LAHP Annual Research Day 2025
We are very pleased to invite our current students and partners to the 2025 LAHP Annual Research Day which will take place in person on Thursday 15th May 2025 at King’s College London. This is a brilliant opportunity to meet fellow students across LAHP cohorts, and to share your work in a fun and relaxed way. The event will include morning tea and coffee, lunch, and a drinks reception at the end of the 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, thesis and photo competitions, and a presentation from a keynote speaker. Please see below the full programme for the day.
Date/Time: Thursday 15th May 2025, 10am – 6pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG
Programme:
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Registration / Tea and Coffee |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Welcome and introduction (Prof Jo Malt) |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Student presentations (4 presentations,15 minutes each): Philippa Booth – Royal College of Music ‘Disordered Eating in Musicians: A Mixed-Methods Exploration’ Thomas Parker – University College London ‘Latent Fields of Potential Architecture: The Aesthetics of Noise & Operations in the Non-Visual’ Rosie Price – King’s College London ‘The Body is a Situation – creative non-fiction project’ Sophy Higgins – King’s College London ‘High flying: the upper classes and aviation in the interwar years’ |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Student presentations Q&A – facilitated by Prof Jo Malt |
| 12:15 – 12:25 | Break |
| 12:25 – 13:00 | 3-minute thesis competition (7 students entering) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Keynote speaker presentation: Dr Sundeep Lidher, Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800) in the Department of History at King’s College London Keynote title: Engaged Histories: Scholarship, Schools, and ‘Our Migration Story’ Introduction by LAHP student Sophy Higgins (KCL) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Q&A with Dr Sundeep Lidher, facilitated by Sophy Higgins |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 – 16:30 | LAHP alumni panel discussion and Q&A – Career Pathways Panel Members: Dr Nick Makoha, poet and playwright and founder of Obsidian Foundation (2019-20 LAHP cohort, KCL) Dr Rianna Walcott, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, and Associate Director of the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab as part of the DISCO Network (2017-18 LAHP cohort, KCL) Dr Eliot Benbow, currently Research Assistant at Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) – taking up a Post-Doctoral position at the Institute of Historical Research from May 2025 (2019-20 LAHP cohort, QMUL) Panel discussion facilitated by Prof Jo Malt. |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Prizes! Winners and runners up announced for Public Engagement Competition, Image Competition and Thesis Competition. |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Drinks reception |