Events
If you’d like me to be part of an event, please get in touch.
2025
University of Edinburgh, on unpaid care
12th February 2025
Southwark Cathedral, on ‘modern slavery’
19th June 2025
2024
Liberty, London [private event]
18th March
Carers UK members’ conference, London
19th March
Cambridge Festival, Cambridge
21st March
Commons of Care events, online
2nd and 16th April
Private corporate talk on employment and care
13th June
Private corporate talk on care
14th June
Private corporate talk on care
26th September
Leeds International Festival
5th October
University of Birmingham
23rd October
Private corporate talk on care, Nat West
21st November, morning
Radical Book Fair panel on care, Lighthouse Bookshop
21st November, evening
CareLab event, Manchester
22nd November
Previous
2023
University of Edinburgh (guest lecture on gender and care - private)
1st March
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
3rd May
Toppings Bookshop, Edinburgh
4th May
Guernsey Literary Festival
14th May
Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh
16th May
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh (online)
18th May
Aye Write! Festival, Glasgow
21st May
Oxford University Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford (panel event)
24th May
WellMed Foundation (webinar)
30th May
Edinburgh Wellbeing Festival
1st June
Carers UK (online)
8th June
Humanists Convention, Liverpool
10th June
Leeds Libraries x Carers Leeds
19th September
British Academy x Keele University, Liverpool
20th September
IPPR, London
26th September, private
Birmingham University
29th October
Wells Literary Festival
30th October
Birkbeck University, online
8th November
James O’Brien book launch, Topping, Edinburgh
10th November
Pandemics of Inequality, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh
12th November
Bristol Festival of Economics
15th November
I-SPHERE, Heriot Watt University, online
16th November
Previous events, podcasts and other appearances for The Truth about Modern Slavery.
2022
Hull University Anti-Slavery Society
21 March
Ladies of the Night School (chair and facilitator)
3 and 9 May
St Mary’s University
12 May
Read Think Act live - Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, with Lighthouse Bookshop
12 November
2021
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
13 January
Launch event with Ellie Mae O’Hagan, hosted by Pluto Press
20 January
Housman’s bookshop, with Dawn Foster
27 January
Essex University Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation
28 January
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
18 February
IPPR thinktank, with Alex Norris MP and Peter Olayiwola
23 February
Neville Southall Twitter takeover
23 February
St Mary’s University (private)
2 March
Amnesty International (private)
24 March
Freedom United panel event with Baroness Lola Young
24 March
The Feminist Bookshop, with Leah Cowan and Lyndsay Burtonshaw
8 April
Pax Christi Scotland
13 April
Tiffany Circle at the British Red Cross (private)
22 April
The Feminist Library
27 April
International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
17 May
Thomson Reuters (private)
17 May
Freedom Fund (private)
25 May
Left Book Club, with Professor Linsey McGoey and Lowkey
27 May
Migrants at Work event
8 June
La Strada International event at OSCE Conference on ‘Demand’
16 June
Boogaloo Radio
19 June
October Bookshop with Leah Cowan
1 July
Cardano (private)
22 September
Wells Literary Festival
20 October
World Mission Conference, Stowmarket
30 October
Bath University International Conference on Global Transnational Crime
1 December
ESEI Business School (private)
6 December
L’Orientale, Naples University (private)
9 December
Press & Podcasts
I provide interviews and comment for press on my book and related topics. For recent clips and excerpts, please go to my Instagram @thisisemilykenway.
I was did an hour-long phone-in on LBC radio for UK Carers Week 2023.
Interview with Arun Chaudhury and Julia Doubleday for the USA based Committee Program, June 2020
I’m featured in this short documentary film from VICE on modern slavery.
Podcasts:
And Redhanded the true crime podcast interviewed me for their lovely patrons!
If you’d like me to be part of an event, please get in touch.