Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast

IAS Residential Fellow Professor Jeffrey A. Nittrouer delivers a seminar on their research -  Peatland environments cover 3% of the planet’s land surface, yet possess 30% of its terrestrial organic carbon. The hydrology of peatlands is critical to establishing carbon-storage capabilities. The surface-water system consists of lakes and bogs connected by low-sloping streams that transport minimal am...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Alberto Doretto delivers a seminar on their research - Siltation (i.e. the excessive accumulation of fine sediment on the riverbed) is globally recognized as one of the greatest impacts in lotic ecosystems due to the intensification of hydro-morphological (i.e. sediment flushing from dams) and land-use (i.e. deforestation, agriculture, urbanization) pressures. However, the a...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Gregory Pearcey delivers a seminar on their research - Movement is fundamental for human life, yet little is known about the neural code of human movement. Due to their direct connection to muscle fibres, which collectively form the motor unit, alpha motoneurons are the only cells in the central nervous system that can be routinely recorded in humans. Until recently, it was...

IAS Visiting Fellow  Dr Ardila Hayu Tiwikrama delivers a seminar on their research -  In large-scale industrial applications, the high cost and energy associated with CO2 capture from flue gases is a significant obstacle. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a technically and economically efficient technology for CO2 capture. In this study, the CO2 absorption potential of functionalized DESs and IL...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Pınar Nuhoğlu Kibar delivers a seminar on their research - Infographics serve as a powerful medium for integrating textual and visual elements to convey complex information in a structured and comprehensible manner. Beyond static forms, we increasingly encounter infographics in dynamic and interactive formats, such as AR-integrated infographics, animated video-based graphics...

IAS Residential Fellow Professor Josef Fahlén delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "The social organisation of sport – investigating separatist and integrative ambitions in Indigenous sport and their implications for participation, organisation and society" - In Sport, participants need to be separated into opponents so that they can compete. This has traditionally been made along na...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Arnoud Arps delivers an Academic Career Q&A - This seminar is aimed at postgraduate researchers to better understand their own position within academia by sharing the academic career experiences of an early career researcher. In this seminar I will briefly talk about my academic career path, including the challenges and opportunities that have led me to an Assistant P...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Ranit Chatterjee delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Building Ecosystem Service Resilience through Customary Regulatory Mechanism: Case Study of Indian Sundarbans" - Sundarbans is the largest river delta in the world, spread over 200 islands, separated by nearly 400 interconnected tidal rivers and creeks, at the confluence of Ganga, Meghna, and Brahmaputra...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Maria Carinnes Alejandria delivers a seminar on their research - Between 2020-2022 the Southeast Asian subregion of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines experienced unprecedented flooding in urban areas which impacted thousands of residents while stringent lockdowns due to securitized management of the COVID-19 pandemic were in place. For most affected communi...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Luisa Fernanda Chaparro Sierra delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar presents MAITEC, a decision-support platform utilizing digital twin technology to evaluate the effects of urban mobility strategies on energy usage, air quality, and public health in Monterrey. MAITEC is built on a GIS platform that combines various information layers, such as demographics, ro...

IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Renato de Oliveira Moraes delivers a seminar on their research - This study explores the use of generative AI (GenAI) in Brazilian higher education, focusing on its responsible use and unique challenges in Brazil. Despite global advancements, Latin America lags in establishing GenAI policies, which may deepen educational inequalities. While it is possible to categoris...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Anshuman Sharma delivers a seminar on their research - Traffic flow models have long been driven by physics-based principles, yet the key orchestrators of traffic—human drivers—bring a layer of complexity that traditional models often oversimplify. This talk explores the crucial role of human factors in microscopic traffic flow models, emphasizing the cognitive, perceptual,...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Carla Maria dos Santos Filipe Baptista delivers a seminar on their research - The seminar presents the regime of televisuality following the military coup of April 25/1974 in Portugal. Our focus is on how the informative programs represented the repressive practices of the past, including forms of intimidation and persecution based on political dissent. By analysing selec...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Petr Siegl delivers a seminar on their research - Many physical systems can be described by partial differential equations which in turn generate operators between Banach spaces. A well-known illustration of such interplay is quantum mechanics together with the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators in a Hilbert space. However, in several branches of physics like hydrodyn...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Giulia Borriello delivers a seminar on their research -  This talk focuses on a meta-analytic study investigating the magnitude of associations between patterning skills and academic achievement. Patterning (the ability to detect and extend a predictable sequence like ABB-ABB or 4-8-12) is purported to be a critical indicator of academic achievement trajectories, but this cl...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Xiaoya Xun delivers a seminar on their research -  This lecture examines the feasibility of cross-cultural comparisons in the study of juvenile delinquency, focusing on China and the United Kingdom. It explores how cultural contexts shape moral understanding and influence responses to ethical dilemmas. Drawing on data from moral questionnaires administered to adolescents in...

IAS Visiting Fellows Professor Liberato Ferrara & Dr Estefania Cuenca Asensio each deliver a seminar on their research, in a session fully titled “Forging the path to a Sustainable Built Environment: Shifting perspectives and practices in Concrete Structures" - Prof Liberato Ferrara - “A holistic approach to sustainability of concrete: upgrading the perspective from material to structural desi...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Tanja D. Hendriks delivers a seminar on their research - Malawi is a donor-dependent country in southern Africa, at the forefront of experiencing the intensifying impacts of climate change. Its Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA) is responsible for the coordination of disaster governance and relief interventions, but profoundly reliant on donor-funding to do so...

Recorded as part of a sandpit session for the new Research Summits, Director fo the IAS, Professor Ksenia Chmutina, outlines how the IAS can help support a week-long Research Summit, gathering international Fellows around key topics, to provide high quality legacy outcomes. This more recent session in December 2024 has greater context, as by then we had then hosted the Africa Summit - https://www....

Fulbright Scholarship Fellow Dr Sarah Jewett and their host Professor Mike Wilson (SDCA) deliver a seminar on their research - International partnerships have often been lauded for fostering diverse perspectives and collaboration across global networks. Yet they often become best intentions embedded in signed artifacts and fixed institutional mechanisms. How can we envision and enact them as fluid...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Arnoud Arps delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar uses Indonesian popular culture (film, historical re-enactment, and online music videos) about the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949) in its aim to understand ‘colonial histories’ from the decolonial non-Western perspective of the formerly colonised. In this seminar, I would like to critically scrutin...

IAS Visiting Fellow  Dr Amrita Jash  delivers a seminar on their research -  China’s evolving role in the Middle East is crucial for several reasons. While China’s growing influence in the Middle East is a recent but a significant trend with far-reaching consequences. Especially, against the China-brokered Saudi-Iran peace deal, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, the tensions in the Red Sea and gr...

IAS Visiting Fellow Ms Maura Della Flora Flores delivers a seminar on their research - Design education is undergoing constant evolution, keeping pace with the rapid availability of technological innovations and contemporary societal changes, which also necessitate new pedagogical approaches. In this sense, undergraduate design courses must be revised to meet these demands. An ongoing research pro...

IAS Visiting Fellow  Dr Achituv Cohen  delivers a seminar on their research -  Walkability is a key element in modern urban planning, shaping cities' environmental, social, and economic dynamics. Factors such as street design, destination proximity, connectivity, and subjective perceptions like safety and comfort influence walkability. However, measuring it effectively remains challenging, particu...

IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Terry Tao Ye delivers a seminar on their research - eTextile have been an active research focus in wearable electronics, where fabric-based sensors and devices are interconnected into Body Area Networks (BANs) to enable multi-dimensional, long-term, and real-time monitoring for athlete training, rehabilitation, and patient care applications. With numerous eTextile dev...