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Inaugural Lecture Series

Inaugural Lectures have been an essential feature of university life for centuries.

Loughborough University continues to value the tradition, encouraging new Professors to deliver them, and all staff and students to attend.

Inaugural Lectures are a public event and open to everyone - you do not have to be an expert in the field to attend. The University extends the invitation to these lectures to all members of staff, students and their guests as well as our campus partners, based on LUSEP, and the local community.

11 March 2026

  • 5pm
  • London Campus
Thomas Tufte

How does communication enhance social change and social justice? Unpacking and redeveloping critical communication research

Professor Thomas Tufte

Institute for Creative Futures

Donatella Alessandrini

How can the relationship between international economic law and planetary (in)justices be reconceived?

Professor Donatella Alessandrini

Previous Inaugural Lectures

Moataz Attallah

A disturbance in the forge: manufacturing awakens

Professor Moataz Attallah

Department of Materials

  • 11 February 2026
  • 5pm
Farasat Bokhari

Tales of competition, regulation and market power – and other stories economists tell their children and graduate students

Professor Farasat Bokhari

Business School

  • 11 February 2026
  • 5pm
Professor Zeynep Aycan

Is it time to rethink who leads and how they emerge through the lens of power and empowerment?

Professor Zeynep Aycan

Business School

  • 19 November 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Ash Casey

Traditions of Practice in Physical Education and Why We Need New Ones

Professor Ashley Casey

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

  • 19 November 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Robert Dorrell

How environmental flows are shaping a sustainable energy transition

Professor Robert Dorrell

School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

  • 8 October 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Mike Fray

How do we improve the effectiveness of assistive technology with a human factors approach?

Professor Mike Fray

School of Design & Creative Arts

  • 8 October 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Sergio Cavalaro

Concrete thinking: from ancient foundations to future frontiers?

Professor Sergio Cavalaro

School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

  • 17 September 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Paula Saukko

How does diagnostic overshadowing influence experiences and treatment of eating disorders?

Professor Paula Saukko

School of Social Sciences and Humanities

  • 17 September 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Alessia Pasquazi

How will quantum technologies and ultra-precise timing change our world?

Professor Alessia Pasquazi

Department of Physics

  • 11 June 2025
  • 5pm
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