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We can provide an exceptionally wide range of facilities to meet the needs of conferences, whether they are large or small. We have only highlighted the most popular and frequently used on this web page.
Medical/Dental School
The Medical/Dental School is an excellent venue for large conferences and is one of the best conference venues in the city. It includes a suite of 6 lecture theatres ranging in size from 450 - 100. Castle Leazes Halls of Residence are only a 10 minute walk from this complex which makes it an ideal venue for residential conference delegates. 

The Medical/Dental School includes a state of the art entrance and a new tiered theatre with 410 seats - this includes main rear projection, dual slide projection, data and video projector, networked PC's, video conferencing and a touch screen control system. (work will be complete by November 2001.)

Adjacent to the theatres there is exhibition space of over 800 sq metres and up to 15 seminar rooms

Herschel Building
Situated on the main campus, the Herschel Building is a frequently used venue for conferences. Here there is the Curtis Auditorium, which is a tiered theatre seating 374. Adjacent to the auditorium, there are a suite of three other lecture theatres, with capacities of 250, 150 and 150. If your plenary was to exceed 374 a video link can be set up to the adjacent theatres. The Concourse area outside the theatres provides an excellent venue for exhibitions and refreshments.
Bedson Building
The Bedson Building will have a brand new suite of six rooms (1x 90, 3x 48, 2x 30) available from April 2001. This will be in addition to the recently refurbished lecture theatre which seats 280. All rooms will have full audio visual equipment to include data projection.

 

Merz Court
Merz Court in an ideal venue if your looking for schools groups or for examination accommodation. The tiered lecture theatre has a capacity of 185 and an adjacent 15 classrooms.

 

Meeting Space associated with Accommodation

Seminar Rooms and Training Rooms

As well as providing a wide variety of meeting space at the main University campus, we also provide plenty of meeting space at our two main accommodation sites. In addition to the above the University has over 40 seminar rooms and classrooms, ranging in size for 10 - 140. A series of smaller lecture theatres have been upgraded to include data/video projection and there is a designated videoconference room with an overflow into 3 additional rooms.