And of course, these are my views and not the views of my institution. Which I guess is sort of the point.

And this isn't a specific dig at any one conference: we all have so much to learn, including as a conference organiser myself. But acknowledging our distances left to travel, as well as when we perform radical acts of self-care, are what makes us better at this work.

Ultimately, I feel pleased and proud to have listened to my body and taken a breather. I am even more pleased and proud to have a team who immediately offered to care for me when I signalled I needed a breather. This is the culture of care we should bring to research culture and to the HE sector.

4) Meet our needs. This is like the absolute basic minimum, but having gone to multiple conferences in the last few years where my accessibility requirements (fairly standard ones!) haven't been met, I feel like this needs reiterating.

3) Don't build in additional conference content: e.g. events in the evenings that are "optional", but which disabled people will typically need to opt out of.

And if you can't whittle down your content? 2) Split your conference over more days, either more days face-to-face or a mixture of online and in-person. This gives us the chance to rest in the evenings and to properly pace ourselves.

1) Have less content in your conferences. We get it, we want to say yes to everyone. But this would allow you to run shorter sessions (10-4 also great for caregivers and for those who need to travel!) or build in more breaks.