Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast

Roundtable Discussion with IAS Visiting Fellow Cassie Thornton, guest speakers Dr Valeria Graziano, Evie Muir and Loughborough colleagues Dr Victoria Browne (International Relations, Politics and History), Dr Jade French (English and the Health Humanities) and Dr Catherine Coveney (Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy), moderated by Radar Curator Dr Lucy Lopez. As part of Cassie Thornton’s IAS...

For the fourth day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Vibrant and Inclusive Communities. We have a panel discussion titled "Preserving cultural heritage and community identity in rapidly changing environment", chaired by Professor Ksenia Chmutina (ACME & IAS). Panel members will include IAS Visiting Fellows Dr Janet Febisola Adeyemi, Women In Mining Nigeria, Professor...

For the fourth day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Vibrant and Inclusive Communities. We have a keynote speech from IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Cheryl Potgieter, Durban University of Technology, titled "Building vibrant and inclusive urban spaces: The role of inclusion in sustainable development". For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.a...

For the third day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Climate Change and Net-Zero. We have a panel discussion titled "Exploring climate resilience", chaired by Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Climate Change and Net Zero, Professor John Downey, featuring panel members Professor Paula Griffiths (SSEHS), Dr Helen Osiolo (SSH and MECS), Dr Yasmeen Khalifa (SSH and MECS) and...

For the third day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Climate Change and Net-Zero. This session will be opened by Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Climate Change and Net Zero, Professor John Downey. We have a first keynote speech titled "Status and pathways to net-zero in SSA: Strategies & challenges" by guest speaker Professor Matthew Leach (Emeritus Professor - Univ...

For the second day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Sports, Health and Wellbeing. We have a panel discussion, titled "Gender and inclusion in sports - Strategies for enhancing inclusivity and empowerment through sports.", chaired by Dr Oliver Hooper (SSEHS), and featuring panel members Dr Mark Doidge (SSEHS), Dr Rachel Sandford (SSEHS), Dr Lombé Mwambwa (Research Direct...

For the second day of the Africa Summit, we address the strategic theme area of Sports, Health and Wellbeing. This session is opened by Pro Vice Chancellor for Sport, Professor Jo Maher. We then have a keynote speech titled "The power of sports in shaping societies & community resilience – Lessons from the African continent", delivered by IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Lin Cherurbai Sambili-Gicheha, A...

We open with an introduction from Director of the IAS, Professor Ksenia Chmutina & Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Daniel Parsons. Following this, Summit Co-Leads Dr Oluwasola (Sola) Afolabi (ABCE) & Dr Hibbah Araba Osei-Kwasi (SSEHS), give an overview of the week and also introduce two of our four IAS Visiting Fellows - Professor Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Univers...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Sara Bonati delivers a seminar on their research - Climate change is reconfiguring the ways in which society relates with nature and conceptualises it. The challenges posed by climate change ask for innovative ways to approach ‘nature’, ‘work with’ it and ‘save’ it. The proposed presentation will focus on the ways nature is used, re-used, re-assembled, and re-conceptualised...

Fulbright Scholarship Fellow  Associate Professor Christopher M. Campbell delivers a seminar on their research - To combat drug use and possession while reducing systemic social harm (e.g., conviction records and incarceration) some localized jurisdictions in England have made an effort to divert some of the lowest-level offences to treatment, away from system sanctions. In an effort to gauge the...

IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Ilya Chevyrev delivers a seminar on their research - Probability theory frequently involves the study of very rough stochastic objects, such as Brownian motion, to which the usual rules of calculus do not apply. In the last 20 years, there have been significant developments in probability theory which allow us to make sense of such rough objects and study their properties. T...

IAS Guest Speaker  Associate Professor Janet Lawson  delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Classification as a factor that affects the quality of disabled athletes’ sport experiences: Insights from a research program guided by the Knowledge to Action Framework" -  An assistant professor at the University of Manitoba (Canada), Dr. Lawson’s research program seeks to understand the qual...

IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Ye Zhou delivers a seminar on their research - The imitation of tactile perception, synaptic processing, and neural coding functions in human sensory nerves has become an important development direction in neuromorphic electronic technology. The tactile perception system can be applied in multiple aspects and has enormous application prospects in fields such as human-...

IAS Visiting Fellows Professor Mariana Araujo Lamego & Professor André Reyes Novaes deliver a seminar on their research -  In our presentation, we delve into two compelling case studies that illuminate the mobility of geographical knowledge in Brazil. Our first case study examines how a Portuguese historian navigated geographical imaginations related to exploration and colonialism while curati...

IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Zhen Wen delivers a seminar on their research - Tactile sensors have attracted much attention for their potential applications in health monitoring, wearable devices, electronic skin and smart robots, etc. A new generation of self-powered tactile sensor based on triboelectric nanogenerator has been developed in terms of its incomparable advantages in power consumption...

In the lead up to International Nelson Mandela Day (18th July), IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Yolandi Burger & IAS Residential Fellow Ms Zandile Myeka deliver a dual seminar - Dr Yolandi Burger - Measuring Mandela: Co-designing his legacy and impact on urban places The "Named after Nelson" (NaN) project is a collaborative Global South and Global North project that utilised a co-design approach to int...

Fulbright Scholarship Fellow Professor Erik P. Bucy delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Learning from Media Scandal: How Coverage of Press Crises Primes Accountability and Reaffirms Faith in a Socially Responsible Press" - Can we learn from media scandal? This talk argues we can, by studying how coverage of scandal in the wake of crisis primes accountability and other press values,...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Rudabeh Shahid delivers a seminar on their research - This keynote speech addresses the issue of statelessness in South Asia, emphasizing the region's geopolitical dynamics. It begins by defining statelessness and discussing its impact on human rights. It continues by exploring historical factors that have contributed to statelessness, including the Partition of India and...

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Alison Barnes delivers a seminar on their research - Retail streets are full of graphic communication such as signage, imagery, pattern, and colour. This can be defined as a form of everyday urban graphic heritage that not only enables people to experience or be informed about heritage, but also informs our understanding of, and relationship with, place. This seminar will...

IAS Visiting Fellow Associate Professor Lisanne du Plessis delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "“Break free, grow tall, reach far” – a systems approach for STUNTING reduction" - The nutritional status of young children in South Africa is of great concern. Stunting in a quarter of children under five is particularly alarming, since it poses significant costs on health, cognitive deve...

IAS Visiting Fellow  Professor Helena D Cooper-Thomas delivers a seminar on their research -  Workplace tournaments are characterized by competitive environments where individuals vie for resources and advancement. Tournaments are particularly prevalent at senior levels, yet little is known about how elite newcomers experience and respond to such adversarial contexts. To address this gap, we condu...

As part of the IAS Festival of Failure, IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Niels Ørtenblad delivers a seminar, with an introduction on sporting failure from Pro Vice-Chancellor for Sport, Professor Jo Maher. Skeletal muscles have an impressive force and power generating capacity. However, with intense or prolonged activation muscle function is reduced, termed fatigue. Despite a broad interest of the sc...

As part of the IAS Festival of Failure, IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Ruqiang Yan delivers a seminar - The Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) system revolutionizes the management of complex high-end equipment throughout its entire lifecycle, enabling intelligent operation and maintenance in the era of Industry 4.0. Within this system, fault diagnosis plays a pivotal role and is undergoing sig...

As part of the IAS Festival of Failure, IAS Visiting FellowAssociate Professor Wyke Stommel delivers a seminar on their area of research - In this presentation, I argue that failure is an endogenous phenomenon, something participants establish locally and collaboratively in social interaction. Failure in social interaction may consist of misunderstandings, disagreement or some other social problem...

As part of the IAS Festival of Failure, IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Antulio J. Echevarria II delivers a seminar on their area of research - This presentation draws from a monograph (under development) that contributes to debates concerning the West's failure to deter Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the implications for Integrated Deterrence. First, it describes the d...