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2014 news

4th in the UK for the quality of our research

Our research has been ranked 4th in the UK for overall quality. 93% of our research impact is classed as internationally excellent or world-leading.

18 December 2014

Major investment to help launch Ross Kemp's motorised solo life craft

School graduate Ross Kemp is celebrating a major investment that will see the worldwide launch next Spring of his sustainable solo rescue craft, Asap.

26 November 2014

Australian fellowships for two Design School staff

Two members of the Design School's research staff have been successful in securing fellowships in Sydney, Australia. Victoria Kendrick and Davide Filingeri are based in the Human Factors and Complex Systems Research Group and Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre, respectively.

19 November 2014

Design School graduate wins International James Dyson Award

James Roberts, a Loughborough Design School graduate, has won the International James Dyson Award with his life saving low cost inflatable baby incubator (MOM) for use in the developing world.

6 November 2014

Suzy Shelley - AVO fish tank

Suzy Shelley, an award-winning designer, a current PhD student and member of The Studio, launches the world’s first self-maintaining tropical fish tank.

15 August 2014

Design School Graduate wins RSA competition

Design School Graduate Student, Phillip Jackson, wins Most Innovative Product of the Year RSA design award.

24 July 2014

Pupils inspired by Design School students

Some pupils from two East Midlands schools have been inspired to go on to higher education after working with Design School students.

30 June 2014

Design School awarded a TEMPUS project

Design School academics are set to work on a 1.4 million (£1.15m) euros project aimed at reducing the number of road deaths in the Republic of Belarus.

25 April 2014

Reinventing the Toilet

In March 2014, a team from Loughborough University ( led by Professor M. Sohail of the Water, Engineering and Development Centre - WEDC ) were invited to exhibit at the Re-invent the Toilet Fair in Delhi, India hosted by the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

24 April 2014

TADA holds "Love Loughborough" Workshop

Members of TADA ( That Awesome Design Association ), a Loughborough University Student's Union society, have come up with a host of proposals to encourage students to use the town centre during the day.

4 March 2014

Commercial sustainable design

It has been widely recognised that given the opportunity, industrial designers have great potential to positively influence the environmental and social impact of the products, services and systems they design because of their influence at the early stages of the product development.

28 January 2014

Designing for a circular economy

Designing for a circular economy is being widely heralded as a ‘silver bullet’ solution in the move towards more sustainable living.