Recorded Lives: Power, Culture, Agency - Prof Elizabeth Lomas

Elizabeth Lomas will explore the shifts in our information landscape which have changed the ways in which our lives are recorded and lived.
About this Event

Taking an autoethnographic lens (i.e. a personal perspective), Prof. Lomas will explore the seismic shifts that have influenced our information landscape and changed the ways in which our lives are recorded and lived. Reflecting on a career spanning academia and practice, she will draw on considerations of technology, legislation, public policy and broader societal transformations to consider cultural shifts. This will include investigations of professional placemaking, risk navigation, power balance, contracts of trust, and models of change. The lecture will focus on case examples drawn from Prof. Lomas’s career, including the ground-breaking MIRRA research project, which works with care experienced and adopted people to ensure their personal histories and testimonies are created in line with individual wishes.

This lecture is part of the 2025/26 Inaugural Lecture series for UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The series provides an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our professors who are undertaking research and scholarship of international significance, and offers an insight into the strength and vitality of the arts and humanities at UCL during its bicentennial year.

The Lecture will take place on Monday 13 July 2026 at 18.00 (doors open at 17:30) at UCL in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre followed by a drinks reception.