Workshops and activities

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Develop your information searching skills to study smarter and more efficiently.

It can be easy to rush through life without stopping to notice things. Paying more attention to the present moment, to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you can improve your mental wellbeing. Vita Health Group is providing a mindfulness session in person at EHB 210-211 (ID card needed to access the rooms via the Chaplaincy).

Learn how to write structured, professional academic reports.

Take the stress out of citing and referencing with this interactive workshop where you learn the building blocks of the process to using reference management software.

Experience Virtual Reality (VR) and discover how it can enhance teamwork while showcasing the University’s DigiLabs innovations. Working in teams of 5-6, you'll navigate a fantastical VR maze using clues and guidance from a giant team leader. No prior VR experience is needed, as training is provided. The fastest team to escape wins a prize!

Learn how to perform matrix operations and apply Gaussian elimination to solve systems of linear equations.

Join the International Student Experience Team for a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace! Explore historic streets, shops and cafés while discovering British culture and making new friends.

Trip details:

• Pick-up: 8:45am from outside Wolfson School (Loughborough Campus)
• Return: leave Stratford Upon Avon at 16:00. Arrive back to Loughborough University approx 17:30
• Cost: £5
• Tickets will be on sale from 12pm on 30 October.

Experience Virtual Reality (VR) and discover how it can enhance teamwork while showcasing the University’s DigiLabs innovations. Working in teams of 5-6, you'll navigate a fantastical VR maze using clues and guidance from a giant team leader. No prior VR experience is needed, as training is provided. The fastest team to escape wins a prize!

Learn how to read and note make to optimise your learning and performance.

Explore how to use generative AI tools responsibly to support your academic work.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Strengthen the mechanics you need for Sports Biomechanics. Practise turning wordy problems into diagrams, equations and solutions. Build confidence using formulae, trigonometry, graphs and free-body diagrams. Work through examples in groups and identify areas where further support would help.

Develop your ability to analyse ideas and form strong arguments.

Join us for a relaxing 'Sip & Paint' afternoon.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Meet the DigiLabs team and take a guided tour of our brand-new DigiLabs Central. Explore our state-of-the-art PC labs and student-accessible Esports social space, including facilities you can already use to support your studies, gaming and creative projects. Experience powerful high-performance technology and an immersive floor-to-wall 3D visualisation space designed to bring teaching to life.

Learn how to write clear, focused essays under exam conditions.

Explore practical ways to prepare effectively, manage nerves and communicate your ideas with greater confidence. Identify common factors that can affect your confidence when presenting. Recognise what influences your confidence when presenting. Apply practical strategies to manage presentation nerves and build confidence.

Give old fabrics a new lease of life in this relaxing, sustainable sewing workshop. You’ll use recycled and reclaimed materials to create your own small fabric keyring, adding simple embroidery and filling it with fragrant lavender grown and collected by Holly over the summer. A beginner-friendly introduction to simple stitching, upcycling and slow making, with a useful handmade item to take away.

Learn how to incorporate sources into your writing.

Explore the fundamental principles of mechanics, including forces, motion and equilibrium, and see how they apply to practical engineering problems. Work through examples in groups and identify areas where further support would help.

Learn how to structure your writing so it flows logically and clearly.

Learn how to write an effective literature review.

Learn how to use Python as a powerful calculator, write simple programs, produce figures and animations, write professional notebooks and incorporate programming into research and project dissertations. Participants will receive a free copy of Professor Stephen Lynch’s book and certificate of attendance for attending over 80% of the sessions. No knowledge of any programming language is required.

Join us for a wellbeing walk to relax, connect with nature and take a moment to breathe. Meeting at the Pilkington Library and returning there. Please look at weather conditions and prepare accordingly. No need to book, just turn up. If you would like to come along and have any access requirements please can you let us know in advance by emailing studentwellbeing@lboro.ac.uk

Loughborough's position is that GenAI can sometimes be used as part of the assessment, however, when is it acceptable and ethical to use it? This workshop allows you to play with GenAI and understand how it can be used in your studies.

Time Management and Organisation - empowering you to thrive at university and beyond! Explain the relationship between good time management and study success Reflect and review on your current approach to time management and organisation Apply a tool or technique to your routine to improve time management, prioritise and stay organised.

Join our Motivation and Resilience session delivered by the Student Success Academy - empowering you to thrive at university and beyond! In this session you will:

• Identify types of motivation and how they influence your behaviour
• Understand why your motivation fluctuates, and the importance of resilience for success
• Use tools to boost your motivation, and adapt effectively to setbacks

Learn how to use Python as a powerful calculator, write simple programs, produce figures and animations, write professional notebooks and incorporate programming into research and project dissertations. Participants will receive a free copy of Professor Stephen Lynch’s book and certificate of attendance for attending over 80% of the sessions. No knowledge of any programming language is required.

Please note this is Day 2 of a three-day course. Attendance is only available to students who have booked and attended the course from Day 1.

Improve your writing for science, technology, engineering, and maths subjects.

In this workshop we will explore some ideas of how to recognise what is happening with our anxious thoughts and strategies to begin the manage different reactions.

Review fundamental integration methods and learn how to apply them to solve engineering problems involving accumulation, area, volume, and differential equations.

Join our Procastination session delivered by the Student Success Academy - empowering you to thrive at university and beyond! In this session you will:

• Describe the key factors that contribute to procrastination
• Analyse and understand what triggers procrastination for you
• Apply practical strategies to manage and reduce your procrastination.

Learn how to use Python as a powerful calculator, write simple programs, produce figures and animations, write professional notebooks and incorporate programming into research and project dissertations. Participants will receive a free copy of Professor Stephen Lynch’s book and certificate of attendance for attending over 80% of the sessions. No knowledge of any programming language is required.

Please note this is Day 3 of a three-day course. Attendance is only available to students who have booked and attended the course from Day 1.

Review core calculus techniques and learn how Lagrange multipliers are used for constrained optimization in economic models.

Explore how to use generative AI tools responsibly to support your academic work.

Learn how to write clear and accurate lab reports for STEM subjects.

Plan for revision and exam success with these techniques and tips on managing your knowledge and workload.