A UCL Inaugural lecture by Professor Elizabeth Lomas

In UCL’s bicentennial year, we are delighted to announce Elizabeth Lomas's inaugural lecture, 'Recorded Lives: Power, Culture, Agency'.

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In UCL’s bicentennial year, we are delighted to announce the inaugural lecture of Professor Elizabeth Lomas at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus. Elizabeth will explore the shifts in our information landscape that have changed the ways in which our lives are recorded and lived.

We would love to see former students, colleagues and collaborators from across Elizabeth’s networks and those of our department.

Recorded Lives: Power, Culture, Agency

Taking an autoethnographic lens (i.e. a personal perspective), Professor 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 Professor Lomas’s career, including the ground-breaking Memory, Identity, Rights in Records, Access (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.

The lecture will take place on Monday 13 July 2026 at 6pm, (doors open at 5.30pm) at UCL in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. A drinks reception will take place after the lecture.

Learn more about the MIRRA project.

Professor Elizabeth Lomas

Professor in Information Governance and Cultural Policy

UCL Information Studies

About the Inaugural Lecture Series

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.