A short interview of mine has been published by Emerald Publishing, as part of Emma Rich and Kerrie O’Connell’s chapter ‘Visual Methods in Physical Culture’. This is based on the Body Culture Exhibition which took place earlier this year, during which I was asked to create work as a response to research findings by Dr Emma Rich. The chapter is in Kevin Young’s and Michael Atkinson’s ‘Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture’.

I will be presenting a paper at the 6th Global Conference, Visual Literacies: Exploring critical issues, Oxford, from Tuesday 3rd July-Thursday 5th July. This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory and praxis. Perspectives will be presented from those engaged in fields such as education, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology.

The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

I will be a keynote speaker at the 2nd International Congress of Interdisciplinary Research and Development, INRIT2012, in Bangkok, Thailand, from Thursday 31st May-Friday 1st June. The theme of the Congress is Interdisciplinary Innovations.

Interdisciplinary activities are activities that involve interaction among two or more disciplines. Innovation is the creation of better or more effective ideas, technologies, processes, products, or services. There are many reasons why innovations are needed, such as for progression of human well-being, for economic growth, for competitive advantages, for higher business revenues. The topics of interest of this Congress are interdisciplinary innovations involving two or more of disciplines such as Arts, Education, Health Sciences, Psychology etc.

The Objectives of the congress are as follows:
To share knowledge and advances in Interdisciplinary Innovations.
To build networks of professionals, researchers, educators and policy-makers practicing Interdisciplinary Innovations.
To expand the opportunity for knowledge interchange.
To facilitate knowledge-sharing for ongoing initiatives.
To build repositories of current practices and lessons learned.

All papers will be published in a Special Issue of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management (IJCIM), ISSN 0858-7027, www.ijcim.th.org, in the e-form first, and then the printed form later.

The Congress is organized by the Interdisciplinary Network of the Royal Institute of Thailand
under the Royal Patronage of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, and
supported by Thailand Chapter of the Internet Society,
Thailand Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery,
Thailand Chapter of the Computer Society of the IEEE,
The College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University,
and other organizations.