home

European Association for Population Studies and the Department of Geography,
The University of Liverpool

PROGRAMME ARRANGEMENTS

Conference Rooms

The main location for the conference is in the suite of lecture rooms on the south side of the University Campus, the Rendall Building (no.70 on Campus map) (see attached). A downloadable campus map is available at:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/maps/precinctplan.htm

All eight simultaneous sessions of the programme will be in rooms 1-3 and 5-8 on the ground floor of the Rendall Building (see attached building plan). These eight rooms are each of different sizes, with a joint capacity of 750 seats. Room 4 is being used throughout the conference as a publishers’ exhibition, and several major publishers are offering displays from their current lists.

Room 6, the largest of these rooms (capacity 198) will be used for the EAPS General Assembly meeting (Thursday 18.00-19.30) and for the Closing Awards Ceremony (Saturday 12.30-14.00).

Two major sessions will be held outside the Rendall Building:

  1. Plenary Session (Wednesday 21st June 17.30-19.00): The opening Plenary Session, to be addressed by Professor Ian Diamond, will be held in the Sherrington Lecture Theatre (No.25 on the Campus map). This is a large theatre that will accommodate the 450 participants we now expect.

    This will be followed by a Reception provided by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Professor Drummond Bone, who will welcome participants at the plenary. This reception will be in the Foyer of the Sherrington Building and the adjoining Maddisons Café.
  2. Poster Session (Friday 23rd June, 11.00-12.30). This will be held in the Mountford Hall of the Students Centre (No.36 on the Campus map). As the programme indicates, over 180 presentations have been selected for poster presentation format: they constitute an integral component of the scientific programme, cover all major themes, and all participants need to attend the Mountford Hall for this session. Refreshments will be provided in the Mountford Hall throughout the poster session.

In addition there are Internet facilities available for conference participants between 9.00-17.00, Wednesday-Friday and 9.00-12.00 on Saturday at two locations;

Registration

The Registration Desk for EPC2006 will be located on the first floor of the Rendall Building in Room 124. Registration will be for the scientific parts of the conference only, and will be the point of distribution of conference materials and identification badges, which should be worn at all times on the Campus during the Conference.

The conference pack of registration materials will include:

The Registration Desk will be staffed at the following times
Wednesday: 10.00-17.00
Thursday: 08.30-18.00
Friday: 08.30-18.00
Saturday 08.30-12.00
This desk will also have other valuable and emergency information and advice. It will also be the place of payment of per diem for those in receipt of EPC2006 bursaries. Please do not hesitate to ask the registration desk staff or any of the student helpers (identified by their conference tee-shirts) for advice or assistance.

The Registration Desk will not have facilities for changing money into pound sterling. This will need to be done at the airport, in the hotels or in the banks or bureaux de change in town.

Participants will register separately in their hotels, and at each of the main conference hotels there will be an EPC2006 information point. In general participants should seek to register at their hotels before registering for the conference. All the main hotels are within 15 minutes walking time of the Rendall Building (see map of Central Liverpool).

Refreshments

There are breaks in the programme each morning and afternoon for refreshments. These will be provided by the conference on a self-service basis at seven separate points on the ground and first floors of the Rendall Building, as indicated on the building room plans. Refreshments points are also located in the foyer of the Roxby Building (No.73 on campus Map) and the foyer of the Department of Civic Design (No.67 on campus map, near the main entrance of the Rendall Building.

Refreshments will also be available in the Mountford Building on Friday from 10.30-12.30 before and during the poster session.

Outside the conference there are several cafes/snack bars on or near the Rendall Building and the south end of the campus.

Presentations

There is a data projector, a computer, an overhead projector and a white board in each of the conference rooms. There will be a student assistant to assist in management of these facilities for each session in these rooms.

Delegates intending to use computer projection facilities as part of their presentation are requested to pre-supply any electronic files they intend to use to be up-loaded in advance; otherwise, of necessity, the time taken to upload their file(s) will be deducted from their allocated presentation time.

Copies of electronic files may be pre-supplied in two ways:

  1. email file(s) to dacruz@liv.ac.uk by the end of Tuesday 20th June. Please ensure your email includes your name, paper title, and session number/title
  2. Take the file(s) on CD or USB flashdisk to the Conference Help Desk in the Registration room in R.124 in the Rendall Lecture block, at least TWO hours before the relevant conference session. The helpdesk will be open 14.00-17.00 on Wednesday 21st June, and 08.30-17.30 for the duration of the conference. There will also be an opportunity to submit files immediately after the opening plenary session, in Sherrington Foyer, the venue for the following reception.

Poster Session

There is one large poster session: on Friday 11.00-12.30 in the Mountford Hall. The hall will be accessible to presenters for setting up their poster displays on Friday morning from 09.00. The posters will need to be taken down by 15.00.

Each poster presenter will be allocated a 1 metre by 2 metre board, and these will be arranged in rows across the hall, with lots of room for circulation of conference participants to view and discuss the posters with presenters. There will be prizes for the three best posters, to be adjudicated on the basis of voting by participants. Voting papers will be in the conference packs.

Side Meetings

There are three types of side meetings: