University of Westminster

We're proud to announce that Times Higher Education has recognised us as a global frontrunner against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals! 🙌🏆

We have been recognised as one of the top 15% out of over 1960 universities from around the world for our work on contributing to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, according to the Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2024. This is the fifth year in a row that we have maintained our high overall ranking with notable achievements across several individual SDGs, contributing to the exceptional performance of the UK in the league table ✨

This year, we have successfully held our place in the top 300 universities in the world for delivering these goals even as the number of universities assessed increased from 1591 institutions to 1963 worldwide. This places our university in the top 15% overall, up from the top 20% last year 👏

Looking into the future, led by our Westminster Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation, we have recently started the process of embedding education for sustainable development across our entire undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. From the next academic year, the SDGs will have a formal place in the curricula of all our final-year undergraduate courses, before this approach is rolled out more broadly across other levels of study 💫

🔗 Find out more in our news story: https://bit.ly/3Xhwnyn

Eid Mubarak to all of our students, colleagues, alumni and community members celebrating 💫

Eid al-Adha is one of the most important festivals in the Muslim calendar. Celebrations this year include morning prayers this Sunday 💛

🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4cfzb3e

Our Cavendish Living Lab student outreach leaders have taken their knowledge and enthusiasm around sustainability on roadshows across our university to empower student leadership and promote sustainability 🙌

Our Cavendish Living Lab student outreach leaders ran the events with the mission to raise awareness about the environmental impact of fast fashion, encourage individuals to make pledges promoting sustainable fashion practices and to highlight sustainable food systems, showing the importance of local food sources 💛

Hosting a variety of stalls, they spoke to students and colleagues from across our university and helped them build a better understanding of ways individuals can make a difference 🌍

Cavendish Living Lab is a Quintin Hogg Trust funded extracurricular project and is an authentic learning project that has given our students numerous opportunities, including working with local food banks, speaking on BBC London and now the chance to share their work and expertise with our community ✨

🔗 Find out more in our news story: https://bit.ly/3XdGYKY

Marylebone campus is the place to be today! 💫

This morning our Fashion students showcased their final collections to friends and family and just upstairs our exhibition of Architecture work has opened to the public 👏

🔗 Discover our Degree Shows here: https://degree-shows.westminster.ac.uk/events

Our students celebrated World Ocean Day by innovatively recycling abandoned fishing nets to help protect the world’s oceans! 👏🐟

Students from our university have explored the damage caused by abandoned ghost gear, including fishing nets, lines and ropes, and used their research to turn them into useful products such as hammocks and shoelaces. Through thorough research our students discovered that microplastics, plastic pollution and ghost gear all present a severe threat to the oceans’ wildlife. To combat this problem, they decided to take action and find a new purpose for abandoned fishing nets, coming up with two different solutions 🙌

One of the projects is titled Hang Sustainably, Nap Comfortably - NetNaps: Hammocks Crafted from Ghostnets, and was created by Ester D’Alterio, Alexandra Simion, Vasviye Topril and Angela Doycheva. Together they came up with the idea to recycle fishing nets and use them to create waterproof hammocks 💛

The other project was created by Marketing Management student Bilal Bentchakal, whose project titled From Ghostnets to Shoe Laces: Weaving a Path to Sustainability, sets out how to create shoe laces from the abandoned fishing nets. By transforming them, Bilal is able to not only mitigate the harm they cause but also promote sustainable fashion in an age of fast fashion and mass consumption ✨

🔗 Find out more in our news story: https://bit.ly/3RhVAVH

At Westminster, we love an Open Day 💛

We can't wait to welcome you all onto campus on Saturday! Come along, meet our students, chat with our academics and discover where a degree at Westminster could take you ✨

🎟️ Last-minute bookings are welcome: https://bit.ly/3X9qof2

Students from our Film course have been nominated in the category for Best Undergraduate Factual – Long Form in this year’s national Royal Television Society Student Awards for their film Simme Tutt'uno! 🎥🎉

Across the 24 competitive categories, which honour the best audiovisual work produced by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK, 25 institutions were nominated. Among the nominees in the Factual - Long Form category was our student's film Simme Tutt'uno. Key students, now alumni, involved were Director Alice Franchi, Producer Yasmin Boxall and Director of Photography Freddie Logan 👏

Simme Tutt’uno is a documentary that focuses on educational inequalities that affect the area of Scampia, Naples, where historic cultural and financial rivalries have created a rich but volatile social climate. This educational documentary celebrates a community attempting to rise beyond the challenges of their collective past 💛

This is not the first time the film and the team have seen success. Earlier this year Director of Photography Freddie Logan won the award for Best Camera for his work on the documentary at the London RTS Student Awards. It also picked up the Best Documentary award in the Higher Education category at the Learning on Screen Awards 2024 🏆

The film is nominated alongside two others and the winners will be crowned on 21 June at an awards ceremony hosted by rapper, author and broadcaster Guvna B ✨

🔗 Find out more in our news story: https://bit.ly/4bK8sfF

It was great to have Dr Chris van Tulleken, author of 'Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?' join us on campus for the World Public Health Nutrition Association Congress 2024 ✨

Delegates of the congress were able to get their copies of his book signed this afternoon and hear more about his work around ultra-processed foods 👏

This year, we celebrated Vesak the Tibetan Buddhist way, offering a series of enriching activities and cultural experiences that brought together the diverse community in a spirit of peace and reflection last month. Vesak, also known as Buddha Day and Buddha Purnima, is a significant event that commemorates the birth, enlightenment and passing of Gautam Buddha 💛

Attendees consisted of those of all faiths and none and took part in traditional activities such as Tibetan Buddhist prayers and chanting as well as Tibetan Singing Bowl meditation guided by Kunchok Nyima, a former Tibetan monk, which helped attendees cultivate wisdom and inner peace 🙌

This Vesak celebration was part of the World in Westminster Festival series, highlighting the richness and plurality of the Buddhist religion and the global and local diversity within our university ✨

This event was part of the Quintin Hogg Trust-funded EDI programme called Community and Communities: Supporting and Celebrating Diversity at the University of Westminster, which aims to foster a sense of belonging and inclusivity within our community 👏

🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3X6LJpu

There are just a few days to go until our Summer Open Day 💛

During the event, you’ll get the chance to:
👉 Discover whether we are the right university for you.
👉 Talk to the course leader and learn more about your studies.
👉 See our classrooms, studios, labs, libraries, common spaces and accommodations.
👉 Speak to current students and learn first-hand what studying at Westminster is like.
👉 Chat with our team about scholarships, accommodation, careers, your application and more.

It's not too late to book! Join us on Saturday: https://bit.ly/3X9qof2

The leading international pathway provider NCUK - The University Consortium has signed us as a partner, giving more students from across the globe the chance to study at our university! 🌍👏

This partnership means that we will accept all NCUK qualifications, including English for Academic Purposes, International Foundation Year, International Year One, International Year Two and Master’s Preparation 💛

Trusted by the sector for its academic quality and recently shortlisted for International Student Recruitment Organisation of the Year in The PIE PIEoneer Awards 2024, NCUK teaches its programmes, designed in collaboration with its university partners, in more than 40 countries and has worked with over 50,000 international students to date, empowering them to transform their futures ✨

🔗 Find out more about NCUK and our partnership in our news story: https://bit.ly/3Vec56b

We’re wrapping up our week-long Westminster Working Cultures UK programme 💜

We’ve met and networked with alumni from across London and Cambridge ✨

Thank you to our students, alumni and industry partners who have taken part!

🔗 https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-career-development/working-and-studying-abroad/types-of-opportunities-and-destinations/westminster-working-cultures

Two bursaries are available for prospective students applying to the Transport Planning and Management MSc starting September 2024 💰

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund bursary and the Brian Large Masters bursary, are designed to assist students who require financial aid to pursue their educational goals 👏

🔗 Find out more and apply here: https://bit.ly/3ySoUeU

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Thinking about applying to university? 💭 It all starts at our Open Day 🎓

Join us on Saturday 15 June and get a feel for life at Westminster ✨

🔗 Book your place here: https://bit.ly/3X9qof2

Ten students on our International Business and Management MSc travelled to the Informatics Institute of Technology in Sri Lanka for a five-day study trip funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust 👏

This project draws upon a long-standing partnership between Westminster and Informatics. The focus of the study trip was to explore how to use technology and branding to address systemic barriers to visibility, influence and success ✨

🔗 Read more about the trip and learn about our courses in Business and Management here: https://bit.ly/3R8KS3N

MSc International Business and Management students visit Sri Lanka for collaborative project on technology and branding Ten students on the International Business and Management MSc (IBM) course travelled to the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Sri Lanka for a five-day study trip funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust.

Congratulations to Film and Television Production BA alumnus David Thompson on winning a BAFTA for Best Single Documentary for his editing work on Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family 🏆

David speaks to us about his experience as part of a BAFTA-winning production team and how his student days helped propel him into the world of documentary filmmaking.

🔗 Read the full interview here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/interview-how-university-of-westminster-graduate-david-thompson-became-a-bafta-winner

We've been awarded just over £167,000 from UK Research and Innovation to support the Westminster Menswear Archive 👏

The award recognises the Westminster Menswear Archive's outstanding contribution to national and international research and innovative collections-based teaching and learning, digital engagement and public programmes.

“The funding will enable us to improve our digital systems, providing better access to our collections and allowing us to better serve the wider research community beyond our own institution." - Andrew Groves, Director of the Westminster Menswear Archive.

Find out more about the archive here: https://bit.ly/4aKcUK3 🔗

University of Westminster receives £167,000 from Research England to enhance Westminster Menswear Archive Research England has awarded the University of Westminster just over £167,000 over the next five years to support the Westminster Menswear Archive (WMA).

Our degree show is well underway at Ambika P3 ⚡️

Take a sneak peek at our Fine Art Mixed Media Show ✨

Visit until 6 June 📆 discover the full degree show schedule here: https://degree-shows.westminster.ac.uk

We recently held our third annual Challenging Racism Conference 💭 The event explored and challenged the various forms of racism present within academia and society.

🔗 Read more about the conference and our commitment to reducing inequalities here: https://bit.ly/3QUuzaL

The University of Westminster has been announced to be the provider of the Best Apprenticeship in Healthcare at The Apprenticeship Guide Awards 2024 🏆

Westminster works with 26 employers across England with 139 apprentices registered. Our apprenticeship programme has made Westminster the preferred training provider for NHS employers such as Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and for large private laboratories such as The Doctors Laboratory 👏

Read more about Apprenticeships at Westminster and our award here: https://bit.ly/4ayptrx

University of Westminster wins Best Apprenticeship in Healthcare award The University of Westminster has been announced to be the provider of the Best Apprenticeship in Healthcare at the Apprenticeship Guide Awards 2024.

The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2024 has placed Westminster second for research quality in London and within the top 50 in the world for international outlook 👏

🔗 Read more here: https://bit.ly/3UQj05p

University of Westminster is commended for research and international outlook in THE Young University Rankings 2024 The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2024 has placed the University of Westminster second for research quality in London and within the top 50 in the world for international outlook.

Volunteers from Westminster have visited four cities across the UK and Ireland to support the fight for the right to food nutrition and health 👏

The four-city trek allowed Westminster students to speak to local communities about their personal experiences and hear from them about potential solutions.

The initiative feeds into the World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2024 taking place at Westminster next month 💭

🔗 Find out more about the project and the WPHN Conference in our news story: https://bit.ly/3UTUAIb

Proud moment for the University of Westminster Marketing Team! We’re up for several , including:

💫 Best Use of Data, Insight or Marketing Research
💫 Best Widening Participation Initiative 2024
💫 Marketing Team of the Year
💫 Rising Star Award

This recognition highlights our commitment to excellence in education and marketing 👏 Huge congratulations to the teams behind these nominations!

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Students on our Sport and Exercise Nutrition MSc learnt about exercise physiology and how to test an athlete’s physiology by conducting tests on and advising our Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Bonfield 🚴‍♂️

After receiving Professor Bonfield’s summary of his athletic background and current goals of cycling far and fast, the students identified VO2max testing to measure aerobic capacity.

The real-life testing in our state-of-the-art exercise laboratory is part of the Assessment of Health and Fitness module and reflects what students will be doing in their careers as sports nutritionists 👏

🔗 Read more about their results and our Sport and Exercise Nutrition MSc here: https://bit.ly/4bp38hq

Well done to Yasmin Boxall, Alice Franchi, Freddie Logan and Alice Sacco who picked up the Best Documentary award in the Higher Education category at the Learning on Screen Awards 2024 for their documentary Simme Tutt’uno 👏

The Learning on Screen Awards showcases exceptional educational film and television and celebrates the work of upcoming student filmmakers.

Simme Tutt’uno also won at the Royal Television Society Student TV Awards this year 🏆

🔗 Read more about the documentary and discover our Film BA here: https://bit.ly/3UKbusW

Westminster Film BA graduates win Best Documentary in Higher Education at Learning on Screen Awards Student documentary Simme Tutt’uno picked up the Best Documentary award in the Higher Education category at the Learning on Screen Awards 2024. 

Congratulations to Jack Rooke, a Westminster Journalism alumnus, who has won the award for Comedy Writer for his TV show Big Boys at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024 👏

The show is based on Rooke’s university experience and explores the central theme of gay-straight male friendships. This subject is relatively underrepresented in television, as well as men’s mental health.

Some of the series was filmed at our Harrow Campus – all testament to Jack’s enduring Westminster connection ✨

We can’t wait to see what Jack gets up to next! Read more here: https://bit.ly/3QPQcJ0

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His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho recently visited Westminster to attend a reception celebrating 200 years of the Kingdom of Lesotho ✨

He also witnessed the exchange of the signed Memorandum of Understanding between Westminster and the National University of Lesotho 👏

🌍 Read more about the event and our Global Partner Network here: https://bit.ly/3QRiK4Z

Congratulations to our Film and Animation students who won three awards at this year’s Royal Television Society Student TV Awards 🏆

Freddie Logan won the award for Best Camera, Ilirian Camaj won Best Animation and David Kmett and Phoebe Baker won the award for Best Production Design together 🙌

🔗 Read more about their projects here:

Westminster’s Film and Animation students win three Royal Television Society Student Awards Projects from Westminster’s Film BA Honours and Animation BA Honours courses made up six of the nominations across the categories, with four students winning awards at the Royal Television Society Student TV Awards 2024.