(Agostinho Pinnock looks at global weather phenomena and its impact on life in Britain in this two-part report on: ‘weather, water and climate science’) Part One: Bad weather, water and the urgency of climate science … …What can you do other than just be alarmed, that is? By Agostinho Pinnock I was nearly stranded in […]

… Loughborough’s IAS features film-maker, Chris Ivey! By Agostinho Pinnock Below is the continuation and final part of our feature on Chris Ivey’s recent showing of his film ‘We are Here: Finding Beauty in the Raw’. The Pittsburgh artist and film-maker, was a recent guest of Loughborough’s Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). Ivey is an […]

… Loughborough’s IAS features film-maker, Chris Ivey! By Agostinho Pinnock “…I am an artist first, then a filmmaker… One of the goals with my film work is to give the audience a view of life from the perspective of marginalised people and how the events around them affect them, directly and indirectly. This is what […]

By Agostinho Pinnock In the last edition of this blog post I spoke about the early moments of ‘life in Loughborough’ as a foreign student enrolled in a PhD programme here. Among others this second section looks at the some of the other parts of that experience and offers some suggestions to others in a […]

… on being a student again, coping with life in L’boro and adjusting to a new culture! By Agostinho Pinnock Introduction: This post talks openly – or as openly as is possible in this context, about issues of ‘difference’, as well as our shared similarities, specifically at the level of culture, amongst PhD students, here […]