'Why Art Matters' A short speech at the launch of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council's Creative Communities Discussion Paper, 11 Feb 2010.

Annels, Ross and Tamsin Kerr 2009 Memory keepers, map makers, and material thinkers: the sustained offerings of craft objects paper presented to Making Futures: Craft and Sustainability Conference, Plymouth Art School, September 2009.

'Peaceful space: sound, place, and the environment' in Creative Conservation 3, University of Queensland, September 2008

‘If I say I love my place, what’s with the bags I’ve packed?’ ANU Symposium on Climate Change and the Crisis of Reason, June 2008.

“Landscape’s dreaming the wild. Living Country and methodologies of Place Thinking; from poetry to madness and back again” Two Fires Braidwood, NSW March 2007

Key speaker “The wilder memory of a bunyip” Putting Memory in Place Bloomington, Indiana USA Feb 2007

”A Place for the Wild: Reconciling Culture and Reinhabiting Nature” Transformations Conference, ANU Canberra November 2006

General rapporteur, closing forum, Creative Conservation (Environment, Culture & Community 2) University of Queensland November 2005

”Conversations with the Bunyip, a community memory of place” Cooloola Art Gallery, Gympie November 2005

“Pan place, Coyote space, and Bunyip country: planning for wild-ness and ecological imagination in the creative city” ISOCARP Congress Bilbao, Spain Oct 2005

“Bunyip festivals: ways to track and celebrate the non-human in our cities and regions” National Museum of Australia July 2005

“The business of being artists” Youth Arts National Spark mentoring Mar 2004 and Flying Arts, Youth Arts, OzDance regional training July 2003