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Autumn Careers Fest 2021

11 October – 19 November

New to this year, we will be running Autumn Careers Fest, a 6-week period of events and activities running from the 11th of October to the 19th of November.

All our events will provide you with the opportunity to engage and interact with our fantastic and diverse students at Loughborough. We will be hosting a variety of events online and on-campus.

Find out more on the events page.

Choose Your Charity Challenge Night

11 October, 6pm, The Basement

Roll up, roll up, it’s time to choose your charity challenge!

We have a selection of 8 enticing challenges for you to get involved in this year, alongside a fantastic pick of good causes.

Speak to charities, learn more about the trips on offer, and find yourself the adventure of a lifetime!

It’s time to ask yourself… where will Rag take you?

Find out more on the events page.

Open Online Discussion: ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’

11 October, 7pm – 8pm, Online

Take part in a discussion around mental health in an unequal world or sit back and listen to
the discussion!

Find out more on the events page.

Book Club: Superior – The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

12 October, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Online

Join our regular Book Club for an online discussion of science journalist and writer Angela Saini’s non-fiction book ‘Superior: The Return of Race Science’

This is a Loughborough University London Event.

Find out more on the events page.

BCS Lovelace Lecture 2021

12 October, 4pm – 6pm, Online

Established in 1998, and administered by the BCS Academy of Computing’s awards committee, the Lovelace Medal is the top award in computing in the UK.

Winners of the Lovelace Medal are asked to present their work at the annual Lovelace Lecture, the following year.

VC Nick Jennings will be presenting one of the two lectures which is titled: ‘Multiagent systems: The Deam, the Reality’.

Find out more on the events page.

Ready, Set, Enterprise!

12 October, 6pm, The Treehouse

Our Ready, Set, Enterprise! event welcomes everyone to LSU Enterprise for the 2021/22 academic year.

Meet our student groups and get the opportunity to network and form connections with other students. The event will also feature talks from Sina Haghighat (Building your Personal Brand to Excel in your Career) and Tom Jelliffe (Founder and Managing Director of Tzuka).

Enterprise sits within Loughborough Students’ Union as the Ideas Section. Whether you are looking to build a business, hone your commercial skills, develop your CV or make some great friends, Enterprise is the section for you.

Find out more on the events page.

Accessible Bazaar

13 October, 10am, The Basement

Designed for those who may be overwhelmed by big Activities Bazaar, the Accessible Bazaar has low lighting, is quiet, there will be chill-out areas, stalls are social-distanced and there will be free social distancing lanyards.

Find out more on the events page.

Mathematics Education Centre Seminar

13 October, 2pm – 5pm, Online

This talk will describe an on-going research project which sets out to measure the extent to which asking Year 4 (8-9 years old) children to create mathematical story picture books (MSPBs) about multiplication can help to develop their conceptual understanding of the topic.

Find out more on the events page.

Voices of Diversity: Mike Wedderburn

14 October, 6pm, Online & In-person

As part of our commitment to advancing race equality, changing our culture for better, and being an anti-racist community, we are pleased to be holding an event with alumnus Mike Wedderburn as part of the Voices of Diversity series.

Find out more on the events page.

Pick a Project Night

14 October, 6pm, The Basement

Pick a Project Night is back, and it’s coming back bigger than ever!

We have 38 incredible projects for you to get involved with, from cooking for those in need to helping out in the campus nursery. Our projects all fall under one of the following 6 sections: Community Outreach; International; Overseas; Young Persons; Sports; Inclusivity.

So come along, and see how you could change your life by changing someone else’s!

Can’t wait to see you there!

Find out more on the events page.

LEN Initiate Workshop Programme with LSU Enterprise – Idea Generation

14 October, 6pm – 8pm, The Start-Up Lab 2.01 (Ideas Factory), STEMLab Building & Online

First Stop on the Initiate Tour – Join LSU Enterprise & Co to take your first steps to becoming an entrepreneur!

How do you generate business start-up ideas? How do you know if it’s going to work? Join us to find out more! 

We will also be joined by a guest speaker for ‘My Enterprise Story’ – learn how our guest got started and listen to their top tips. 

Find out more on the events page.

Credible threat: Attacks against women online and the future of democracy

15 October, 2pm – 3pm, Online

Activists. Journalists. Elected Representatives. Public Intellectuals.

When women are vocal about political and social issues, too often they are attacked via social networking sites, comment sections, discussion boards, email, and direct message. Rather than targeting their ideas, the abuse targets their identities. Identity-based attacks are particularly severe for those women from racial, ethnic, and religious minority groups or who work in domains dominated by men. Feminists and women who challenge traditional gender norms are also frequently targeted.

Find out more on the events page.