Swansea University has conference and event availability for four weeks at Easter.  Among the events successfully hosted this Easter were:

Amnesty International UK’s Annual Conference and AGM was voted a real success.  It was a most enjoyable weekend and the 450 delegates went away inspired and motivated for the campaigning year ahead.  Click on http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10159 to find out more about the conference and Amnesty International.  Rarely have we hosted such a vibrant event where everyone has come together so committed to making a real difference.

The Royal Microscopical Society EBSD Meeting, a specialist 3 day scientific conference, was hosted in the Wallace Building, taking advantage of the attractive 140 seated lecture theatre, poster room, several breakout spaces and well appointed foyer lined with Geography and Biological Sciences posters creating a relaxed academic ambience.  Clare Oxenbury, the RMS organiser gives her thoughts on running conferences in another article in the Summer Newsletter.                                          

The British Feeding and Drinking Group, an interdisciplinary grouping of scientists dedicated to studying human ingestive behaviour and associated conditions, such as eating disorders and obesity, held their annual two day residential meeting on campus, using our Event Experts organising service.  The meeting benefits from the broad membership from academia and industry, exchanging ideas and research findings across disciplinary boundaries.

On the evening after Amnesty International departed The Association of Teachers of Mathematics came on site for its annual four day conference attended by nearly 300 delegates.  One of the highlights was a full day’s performance by Stan’s Café http://www.stanscafe.co.uk/ofallthepeople/index.html where contrasting local, national and world statistics were depicted by grains of rice.  This was a most perceptive and challenging view that could work as a special event for many conferences.