{"id":26,"date":"2021-03-15T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:40:46","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/past-festivals\/graduate-school-festival-2021\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26\" class=\"elementor elementor-26\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-57ce08a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"57ce08a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-abdebc0\" data-id=\"abdebc0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-404a94b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"404a94b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>Welcome<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42438b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42438b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">A very warm welcome to the first <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/research\/graduate-school\">Graduate School<\/a><\/span><\/span> Festival!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This week of workshops, panels, screenings, competitions, exhibitions, talks and much more has been created to show peers, colleagues at the university and people beyond it the brilliant research being done by doctoral students here at the University of Westminster &#8212;\u00a0research that is in the process of changing lives, minds and the world!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Do explore the website for all the ways you can get involved &#8212; from following our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/programme\/twitter-takeover\/\">Twitter Takeover<\/a><\/span><\/span>, to watching <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/programme\/doctoral-student-films\/\">film screenings<\/a><\/span><\/span> of work in progress, to supporting our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/3-minute-thesis-competition\/\">3MT competition<\/a><\/span><\/span> contestants, and much <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/programme\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Doctoral research is about bringing new things into the world.\u00a0 Spend the week with us watching them come to light!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/directory\/wilson-leigh\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Professor Leigh Wilson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Director, Graduate School<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-acce10b\" data-id=\"acce10b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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