Seminars, Workshops, Trainings & Talks

BASSETT, K. and CUMMINGS, J.  (2023) ‘Conducting Digital Ethnography’ [training course]. White Rose DTP Training Courses, York, England, UK.

BASSETT, K. (2022) ‘The Development of Edinburgh’s Harry Potter Tourism Ordering & TripAdvisor as an Ordering Resource’ [invited panel presentation]. Urban-Digital Spectacle Workshop, University of Manchester, Kings Cross, London, England, UK. 

BASSETT, K., DOYURAN, E., GALIP, I., MCFALL, L., and MCGOWAN, A. (2022) ‘Data Civics & The COVID Aracadia Project’ [invited seminar presentation], SIAH Data Series 2022: Literacies, Civis & Inequalities, South Hampton Institute for Arts and Humanities, University of Southhampton.

BASSETT, K. (2021) ‘Algorithmic Navigation of TripAdvisor as Affective Ordering’ [invited seminar presentation]. Sociology Society, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

MCFALL, L., THORNTON, P., BASSETT, K., GALIP, I. and MCGOWAN, A. (2020) Susceptible, Infectious, Recovery: Tracing responses to the novel coronavirus in the city of Edinburgh [webinar]. Design Informatics Thursday Talk, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, SCT, UK.

BASSETT, K., COGGINS, T., HUNTER, B., JOSEPH, D., SCOTT, J. and YOUNG, C. (2019) App (Store) Policy Histories: Evolving Policy Definitions & Governed Actors [seminar]. UvA DMI Summer School Research Presentations, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL.

BASSETT, K., JOSEPH, D. SCOTT, J, and YOUNG, C. (2019) Research Persona as Digital Method: Proxying Personas on Gaming Apps [seminar]. UvA DMI Summer School Research Presentations, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Conferences

GALANOS, V., MCGOWAN, A., BASSETT, K., MCFALL, L., HENDERSON, J., and ESCOBAR, O. (2023) ‘Working and experimenting with Data Civics: Community Leadership in North Edinburgh [themed panel]. Cultural Heritage at the Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries International Conference, Institut National d’Art et Archéologie (INHA), Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

ORTON-JOHNSON, K., BASSETT, K., GALIP, I., and MCGOWAN, A. (2021) Doing ‘Online’ Research: Approaches, Methods & Experiences [themed panel]. National Centre for Research Methods 2021 Research Methods e-Festival. Southampton, England, UK.

MCFALL, L. R., DOYURAN, E., MCGOWAN, A., BASSETT, K., & GALIP, I. (2021) ‘Socio-Material Adaptations and the Role of Digital Affective Premises in a Pandemic City: THE COVID ARCADIA PROJECT’ [themed panel], Society for the Advancement of Socio-Ecnomics (SASE) 33rd Annual Meeting.

BASSETT, K. (2021) Digitally Entangled Touristic Placemaking: TripAdvisor, Algorithmic Navigation and Affective Management by Cultural-Economic Actors involved in Edinburgh’s Harry Potter Tourism Scene [themed session]. Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

BASSETT, K. (2019) The (digitally augmented) world of Harry Potter in Edinburgh: Methodological considerations for studying mediated popular culture tourism in the age of the geoweb [themed session]. British Sociological Association 2019 Annual Meeting. Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

BASSETT, K. (2019) The (digitally augmented) world of Harry Potter in Edinburgh: Methodological considerations for studying mediated popular culture tourism in the age of the geoweb [themed session]. Pacific Sociological Association 2019 Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA, US.

BASSETT, K. (2018) The (digitally augmented) world of Harry Potter in Edinburgh: Preparing to research mediated pop-culture tourism and mobile, location-based gaming [themed session].  New Directions 2018 Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

BASSETT, K. (2018) Out of the living room and onto the streets: A sociological reflection on the media attention surrounding the release of Pokemon Go [themed session].  British Sociological Association 2018 Annual Meeting, Newcastle, England, UK.

BASSETT, K. (2015) Refashioning ‘rugged individualism’: emotions, trauma work, and ‘pastoral power’ in the re-entry therapeutic encounter [themed session]. Pacific Sociological Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, US.

BASSETT, K. (2014) Emotion Work in the Therapeutic Encounter between Mental Health Practitioners and Individuals Transitioning out of Prison [themed session], Access and Opportunity Postgraduate Conference, York, England, UK. 

BASSETT, K. (2014) The ‘Therapeutic Container’: Trauma and Emotion Management in the Therapeutic Encounter between Mental Health Practitioners and Individuals Transitioning out of Prison [themed session].  British Sociological Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Leeds, England, UK.

BASSETT, K. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2013) Gender Performativity, Emotions, and Normative Power in the Trans-Clinical Encounter [themed session]. The Fifth Christina Conference on Gender Studies; Feminist Thought—Politics of Concepts, Helsinki, Finland.

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., DAHL, R. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2012) ‘Transition is the Hero’s Journey’: Trans Emotional Narratives in the Process of Gender Transition [poster session]. Pacific University Undergraduate Research Conference, Forest Grove, OR, US. 

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., DAHL,  R. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2012) ‘Transition is the Hero’s Journey’: Trans Emotional Narratives in the Process of Gender Transition [regular session]. Pacific University Summer Research Conference, Forest Grove, OR, US.

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., DAHL, R. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2012) Just Fit in or Subvert the Norm? Considering Gender Norm Resocialization in the Clinical Encounter Between Professional Counselors and Transgender Clients [themed session]. Pacific Sociological Association 2012 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, US. 

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., DAHL, R. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2011) Just Fit in or Subvert the Norm? Considering Gender Norm Resocialization in the Clinical Encounter Between Professional Counselors and Transgender Clients [poster session]. Pacific University Undergraduate Conference. Forest Grove, OR, US.

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., DAHL, R. and MASLENITSYN, D. (2011) Mental Health Practitioners as Agents of Gender Re-socialization [regular session]. Pacific University Summer Research Conference. Forest Grove, OR, US.

WHITEHEAD, J.C., BASSETT, K., FRANCHINI, L. and IACOLUCCI, M. (2011) ‘Gender Prophets’: Clinical practitioners and hormones in the process of diagnosing and restoring fragmented gender identities [themed session]. Pacific Sociological Association 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, US.