Welcome to the Research & Innovation Festival 2025

Making AI Work for Your Research [Talk, Policy & Practice]
11.00am – 12.30pm / Doctoral College, LSBU Hub

Practical talk, discussion and workshop on integrating AI into research responsibly and effectively
Panel members: Caitlin Bentley (King’s College & Responsible AI), Geoff Cox, Catherine Kimber, and Lucia Otoyo
Learn what the University’s AI policy means for your work
Build a Custom GPT to enhance your research productivity

School Expo, Research Poster Exhibition & Images of Research & Innovation Gallery
12.30pm – 2.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Explore over 70 posters detailing our fantastic academics' favourite research
Enjoy our final 15 Images of Research & Innovation – before voting on your winner!
Last year's most popular time and place, the School Expo is where colleagues properly catch-up and discover all the latest research and innovation happening across LSBU

Early Career Researchers: Symposium 2025 & £500 Research Poster Competition
2.30pm – 4.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

First dedicated ECR presence at the LSBU Research & Innovation Festival! ✨
Designed to promote ECR research activities, foster networking, and showcase their innovative work among university colleagues and the wider research community

LSBU Research Centres: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research
4.15pm – 5.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Discover how LSBU’s Research Centres are working to drive ambitious, mission-led, interdisciplinary work
Hear what’s underway, explore real funding opportunities, and help shape our next collaborative research directions

Freedom of Research: Balancing Ethics, Integrity & Ambition
5.00pm – 6.00pm / Southwark Lecture Theatre, LSBU Hub

Join 6+ leading LSBU academics for an informal but provocative fireside chat, exploring the challenges faced in the pursuit of research excellence to close our first day

Documenting Your Research: Visual Strategies for Clarity & Impact
11.00am – 12.00pm / Training room 3, LSBU Hub

Next Big Thing: Future Researchers – Innovation Pitch Live!
12.00pm – 1.00pm / Doctoral College, LSBU Hub

Using Creative Methodologies in Research
1.00pm – 2.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Discover creative methodologies such as Lego, playdough, videography and quilting
Hear how LSBU colleagues have employed creative methodologies in their research
Discuss the benefits, challenges and opportunities

Beyond the Box: Building Creative Solutions
2.00pm – 3.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Lego has been used for generations to support creativity, innovative ideas and find solutions
Find out how Serious Play with Lego; a structured research methodology can help you explore complex ideas, creative thinking, problem solving and communication for your research or business ideas.

LSBU Chiropractic Clinic: Impacting Health Inequalities in South London
3.00pm – 4.00pm / Waterloo Lecture Theatre, LSBU Hub

The Fastest Bicycle: Film Screening & Director Fireside Chat <<< SAVE YOUR SEAT
4.00pm – 6.00pm / Lecture Theatre, Keyworth Centre

New feature-length British documentary follows the inspiring journey of LSBU staff and students in their attempt to break the World Human Powered Speed Record – with a recumbent bicycle designed and built at London South Bank University! 💪🚲
Followed by a rare fireside chat with the film's director

Postgraduate Researchers: Bedtime Stories
10.00am – 12.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Inspiring the next generation of researchers, our postgraduate research students have been working hard to turn their research into a bedtime story for a child
Start our last day by losing yourself in a wonderful world of intrigue and adventure!

Award Management: Dos & Don’ts
12.00pm – 1.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Fun, practical and confidence boosting session on managing your research award
Perfect for Early Career Researchers, new PIs/Co-Is, or anyone about to start a funded project
Learn key HR, finance, procurement and legal processes
Understand what support the Post Award team offers and what sits with the PI
Discover common pitfalls that delay projects and examples of good practice and lessons learned
Take the interactive quiz (with prizes) to test your knowledge!

Systems Thinking: The Researcher's Secret Super Power
1.00pm – 2.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Interactive session introducing systems thinking as a research superpower
Case studies to demonstrate how viewing complex challenges through a 'systems lens' can really hone research focus
Exploratory systems mapping session within your own research area
Introduction to LSBU’s new whole-systems approach to transforming the UK's homes through retrofit
Find out how you can get involved!

Speed Tracks: Rapid Research Presentations / Q&A
2.00pm – 3.30pm / Waterloo Lecture Theatre, LSBU Hub

Be inspired by our selection of LSBU research and innovation projects
Demonstrating how colleagues create real-world benefits with a positive impact – all in a matter of minutes!

LSBU Professoriate: Report, Social & Speed Dating (Professoriate members only)
3.30pm – 5.00pm / Exhibition space, LSBU Hub

Research Surgery: From Inspiration to Impact
5.00pm – 6.00pm / Southwark Lecture Theatre, LSBU Hub

How do our innovative research projects get off the ground... and then delivered?
Finally get the real inside track – where the original idea came from, how funding was found, obstacles faced, lessons learned... and the most unexpected discoveries 😮

Research & Innovation Awards 2025 🏆✨<<< CLICK LINK TO SAVE YOUR SEAT
6.00pm – 8.00pm / Southwark Lecture Theatre, LSBU Hub

Research & Innovation Festival 2025