Convenor Roles
Co-convenor | Sociology of Elites Study Group | British Sociological Association | 2024-present
Workshop with A.-S. Delval | Uses of Switzerland in Privileged Transnational Life Courses | International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion conference | 2022
Forum with A. Bamberger, T. Kim, P. Morris and F. Rizvi | Diaspora and Internationalisation in Higher Education | Funded by BAICE and ESRC | 2020
Workshop with L. Riettiens and L. Matzer | Who ‘Speaks’ and for Whom? Approaches to Working with Autobiographical Materials in History of Education Research | International Standing Conference for the History of Education | 2019
Invited Talks
Durham University | Educating an Elite without Elite Education? Germany | 2025
University of Lausanne | Educational Geographies of the World’s Wealthiest | 2024
University of Münster | The Americanization of Elite Education in Switzerland | 2022
University of Copenhagen | Elite Education and the Making of a Global Elite | 2022
University of Hamburg | Combining Different Approaches in Doctoral Work | 2021
University of Zurich | Elite Schooling in the Swiss Alps During the 20th Century | 2020
Stockholm University | Challenging Assumptions about Transnational Class | 2019
Humboldt University | Multi-layered Belongings at an Elite School | 2019
Uppsala University | The Changing Rationale Behind an Elite Boarding School | 2018
Invited Workshops
Families, Schools and Universities in the Neoliberal Era (Sciences Po) | Potential for the Propulsion into the Transnational [with C. Maxwell] | 2024
Elite Schools: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (LSE) | Revisiting ‘The Complex Ethics of Elite Studies Research’ | 2024
Leisure and Consumption of Economic Elites (Univ. of Amsterdam) | Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group | 2024
Gender and Elites in Britain (Univ. of Oxford) | Portable Status? The Intersection of Gender, Race and Wealth when Global Elites Move to the Metropole | 2022
Studying Elites: Challenges, Opportunities and Progressive Potential (London) | Power Relations and Ethics in Elite Studies Research [with P. Ayling] | 2022
Wealth: Sociological and Historical Perspectives (MPIfG) | Citizens of the World? Or Rather, National Citizens in a World Economy? | 2022