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...
“Not the American one.” This is the quantifier required when you tell people in the UK that you are going to Georgia. In fact, many people don’t even know there is a country called Georgia, despite the fact that it is only half the distance from the UK that the state of Georgia, USA is....
Democratic Education Network (DEN) hosted their second international student conference on 11th and 12th May called Global Crisis: Local Voices. The Democratic Education Network is an academic student-led organization of the Department of Politics and International (DPIR). The conference like last year was a two-day long affair packed with stimulating panels, a theatre production and...
(The following spoken word poetry was performed at a Student Action for Refugees (STAR) event held at the University of Westminster on the 7th of December, 2017. To read the poet’s reflection on the piece click here. If you want to know more about Samia Yusuf Omar and her life, you could begin here) ‘Samia...
Muna Hassan is a third year International Relations and Development Studies student. She recited some of her poems on International Women’s Day at the University of Westminster’s exhibition in March 2018. Here are her thoughts on poetry and one of her poems- I performed a spoken word piece at the University of Westminster’s event for...