MDX Research Community Events

Postgraduate Research Summer Conference 2023 | 4-5 July 2023

The Postgraduate Research Summer Conference will take place over two days in July 2023!

Planning has already started, the Organising Committee is meeting regularly to bring to you an unprecedented student conference experience! After celebrating 10 years running, this year we will have a new name and lots of exciting sessions and speakers planned, to showcase the amazing work of Middlesex researchers and celebrate our achievements, as we do at the end of each academic year.

Watch this space for more announcements!

In 2023, we are very happy to invite researchers and faculty members to participate in a research intensive week:
The Summer Conference will be followed by the Global Challenge Initiative: Knowledge into Action lab, 6-8 July 2023.

Read below for more info!

Global Challenge Initiative: Knowledge into Action lab | 6-8 July 2023

The Middlesex Strategy 2031 sets out “Our purpose is to create knowledge and put it into action to develop fairer, healthier, more prosperous and sustainable societies”.

The Theme Directors are organising this event with the Chair of Postgraduate Research. Research at Middlesex engages with global challenges: we work collaboratively and across disciplines, building partnerships that benefit others through the work we do. The Knowledge-into-Action Lab is an immersive opportunity to explore and realise impactful research that embodies the values, mission and vision of the global Middlesex University. Hendon, Dubai and Mauritius campuses will be taking part.

Challenging, generative, collaborative:

• Postgraduate Researchers and Faculty participants will collaborate with external stakeholders to address real-world problems that societal actors are grappling with.
• Participants will be challenged to reconsider and redirect their specialist knowledge – to apply and adapt their research within a creative, engaging and interdisciplinary environment.
• The Lab will generate tangible solutions and outcomes that may be immediately realisable, unexpected or the basis for further research.
• The Lab will showcase the added value Middlesex can bring to external organizations. This is not an exercise in contract research but rather a generative dialogue between societal questions and challenges and critical, interdisciplinary, creative and innovative research.

The Knowledge into Action Lab seeks to develop fairer, healthier, more prosperous and sustainable societies through providing a framework to learn about, explore and experience the generation of impactful research.  The Lab will include inspirational talks by renowned speakers, facilitated workshops and small-group working, connecting postgraduate researchers and faculty across our global campuses.

The Knowledge into Action Lab will provide insights, new perspectives, and meaningful ways of addressing societal challenges and their framings across the three core Themes of the Middlesex strategy.

Middlesex University Events

Middlesex University organises a wide range of social, wellbeing and developmental events throughout the year for all students at Middlesex, to ensure students are fully supported and engaged as a member of #TeamMDX!

These are open for all students to attend and they offer a great opportunity to network, socialise and be an active member of the MDX community. We encourage you to keep an eye out for events that might be relevant for your studies and development.