IPS Project Conference 2024

In the Inclusive Public Space (IPS) research project 2019-2024, we investigate the role of law in creating and tackling accessibility barriers experienced by disabled and older pedestrians in cities around the world – with a particular focus on India, Kenya, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. We explore ways of raising the profile of the existence and impact of this type of exclusion amongst the general public and amongst policy-makers.

Please join us for a two-day conference on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 September 2024 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, for debate and reflection on these issues. Speakers will include: accessibility rights experts who are also members of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, leading disability equality law scholars from project countries, key change-makers from civil society as well as other experts. In-person participants will have opportunities to take part in a range of optional activities during an extended lunch-break on each of the conference days. Fees are low and designed to go a small way toward the conference costs. Spaces are limited to ensure a high-quality experience for everyone attending.

To attend the conference in-person, please email the conference organising team at: ips.project@leeds.ac.uk

The event (excluding the lunchtime activities) will be live streamed and online attendance is free of charge. Please sign up to be added to the online delegate list (click for link).

Once you have registered for the conference, the IPS Project Conference Organising Team will get in touch with you with additional information that we would like from everyone attending the conference.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please contact us at: ips.project@leeds.ac.uk.

Click here for Registration Information.

Click here for the Provisional Programme.

Click here for Practical Information.

The Inclusive Public Space project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 787258).