2007. Felschrift for Orlando Fals Borda at the De La Salle University, Bogota, Columbia. Title: Reinstating Social Hope Through Participatory Action Research.
Economic and Social Research Council Thematic Seminar Paper 'Research-Based Teaching' presented in March 2007 in London.
2006. Inaugural Meeting of the World Association of Learning Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education. Title: 'Is Learning Studies Sustainable in Schools?'
Key-note speaker at the 2006 CARN Conference at the University of Nottingham. His talk was entitled 'Action research as a form of theorizing practice and practicalizing theory.'
'Demography & Democracy in the Era of Accountability', AERA - American Educational Research Association Conference, Montreal, 11-15 April, 2005. Discussant for Symposium on Teacher Educators' Action Research in Teaching and Learning.
'Doing the Public Good: Positioning Education Research', Australian Educational Research Association (AERA), Melbourne, Australia, 29 November-2 December 2004. Discussant for a symposium on Lesson Study in Hong Kong Primary Schools.