Graduate School Festival 2025 Full Programme
Monday 23 June 2025
Doctoral researchers present a short paper each about their research followed by a conversation. The aim is to bring researchers together in dialogue to explore the converging interests and themes arising from their presentations.
Are you thinking about doing a PhD but unsure where to begin? You are not alone! Join our panel providing insight into the application process for a PhD and what it involves once you begin.
Hear from a panel of speakers with different roles within Higher Education who will share their career paths and give us insights into non-academic roles with Higher Education.
Tuesday 24 June 2025
An interactive workshop to foster a shared understanding of different aspects of designing and implementing conversational AI in healthcare, focusing on equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Doctoral researchers present a short paper each about their research followed by a conversation. The aim is to bring researchers together in dialogue to explore the converging interests and themes arising from their presentations
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia (threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au).
The competition gives doctoral researchers a chance to communicate the importance of their research beyond their discipline and their peers — in three minutes, with no notes and with only one slide.
Join us for a reception to celebrate this year’s Graduate School Festival. Come meet fellow doctoral researchers across the university over drinks and refreshments.
Wednesday 25 June
A workshop combining practical making of porcelain pinch pots with a discussion of what we imagine a future free from white oppression and extractive racial capitalism could look like.
An interactive session guiding participants through the science of the human gut microbiome, starting with a brief introductory video about the INSIGHT Trial, followed by a hands-on exploration of a gut model.
A workshop considering the conference theme of ‘Challenging Pasts, Critical Futures’, in relation to objects from the Westminster Menswear Archive (WMA).
Join for the launch of Hyphen Journal Issue 3.2 on the theme of ‘Ecologies’. The issue explores expanded notions of ecology and interdependence, with contributions that critically engage with themes including human-bacterial relations, non-binary bodies and ice, women in decolonial anti-extractivist activism, and the Covid pandemic as pandaemonium, photography and nitrogen-altered landscapes,