International Stammering / Stuttering Awareness Day 2024 21 October 2024
International Stammering / Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) is on Tuesday 22 October 2024. The day raises awareness of issues faced by those who stammer and challenges negative assumptions and stereotypes; including that people who stammer are nervous or less intelligent and the use of stammering in culture for comic purposes.
Intersex Awareness Day 2024 21 October 2024
Intersex Awareness Day is marked on 26 October each year and first took place in 2004.
International Pronouns Day 2024 14 October 2024
International Pronouns Day takes place on the third Wednesday of October each year. The day seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.
Dyslexia & Dyspraxia Awareness Weeks 2024 8 October 2024
Both Dyslexia Awareness Week and Dyspraxia Awareness Week are taking place from 7-13 October 2024. The dates provide an opportunity to raise awareness of the conditions and to challenge common misconceptions.
National Coming Out Day 2024 8 October 2024
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is celebrated on 11 October every year to support LGBTQIA+ people to ‘come out of the closet’.
On course for success? Know your subject! Know your course! 7 October 2024
Our QM Elevate team share three tips to know your subject and course better:
The journey has started! How can you build good habits? 30 September 2024
Our QM Elevate team share three tips to help you communicate with confidence in writing and speaking at university.
Bisexual Awareness Week and Bi Visibility Day 2024 16 September 2024
Bisexual Awareness Week, also referred to as Bi Week, takes place annually between 16–23 September, culminating with Bi Visibility Day. The week draws attention to the issues faced by the bisexual (bi) community, including erasure and visibility.
By both celebrating the bi community, while still acknowledging the difficulties and discrimination that bi people continue to face, it is an important opportunity to learn more about the history, culture, community, and current policy priorities of bi communities.
Queen Mary students' passion takes flight 18 June 2018
Muhammad Arslan Badr, Mechanical Engineering Student and President of the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Society at Queen Mary has teamed up with fellow students Marah Mohammad Kaddoura (first-year BSc Accounting and Management), and Trisha Mason (fourth-year BA French and Business Management) to build and market a drone for the annual Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) competition.
National Student Survey (NSS) results - 2024 10 July 2024
Professor Stephanie Marshall (Vice-Principal for Education, Queen Mary University of London) and Serena-Amani Al Jabbar (President, Queen Mary Students' Union) wrote to all students on Wednesday 10 July with an update on this year's National Student Survey (NSS) results.