IGS British Branch – Liverpool 2024

The 2024  IGS British Branch meeting, will be held at the Moot Room (in the South Campus Teaching Hub, building number 120 in square E2 on the campus map) at the University of Liverpool on Monday 2 September and 3 September, 2024

REMEMBER, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the British Branch!

The meeting will run as usual with both oral and poster presentations, a conference meal and an early-career researcher event.  

Sunday 1st September:

• As many of you noted you’d be keen to get together before the Monday, we have a welcome social between 17:00 and 22:00 held at the Philharmonic Dining Rooms (36 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX) where food will be served until 21:00 and drinks until 22:00. Feel free to drop in anytime if you would like, I’m sure it will be a nice way to kick off the meeting.

Monday 2nd September:

• Registration for the meeting opens at 08:45 where coffee will be available in the Cypress Building on the University of Liverpool’s campus (building number 108 in square E2 on the campus map). By 09:10, we would like everyone over and settled in the Moot Room (in the South Campus Teaching Hub, building number 120 in square E2 on the campus map) where the organising committee will provide a welcome and briefing for the meeting. Signs and our local team will be around to help direct you.
• Doug Benn will be presented his Seligman Crystal after lunch and will also be giving a talk in the same session.
• The poster session will run 15:00 to 16:55 in the Cypress building (same room as registration and coffee breaks).
• At 17:00, if you would like, you can either attend the 1) ECR event organised by the EGG and the local committee or 2) pre-dinner drinks held at the Queen of Hope Street (L7 7DL).
• The conference dinner will be held at Frederiks (32 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BX) on Hope Street and will begin at 19:00.
• For those wanting to continue the festivities after the dinner, a space has been booked in Beer Engine (14-18 Hardman Street, L1 9AX) which stays open (very) late.

Tuesday 3rd September:

• The day kicks off at 09:00 where the remaining oral sessions will occur in the Moot Room.
• The IGS BB AGM will take place between 12:00 and 12:30.
• The John Glen prize giving will happen at 16:30 and the local organising committee will close the meeting afterwards.

Albert Dock, Liverpool

Registration fees can be found on the online store, but to clarify here as well, they are as follows:

• Waged staff: £65
• Waged students (i.e. PhD studentship): £45
• Unwaged students: £25.

The conference dinner held at Frederiks will cost £31.50 which includes a reception drink and a three-course meal.

If there any questions/comments about IGS BB in Liverpool, please email me (C.Shiggins@Liverpool.ac.uk). You can also check out the IGS website for the meeting in September which we will keep updated.

Cheers and we look forward to seeing you all in Liverpool and help us celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Branch.
Doug Mair, Connor Shiggins, Isabel Nias, James Lea, Tony , Stephen Brough,, Domino Jones, George White and Sourav Laha

The agenda for the 2024 Annual General Meeting

The minutes of the 2023 Annual General Meeting

The ICE report will be posted here in due course