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Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast
by Loughborough IAS
Supporting collaborations with international scholarsFor more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/
Episodes
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Dr Alice Ojwang - Carbo AI: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Photographic Application to Support Dietary...
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Alice Ojwang delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Carbo AI: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Photographic Application to Support Dietary and Lifestyle Education for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes" - Type 2 diabetes is a rapidly growing global health...
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Professor Sergei Gepshtein - Searching for Humanity in the Forest of Abstractions
IAS Guest Speaker Professor Sergei Gepshtein delivers a seminar on their research - A community of scientists and architects has been forming for years around the hope that the sciences of perception, cognition, and behavior could deepen architecture’s understanding of people. A significant...
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Colouring Cities & Urban Futures Collective
Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. The morning will open with short showcases of two open-data initiatives — Colouring Cities (our local Loughborough chapter) and Urban Futures Collective (a global and international public-sector initiative)…
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What is Global in Inequality?
Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. This session will question what "global" means in the study and governance of urban inequality. Juliana Gonçalves will explore how space, knowledge, and technology intersect in shaping collective…
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Summit Opening: Setting the Scene on Inequality
Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. This opening session lays out our collective provocation for the week: that computational approaches now sit at the centre of how urban inequality is studied and governed, often without interrogating who...
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Producing Evidence That Works: Co‑production, Program Design, and Impact in Sport‑Based Youth Development
IAS Guest Speakers Dr Sophia Lin, Associate Professor Sally Nathan & Sam Lloyd delivers a seminar on their research - Sport-based positive youth development programs are increasingly used worldwide to support the psychosocial wellbeing, engagement, and life skills of young people experiencing...
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Dr Lucy E. Dunne - Smart Clothing for On-Body Therapeutics and Climate Control
Fulbright Fellowship Scholar Dr Lucy E. Dunne delivers a seminar on their research - Electronic textiles and wearable technology offer the ability to dynamically control the space immediately surrounding our bodies: controlling temperature, supporting our physical capabilities, providing...
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Professor Justin A. Haegele - Let the children have their say: Re-imaging pedagogy with visually impaired children
IAS Residential Fellow Professor Justin A. Haegele delivers a seminar on their research - Visually impaired youth are often enrolled in integrated educational environments, specifically within physical education (PE), but seldom experience feelings of inclusion (acceptance, belonging, and value)...
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Dr Robina Begum - Organic-inorganic hybrid microgels for catalysis
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Robina Begum delivers a seminar on their research - Crosslinked polymeric particles loaded with metal nanoparticles are called hybrid microgels. These fascinating materials have properties of both organic and inorganic components and have gained significant attention due to...
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Professor Giuseppe Saccomandi - Constitutive Modeling in Nonlinear Elasticity: History, Pitfalls, and Perspectives
IAS Residential Fellow Professor Giuseppe Saccomandi delivers a seminar on their research - We present a critical overview of constitutive modeling in nonlinear elasticity, with particular emphasis on isotropic incompressible materials. Starting from the historical foundations and the seminal...
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Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Centre of Excellence Launch and Workshop
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is an international scientific programme co-sponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). IRDR International Centres of Excellence (ICoEs) are established to make direct...
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Professor Asha Banu Soletti - Co-constructing Well-being in Ecologically Marginalized Tribal Landscapes in rural Maharashtra
IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Asha Banu Soletti delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Co-constructing Well-being in Ecologically Marginalized Tribal Landscapes in rural Maharashtra" - Situated within the reserved forest, nearby the Thansa Lake reservoir in Maharashtra, tribal...
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Dr Maria Luiza Tanure Alves - Critical Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Physical Education
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Maria Luiza Tanure Alves delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Critical Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Physical Education" - Physical Education (PE), as part of the fundamental right to education, should be understood as the first setting in which...
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Professor Desmond Kharmawphlang - Tales that Trees Tell: A Khasi Ecocritical Perspective
IAS Guest Speaker Professor Desmond Kharmawphlang delivers a seminar on their research - The slopes of the Khasi and Jaintia hills in the state of Meghalaya in India are home to swaths of rainforests. The forests are dominated by ficus elastica, such as banyan, Indian rubber and ficus Khasiana...
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Professor Saini Yang - Transportation Infrastructure Risk Assessment on the context of Climate Change
IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Saini Yang delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Transportation Infrastructure Risk Assessment on the context of Climate Change" Climate change poses a critical threat to the resilience and functionality of transportation infrastructure. Traditional…
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Dr Tara-Leigh McHugh - The Experiences of Pregnancy and Parenting in High Performance Sport
IAS Guest Speaker Dr Tara-Leigh McHugh delivers a seminar on their research - Dr McHugh will share an overview of her recent stream of research, which has focused on high-performance athletes’ unique experiences of pregnancy and parenting. Co-leading a transdisciplinary research team, this…
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Professor Danny O’Brien - Using sport to combat gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea
IAS Residential Fellow Professor Danny O’Brien delivers a seminar on their research - The Surfing Association of Papua New Guinea (SAPNG) initiated an innovative program called “The Pink Nose Revolution” that uses surfing to raise community awareness about gender-based violence (GBV), which while…
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Dr Alison Barnes - Hiding in Plain Sight: Graphic Heritage, Toponymy and Settler Colonialism in Paddington, Sydney
IAS Alumni Fellow (from the 2023-24 academic year) Dr Alison Barnes delivers a seminar on their research - Street and house name signs in Paddington, Sydney, function as material articulations of the settler colonial project. Both hide in plain sight, yet in diametrically opposed ways. Drawing on…
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Dr Everardt Burger - Rethinking Urban Mobility Through the Lens of Human Experience
IAS Guest Speaker Dr Everardt Burger delivers a seminar on their research - Urban transport infrastructure is typically planned and evaluated through technical performance measures such as efficiency, capacity, and operational reliability. Yet the real-world success of mobility systems depends...
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Dr Yolandi Burger - Nelson Mandela’s Narrative Spaces
Joint Loughborough-Leicester IAS Fellow Dr Yolandi Burger delivers a seminar on their research - How do places named after Nelson Mandela operate as narrative infrastructures through which memory, identity, and civic meaning are negotiated? Building on the Named after Nelson (NaN) project, this...
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Climate Change, Body Image, Eating Behaviours and Wellbeing
This event is made possible with thanks to the Biddle Family Scholarship. The International Academy for Body Image, Eating Problems and Health is formed of a group of researchers focused on understanding more about the development and occurrence of body image concerns and eating problems. Current...
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Dual IAS Seminar - Associate Professor Sumiko Miyata & Professor Takamichi Miyata
Externally Funded Fellows Associate Professor Sumiko Miyata & Professor Takamichi Miyata each deliver a seminar on their research - Associate Professor Sumiko Miyata - Incentive-Driven AI Networks for Future Road Safety To achieve fully autonomous driving, "cooperative perception" via V2X...
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Professor Danny O’Brien - How to bite your tongue and smile at the same time: Strategies for responding to reviewers
IAS Residential Fellow Professor Danny O’Brien delivers a workshop for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) - In this workshop, we explore the often challenging task of responding to reviewers (or examiners as the case may be). Navigating this process is a vital skill for academic publishing, yet it...
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Professor Anongnat Somwangthanaroj - Translational Materials Innovation: From Industrial Polymers to Sustainable Energy Storage
Joint Loughborough-Leicester IAS Fellow Professor Anongnat Somwangthanaroj delivers a seminar on their research - This talk shares a cross-sector journey in translational materials research spanning industrial epoxy materials for flip-chip electronics packaging, biodegradable plastic bags for...
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Sean McCabe - Building Community Power Through Sport: The Promise of Community Wealth Building
Seán McCabe is the Head of Climate Justice and Sustainability at Bohemian Football Club (Bohemians FC) in Dublin Ireland, He works at the intersection of football, community development, and climate action focusing on how clubs can act as catalysts for Community Wealth Building (CWB) and broader...
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Professor Mark Bevir - Rethinking Social Science: Methods, Genres, Ethics, and Myths
IAS Residential Fellow Professor Mark Bevir delivers a seminar on their research - At the heart of an interpretive social science is opposition to social-scientific naturalism. Yet, there is much confusion about what this entails, with many scholars treating the opposition as one over methods.…
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Dr Robert Emmett Alexander (aka Barefoot Bob) - Community Engaged Communication for Reduction of Disaster and Climate Risks Using the Arts
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Robert Emmett Alexander (aka Barefoot Bob) delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Community Engaged Communication for Reduction of Disaster and Climate Risks Using the Arts" - This presentation explores processes of locally appropriate communication of...
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Professor Anne Stiles - Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium
IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Anne Stiles delivers a seminar on their research - This talk addresses bestselling British novelist Marie Corelli (1855-1924) and her admiration for Nobel prize winner Marie Curie as a paragon of feminine scientific accomplishment. Though Corelli was neither a…
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Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins - Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa
IAS Guest Speaker Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (The London School of Economics and Political Science) delivers a seminar on their research - Arts-based global health interventions in African settings - for HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, COVID-19 - employ conceptual approaches that have been described...
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Dr Nataliia Tofan - Beyond Pharmacotherapy: Lifestyle-Based Strategies for Improving Cardiometabolic Health
Council For At-Risk Academics (CARA) Research Fellow Dr Nataliia Tofan delivers a seminar on their research - Hypertension and cardiometabolic disease are commonly managed through pharmacological control of clinical targets. However, achieving numerical targets through pharmacotherapy does not...
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Mr Sumit Dugar - Failure Café
IAS Residential Fellow Mr Sumit Dugar delivers a seminar on their research - This format builds on a successful session I had facilitated at the ‘Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action,’ in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Reading, UN Agencies, and the Red Cross. The...
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Dr Ashley Ajumoke Stewart - Archives in Motion: Reimagining Graphic Heritage for Wellbeing and Social Memory
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Ashley Ajumoke Stewart delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar will explore my ongoing interdisciplinary research on civic graphic heritage from Nigeria, focusing on how visual communication artifacts—such as signage, public information materials, and...
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Dr Amelia Carr PGR Workshop: Opportunities for International Collaboration in Sport Performance Research
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Amelia Carr delivers a workshop for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) - This hybrid event is held jointly by the LU School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences and Deakin University’s School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and has a primary focus on sport performance...
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Dr Amelia Carr - Women in Sport: Opportunities for International Collaboration and Impact
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Amelia Carr delivers a seminar on their research - Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, and World Championship events are increasingly held in challenging environmental conditions, particularly hot and humid weather, exacerbating the physiological demands for athletes. These...
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Professor Yan Yin - Design of Polymer Electrolytes for Green Hydrogen Energy Technologies
IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Yan Yin delivers a seminar on their research - Hydrogen energy is widely recognized as a key pillar for global carbon neutrality and sustainable energy transition. Polymer electrolytes play an important role in improving performance of ionic membrane-based fuel cells...
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Dr Eilis Lanclus - Outdoor Recreation and Climate Challenges: Human-Environment Relations in Trail Sports
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Eilis Lanclus delivers a seminar on their research - Trail sports – hiking, running, off-road cycling – are gaining increasingly in popularity in Western contemporary societies. These sports are often celebrated as ways to immerse oneself in…
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Dr Cristina Perdomo Delgado - The Use of Social Robots in Interventions for Older Adults
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Cristina Perdomo Delgado delivers a seminar on their research - This talk will present recent advances in the use of social robots as supportive tools in interventions aimed at older adults. I will examine how these devices can enhance emotional wellbeing, autonomy, and...
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Dr Mario Panico - Re-imagining Conflicts, Making Up Futures: AI-Generated Images and the Memorability of War
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Mario Panico delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar will present the first results of my research project on the use of artificial intelligence-generated imagery in contemporary conflict contexts. Through examples drawing from contemporary wars, I will…
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Professor José Ferreira Alves - Fractals: Patterns Bridging Mathematics and the Arts
Royal Society Wolfson Fellow Professor José Ferreira Alves delivers a seminar on their research - Fractals and chaotic dynamics reveal how complex structures emerge from simple rules, often exhibiting self-similarity across multiple scales. This talk offers an accessible overview of the...
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Dr Gemma Sou - Worldmaking the global climate order: reparative politics in small island developing states
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Gemma Sou delivers a seminar on their research - Small island developing states (SIDS) are disproportionately affected by climate change yet have been marginalized within the global climate regime. Often overlooked are their purposeful collective efforts to reform global...
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The Simon Marshall Lecture - Athlete advocacy: what motivates athletes to champion climate action?
With thanks to the generosity of the Biddle Family Scholarship, the IAS is hosting The Simon Marshall Lecture - Sport is full of challenges and is constantly changing. One of the biggest challenges facing sport is coming from climate change. Whilst news stories have rightfully focused on the...
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Emerita Professor Marsha Meskimmon - From the Star of Bethlehem to a Cool Yule...
Emerita Professor Marsha Meskimmon, Former Director of the IAS, delivers our Inaugural IAS Festive Lecture, fully titled "From the Star of Bethlehem to a Cool Yule: Christmas Really Does Come But Once a Year" Having rashly agreed to deliver the first IAS Festive Lecture in the heady months of the...
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Dr Christopher Todd Minson - "Get Out!" Breaking Out of Our Comfort Zone to Improve Human Health
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Christopher Todd Minson delivers a seminar on their research - We are now in the “urban century” in which humans are more disconnected from the natural world than previously in human existence. This is having a profound negative impact on our physical and mental health. How...
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Dr Andrea Pérez Fernández - Intergenerational genealogies: Feminist Art History and the legacy of the avant-garde
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Andrea Pérez Fernández delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar explores three intersections between the normative contributions of 1980s British feminist art historiography and the insights of interwar avant-garde women artists and thinkers in Germany. The...
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Professor Sébastien Tutenges - The Pursuit of Collective Effervescence in Nightlife Settings
IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Sébastien Tutenges delivers a seminar on their research - For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted ethnographic research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question:...
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Dr Vinícius Teixeira Pinto - Democracy on the pitch...
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Fellow Dr Vinícius Teixeira Pinto delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Democracy on the pitch: an anthropological approach to the politics and activism of Brazilian football supporters." - Brazilian football has...
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Dr Mrinal Bachute - AI-Driven Innovations for Smart and Sustainable Urban Mobility
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Mrinal Bachute delivers a seminar on their research - Urban mobility systems are at a critical inflection point, driven by rapid urbanization, climate imperatives, and the need for equitable access. This talk explores how advanced Artificial Intelligence—particularly...
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Dr David Braithwaite - The role of examples in logical reasoning with mathematical content
IAS Residential Fellow Dr David Braithwaite delivers a seminar on their research - Mathematical reasoning often involves general statements, such as “The sum of any two even numbers is even.” Psychological theory implies that such reasoning should depend critically on knowledge of examples. This...
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Dr Changsheng Wu - Accessible Wireless Wearables Toward Pervasive Healthcare
IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Changsheng Wu delivers a seminar on their research - The rapid aging of populations and COVID-19 pandemic have exposed critical healthcare shortcomings. Traditional healthcare remains offline and reactive, with intermittent clinical monitoring. Recent advancements in smart...
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Dr Bibiana Serpa - Visual Storytelling for Reproductive Justice: Learning from Feminist Struggles
IAS Residential Fellow Dr Bibiana Oliveira Serpa delivers a seminar on their research - This seminar explores how feminist movements mobilize visual storytelling to advance reproductive justice and build transnational solidarities. Drawing on grassroots activism in Latin America and visual…
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