I'm delighted that our Loughborough IAS Residential Fellow, Zandile Myeka, has been invited to speak at this event ⬇️⬇️⬇️. She will share her input to namedafternelson.lboro.ac.uk project. Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage Loughborough University Lboro Design Loughborough University Research and Innovation Lboro Creative Arts NelsonMandela Yolandi Burger

We are eager to read your abstracts. Please find the details of the cfp here: fabula.org/actualites/121… The seminar is scheduled on 2nd November 2024!

We have some spaces left for our seminar by Fulbright Scholar Professor Erik Bucy this Wed 10th - "Learning from Media Scandal: How Coverage of Press Crises Primes Accountability and Reaffirms Faith in a Socially Responsible Press", book a place here - lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Many thanks to Professor Erik Bucy for delivering an IAS seminar on the topic of media scandal today, as a culmination of his time Loughborough University as a US-UK Fulbright Scholar for the past year. The video is now available on our IAS YouTube Channel - youtu.be/qtSUM37vk_k?si…

We had a guest at the Loughborough IAS today 🤖🤖🤖

Hear about Co-design between creative practitioners, heritage professionals, archival specialists, policymakers, & planners in Leicester. Thurs 18 July 2:00 to 3:30 pm Book: buff.ly/3S2ONj0 - Leics Urban Obs. Loughborough University Research and Innovation Lboro Design Lboro Creative Arts Loughborough IAS NelsonMandela

Dr Yolandi Burger Loughborough University & Zandile Myeka NelsonMandela share their collaboration on the 'Named after Nelson' project. #MandelaDay - Thursday 18 July 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Book here buff.ly/45YE3rP - Leics Urban Obs. Loughborough University Research and Innovation Lboro Design Lboro Creative Arts NelsonMandela

Two incredible days with our Loughborough IAS Fellows Zandile Myeka & Yolandi Burger. In London yesterday seeking out Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, and today searching the Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Lboro Design Lboro Creative Arts

First look at the cover for our [Kevin Whitehead Geoffrey Raymond] @RoutledgeBooks title (coming November 2024), "Categories in Social Interaction." We're so thrilled that the amazing 🌟 Paul Blow 🌟 [paulblow.com] agreed to design the cover image! 🙏 #EMCA #NewBook

We're approaching the deadline for submissions to our new Research Summits programme, Friday 2nd August, an opportunity for Loughborough University academics to bring a group of Fellows here to collaborate on key topics - more details here - lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/o…

The recording is now available from our IAS Director Professor Prof Ksenia Chmutina's Inaugural Lecture - 'Disaster risk reduction or disaster risk production? The folly of devising a technocratic solution to a socio-political problem' youtube.com/watch?v=buTHi1…

Fantastic to see these meaningful Legacy outcomes from previous IAS Fellows & Hosts!

We have three IAS Seminars next week, all varied as always! Topics include the mobility of geographical knowledge in Brazil, tactile sensing devices, and classification in parasport. For more details and to book, see our event page here - lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Hybrid Webinar: Classification as a factor that affects the quality of disabled athletes’ sport experiences with Loughborough IAS guest speaker Professor Janet Lawson 📆16 August 2024 ⏰12:00 noon - 1:00 pm 📍International House and Zoom Webinar 🔗 lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Deadline Extended - With our Research Summit deadline passing in the summer break, we have pushed this back to allow more time for interested Loughborough academics to submit an application, it will now be 5pm on Friday 11th October 2024. More details - bit.ly/ResSum

The year 2025 will be off to a good start for me: I am delighted to have been selected as a visiting fellow by Loughborough IAS! I will visit George Foden and colleagues, to further discuss our respective studies on #Malawi and #disaster. Watch this space! lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/f…

Our next visiting Fellow - Dr Ilya Chevyrev (Ilya Chevyrev) will be presenting their seminar on: "Rough objects in probability". To book your place, please find the link below: tinyurl.com/3xxr2vfx