The SWDTP Annual Student Conference is an event created for students, by students. It presents a fantastic opportunity to engage in a dynamic and inclusive platform that promotes innovative ideas and critical reflections on the future of social sciences.
SWDTP Annual Student Conference 2025 – Everyday and Beyond: Encountering, Sharing, Caring
Our 2025 Student Conference was held at Bath Spa University in the Commons Building on the Newton St Loe campus. A huge thanks to Bath Spa University for offering to host the conference this year. The campus is a stunning one, situated just outside of central Bath with amazing green spaces on offer.
This year’s themes touched on the ‘everyday and beyond’ impacts of research, reflected through the wonderful and varied presentations of the day.
The outset of the day began with a Q&A discussion with three PGR alumni. This fostered a good level of engagement with attendees and prompted thought, which would help fuel the day ahead.
With a slightly altered layout to the usual, we held our first round of presentations in the morning, covering topics of decolonising research to challenges faced within health research to confronting uncomfortable topics in research. These sessions laid the groundwork for what came to be an insightful day.
Following on from this, our keynote speaker, Camilla Morelli, discussed her work on ethnographic animation and how visual knowledge can shape new ways of seeing the world. Thank you so much to Camilla for her time this year!
Following on from this, we had six more presentations, followed by three workshops.
A massive thanks to the conference committee for all their hard work on this conference, it would not be possible without their hard work, you can find more information on the committee and each presentation in the programme below.