The AUDE team are busy working behind the scenes on the 2026 Summer School residential programme. This page will be updated regularly. Please click to expand each of the sessions below and find out more about them. Please note speakers and session titles are subject to change.
Bill Brown Suite, Queen's Building
Speaker: Ian Grimes, Director of Estates, University of Hertfordshire and AUDE Chair
Speaker: Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Bristol
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speakers: David Tonkin, Director of Campus Services, University of Bristol and Claire Routledge, Director of Property and Infrastructure, University of Bristol
Speakers: Duncan Johnston, Deputy Director of Estates, Glasgow School of Art and AUDE Strategic Facilities Management Group Deputy Chair, and Michael Weymouth, Head of Strategic Facilities Management, University of Oxford
Walk to the Clayton Hotel is approximately a 20 minute walk (07 mile) from the University of Bristol.
Optional meet at the hotel main reception to walk to the Cosy Club as a group or feel free to head over in your own time. The Cosy Club is approximately a 5 minute walk (0.2 mile) from the hotel.
Cosy Club, Bristol
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speaker: Trevor Payne, Strategic Advisor & NHP Chief Engineer
Speakers: Ian Grimes, Director of Estates, University of Hertfordshire and AUDE Chair and Stephen Wells, Director of Estates & Facilities, University of East Anglia and AUDE Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group Chair
Speaker: Dr Roddy Yarr, Director of Sustainability, University of Glasgow and AUDE Sustainability Advisory Group Chair
Speaker: Harvey Dowdy, Interim Director of Estate & Campus Services, Keele University
Speaker: Helen Wallace, Assistant Director of Estates -Space, Infrastructure & Digital, University of Exeter and AUDE Space Management Group Chair
Optional meet at the hotel main reception to walk to the dinner venue as a group or feel free to head over in your own time. The Beckford is approximately a 20 minute walk (0.7 mile) from the hotel.
Speaker: Professor Bruce Hood, Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol
The Beckford, Senate House, University of Bristol
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speakers: Cathy Gigou, CFO, Christ Church, Oxford and Jerry Woods, Director of Estates and Campus Services, Oxford Brookes University and AUDE Treasurer
Speaker: Anita Edson, Director of Estates, Cardiff University and AUDE Chair Elect
Speaker: Louisa Clarke, Verbal Communications Specialist
The Orangery, Goldney Hall
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speaker: Catherine Parker, Director of People Services, University of the West of England
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
