FAQs

Spaces are limited to 3 per HDRC. Please liaise with your HDRC colleagues before booking. 

If you require accessibility support, the HDRC conference team will be in touch via the contact details you provided on the booking form.

Please direct any questions to: nihr-rss-comms@soton.ac.uk 

There is no parking available at Solent University. A local area guide to Southampton will be prepared and shared with conference joining instuctions, which will highlight local parking facilities. 

A mobile number will be provided to you in the conference joining instructions.

We please ask that each HDRC spreads colleagues across the three workshops to maximise learning opportunities for all.

Workshop choices and preferences may change on the day of the conference to ensure HDRC colleagues are evenly spread.

Please let us know if you would like to be sent a digital copy of a local guide to Southampton.

Please note that photography will be taking place throughout the event and may be used on social media and on event marketing materials.
Please make a member of staff aware on the day if you do not want to be included in photography.

Every HDRC has the opportunity to showcase something they are proud of, with the overall aim to spread good practice and to share learning across the HDRC network.

Please email a electronic version of your poster to nihr-rss-comms@soton.ac.uk by Wednesday 17 June 2026. 

All digital posters will be added to this website after the conference and shared.

Printed posters for the day to be no bigger than AO size, and must be in portrait orientation.

Side meeting: HDRC housing research - Tuesday 23 June, 2 - 5pm, Solent University

This is intended to be a focused session for colleagues directly involved in local authority-led housing research and evaluation so that we can learn about each other’s work and discuss opportunities for joint collaboration. You do not need to be one of the three HDRC delegates attending the national meeting the next day. 

We hope to come away from this session with: material to develop publicly available briefs on HDRC housing work and methods, a set of housing-specific resources for the national sharepoint, and a list of projects/ideas, interested collaborators and other next steps for the group. 

We would like everyone to be actively involved as a presenter, discussant, facilitator or note taker. 

Book your place here (by Friday 8 May).

Evening social event - Tuesday 23 June

In the evening of the 23rd of June (6-8pm), we invite you to join us at one of Southampton’s most historic buildings, and now premier arts and heritage venue, God House Tower, for a pre-conference ‘social’, including a performance by Southampton Ukulele Jam, with food and drinks  available to purchase.

There will be no livestreaming of the conference.