This Week at Loughborough | 12 February
Para Sport Takeover Week:
My Lifestyle: Para Sport Takeover Week
12-18 February 2024, Loughborough Campus
Check the Lboro Sport app under ‘My Lifestyle’ to get involved in various Para Sport events!
Panel Discussion – Para Sport at Loughborough
14 February 2024, 4.30pm-5.30pm, Function Room, Holywell Stadium
This panel discussion is open to all where you will hear students, athletes and those working in the field talk about Para Sport at Loughborough.
Para Sports Day
17 February 2024, Loughborough Campus
IMS will be hosting a Para Sports Day, where halls will battle it out to become champion in several Para Sports including wheelchair tennis, wheelchair handball, new age curling and walking football.
Careers Fest:
EY Adventure Awaits
12 February 2024, 10am-3pm, Outside Careers Hub East
Our ‘EY Adventure Awaits’ Spring campaign gives students the opportunity to delve into the world of EY in a hands-on and exciting and immersive way, through exciting AR games, quizzes and giveaways, and more!
International Futures – UK Etiquette and Professional Behaviour
12 February 2024, 12pm-1pm, Schofield
This session will help you navigate and understand expectations about professional behaviour in the workplace.
UBS: Find out more about their ‘Unlock your Potential’ competition over a free hot drink, and the chance to win a £1000 Apple Voucher!
13 February 2024, 10am-3pm, Outside Careers Hub East
UBS will be promoting their new competition called ‘Unlock your Potential’. Students that enter the competition will receive a free hot drink and can be in with a chance of winning a £1000 Apple Voucher & a personal mentoring session with UBS.
How to Succeed in Group Work: Understanding Others
13 February 2024, 12pm-1pm, CC029A (James France)
This session will help you understand others, gain top tips for group work success and provide you with take away strategies to improve your group work at university and in the workplace.
Elevate Your Prospects – Prepare For The Fair
13 February 2024, 1pm-2.30pm, MS Teams
Join us for a comprehensive session designed to help you make the most of this event and stand out to potential employers. We will be covering how to prepare before you arrive, how to interact with employers whilst there and the most effective ways to follow up after the event with employers.
Time Management 101
13 February 2024, 6pm-7.30pm, WAV011 (Wavy Top Building)
Come along to the Student Success Academy’s Time Management 101 Workshop where you can take part in activities and learn techniques to schedule and prioritise your time effectively.
Mock Assessment Centre
13 February 2024, 6pm-8.15pm, West Park Hub
Attend this in-person Mock Assessment Centre, where you’ll hear first-hand what to expect and how to prepare effectively. Employers from a range top organisations will be attending. Free pizza will be available for those that attend.
Get Ahead Together: Assessment Resilience
14 February 2024, 1pm-3pm, WAVB01 (Wavy Top Building)
Get Ahead Together is a group mentoring programme for first year and foundation students which helps you to gain first-hand insights and exclusive tips from experienced peer mentors and achieve success in your first year and prepare for the transition into your second year.
Prepare, Pursue, Progress
14 February 2024, 1pm-5pm, U.0.06 (Brockington Building)
Attend a ‘Managing My Wellbeing’ workshop by the Wellbeing team, an ‘Academic Success’ session with the Academic Success Coaching team, and learn about ‘Finding The Balance’ with FTP Peer Mentors.
Finalist Futures: Making Successful Applications
14 February 2024, 2pm-4pm, SMB1.03 (Stewart Mason)
First impressions count! Employers receive hundreds of applications. How can you make sure that yours stands out? This session will cover top tips on how to make a successful application.
Get Ahead Together: Assessment Resilience
14 February 2024, 6pm-8pm, SMB017 (Stewart Mason Building)
Get Ahead Together is a group mentoring programme for first year and foundation students which helps you to gain first-hand insights and exclusive tips from experienced peer mentors and achieve success in your first year and prepare for the transition into your second year.
International Futures: How to create a UK-Style CV
14 February 2024, 6pm-8pm, SMB017 (Stewart Mason Building)
This workshop will help you learn how to write a UK-style CV, which will make you stand out to employers. You will learn what a UK style CV should like, the importance of creating a good-quality CV and other hints and tips along the way.
The Fire Service’s day: Look inside the fire engine and receive further information about opportunities available
15 February 2024, 10am-4pm, Shirley Pearce Square
Speak to firefighters, look inside the fire engine, and try on the full fire kit! At the same time, you can receive further information about our office departments, ranging from Finance, ICT, HR, Media, and many more!
Elevate Your Prospects – Elevate Your Job Search
15 February 2024, 1pm-2.30pm, U.0.06 (Brockington Building)
These 4 interactive sessions are tailored especially to first and second year students. In this session you will learn how to effectively search for those all important opportunities.
LGBT+ History Month:
Pilkington Library LGBT+ History Month Display
1-29 February 2024, Pilkington Library
This year’s Library display explores the theme of Medicine, looking at LGBT+ experiences in and contributions to Medicine through history. The display also showcases articles and research from the Loughborough archives and relevant works currently held in the Library collection.
Queer Arts and Crafts – Origami Flowers
13 February 2024, 1pm-2pm, SCH.0.04 (Schofield Learning Zone)
Come along to this Origami Flowers making session, which will also touch on the symbolic use of flowers in the queer community across history. As St Valentine’s is the day after, people can make flowers for their loved one(s)/themselves.
Post-It Note Poetry13 February 2024, 1pm-3pm, The Lounge (LSU)
Grab a post-it note, let your thoughts flow, and weave your poetic expressions on the theme of LGBT+ History. Join this drop-in workshop to create your own poem on a post-it note. Arts worker Anna Loughran will be present to facilitate, prompt and provide guidance on how to write short poems.Find out more
How to be a Christian ally to LGBT+ community
15-29 February 2024, 1pm-2pm, EHB209 (Edward Herbert Building)
Are you a progressive Christian? Do you want to be a better ally to LGBTQ+ people, but don’t know where to start? On Thursdays, during LGBT+ History Month, join the University Chaplaincy to reflect on how Christians can be more active in their allyship. Join these sessions for bible study and conversation, thinking about allyship as Christian discipleship.
Staying Alive: Pride, Prejudice and LGBTQ+ Television in the 1980s
15 February 2024, 4pm-5pm, Seminar Room 1 (Pilkington Library)
How were LGBTQ+ people represented on screen in the early eighties, between the election of Margaret Thatcher and the advent of HIV/AIDS? In this session, we’ll look at excerpts from one of Channel 4’s earliest and most controversial gay-oriented programmes ‘One in Five’, to see why it divided the gay community and prompted MPs to call for the new station to be shut down.
General:
Creating a Hydrogen Superpower in the East Midlands
12 February 2024, 8.30am-10am, LUSEP (Science and Enterprise Park)
This breakfast networking event is for all interested in how a future hydrogen economy develops, from producers to users and anywhere along the value and supply chain.
Loughborough University, in partnership with the University of Nottingham and the East Midlands Freeport, invites you to share challenges, concerns and insights in hydrogen and its implications and opportunities for the regional economy.
RAeS – Selling Airlander by George Lan
13 February 2024, 7.30pm-9pm, U020 (Brockington Building)
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAes) ‘Selling Airlander’, a lecture by George Lan, Executive Director – Sales, Hybrid Air Vehicles. The lecture will cover a general aircraft overview, discuss markets and give a programme update for both Airlander 10 and 50.
IAS Seminar: Using oesophageal balloon catheters to measure respiratory muscle function
14 February 2024, 12pm-1pm, International House/Zoom
Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Visiting Fellow Viviana Shiffman MSc will deliver a seminar on their research titled ‘Using oesophageal balloon catheters to measure respiratory muscle function: the how and why’.
Sustainable Fashion Show: Fabric Stitching
14 February 2024, 1.30pm, Council Chamber (Hazlerigg Building)
To prepare for the Sustainable Fashion Show on Tuesday 12 March, LSU Enterprise is running a fabric stitching workshop for the student designers and anyone interested in becoming one.
Create and Connect (weekly sessions)
14 February 2024, 2pm-3.30pm, Collaboration Station (LSU)
LU Arts and the International Student Experience Team are running this five-week programme for international students to help you connect with other international students and do something creative in your spare time.
In the second week, delve into the theme of ‘love’ (for anything) and let your heart guide your creations.
International Day Of Women and Girls in Science – Celebration Event
14 February 2024, 2.30pm-4.45pm, CC021 (James France)
A panel of female academics from across the School will participate in a roundtable discussion on their academic journeys and will touch on topics around women’s participation in science and their contributions. There will be opportunities to pose questions and comments to the panel on the day.
Flix Cinema Screening: ‘Bottoms’
15 February 2024, 7pm-9pm, Cope Auditorium
‘Bottoms’, directed by Emma Seligman, starring Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu and Nicholas Galitzine. Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Startup Support Series – Setting Up For Success
10 January-14 February 2024, 10am-12pm, Careers and Enterprise Hub, Loughborough Town
Is your startup idea and plans ready for success in 2024? Whether you’re in the idea validation stage, gaining early traction, or ready to scale, this event series is tailored to empower you at every stage of your business journey.
Startup Drop-in Sessions
10 January-14 February 2024, 12pm-2pm, Careers & Enterprise Hub, Loughborough Town
You can book one of these weekly drop-in sessions which offer a welcoming space to help you in your startup journey. You can find out more about the help, support and funding you can get and any other topics that help support you in progressing your business to succeed.
Startup Support Series (evenings) – Setting Up For Success
11 January-15 February 2024, 5pm-7pm, Careers & Enterprise Hub, Loughborough Town
Is your startup idea and plans ready for success in 2024? Whether you’re in the idea validation stage, gaining early traction, or ready to scale, this event series is tailored to empower you at every stage of your business journey.
Exhibition: Imprint/Dismantle
10-21 February 2024, 12pm-2pm, Martin Hall Exhibition Space
Step into the captivating realm of Imprint/Dismantle, where the works of Loughborough’s three graduate artists converge in a dynamic investigation of perception and transformation.
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