Hosted by the University of Leeds Centre for Disability Studies
Otley Road, Leeds, LS16 5PS
Telephone: +44 (0)113 230 6000
Fax: +44 (0)113 230 6095 http://www.weetwood.co.uk/
Participants will be booked into the hotel on a B&B basis. Lunch, coffee and refreshments will be provided during the working day.
A welcome dinner will be provided on Monday evening. No fixed arrangements are made for evening meals on the other days (to allow flexibility). There are various options to take dinner in the hotel, in the pub next door, in local restaurants, or in the city.
From Leeds airport : exit from Arrivals into the car park (follow the ‘blue line’ on the floor). Cross the car park and you will see a small building, which is the taxi office. Give them the hotel name and postcode (LS16 5PS) and pay at the office. Do not pay the driver. It should be about £10 GBP. It is more expensive to pay by credit card.
From Manchester airport : there is a train station inside the airport. Follow the signs in the Terminal. Purchase a ticket to Leeds before boarding the train.
From Leeds train station : there is a taxi rank at the front of the station (pay the driver in cash at the destination, it should be about
£10 GBP). The bus stops in the same place at the station, number 95 (direction ‘Bodington Hall’). You can request the stop for
‘Lawnswood School’, which is opposite the hotel entrance (about 5km). You buy a ticket on the bus, which should be £2.50 GBP
(the bus drivers don’t like to change large bank notes, coins are better). You can also take the number 1 bus, across the square…
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All of the training activities will take place in the conference centre, which is connected to the hotel (and owned by the University).
This is located approximately 5km from the city centre and the main University campus, connected by accessible bus services every few minutes.
We will be available to meet and greet, and to give a basic orientation on Sunday afternoon.
The training schedule is organised around the key concepts of the ‘DREAM’ project – Disability, Rights, Accessibility and
Markets. On each day, we will focus on a different theme. On the first day the focus will be on team-building and generic skills.
There will also be skills-based workshops on other days covering research ethics, writing for publication and making presentations.
There will be a mixture of presentations, discussions and active participation tasks. There will be opportunities to schedule individual consultations/clinics with project s upervisors, associates and experts, and informal opportunities to arrange your ‘DREAM date’ with an expert outside the formal activities.
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12:00-16:00 Transfers, arrivals and check-in
16:00-17:00 Informal meet and greet in the hotel foyer bar
Support staff available in the hotel foyer to confirm booking arrangements billing queries, etc.
Orientation to the local area by Prof Mark
Priestley and Leeds ESRs
Welcome packs available for collection
19:00-20:00 Meeting for ESRs To include nominations for the ESR Representative
Forum
Please note: there are no formal arrangements for an evening meal on Sunday (we will be happy to advise you if you are arriving on Sunday)
09:00 Coffee available
09:30-10:30 Welcome and learning objectives for the week: ‘ Connecting disability rights with accessible markets?
’
10:30-10:45 Introduction to the DREAM blog
Prof. Mark Priestley
11:00-13:00 Introductory workshop: ‘ Making the most of your PhD as a project ’
(Part I)
Anthony Giannoumis (NOVA) and Robert
Huffaker (Technosite)
Jennifer Rivas Perez and Heather Sears
(University of Leeds Researcher Training and
Development Officers) with facilitation input from
DREAM academic partners
Open agenda: any questions?
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13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 For ESRs - Introductory workshop:
‘
Making the most of your PhD as a project ’ (Part II)
For supervisors
– introductory meeting for partners and associates
16:00-17:00 Meet the DREAM team: introductions from associate partners and researchers
Followed by informal networking
Jennifer Rivas Perez and Heather Sears (Leeds staff trainers)
Chaired by Prof Lisa Waddington?
Rea Maglajlic (MDAC)
Luk Zelderloo (EASPD)
Theresia Degener
Peter Blanck (?)
Michael Stein (Skype?)
Rosemary Kayess (Skype?)
Room to be confirmed
Identification of expertise relevant to ESR projects
Later arrival: Jamie Bolling
(ENIL)
Signup for your ‘DREAM date’ with experts during the week
19:30 Welcome dinner in the hotel restaurant
…option to continue later in the ‘Stables Pub’ (behind the hotel)
09:00-09:30 Q&A with coffee (open agenda – discussion from the first day)
09:30-11:00 ‘ Work in progress ’: Leeds doctoral candidates discuss doing a PhD in
Chaired by Prof Mark Priestley
Tom Campbell - Governing educational difference: towards a genealogy of dyslexia
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disability studies
Ana Aiello - Litigation as a strategy for people with intellectual impairments placed in institutional living
Anne-Marie Moore - Facilitating Meaningful Play
Between Disabled and Non-disabled Children
Deborah Fenney - Balancing Sustainability and
Accessibility: Disabled People and Pro-
Environmental Behaviour
11:00 Coffee break
11:15-13:00 Academic panel:
‘
Rights, nondiscrimination and intersectionality ’
Chaired by Prof Theresia Degener (?)
11:30
12:15
Prof. Lisa Waddington - The Evolution of
International and European Human Rights
Instruments from a Disability Perspective
Prof. Dagmar Sheik – Non-discrimination and intersectionality in Europe
12:50 Setting task objectives
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Small group work: How will I use
‘Rights’ in my project?
Flexible support from supervisors and partners Using meeting room and breakout areas (working in groups of 2-3)
15:00-15:30 Feedback from the task Chaired by Prof Theresia Degener (?)
15:30-16:00 Welcome from the University Vice Professor Michael Arthur (University of Leeds)
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Chancellor: ‘ Tips for a successful research career ’
16:00-1700 Coffee and networking
17:00-18:30 Strategic Board meeting All partners
Free evening for ESRs
09:00-10:30 Opportunity for individual
‘speed dating’ with experts (optional)
10:30-11:00 Q&A discussion: open agenda
11:00-13:00
Generic skills workshop: ‘
An
Ethical Approach in Disability
Research ’
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Academic panel: ‘ Conceptualising and modelling disability ’
14:15 Reflections on the social model of disability
14:45 Nordic understanding of disability in an international context
15:15 Materialist, idealist and realist approaches to disability
Chaired by Prof Bjorn Hvinden (?)
Led by Alice Temple (Leeds University
Research Ethics Training and Development
Officer)
Chaired by Prof Jerome Bickenbach (?)
Prof Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) -
Understanding the social model of disability
Prof Rannveig Traustadottir (University of
Iceland) - Nordic understanding of disability in an international context
Prof Mark Priestley (University of Leeds) –
Models and theories: complexity and realism
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Followed by dinner (to be arranged)
Sign up for individual appointments on Monday

15:30 Task objectives
16:00-1700 Small group work: How will I define
‘Disability’ in my project?
Flexible support from supervisors and partners Using meeting room and breakout areas
We propose the option of eating together in a restaurant
09:00-10:00 Opportunity for individual
‘speed dating’ with experts (optional)
10:00-12:00
Academic panel: ‘Conceptualising and measuring accessibility’
Chaired by Rune Halvorsen (?)
Sign up for individual appointments on Monday
10:15 Thinking about accessibility and reasonable accommodation
10:45 European initiatives for measuring eAccessibility
11:15 Economic assessment of eAccessibility
11.45 Task objectives
12:00-13:00 Small group work: How will I define
‘Accessibility’ in my project?
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-1600
Generic skills workshop: ‘ Writing papers: start with an abstract ’
Anna Lawson (University of Leeds)
Roberto Torena (Technosite)
Patricia Rubio (Technosite)
Flexible support from supervisors and partners Using meeting room and breakout areas
Dr Jenny Rivas Perez (University of Leeds
Senior Researcher Training and Development
Officer)
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16:00-17:00
Opportunity for individual ‘speed dating’ with experts (optional)
Sign up for individual appointments on Monday
Free evening - optional trip to the Grand Theatre opera house arranged by Leeds ESRs (pre-booking essential)
09:30-10:00 Coffee and Q&A: open agenda discussion from the previous day
Chaired by Prof Rannveig Traustadottir
10:00-12:00 Masterclass and groupwork:
‘Consumerism and markets’
12:00-13:00
Discussion: ‘
Can the market deliver equality and social inclusion for disabled people in Europe ?’
Dr Mark Davis (Director, University of Leeds
Bauman Institute)
With support and facilitation from DREAM partners
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Generic skills workshop:
‘ Presentations – stand and deliver ’
Dr Heather Sears (Researcher Skills Senior
Training and Development Officer)
Chaired by Prof. Mark Priestley 16:00-17:00 Feedback, evaluation, future planning
Departures Support staff available in the hotel foyer to confirm billing queries, taxis, etc.
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