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Dr Shirley J Thompson, Reader in Composition and Performance in the Department of Music at the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, will present a lecture on BBC Radio 3 this February at the BBC Broadcasting House about Florence Beatrice Price, the first African American female composer to be...

Photographic Studies MA alumnus Anthony Prevost’s MA final project has recently been shortlisted as one of four runner-ups at the International Photography Awards 2017 organised by the British Journal of Photography (BJP). His work will also be featured in the journal.

The Great Start Project, an annual event organised by the University of Westminster and the UWSU to welcome new students to the University, has been hailed a success.

The Creative Careers Fair on 25 January 2017 at the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design saw huge numbers of students attend presentations and stalls from a variety of employers.

University of Westminster Animation BA students were presented with Westminster Animation Student Awards (Wammies) at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street Cinema in central London on Wednesday 25 January.

Twenty Computer Games Development BSc students attended and volunteered at the Pocket Gamer Connects event in London on 16 and 17 January 2017, exploring the newest trends in the industry and gaining an insight into the work of a wide range of industry figures.

The Wedding Party, a romantic comedy film produced by the University of Westminster alumnus Don Omope who graduated from the Television Production BA Honours course in 2006, grossed $1m in three weeks since its opening and became the highest grossing film in Nigeria.

Working with the University of Westminster, alumna Pamela Mayorcas, Fellow of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), has recently set up a new Award for Postgraduate Research in Scientific and Technical Translation at the University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Westminster Tourism Management student Paola Putzolu has won the 2016 Tourism Management Institute (TMI) Postgraduate Prize for her dissertation on medical tourism.

Eight events organised by the Career Development Centre at the University of Westminster took place in 2016 with the aim of helping students from all faculties choose their career path.

Sing (Mindenki), a short film written and directed by the University of Westminster alumnus Kristóf Deák who graduated from the Directing Film and Television MA course in 2010 (now Film and Television: Theory, Culture and Industry MA), has been nominated for an Oscar in the Short Film (Live Action) category.

Westminster alumnus Ghassan Hasbani has been appointed Vice President and Minister of Public Health, as one of the 30 members to form a new cabinet in Lebanon.

Independent Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz will present six of his films for the first time in London at London Gallery West at the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design. The exhibition titled Journeys will open with a private view at 5pm on Thursday 26 January and will run until...

The 2014-15 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey shows that taking a Polylang module at the University of Westminster significantly boosts the graduates’ chance for professional employment, with 85.3 per cent of those embracing the opportunity entering professional roles.

Five University of Westminster alumni have been announced as finalists for the prestigious British Council Study UK Alumni Awards, surpassing the three Westminster finalists for 2016.

In November 2016, the University hosted Children Lost in a Fractured System: A Courageous Conversation; an inter-professional panel discussion examining the issues facing the child safeguarding system in the UK.

Miranda Brawn, MBA graduate of Westminster Business School, has been awarded a ‘Point of Light’ Award by UK Prime Minister Theresa May for promoting diversity and equality among young generations.

Westminster alumni Shirley Botchway and Dominic Nitiwul were nominated to take ministerial positions in Ghana by Nana Akufo-Addo, who was elected a President of the African country in December 2016.

Michael Kiwanuka, who graduated from University of Westminster’s Commercial Music Performance BMus Honours has been nominated in two BRIT Awards 2017 categories – Male Solo Artist and Album of the Year for his album ‘Love & Hate’.

University of Westminster Senior Lecturers Dr Nasser Golzari, and Dr Yara Sharif along with Professor Murray Fraser from Bartlett UCL, received the RIBA President's Commendation Award of Research 2016 for their design projects at Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)/Golzari NG Architects, under the cities and community category.

Under the Shadow, a film directed by the University of Westminster alumnus Babak Anvari, who graduated from the Film and Television Production BA (now Film BA Honours) course in 2005, has been nominated for an Outstanding British Film BAFTA 2017 alongside David Yates and J.K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where...

The course, ‘Learning in an International Environment’, was delivered at Hanoi University in Vietnam in a two week short burst style for Westminster and Hanoi students to learn together.

Westminster Business School has launched a new cutting edge MBA programme, aimed at preparing future board directors to perform and succeed in today’s high-pressured business world.

Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design's Professor of Innovation and Impact Mitra Tabrizian’s project ‘you don’t know what nights are like?’ commissioned by Art on the Underground, Transport for London, will be exhibited outside Southwark Underground station from January 2017.

Irish-born architect Angela Brady, who obtained her Architecture Postgraduate Diploma Professional Practice (RIBA Part III) at the University of Westminster in 1986, was announced as one of the recipients of Irish Diaspora Awards 2017.

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