Virtual Cabinet of Curiosities

Each item in the cabinet, which sits in the foyer of our building, is the origin of a story about our curiosity for Earth’s landscapes, peoples, places and environments. Together they highlight the diversity of research undertaken by the staff, postgraduates and undergraduates of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University We hope you enjoy exploring these stories as much as we enjoy researching and teaching them.

1. Running spikes

Prof. Rob Wilby

2. Microphone, Recorder and Bird

James Lowe, Undergraduate Student Prize Winner 2023
Passport covers

3. Global and British citizen passport covers

Dr Sophie Cranston

4. Private Tuition

Prof. Sarah Holloway & Dr Helena Pimlott-Wilson

5. Manchester Punk Zines

Dr. Allan Watson
Anemometer - Dr Matthew Baddock and Prof. Jo Bullard

6. Anemometer

Dr Matthew Baddock and Prof. Jo Bullard

7. Soil

Dr Helen Glanville

8. Brian & Meerkats

Dr John Hillier

9. Plastic Pollution

Dr Tom Stanton

10. Emergency responders

Prof. Dapeng Yu and Prof. Rob Wilby

11. New York City

Michael Hoyler and Dr John Harrison.

12. SEND Postcode Lottery Map

Prof. Louise Holt & Dr Fran Azpitarte

13. Climate Stripes and Wind Turbine

Ben Watt, Undergraduate Student Prize Winner 2023

14. Communities of Resistance Zine

Rhianna Garrett and Iman Khan, CITHEI Centre of Doctoral Training.

15. Food parcel

Sophie Milnes

16. Cookbooks

Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS)

17. Children’s Drawings

Dr Elizabeth Mavroudi

18. Measuring underwater avalanches in the deep sea (and crushing coffee cups)

Prof. Dan Parsons

19. Key Rack

Simi Kolajo, PhD Researcher

20. Prints of Diatoms from a Microscope Slide

Dr Savannah Worne
Homemade Ghanaian dolls - Prof. Katherine Gough

21. Homemade Ghanaian dolls

Prof. Katherine Gough

22. Passport Cover

Benedict Slonecki, Postgraduate Researcher
Balotelli Italian football shirt - Dr Marco Antonsich

23. Balotelli Italian football shirt

Dr Marco Antonsich
Iceberg rafted debris - Dr Jeff Evans

24. Iceberg rafted debris

Dr Jeff Evans

25. Waterfall Erosion

Dr Edwin Baynes

26. Caddisflies

Jay Chauhan, Prof. Paul Wood and Dr Kate Mathers

27. Reference Energy/CLEWs System

Dr. Leigh Martindale, Prof. Mark Howells, Carla Cannone, Naomi Tan, Rudolf Yeganyan, Dr Abhishek Shivakumar
Handheld Global Positioning System - Dr Richard Hodgkins

28. Handheld GPS

Dr Richard Hodgkins
Fragile housing - Prof. Darren Smith

29. Fragile housing

Prof. Darren Smith
Deflated football - Dr James Esson

30. Deflated football

Prof. James Esson
Seal head sculpture - Prof. Stephen Rice

31. Seal head sculpture

Prof. Stephen Rice

32. Palintest for nutrient analysis

Geography Laboratories
Ecohydrology experimental apparatus - Atish Vadher, Postgraduate Researcher

33. Ecohydrology experimental apparatus

Charlie Patel, Dr Atish Vadher, Dr Kate Mathers, Dr Ciara Dwyer, Prof. Paul Wood

34. The Svalbard Treaty

Dr Guy Tallentire

35. Lithography Stone

Serena Smith, Postgraduate Researcher