Featured

Academic Success Group Coaching: How to find and keep your focus

23 February, 6pm – 7pm, The Start Up Lab, STEM Building

Group coaching involves working with your peers and an academic success coach to identify your strengths, overcome any barriers to success, and develop your know-how so that you don’t just survive your dissertation/research project, but thrive at it!

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FDM – Top Tips for Video and Virtual Interviews

24 February, 11am – 12pm, Online

Do interviews make you nervous? Do you want to prepare in the best possible way so that you can secure your future role in tech? Join this session to find out more about what to expect at both video and virtual interview stages of the FDM recruitment process.

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Finalist Futures: Networking for success

24 February, 1pm – 2pm, Online

Finalists, did you know that networking can help with your career plans? Join this session to understand what networking is and where and how to do it. Making new connections can inform your choices and unlock hidden opportunities.

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Access Job Fair 2022

24 February, 2pm – 8pm, The Access Group, Armstrong Building, Oakwood Drive

Join us to find out why we Love Work and Love Life. Receive advice on your CV, get your professional photo taken for LinkedIn, learn about the different industries you could support at Access, and more.

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Improve your Skills: Psychometric testing with Cima

24 February, 6pm – 7pm, Online

Psychometric testing has become increasing popular with employers in the recruitment of their internships, placements, graduate roles as part of a wider assessment process.

Join Cima on this interactive session aimed at better preparing you for undertaking these tests.

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LGBT+ History Month

LGBT+ History Month: Illumination of Hazlerigg Building

21 February, From 5.30pm, Hazlerigg Fountain

Join the University’s LGBT+ Staff Network, Loughborough Student Union’s LGBT+ Student Association, the Vice-Chancellor, and colleagues as we celebrate the closing of LGBT+ History Month.

For one night only, Hazlerigg building will be illuminated in rainbow colours. Words will also be said by the Chairs of each LGBT+ group, as well as the Vice-Chancellor.

The ‘switch on’ is scheduled for 6pm. Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm.

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My Queer Journal

25 February, 12pm – 2pm, Martin Hall Exhibition Space

Journaling is all about telling stories, creating an identity, understanding and appreciating yourself. Does it sound gay? Definitely. In this workshop we will open some unexplored pages of LGBT+ history and see how fun and queer journaling may be.

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Happy Mondays: Augmented Reality

21 February, 7pm, John Cooper, JCR001, Towers Way

Create your own augmented reality asset and learn more about the possibilities of augmented reality. In this workshop you will not only learn how to use the different platforms available to create augmented reality but also delve deeper into why we augment our surroundings and what value this technology can create.

This workshop will focus on marker based AR, and as a group we will create an augmented reality exhibition. All skill levels are welcome.

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Book Club: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi

22 February, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Online

Join our regular Book Club for an online discussion of Lola Olufemi’s 2020 book which aims to ‘reclaim feminism from consumerism’.

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Counter-hegemonic leadership for democratic alter-politics in our times

23 February, 1pm – 2pm, Online

This presentation sets out to grapple with strategic challenges facing democratic alter-politics in our times, dwelling on the question of leadership to explore ways of overcoming the frailties and risks that beset grassroots collective agency for democratic renewal.

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International Development Round table

23 February, 4pm – 6pm, Online

Traditional ways of understanding International Development, which draw primarily on Western ideas, practice and interests, have been widely seen to have further disempowered peoples and communities in the Global South rather than increasing their agency and prosperity. How is and should international development evolve into the future? What kinds of graduates are needed for a more just and sustainable world?

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Fellowship Inaugural Lecture: Dr Emine Simsek

24 February, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Online

My ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: A 12-month research journey to explore factors relating to students’ understanding of mathematical equivalence.

In this talk, Emine will draw on her PhD research and current work which explore factors relating to students’ understanding of mathematical equivalence. She will also share my pathway to secure an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will talk about challenges that she faced during the application process, the organisational structure of the fellowship, how Covid-19 affected my research activities and the outcomes from the fellowship. Finally, she will highlight my collaborative involvement in one of the projects being conducted at Loughborough University.

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Year in Enterprise Briefing Session

24 February, 3pm – 4pm, Online

Spend your placement year self-employed with our support!

Are you thinking of setting up your own business? Our Year in Enterprise Programme is designed to give students the chance to set up their own business during their placement year. With a training session plus mentoring and plenty of peer support, we aim to help you to maximise your business success.  

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Commoning populism or popularising the commons: Issues of transformative strategy

25 February, 4pm – 5pm, Herbert Manzoni, Room K105 & Online

This presentation by Alexandros Kioupkiolis will explore strands of ongoing research into the theoretical and political intersections between the commons and progressive egalitarian populism when these are grasped as political logics and practices which aim for counter-hegemonic struggle and democratic transformation.

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Commoning populism or popularising the commons: Issues of transformative strategy

25 February, 4pm – 5pm, Herbert Manzoni, Room K105 & Online

This presentation by Alexandros Kioupkiolis will explore strands of ongoing research into the theoretical and political intersections between the commons and progressive egalitarian populism when these are grasped as political logics and practices which aim for counter-hegemonic struggle and democratic transformation.

Find out more on the events page.

Explore Sport

25 February, 5pm – 8pm, Ground Floor, Loughborough Unviversity London Campus

Are you a fan of sports and want to get involved by playing, volunteering, coaching or spectating?

Come down to the Loughborough University London campus where we will be hosting our first ‘Explore Sport’ event where local clubs, teams and sport companies around the university will come in and showcase themselves so that you can see what sports and activities you can get involved in.

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LSU Events

Being the Best version of yourself – Empowerment series

21 February, 6.30pm, The Basement

This is a five-part series which explores how to be the best version of yourself.  The course will consider the impact of your thoughts, how to break patterns of behaviour, establish goals, and value yourself.

We are starting off with a bang, with an opportunity to come to Loughborough to see arrow breaking and glass walking – amongst other things! The session will consider mindset, and how you consider your knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits.

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Hey Ewe

23 February, 10.30pm, LSU

Whether you’re celebrating a win or reeling from a loss, Hey Ewe is the place to go after a game!

Later entry means there’s plenty of time to shower and get yourself ready for a night of chart hits, pop anthems and student singalongs. We have DJs in The Basement and The Treehouse serving up bangers and cheese until 4am!

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FND

25 February, 10.30pm, LSU

Welcome to the biggest Friday night in Loughborough! Our resident DJs will be dropping the best of disco, house, drum and bass, hip hop and R&B in The Basement throughout the night, while The Treehouse is taken over by cheese anthems and retro-pop singalongs until 4am!

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Guinness Six Nations

26 February, 2.15pm, John Coopers – Sco v Fra

26 February, 4.45pm, John Coopers – Eng v Wal

27 February, 3.00pm, John Coopers – Ire v Ita

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Open Heaven

27 February, 4.30pm, The Basement

We’ll be gathering together in the Students’ Union every week at 4:30pm to dig deeper into scriptures, worship, share food and have some fun! Join us onsite in the building, or online from wherever you are at live.openheaven.org.

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Funky Bunch Trivia Quiz

27 February, 8pm, The Lounge

Join us every Sunday from 8pm for a night of tricky trivia in The Lounge. Vote on the theme over on our Instagram every Thursday, and see if your specialist subject shows up – then put together the perfect team and maybe you’ll be taking home the cash prize!

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