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Conference Inference is a blog co-edited by James Burford and Emily F. Henderson which has been live since 2017 and is about blogging the weird, wonderful and mundane world of conferences. The blog is hosted under the umbrella of the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR).

1. From 2017 and still going strong, it's 'Sex and the academic conference' by James Burford -

2. From 2025 it's 'Fleeting encounters with a formidable scholar – remembering Claire Callender' by Emily F. Henderson -

3. Another new one - 'DEAR@SRHE: Taking a Research Centre to a Conference' by Emily F. Henderson -

4. A firm favourite from 2019 - 'Saying ‘no’ to conference opportunities' by James Burford -

5. Another 2019 vintage - 'Ethics of Conference Ethnography' by Alexandra Supper -

6. A 2024 guest post 'The trials of migrant academics: The ‘Outsider Within’ at academic conferences' by Dr Ladan Rahbari Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk -

7. Another new one, a guest post by Dr Katie Crompton, 'Ethnographic snapshots of an Ethnography Conference' -

8. A vintage favourite from 2018, 'Conferences are (not) holidays' by Emily F. Henderson -

9. 2021 guest post with so much wisdom, it's 'Chairing is caring' by Johan Edelheim -

10. A 2020 firm favourite - one of our more useful posts - 'Capturing the abstract: what ARE conference abstracts and what are they FOR?' by James Burford & Emily F. Henderson -

We have an open rolling invitation for guest posts: