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LSU Action Student Volunteer Week

10 Feb – 16 Feb | Various timings & locations

Join LSU Action for Student Volunteer Week and get involved with a huge variety of amazing projects from dog walking, gardening and helping at an alpaca farm.

You can see a full list of the volunteer projects and book onto them on the LSU Events section on their website.

Monday 10th February

Being LGBT+ in the Workplace – panel discussion

7 – 9pm | Fusion, LSU

Careers Network and the LGBT+ Association bring you an exclusive event “Being LGBT+ in the Workplace” on Monday 10th February at 7pm in Fusion, LSU.

Come along to hear their exclusive speakers talk about:

– The realities of being LGBT+ in the workplace.
– Their personal experiences, struggles and successes
– Advice for progressing in a career as and LGBT+ person.

Speakers confirmed work in a number of high profile organisations and in a variety of industries including Sport, Politics, Finance and Academia. They will share their stories and tips as well as give insights on their employer’s activities to support LGBT+ colleagues in the workplace. You will also have the opportunity to speak with the guest speakers after the event at informal drinks at JC’s.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

Happy Mondays: Comedy Club

7:30 – 8:30pm | Cogs, LSU

A one-hour stand-up special brought to you by Leicester Comedy Festival 2020.

Leicester Comedy Festival takes over LU Arts‘ Happy Mondays night for a very special one-hour show featuring three fantastic stand-ups handpicked just for you by the Festival organisers.

Hosted by Garrett Millerick (‘Wickedly funny’ **** The Times), featuring Laura Monmoth (Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award), Jack Gleadow (Leicester Mercury Comedian 2018 and Amused Moose National Comic 2017) and Tom Little (‘Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…He surely can’t remain a hidden treasure for long’ **** Chortle).

This event is open to all but general admission tickets must be purchased via the Leicester Comedy Festival website.

Loughborough University students will need to produce their student ID on the door in order to validate their free ticket. Click here for more information.

Tuesday 11th February

Library Academic Skills Workshop: Literature review – writing up

2 – 3:30pm | Library Seminar Room 1

Have you completed your literature review but are struggling to write it up? Don’t know where to turn? Then this course is for you.

You will learn about the different types of review and how to structure them, what to include in your review and how to draw conclusions from the literature.

This workshop has links to the following Personal Best elements:

• study skills
• research & critical thinking
• digital fluency
• workplace skills
• ethical practice

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti: The International security dimensions of climate change

4pm | B.1.11, Brockington

Following a distinguished career in the Navy, from 2009-2013, Admiral Morisetti served as UK Climate and Security Envoy from 2009-2012 for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence.

He was then appointed as the Foreign Secretary’s interim Special Representative for Climate Change in 2013, before becoming an Honorary Professor and Directory of Strategy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at University College London. He is now Vice Dean (Public Policy) in the Faculty of Engineering.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

Dr Priyamvada Gopal: 4th Macalay lecture

5 – 7pm | Rothley Court Hotel, LE7 7LG

Dr Priyamvada Gopal from Churchill College, Cambridge and author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2019) will deliver the 4th Macauley lecture entitled ‘Macaulay, Anti-Slavery and the Question of Slave Rebellions.’

Her research interests are in colonial literature, the novel, translation, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical theory, and the politics and cultures of empire and globalisation. 

The event is supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University.

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

Dr Emma Baldry: Type 2 diabetes reversal – fact or fiction?

5:30pm | Room 1.39, NCSEM Building

Dr Baldry will discuss the research that has been published and highlight the most influential studies. This lecture will examine the background to Type 2 diabetes remission and discuss if remission is feasible for all.

By the end of the lecture you will have your own perspective on the topic.

The lecture will last around 40-50 minutes with an opportunity for a Q and A after.

Full details of accessing the venue will be emailed upon receipt of your request to attend.

The minimum age for attendance is 18 years old.

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

AU Lip Sync Battle

7:30pm | Room 1, LSU

Come down to Room 1 to see 12 Athletic Union clubs battle it out on stage in an epic Lip Sync battle in support of our AU mental health campaign, Team Talk! The club that wins will receive £200 to their chosen charity.

Tickets cost £3 and will be on sale on February 1st and can be purchased from the LSU sport or Rag office, or on the LSU website. Proceeds of ticket prices will go to ‘mind’. Click here for more information.

Gender Geometry

7:30 – 8:30pm | Board Room, LSU

Come and join the Trans Officer, Kaylee, and the Plus Officer, Issie for a talk deconstructing what gender really is.

They will be exploring how people and (Western) society as a whole has tried and failed to depict it and sell it to us over the years and towards the end of the presentation they will be proposing an entirely new model for gender.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

Wednesday 12th February

Lloyds Banking Group: Play for Positivity – seesaw action

12 – 6pm | Outside Haslegrave

This installation is part of the #morethanoneway mental health awareness campaign.

Play is an important part of relaxation and stimulation, even for adults; so make sure you come down to the seesaws to add a moment of joy to your day.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

CASH x LGBT+ Valentine’s Day Stall

1:15 – 2:45pm | Piazza, LSU

Valentine’s Day themed collaborative stall between the LGBT+ Association and CASH, the university’s consent and sexual health team, celebrating love in its broadest form and offering reassurance to those who may find the potential pressure to ‘participate’ in Valentine’s Day a little less rosy. However you identify and whatever your view on relationships is, we want to you enjoy Valentine’s Day your way.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

Personal Best: My Story – Christine Hodgson

3 – 4pm | J104, EHB

The Personal Best: My Story series continues with a talk from alumna and Chairman of Capgemini UK, Christine Hodgson CBE.

Christine will discuss her experiences with Capgemini UK, founding the Careers and Enterprise Company and running the Inclusive Network.

She graduated in 1987 with a degree in Accounting and Financial Management and was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University in 2019.

This prestigious presentation forms part of the Personal Best programme and is the eighth of its series.

This event is free to attend but places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. You can book your tickets online here.

Thursday 13th February

Beyond the Binary PhD student presentations

3:30 – 5pm | 002, Stewart Mason

This event is part of the celebrations of LGBT+ History month and showcases the research of four Loughborough PhD students working on experiences, media coverage and policy frameworks around trans people and sport.

Each student will deliver a short presentation of their work and there will be an opportunity for questions and answers afterwards. 

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

The Trans Women Athlete Dispute film screening

6 – 8pm | 002, EHB

This event, part of the celebrations for LGBT+ History month, is a showing of the documentary ‘The Trans Women Athlete Dispute’, featuring Martina Navratilova and members of Loughborough’s Beyond the Binary mini CDT, who will comment on and take questions on their experiences making the documentary.

This event is free to attend and doesn’t require booking. Click here for more information.

Business Model Canvas Continued & The Elevator Pitch

6:30 – 8pm | The Start-Up Lab, 2.01 (Ideas Factory), STEMLab Building

Part two of exploring the Business Model Canvas and learning to pitch your ideas for moving forward in the programme.

This programme is open to all students across campus and focuses on the basic entrepreneurial skills and knowledge you need to get started in thinking about being self-employed, starting-up a business or applying yourself in industry. In this session, Emma Bishop and Ashleigh Ponder from LSU Enterprise and the LEN ‘Inspire’ team take you through the Business Model Canvas template in more detail before offering you the opportunity to begin thinking about how you might effectively pitch your ideas in an Elevator-style pitch.

Competitions and prizes will be available and food and refreshments provided.

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

Pool (No Water)

13, 14 & 15 Feb | 7:30pm | Leonard Dixon Studio

LSU Stage Society presents Pool (No Water) at Leonard Dixon Studio this February.

Synopsis: “A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious home and new swimming pool. For one night only, the group is back together, pretending to be bohemian and carefree even though they’re all older now and the rest of them don’t have pools. But a horrific accident puts an end to the nostalgia, and puts their host into a coma.”

Tickets are £5 for students and £7 for members of the public. Book your tickets here.

Flix: The Farewell

7pm | Cope Auditorium

Come and see this award-winning drama shown by Flix Student Run Cinema.

“A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family’s decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.”

The event is £2 for members and £4 for non-members. Booking can be done online but tickets will also be sold on the door. Click here for more information.

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