8th Graduate Research Festival

Since SY 2019-2020, Ateneo de Manila University has hosted the Graduate Research Festival. This annual event showcases graduate students' research projects. It also facilitates discussion on the latest trends, issues, and technologies among students, faculty members, and fellow research professionals from various disciplines and professions. 

Hosted by the Office of the Assistant Vice President for Graduate Education, the 8th Graduate Research Festival [GRF] will be held online on 17 and 18 April 2026. 

Submission of abstracts to the festival is open to all graduate students of Ateneo de Manila University. 

The GRF is a platform for graduate students to sharpen their research presentation skills and receive feedback from mentors and peers. It also provides them with a unique opportunity to engage with research from across different Schools. 

For graduate students in the thesis, dissertation, or capstone project (TDCP) stage, the GRF is also an opportunity to practice for their final defense and fulfill presentation requirements (if applicable). 

Entry into the events is FREE of charge and is open to graduate students, faculty, and research professionals of the university.

Individual Abstract Submission

Abstracts should reflect completed work (not anticipated work) and be between 100-150 words long written in English or Filipino and endorsed by the research adviser. 

Interdisciplinary Panel Submission

Graduate students may convene a panel session, consisting of 2-3 presenters from at least two departments or programs to promote interdisciplinarity of the research and diversity of the graduate students.

For panel paper submissions, research must fall under any of the Ateneo Lux in Domino’s strategic priority areas:

• Education Reform and Transformation - Innovative education for all, leveraging human creativity and technology
• Integral Ecology - Recognition as a Laudato Si’ university for exemplary leadership in the promotion of integral human development
• Universal Health and Well-being - Efficient, accessible, affordable, and equitable healthcare in the Philippines through effective public health leadership
• Bridging Cultural Divides - Committed collective action to solve ‘wicked problems’ by transcending cultural differences across social, economic, political, and other divides

Panel proposals should also contain a panel description of not more than 200 words, aside from the individual abstracts of the papers included in the panel. The panel description must describe the objectives of the panel presentation, and relate clearly to the chosen Ateneo Lux in Domino’s strategic priority areas.

You may nominate a chair for the panel, or the program committee may appoint one for you.

All proposals will be vetted by the school’s Research Coordinators.

Those interested in presenting papers or convening panels may submit their proposals at:https://go.ateneo.edu/GRFAbSubmit