LAHP Annual Research Day – 12 May 2026
When: Tuesday 12th May 2026, 11:30am – 8pm
Location: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1, King’s College London, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG
We are very pleased to invite you to the 2026 LAHP Annual Research Day! We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend the event and encourage students from all cohorts to join us and think about their research collectively. The event will include short student presentations, a 3-minute thesis competition, an image competition, and a presentation from a keynote speaker with a Q&A to follow. The winner of the Public Engagement Competition will also be announced.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Event programme:
- 11:30 – 12:00 Registration and refreshments
- 12:00 – 12:15 Welcome and introduction (Dr Marquard Smith, LAHP Director)
- 12:15 – 13:30 15‑minute student presentations
- 13:30 – 14:00 15‑minute student presentations – group Q&A
- 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
- 15:00 – 15:30 3‑Minute thesis competition
- 15:30 – 16:00 Student networks and student and staff‑led activities session
- 16:00 – 16:15 Break
- 16:15 – 17:30 LAHP alumni panel discussion and Q&A – Career Pathways
- 17:30 – 18:00 Prizes and closing remarks
- 18:00 – 19:00 Drinks reception
- 19:00 – 20:00 Keynote presentation & Q&A: Eyal Weizman, chaired by Shakuntala Banaji, Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE
Keynote Speaker Biography
Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, and in 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.
He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.
In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of The Right Livelihood Award, a Peabody
Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
Eyal graduated with a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1998 and received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.