2011       Panel Discussant: NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations). Invited Presentation. National Youth Mainstreaming Workshop. University of the West Indies, Kingston, June 29-30, 2011.

 2011         Jamaican Public Relations in a Global Arena. Invited Presentation. Public Relations Society of Jamaica (PRSJ). Kingston. August 2.

 2011               Living in New Zealand: A Commonwealth Perspective. Invited Presentation: His Excellency Governor General of Jamaica, Patrick Allen, Commonwealth Day, King’s House, March 14, 2011

 2010               “Jamaican Music’s Crisis of Image: What Role for Public Relations & Crisis Management. Paper Presented at the International Reggae Conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, Feb 17-21, 2009.

 2008               ‘Towards De-Garrisonisation in Jamaica: A Place for Civil Society.’ Invited presentation: Conference on Dismantling the Garrisons, Centre for Public Safety and Justice, The University of the West Indies, February 26, 2008.

 2006               ‘Arrested Development: Jamaican Media in the Age of Globalization’.

Lecture – 2^nd year Course Politics and the Media (POLS200-06). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. October 6, 2006.

 2006               ‘Quasheba’: The ‘Warrior Gene’ in Jamaican Protest. Invited presentation to Political Science Post Grad Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, Australia. August 22, 2006.

2006               Popular Women’s Resistance in Jamaica’s Informal Economy: Reflections on Methodology. Guest Lecture – 3^rd Year Course Researching Gender: Epistemologies & Methodologies (WGST302-06B). Women’s & Gender Studies programme, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. August 10, 2006.

 2005               Militarizing the Police, the Military as “Proxy Police”: A Panicked or Unavoidable Response to Jamaica’s Internal Security Dilemma? Paper presented at the Research Committee on the Armed Forces & Society (RC#24)/ The International Political Science Association Conference, Shanghai, China, June 28-29, 2005.

 2005               Panel Discussant: Civil-Military Relations in Africa

Research Committee on the Armed Forces & Society (RC#24)/ The International Political Science Association Conference, Shanghai, China, June 28-29, 2005.

 2005               Politics and Governance in the Caribbean: The Jamaican “Reggaementality” in Focus. Invited presentation to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs – Waikato Branch, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. April 13, 2005

 2004               Jamaica’s Mafia Dons – “Rogue Leadership” in “Civil” Society. Paper presented at the New Zealand Political Science Association Conference. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. November 22-24, 2004.

2004               “Uncivil” Encroachment – A Response to Marginality in Jamaica. Paper presented at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Graduate Students’ Conference. University of Waikato. Hamilton, New Zealand. November 1-2, 2004.

2003               ‘Incivility – The Politics of “People on the Margins” in Jamaica’. Paper presented at the 7^th Annual Student Research Conference, School of Management, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, October, 2003.