Practical Information

Venue

The meeting will take place in the Percy Building, Newcastle University. The building is accessible for wheelchairs.

The University campus is in the city centre and is easy to reach on foot from city centre hotels, or via the Metro (Newcastle's light rail transport system) to Haymarket station. The city centre is compact: walking somewhere never takes longer than 20-30 minutes. 

Maps of the campus and city can be found here.

Travel to Newcastle

There are direct flights to Newcastle Airport from many European cities and regular connecting flights from Schiphol, Heathrow and Paris CDG. The Airport is on the Metro system and the journey to the city centre takes about 30 minutes.

Newcastle Central train station has frequent connections to London Kings Cross and Edinburgh, is in the city centre and is on the Metro system.

There is a daily DFDS ferry from Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to North Shields (just down the river from Newcastle): departure in the early evening and arrival in the morning. 

Accommodation

There are lots of hotels across all price ranges in the city centre. Outside of the city centre, the suburb of Jesmond is home to many University students and staff, has several low cost hotels and is one or two Metro stops or a 30 minute walk away from the University. Unless you know Newcastle well, we recommend staying in either the city centre or Jesmond.