{"id":4704,"date":"2023-11-26T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/?page_id=4704"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:32:02","slug":"graduateschoolfestival2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/graduateschoolfestival2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School Festival 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4704\" class=\"elementor elementor-4704\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50911f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50911f1\" 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-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-365e1b1\" data-id=\"365e1b1\" 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-bab0ae8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bab0ae8\" 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\">The Graduate School Festival 2025<\/h2>\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\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4809f4b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4809f4b\" 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-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9f58600\" data-id=\"9f58600\" 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-2d89c40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2d89c40\" 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>Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Graduate School Festival. Taking place across 23 &#8211; 25 June 2025 under the new theme&nbsp;<i>Challenging Pasts, Critical Futures,<\/i>&nbsp;the festival&nbsp;showcased the research, creativity, and ambition of our community of doctoral researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Through doctoral researcher-led workshops, researchers in conversation, a panel on non-academic careers in higher education, a colloquium for the Hyphen journal and the Three Minute Thesis competition, doctoral researchers explored the question of how we can be empowered to question established narratives, deconstruct power relations, and advocate for transformative change by fostering critical thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Plans for 2026 are in development and we&#8217;ll announce details of these in due course.<\/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-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3bd91fa\" data-id=\"3bd91fa\" data-element_type=\"column\" 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