IAS Annual Review 2023-24

This year has been full of changes for the IAS. We said goodbye to Prof Marsha Meskimmon, who stepped down as a Director of the IAS in January 2024 and welcomed Prof Ksenia Chmutina as a new Director. We also established the IAS Advisory Board that met for the first time in Sept. 2023. The International House continues to be the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s hub for the International Fellows, but we have also been organising more events on our London campus.

International Fellows

The Institute brought 50 international scholars to º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s campuses as IAS Visiting and Residential Fellows during academic year 2023-2024, through our programmes:

  • 8 Fellows through the 11th (and our final) IAS Annual Theme: Gestation
  • 4 Fellows through the Festival of Failure
  • 29 Fellows through the IAS Open Programme
  • 7 Fellows through the IAS Residential Fellowship Programme
  • 2 Fulbright Scholars

IAS Visiting Fellows hailed from twenty countries:

  • Europe: Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland
  • The Americas: Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico
  • Africa: Ghana, South Africa
  • Asia: China, India, Japan, South Korea
  • The Pacific: Australia, New Zealand

Research Programmes and Events

The IAS convened 54 Research Programmes and Events during 2023-24, including:

  • 49 Research Seminars presented by IAS Visiting and Residential Fellows;
  • 2 IAS Annual Theme weeks (one in the East Midlands campus, and one on London campus) – with a range of keynotes, provocations, project launches and creative interdisciplinary workshops and activities with LU Arts’ Radar;
  • 1 Festival of Failure week – with a range of disciplinary perspective reflecting on the idea of failure.

All the presentations are available in the IAS Video Library; we have also launched the º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast – an audio recording of the Fellows’ talks, available on all podcast platforms. We have also introduced a Blog where our Fellows share insights into their research.

In addition, the IAS hosted two Research Summit Sandpits (a new format that has replaced annual theme) Sandpit, workshops for Doctoral Prize Fellows, and open house Friends and Fellows Coffee Mornings to enable international Fellows to enjoy informal and collegial conversations with colleagues from across the University.

All our activities have been supported by our three amazing Doctoral Leaders Umer Jadoon, Sophie Milnes and Ghazaleh Mazaheri Tehrani – and we would like to thank them for their support!

 

Prof Ksenia Chmutina, August 2024