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World-first slope simulator will lead to safer infrastructure

Loughborough University is to create the world’s first large-scale National Engineered Slope Simulator, thanks to a £500,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation.

28 July 2021
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Lockdown garage workouts boost Holly Bradshaw's chances of Olympic gold (VIDEO)

Although the first national lockdown restricted much of Holly Bradshaw's training schedule, the pole vaulter from Preston turned her attention elsewhere.

28 July 2021
Marsha Meskimmon

Professor Marsha Meskimmon reappointed as Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

Initially appointed in August 2018, Professor Marsha Meskimmon will remain in her role as Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) for a second 3-year term.

29 July 2021

Loughborough receives UKRI funding to develop the next generation of batteries

Loughborough University, as part of a consortium led by Lucideon, and partner KWSP, has received funding from UKRI's Faraday battery challenge fund to assess two technologies to manufacture components for solid-state batteries.

28 July 2021
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Former competitive swimmer designs pool navigation aid for visually impaired athletes

Since its invention in the 1980s, the ‘tapping method’ has been used to guide visually impaired swimmers in the pool.

29 July 2021
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Loughborough’s Greenbank wins Olympic bronze

Loughborough swimmer Luke Greenbank claimed Great Britain’s first men’s backstroke medal at the Olympic Games since 1908 with a brilliant bronze at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

30 July 2021
Chris O'Donnell

An Olympic athletics dream born out of football – Ireland’s Chris O’Donnell (VIDEO)

Ireland’s Chris O’Donnell started his sporting career as a promising footballer.

30 July 2021
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Student designs compact lifesaving drone for beach rescue teams after witnessing teenage surfer battle dangerous waves

In 2017, while on holiday with his family in Cornwall, Loughborough University student Dominic Leatherland witnessed a teenager become detached from their bodyboard and pulled out to sea due to rough conditions.

30 July 2021
(L-R) Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, Anna Hopkin and James Guy celebrate victory. Image provided by PA / Alamy.

Gold rush for Loughborough in the mixed Olympic relays

Loughborough athletes played a starring role for Team GB as the country won gold in two of the new mixed relay events at the Tokyo Olympics.

31 July 2021
Great Britain's (left-right) Luke Greenbank, Duncan Scott, James Guy and Adam Peaty after winning the silver medal in the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Greenbank and Peaty add another silver to Loughborough’s medal total

Luke Greenbank and Adam Peaty ensured Team GB made history at the Olympic Games by clinching silver in the men’s 4x100m medley relay.

1 August 2021
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John Steele - Loughborough Sport’s Olympic Games so far

It’s been a good first week for TeamGB. Medals and moments in abundance. As we pass the halfway point it’s already been a phenomenal effort by Loughborough-linked athletes in Tokyo. Our team and partners at Loughborough are looking at the results of a long and very different preparation.

2 August 2021
Leah Langley with friends, volunteering

“I truly felt loved and appreciated”: A graduate’s remarkable contribution to life at Loughborough as she battled her own challenges

Leah Langley, who has graduated with a degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology this summer, has inspired many staff and students with her passion and positive attitude towards life at Loughborough University.

2 August 2021
The components of AIDE

Student designs smart mobility aid to allow people with dementia to live independently for longer and reduce the strain on the care system

According to Alzheimer’s Research UK, one million people in the UK will have dementia by 2025 and this will increase to two million by 2050.

2 August 2021
Alice Dearing

Loughborough’s Dearing to make “bittersweet” Olympic debut (VIDEO)

Loughborough student Alice Dearing is set to make history later today as she becomes the first female black swimmer to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games.

3 August 2021
Alice Dearing

Loughborough’s Dearing to make “bittersweet” Olympic debut (VIDEO)

Loughborough student Alice Dearing is set to make history later today as she becomes the first female black swimmer to represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games.

3 August 2021

What electric vehicle manufacturers can learn from China – their biggest market

Despite the pandemic, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 43% in 2020. Total EV sales in China were 1.3 million, an increase of 8% compared to 2019, and 41% of all EVs sold worldwide. Though Europe sold more than China for the first time since 2015, China is still the world’s biggest national market for EVs.

3 August 2021
Photo of wind turbines in fields at sunset

Loughborough academics contribute to the Ten Point Plan for Green Growth in the Midlands Engine

Loughborough academics played a key role in preparing a plan that aims to accelerate the Midlands and the UK’s path to net zero.

5 August 2021
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Intelligent Energy Charitable Trust offers £100,000 to support local community initiatives

Do you know an organisation or cause based in Charnwood that could benefit from funding?

5 August 2021
Illustration of women's faces in different colours

New project to record, curate and archive 50 years’ worth of feminist stories and memorabilia to secure the legacy of an extraordinary movement

Loughborough University and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, are working together to record, curate, and archive 50 years’ worth of oral histories and digitised records of feminist artists in Ireland and the UK.

4 August 2021
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AMBA re-accreditation confirms world-class status of The Loughborough MBA

Loughborough University School of Business and Economics has been re-accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for the next five years.

9 August 2021
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John Steele - Loughborough Sport’s Olympic Games

A Games like no other. The Olympic Games has weathered many challenges over its long history, but none quite like Tokyo 2020.

10 August 2021
Sunlight falling through a tree

New £2.3m study to evaluate the social and cultural values of urban trees

A climate emergency has been declared by 74% of UK local authorities and many are responding to the issue by increasing their tree planting targets, as this will help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

10 August 2021
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Lightning’s Sara Francis-Bayman joins Scottish Thistles as Assistant Coach

Loughborough Lightning netball Head Coach Sara Francis-Bayman will join Scottish Thistles’ coaching team as it steps up its preparation for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

11 August 2021
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Turkish Tennis Federation partners with Loughborough University in extending international scale-out of tennis parent programme

The Turkish Tennis Federation (TTF) has joined forces with Loughborough University, The International Tennis Federation (ITF - the world governing body for tennis), and the LTA (the national governing body for tennis in Great Britain) to deliver a national programme of parent education and support for parents of young tennis hopefuls in their nation.

12 August 2021
female African athlete sprints on track

Record 49 territories for free-to-air African broadcast coverage of Paralympic Games

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed that it will provide free-to-air coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to 49 Sub-Saharan African territories as part of the AT2030 programme’s Para Sport Against Stigma project, which is funded by UK Aid. This is an effort to elevate Para sport and ensure human rights for people with disabilities around the world. Globally, there are 1.2 billion people with disabilities who are often unable to reach their full potential. Central to this is disability stigma, which limits full participation in society from employment and education to sport.

17 August 2021
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