Dear All

EQUAL Network Launch - 13th November 2001

The EPSRC EQUAL Research Network and the Fourth Call for Proposals to
the EPSRC EQUAL initiative will be launched on 13th November 2001 at the
National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham.

The event will provide a valuable insight into the EQUAL initiative, the
work of the EQUAL research teams, and how EPSRC intends to build on the
early successes of its EQUAL initiative. Researchers, industrialists,
representatives of voluntary and charitable organisations and of
government, and individuals from many other walks of life have been
invited.

So far EQUAL projects have been concerned with accessibility to the
built environment and transport systems, housing and the home, Design
for All and inclusive design, and issues of Cognition, Dementia,
Learning Disabilities, Vision, and Deafness set within the living and
working environments of older people and disabled people.

The EQUAL Network will provide the basis for developing a stronger
national community of researchers and research users with an interest in
the contribution of engineering, design and physical science research to
meeting the needs of older people and disabled people.

The Call will invite proposals for collaboration between university
groups and intermediary organisations, such as industry, health service
providers, voluntary bodies, charities and local government
organisations and which will also involve older people and disabled
people. EPSRC will outline significant changes in the way in which
proposals will be handled.

The programme for the day:

Launch of 4th Call and EQUAL Research Network: 13th November 2001
National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham

           PROGRAMME

10.00 Registration and refreshments

           Display of posters of EQUAL projects

11.00 Opening remarks from the Chair - The Baroness Greengross of
Notting Hill

           Keynote Address: Professor Tom Kirkwood, University of
Manchester
           Author of Time of Our Lives : The Science of Human Ageing (to
be confirmed)

11.20 EQUAL: Its history and achievements: Professor Peter Lansley,
Chairman, EQUAL Awards Panel

11.40 EQUAL Case Studies:
           Emerging Ideas, from Smart Homes to Telecare, Professor David
Gann, SPRU, Sussex University
           Designing Caring Environments, Professor Kevin Morgan,
Loughborough  University
           Bioengineering*, Dr Bernie Conway, Strathclyde University
           Design for All*, Roger Coleman, Royal College of Art

13.00 Lunch and Display of posters of EQUAL projects

14.15 The EQUAL Network, Professor Peter Lansley, Director of the EQUAL
Network

14.45 The EQUAL 4th Call, Peter Hedges, Programme Manager,
           Infrastructure and Environment Programme, EPSRC

15.15  Discussion

16.00 Close

* titles to be confirmed

On the previous day, at the same venue, the UK National Collaboration
for Ageing Research will be launched.

If you would like an invitation to either of these events then please
let Verity Smith, the Co-ordinator of the Network, at the University of
Reading have your full postal address so that these can be passed to
EPSRC which is handling invitations. Verity Smith can be contacted at
[log in to unmask] .

All organisations with an interest in improving the quality of life of
older people and of disabled people would be very
welcome at these events

For more details of the EQUAL Network please see www.equal.ac.uk

Regards

Peter Lansley
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Professor Peter Lansley, BSc, MSc, PhD, MCIOB
Director, EQUAL Research Network
Department of Construction Management & Engineering,
Urban and Regional Studies Building,
University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 219, Reading RG6 6AW, UK
tel: + 44 (0) 1189 31 8202     fax: + 44 (0) 1189 31 3856

e-mail: [log in to unmask]
EQUAL (Extend Quality Life)- http://www.equal.ac.uk/
Assistive Technologies in the homes of older people -
http://www.equal.ac.uk/AT
Personal Web Pages         - http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~kcslanly/lansley.htm
AROUSAL Simulation system  - http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~kcslanly/ also
http://www.managementreality.com
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