“Beard’s account, rather than fortifying a simplistic, even at times misogynist association of women with shoes, actually helps to deconstruct and de-mystify shoes as symbols of oppression.”

Exploring the relationships between popular representations and embodied experiences of shoes. Paper delivered at the Fourth International Conference on the Image, University Center Chicago, 18th -19th October 2013.

Call for focus group participants in South Yorkshire

Paper delivered at The World at Your Feet Footwear Conference, University of Northampton, 20th-21st March 2013.

Published in the The Information Society's special issue: 'The Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data' - Vol. 29, Issue 3, Taylor and Francis.

A review of the exhibition process. Exhibiting research for the ESRC-funded If the Shoe Fits research project at ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 5th December 2011 – 3rd January 2012

Delivered at the ‘Gender and Visual Representation’ conference at the University of Winchester, 12th September 2012.

Riello, Giorgio & McNeil, Peter (eds), 2011, Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, London: Berg

An inspiring love story that focuses on Joan Cattanach’s memories of her 59 year marriage to her husband Sandy. The film documents the importance of objects and possessions in the development of life-long relationships

Inspired by Arjun Appadurai's book 'The Social Life of Things' and Igor Kopytoff's essay 'The Cultural Biography of Things' the experiment sought to demonstrate the ‘exchange spheres’ and ‘tournaments of value’ that enable material objects to accumulate social and sentimental value.

How do the shoes we wear affect the person we are, the person we want to be and the person we become?

Members of the research team for the ESRC funded research project 'If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition' were interviewed and photographed by reporters from The Star, Sheffield's daily newspaper.

After a short stint in the West End during the latter part of 2010, the Sadler’s Wells production of Shoes, the musical, has returned to the Peacock Theatre until April this year.