International Conference (2010) on ‘Journeys and Justice: Forced Migration, Seeking Asylum and Human Rights’. Leeds University, January.
• National Conference on ‘Good Asylum’ (2008) organised with Leeds Met and Leeds Asylum Seekers Network, Leeds University, November.
• Waite, L and Phillips, D., (2007) Co-convenors of session at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 2007 entitled ‘Rethinking Social and Spatial Integration, Multiculturalism and Multicultural Citizenship’
• Co-organisor (2006) of launch conference of Citizenship & Belonging research cluster, conference entitled ‘Citizenship and Belonging in the 21st Century’, University of Leeds, March.