2025 Heffer, C. Furnishing a Future: Designing a Contemporary Lace for Government House Australia London Heritage Conference, Maritime Museum UNESCO World Heritage Site, June 25-27

2025 Heffer, C. Lace as Sound: Materialising Lace-Making Histories, paper presentation . A Conversation Between Tradition and Innovation, CIMAD International Conference, Les Forges, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France, May 26 - 28

2025 Heffer, C. Lace as Sound: Translating stitched structures as graphic music notation in Drawing: 29. Research, Theory, Practice, Special Issue: Listening – Drawing – Sounding, 10:1, pp.83-97, Intellect, UK. 

2024 Heffer, C. Futuring Handloom in the Indo Pacific: Balancing Digital Technologies with Artisan Practice. Proceedings of IOTA24 Futuring Craft: The value of Craft Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 360-369 02 Dec 2024

2023 Heffer, C. Post-COVID craft education: Reflections on a virtual artisan woodblock studio exchange between Australia and India. FormAkademisk https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.5417

2024 Heffer C, Hardcastle N, Closing the Educational Divide: The Significance of Academic Mentorship in Global Industry Engagement in Learning. Life. Work, USA, 10 Jun 2024 - 12 Jun 2024. Shearer C, Marey A. AMPS Proceedings, UK. 38: 193-202. 10 Jun 2024

2022 Heffer C, Clifton-Cunningham A Crossing the Aisle: Multi- and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Education in Removing the Educational Silos: Models of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Education. Trommer-Beardslee H, Stanley-Bohn K, Dasen A, Batzner J. 1, 1: 123-146. Intellect, Canada 14 Nov 2022

2021 Heffer, C. Reimagining Lace in a Digital Space: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between an Animation Artist and Textile Designer. FormAkademisk https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.4408

2018 Heffer C. Reimagining lace: A contemporary response to place and textile making. Craft Research, Intellect, UK, pp. 135-147.

2018 Heffer C, Capturing the Ephemeral, in Dimensional Cloth Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists. 109-110. Schiffer Publishing, USA.

2017 Heffer, C, Language Lace: thinking and speaking through material making in 8th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz), Wellington, New Zealand, 10 Jul 2017 - 11 Jul 2017. Conference Proceedings 2017. POPCAANZ. 114-126. 2017

2015 Heffer C. Lace Narratives: A Monograph: 2005-2015. Ed ed. Sadokierski Z. UTS ePRESS.

Acquired by the NSW, Victoria, and Queensland State Libraries, cited in postgraduate masters (Curtin University), UTS, RMIT and the Royal College of London (Dr Yeseung Lee)

2013 Heffer, C, Case Study in Lace Here Now. 80-85. Black Dog Pub Limited, London, UK 2013