Every year, DEN students edit and publish a hard copy magazine, which can also be accessed online. In this magazine, students reflect on their experiences as part of Westminster and DEN. We are encouraged to tackle important and difficult topics and we have different sections where we can write about the challenges and learnings of our...
The founder of Hopetowns, STUDENTS4Refugees and a team member share their thoughts on the collaboration between STUDENTS4REFUGEES and Hopetowns. Read on to know more about this unique collaboration connecting students and the local communities, where they use their experiences to empower each other. Marta As a Ph.D. researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of...
On the 22 of February, the Democratic Education Network (DEN) organised a full day event of passionate poetry, music, and good vibes. Students, lecturers and members of the public got together to appreciate and celebrate diversity at Westminster. The event was kicked off with an exhibition of photographs taken by students expressing important issues, events...
As part of Democratic Education Network (DEN) this academic year we visited City and Islington College in London (CIC). This project is part of DEN’s community-based work involving students from both the University of Westminster and the Further Education College. We hope to develop a meaningful collaboration between our students and staff by aiming to...
Democratic Education Network (DEN) presented a spectacle event organised and delivered by the students on Friday the 22nd of February. Amongst many events that are taking place between 25-29th of February in the University of Westminster, this was the first one where the students from the University of Westminster, partner schools in London and alumni...
Democratic Education Network in Hopetowns As part of Democratic Education Network (DEN), students and staff visited Hopetowns on Sunday, 17th of February. Hopetowns is one of the community-based projects, led by DEN on the initiative of an undergraduate student, Zeenat Khan and a PhD student Marta Welander at the University of Westminster. The London-based project...
Global Crossroads: Rethinking Dominant Order(s) in our Contested World The world is at a crossroads. Over the last few years, we have witnessed numerous political events which have shattered the comfortable understandings we have about global order. These have ranged from the rise in right-wing populism, evident in the rise of Trump, to social movements...
The Misunderstood Campaign -A Project in the Democratic Education Network The Misunderstood Campaign is a project aiming to depolarise the narratives of migration here in the United Kingdom. Migration and identity are emotionally divided topics and define most of politics today across the world. Most people have a strong opinion about migration- they are typically...
The End of the Global? is a DEN publication where leading from last year’s conference which was organized by the DEN students at the University of Westminster has all the papers put together in a book. The conference saw students from all across the world got togther to take part at a conference that was...
We had a very successful academic year where you enjoyed reading our blogs and writing for us. Inspired by this students at DEN came together to create a DEN Magazine. A project where an editorial team got together to collect articles, editorials, blogs and more from students of the University of Westminster along with all...
Recently students of University of Westminster from the Department of Politics and International Relations got a chance to visit the gorgeous city of Tbilisi in Georgia. A group of students along with Dr. Farhang Morady went to visit St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia (SANGU) along with Transparency International Georgia...
When our lecturer first told us to talk to each other and we only vaguely knew who he was referring to, I don’t think Lienus or I could have imagined that it would lead to the day when we met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. When we first started discussing the possibility...