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Conference Information

Venue

Campus map with conference buildings highlighted

The conference is taking place in the Esther Simpson, Newyln and Clarendon Buildings on the Leeds University campus.  Lunch is available in the Refectory in the Student's Union.  University accommodation is in the Storm Jameson Building.

  • Esther Simpson Building, Lydoon Terrace [plot.corn.take]
  • Newlyn Building, Mount Preston Street [claims.glass.rarely]
  • Clarendon Building, Clarendon Road [jazz.penny.brand]
  • The Refectory,  University House, Lifton Plance [guess.simple.spoon]
  • Storm Jameson Court, Mount Preston Street (campus accommodation) [float.rainy.twin]

For context googlemaps says it is

  • 110 metre walk between Esther Simpson and Clarendon
  • 160 metre walk between Esther Simpson and Newlyn (nb this is by road, it is a much shorter route using the pedestrian cut through that will be sign posted)
  • 310 metre walk between Clarendon and the Refectory and between Newlyn and the Refectory.

The AccessAble website provides a review of Esther Simpson, Newyln, Clarendon and Student Union (Refectory) Buildings. There are links to individual room facilities on the conference rooms page.  There is step free access to all rooms, with lifts between floors in each of the buildings. There are accessible toilets on each floor and a full changing places toilet on the lower ground floor of Esther Simpson and in the Students Union. There are gender neutral toilets in Esther Simpson (lower ground floor) and Students Union.

The fire alarm will be tested in Esther Simpson, Newlyn and Clarendon Buildings before 9am on Wednesday when it will sound for around 30 seconds.

There is a conference quiet room on the first floor of the Newlyn Building. This room is the dedicated space where delegates can take a sensory break, reregulate, recharge, relax, or decompress away from other conference spaces. The room has blinds and dimmable lights. This room is intended to be a quiet sanctuary, not a space for working, socialising, networking, taking calls, or storage. We can/will provide guidance on other spaces on campus where you can do these things.

Ventilation information provided by the University Health and Safety team: The most up to date information on infectious diseases available from the University can be found here and there is a section on clinically vulnerable individuals relating to staff and students. Protecting yourself from infectious illness | Wellbeing, Safety and Health | University of Leeds  The University position remains that spaces have either/or mechanical ventilation to circulate fresh air or openable windows to let in fresh air and ventilate the area. All of the spaces that are open on campus have been assessed and confirmed as having suitable levels of ventilation either through mechanical means or openable windows. The Esther Simpson, Newlyn and Clarendon Buildings and The Refectory all have filtered mechanical ventilation  while the Esther Simpson Cafe has unfiltered outside air entering at low level from external louvres on the West Elevation.

Captioning/Assistive Listening facilities

Global RealTime Captioning will be providing live verbatim human-generated captioning/Speech-to-Text support for the keynote sessions.  The keynote sessions will also be recorded and available on the conference app shortly after the conference. On campus presenters will have powerpoint captioning for their sessions. Pre-recorded presentations have auto-generated captions available. Rooms in Esther Simpson and Newlyn use infra red listening systems, Clarendon has a loop listening system.

Campus facilities

The university's  website provides information about

Wifi

Eduroam is available on campus. Delegates without access to eduroam can connect to UoL-Guest Network. UoL-Guest Network requires you to create an account (or use an existing Sky customer account.

How to get to the university

The Universtity's Find us pages gives information abou travelling to the university and has an interactive campus map and downloadable (including a large print version) campus map (pdf)

Parking on campus

During core hours (7am-5pm) only permit holders and pre-booked visitors are permitted to park on campus in the orange zone (on a first come first served basis). Please contact [email protected] to arrange a pre-booked place. Parking is charged at £7 per day and you will need to provide your vehicle registration details as there is an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system operating. Blue badge parking in the orange zone must also be booked as a code is provided to validate the access before departure.

There are blue badge parking bays outside Esther Simpson (3) and Newlyn (2), as well as other blue badge parking across campus (see map)  There is no charge for blue badge parking on the Leeds University controlled space for this conference. Please note the roads around the conference venue are public highways with some restrictions for permit holders and are monitored by Leeds City Council.

There is a google map showing the location of blue badge parking spaces in the city centre and blue badge parking information provided by the local city council.