I enjoy creating events to bring people together from a range of backgrounds to rethink pressing justice issues. Here are just a few examples:

• Cultures of Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, Prague 30-31st May 2019. Creator and Chair of the Conference. Organized in collaboration with the Law Faculty of Charles University, Institute of the State and Law (Czech Academy of Sciences); Czech Society of Criminology)
• Unlocking the Prisons Crisis. 30th January 2019. Speakers include: Wendy Sinclair-Gieben (Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland), Prof Gavin Dingwall and Jessica Gallagher (De Montfort University, England), Sheriff Alistair Duff (Director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland).
• Activating Community: A Restorative Response to Intercultural Conflict. Tim Chapman, Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice 12 November 2018
• Disarmed by Empathy”: What Role Can Empathy Play in the Aftermath of Violence? Jo Berry (Building Bridges for Peace), Laurell Farrington (Mediator), Tim Chapman, (Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
• Law & Emotion: Knowledge, Re-Presentation & Performance October 2018
  In the Chair Judge Johanna Johnston QC Speakers: Prof Susan Bandes, Distinguished Centennial Professor, De Paul Law School, USA: Emotion, Logic, and Courtroom Credibility; Dr Kate Rossmanith, Macquarie University, Australia: Remorse, Narrative, and the Fragmented Self
• Individualisation in Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making Two Day Research Seminar Ledien Netherlands 2018
• Communicating Justice Conference 10 October 2017. Speakers include: Greg Berman (Director of the Center for Court Innovation, New York USA);  (Prof Sharyn Roach Anleu Flinders University, Australia); Karyn McCluskey (Chief Executive of Community Justice Scotland); Julian Adler (Director of Research-Practice Strategies, Center for Court Innovation, New York USA). 190 delegates from all fields across the justice system.
• Reducing the Use of Imprisonment: Two Day European Conference June 2017. Speakers include: The Rt Hon Lady Dorian, Prof Andrew Coyle (King’s College, London). 85 delegates (academic, judges, lawyers, policy officials, 3rd sector) from across Europe
• Conference: Say I’m Innocent! Conference October 2017 – 250 delegates. Negotiated with TV company which filmed conference. Excerpts from Strathclyde conference will appear in hour-long TV documentary to be broadcast across UK by BBC and in Republic Ireland by RTE. Conference and Strathclyde gained media publicity (eg students interviewed by BBC TV, studio interview etc)