How can we better connect

Getting from A to B should be straightforward. Our campus needs to be easy to get to, get around and leave – arriving at our destinations effortlessly.

We’ll be joined by an urban masterplanner, who will share their experience of creating a more accessible and connected campus.

There will be a British Sign Language interpreter at this event.

Photo credits: Jack Hobhouse

Ailsa Gunson

Ailsa will be the Design Lead for the University of Leeds’s ‘Campus Reimagined Masterplan Framework’.

She is an Associate Director at Prior + Partners and has been working as an urban designer and creative masterplanner for the last twenty years.

Ailsa has worked on other higher education campuses within the UK and understands the complexities of working and learning within these historic, functional, but highly social environments.

Professor Anna Lawson

Anna co-directs the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds and co-directed the Centre for Disability Studies from 2015-2023.

Anna, who is blind, focuses her work on disability equality and human rights at international, national and local level

She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and, for her work on equality, she was awarded the international Bob Hepple Memorial Prize by the Equal Rights Trust and Industrial Law Society in 2016.