Events 2025/2026

  • Interdisciplinary Leadership Course: Prof Christina Hughes, Women Space, ‘Holding Space as the Art of Leadership’, 7 November 2025 – 16 January 2026 (lead: Prof. Christina Hughes).
  • LIASions Workshop: Mental Health and Autism, 29 November 2025 (leads: Dr Diane Levine, Dr Michelle O’Reilly).
  • Civic Universities Partnership: Bridging the (health) Gap, 17 February 2026 (lead: Dr Caron Walpole).
  • Durham Walking Research Network Workshop, 18/19 February 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Prof. Alex Easton, Director of Durham IAS).
  • Literary Leicester, ‘10 people that changed the world’, 20 March 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Dr Kellie Moss).
  • LIAS Flagship event – CRÍA: Art as Method: Performance and Research in Conversation, What happens when art becomes a research method? Hosted in partnership with the Attenborough Arts Centre, 13/14 April, 2026 (lead: Dr Alice Tilche).
  • LIASions Workshop: Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) within minoritised ethnic populations in the UK, 16 April and 11 May (lead: Dr Deborah Ikhile)
  • Library Fellowship: Two community workshops on resistance to ideological and extremist threats, March 2026 (lead: Dr Chris Allen).
  • LIAS Virtual Seminar Series: Professor John Goodwin ‘Adventures with Sociological Storytelling’, 13 May 2026 (lead: Dr Kellie Moss).
  • LIAS Flagship event – The Migration and Citizenship Network: ‘Superdiversity – Then and Now’ with Steve Vertovec, 28 May 2026 (lead: Prof Bernard Ryan).
  • LIAiSons workshop: Examine underlying reasons behind the health, lifestyle, mental health, and sleep challenges facing children and young people (CYP), May 2026 (lead: Dr Tahia Bahler).
  • Interdisciplinary Writing Retreat: InkRise: Prof Christina Hughes, June 2026 (lead: Prof. Christina Hughes).
  • IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning to welcome Leicester-Loughborough Fellow Professor Anongnat Somwangthanaroj, 3 June 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Prof. Kensia Chmutina, Director of Loughborough IAS).
  • CoNavigator Virtual Training Session, June 2026 (lead: Dr David Earle).
  • LIAS Flagship event – CRÍA: post-graduate researcher and supervisor experience of arts-based methods and related alternative formats, June 2026 (lead: Isobel Whitelegg).
  • LIASions workshop: Midlands Vision Sciences Group (MVSG) workshop, June 2026 (lead: Dr Aurelio Bruni).
  • LIASions workshop: Listening as evidence: Birdsong cultures, citizen recording, and the politics of coexistence, June 2026, (lead: Dr Stephen Cooke).
  • LIASions workshop: Reinterpreting Kedleston’s Tibetan Religious Paintings: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Scientific Analysis, Decolonising Museology and Community Co-Curation, 24 July 2026 (lead: Dr Rachel Armitage).
  • Conference – Female, Queer and Nonbinary Voices in African Literatures: Bodies, Ecologies, Herstories conference, 8 September 2026 (lead: Dr Sreya Datta).