Smythe, S. & Butterwick, S. (June 2017). A conceptual framework for studying adult education work on the frontlines. Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education Annual Conference. (pp. 323-329). Toronto, ON: CASAE. 

Smythe, S. & Breshears, S. (June 2017). Assemblages of digital access, literacy and precarity in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education Annual Conference. (pp. 318-323). Toronto, ON: CASAE. 

Smythe, S. (July 5, 2016). Digital technologies, adult learning and the enactment of austerity. Proceedings of the Standing Committee on University Teaching and Research in Adult Education (SCUTREA) (pp. 270–275), Leicester: United Kingdom. 

Smythe, S. (June, 2015). Complicated access: Digital learning for adults in Canada. Proceedings of the 2015 Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Annual Conference, (pp. 324–328). Montréal, QC: CASAE.

Smythe, S. (April, 2015). Tracing the networks of digital access and equity for adults. In, Online Repository of the 2015 American Education Research Association Conference. 

Smythe, S. (2014, June). Exploring digital literacies and inequalities: Digital learning in the library. Proceedings of the 2014 Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Annual Conference (pp. 237–240). St. Catherines, ON: CASAE. 

Smythe, S. (2014, June). Contesting sustainability in the new precarious economy: Adult literacy practitioner accounts of policy in Canada. In, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual European Studies for Studies in Adult Education (ESREA) Conference on Policy and Adult Education: Interrogating Sustainability in Adult Learning Policy: European and Global Perspectives. Aalborg, Denmark: ESREA.

Smythe, S. (2013, March). Incorporating digital literacy in adult literacy settings: Toward an equity-driven conceptual framework. (pp. 563–568). Proceedings of the 2013 Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Annual Conference. Victoria, BC: CASAE. 

Smythe, S. (April, 2013). Incorporating digital technologies in adult literacy settings: Materialities, Pluralities and Professional learning. Online repository of the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco: AERA.

Smythe, S. (April, 2011). Innovating from the margins: Practitioner perspectives on the changing landscape of adult literacy education, In, Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Conference of the Adult Education Research Council (AERC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE). Toronto: AERC/CASAE.

Stooke, S. & Smythe, S. (2011). Families at work: A critical examination of neighbourhood-based programs for families with young children. In, Proceedings of the Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA). New Orleans, USA

Smythe, S. (2009). Learning anxiety: Mothers negotiating discourses of choice and responsibility. In Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (pp. 262-268). Ottawa: CASAE.

Anderson, J., Smythe, S., Shapiro, J., & Morrison, F. (2003). Issues in family literacy programs in inner city communities. In G. Shiel & U. Dhalaigh (Eds.), Other ways of seeing: Diversity in language and literacy: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Reading (pp. 119–124). Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland.

Kendrick, M., Anderson, J., Smythe, S., & MacKay, R. (2003). What images of family literacy reveal about family literacy practices and family literacy programs. In C. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, B. Maloch, J. Hoffman & D. Schallert (Eds.), 52nd Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 245–258). Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.