Our creative writing student Abbigail Mulleavy shares her experience of a recent special screening of Casino Royale at the Regent Street Cinema. Abbigail is a third-year student studying English and Creative Writing. She is an aspiring novelist who enjoys reading and crocheting in her free time. The special screening took place two days after …
A Royal Good Night: Report on Can Bond be Forever? Read More »
With Student Engagement Week rapidly approaching, and this semester rushing by, we thought it would be a good chance to pause and take stock, so we asked one of our Humanities alumna, Azmina, for her top tips to new students on getting the most from your degree: Whether it’s English Literature, History or Modern Languages, …
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We are delighted to publish more of our Humanities students’ original research. Adriana Maria Murphy is half-Peruvian and half-British, is currently working as a teaching assistant in a secondary school, and is going to train as a secondary school English Teacher. Adriana studied the BA in English Literature in the School of Humanities at Westminster …
Over on the CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media) website, writer and PhD researcher Alice Mercier has just published an excellent report on the ‘In the Photographic Darkroom‘ conference, which was hosted by CREAM and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC) in June 2023 and organised by our own …
Today is World Mental Health Day: a day intended both to raise awareness of mental health problems and to take action to ensure everyone can get the right support. This can sometimes just be an opportunity for “wellbeing washing,” when organizations are more concerned with appearing to care about wellbeing than actually doing anything about …
Dr. Sara Dominici reports on some fascinating items examined in this week’s classes. How are archives organised? Why is the arrangement of its contents different from the one you would expect to find in a library or museum collection? What can archival arrangement tell you about the records it contains and the people who created …
A Transdisciplinary Writing Programme for Emerging Scholars of Migration in Tunisia: Migrants in Transit (12-15 September) Earlier this month Dr. Federica Mazzara and Dr. Saskia Huc-Hepher, both Readers in the School of Humanities, helped lead a four day British Academy writing programme in Tunisia designed to foster early career researcher’s scholarship on migration within Humanities …
Report on British Academy International Writing Workshop Read More »
As we launch into our new academic year, we’ll be posting more about all the careers and networking events that we run in the School of Humanities as part our Employing Humanities program. We wanted to start by looking back at our Careers and Connect Day that took place in May. This report was written …
In light of the ongoing industrial action by UCU members, which means strikes have been called and many classes cancelled on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th September 2023, we are reposting this article by Humanities student Tamara Mpofu-Manyanda. As students, we may not see the importance of the UCU (University & College Union) strikes. We …
We’d like to wish the warmest of Westminster welcomes (a bit out of a mouthful) to all our newly arriving students who are joining us for a packed schedule of induction activities next week. Do remember to attend all the sessions with your course leaders, academic tutors and personal tutors to make sure you get …
