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Giving for Gold Collection

18 Mar | All day | Room 1

On Wednesday, the final day of the Giving for Gold collection will be based in Room One, packing all the donations ready for distribution to the recipient charities.

With thousands of items to sort through we will be grateful for any support you can offer us in completing this mammoth task!

If you have donated items or volunteered to help support the event, then please do stop by to say hello and collect a gift from us to thank you for helping us reach our gold targets.

Monday 16th March

Digital Week

16 – 20 Mar | Various timings & locations

Digital Week is a series of events and online resources to promote digital fluency across campus, raising awareness and giving insight into the digital tools available at Loughborough.

The weeks’ activities are divided into five digital themes: communication, research, wellbeing, security, and learning and teaching.

Informative, interactive workshops and drop-in sessions are available for students and staff, with participation in Digital Week counting towards students’ Personal Best badges.

Click here to see what events are on for digital week.

Lightning Netball vs Saracens Mavericks

Doors open 4pm, Centre pass 7pm | Sir David Wallace Arena

Loughborough Lightning welcomes Saracens Mavericks to Loughborough University in round 3 of the Vitality Netball Superleague.

With plenty of action on and off the court, this event is a fun-filled day out for all the family. We pride ourselves in our match day experience offering you plenty of food, drinks, merchandise, activities and games before the main event.

Tickets are available from £7. Click here for more information.

Happy Mondays: Cabaret

8 – 10:30pm | Cogs, LSU

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to a sordid, satirical, seductive night of Cabaret! Glamour and spectacle are in abundance as LU Arts invite you to feast your eyes on a showcase of Loughborough’s finest cabaret performers.

Tickets cost £3 for students (£5 for non-students) and are available to book online here. For more information about this event click here.

Tuesday 17th March

St Patrick’s Day Showcase

6:30 – 9pm | Room 1, LSU

The Irish Dance Society is putting on a showcase for St Patrick’s Day which will feature their talents. Come along for a night of drinks, performances and a bit of ‘craic’!

They are raising money for MPN Voice’s Mosaicc Study who fund research in rare blood cancers.

Tickets are £4. Click here for more information.

Wednesday 18th March

Library Academic Skills Workshop: Literature Reviews – 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.

IAS Sound Theme – Summit 2: Sound in space and time

2 – 4pm | Jennings Council Chamber, Hazlerigg Building

This summit will be coordinated by Professor Hua Dong from the Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts and invited guests include:

• Professor Wolfgang Wagenhäuser: Professor, pianist, composer, organist and author, Vice Rector at Trossingen University of Music
• Dr Elif Özcan, Director of Critical Alarms Lab, TU Delft
• Dr Yinan Zhang, Media Designer, Chief Designer of the Sound Lab, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

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

Public lecture: How to solve the knife problem? Let’s put children first

5 – 7pm | U020, Brockington Extension

Amid rising concerns about knife crime, government, media and public representations continue to frame this social problem as an epidemic, exacerbated by ‘broken’ children and young people.

But what are the real causes of youth violence – and more importantly – the solutions needed to prevent further tragedy?

Professor Steve Case, Head of Social and Policy Studies, will talk about his research that has featured in national media and has been adopted by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales to build their new national strategy for youth justice.

In this lecture, he argues for a radical new approach to tackling violent crime by young people: treating youth offenders as ‘children first’.

IAS Sound Theme: Storytelling on the piano workshop

6:30 – 8:30pm | Leonard Dixon Studio, Martin Hall

As part of the IAS Sound Theme Summit 2, Professor Wolfgang Wagenhauser will give a workshop on Storytelling on the Piano and will give people an opportunity to hear him play some of his spontaneous compositions.

Refreshments will be served at this event from 6.30pm in the Martin Hall Foyer.

Professor Wagenhäser is a world-renowned pianist and author. He has completed over fifty recordings for CD as well as live concerts for Radio and TV at various festivals in the past years (such as Moscow, Bucharest, Shanghai and Riva del Garda) attest to his outstanding ability and contributions as a musician. He is author of several books about pianism, music interpretation and the health of musicians, such as Acoustic Research Work (2008).

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

Thursday 19th March

Music scholars recital

12:45pm | Emmanuel Church

Each year LU Arts awards ten exceptional students scholarships in their chosen art form.

Five of these are awarded to instrumental and choral scholars and this concert is an opportunity to hear them perform following the year of support and tuition that is part of the scholarship package. Competition for these awards is always fierce and the students who will perform have been selected not only for their musical talent but also for their commitment and passion for their art form.

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

Flix: The Lighthouse

7pm | Cope Auditorium

Flix Student Run Cinema presents a screening of the hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of The Lighthouse, a psychological horror film from Robert Eggers (The Witch).

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

This event is open to the public. Tickets sold on the door and online – £4 for non-members, £2 for members. Click here for more information.

Saturday 21st March

Loughborough Students RFC vs Preston Grasshoppers

KO 2pm | 1XV Rugby Pitch

Loughborough Men’s Rugby team compete in RFU National Two and will once again be looking to showcase their student talent in the fourth tier of English rugby. Hot food, hot and cold drinks, snacks and alcohol will be available to purchase.

A pre-match lunch (£12 cash payment on the day; food served at 12.45pm) will be available. Please email rugby@lboro.ac.uk to book your pre-match lunch. Bookings must be made no later than 10am on the Thursday before a match. 

Ticket’s can be purchased by either cash or card on the day. Adults £10, Concession £7.50 (65+, under 18s, non Loughborough Univeristy/College Students), Loughborough Students – free (student ID required)

Click here for more information.

Lightning vs Wasps Ladies

KO 5pm | 1XV Pitch

Loughborough Lightning will compete against Wasps Ladies in the Premier 15s.

On match day the sale of hot food, hot and cold drink and snacks will be avialable.

Tickets are £5 Adults, £3 Concession and under 5s are free. Click here for more information and how to book your tickets.

Got something for This Week at Loughborough? Email us at digital@lboro.ac.uk