Articles tagged with 'arts-languages-cultures' | University of Manchester

Three outstanding Composition PhD students and graduates from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music have received national and international acclaim in recent months. Third-year PhD student Jinsoek Choi won the Franz Josef Reinl Found...

In Spring 2020, Creative Manchester and the Manchester China Institute launched their second International Photography Competition. Open to anyone resident in the UK or China, the competition asked entrants to encapsulate what ‘family’ means to them ...

Lectures Settle in for some synapse-kindling, world view-challenging content courtesy of The University of Manchester's Lockdown Lectures, featuring insights from the Faculty of Humanities' David Olusoga, Gary Younge and Michael Wood. Watch now. ...

Students from SALC have received some 35 Stellify awards this year recognising their outstanding achievements outside of their studies.  The Stellify Award at The University of Manchester is the most prestigious extra-curricular award available fo...

Incoming third-year International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response student Marcell has been spending his summer establishing Revolution West Midlands, an initiative aimed at empowering, educating and mobilising everybody in the UK agains...

Students from The University of Manchester’s Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology are exploring intriguing discussion points about ancient societies and history in a podcast series that is going from strength to strengt...

Funded by the UK Climate Resilience Programme “Living with Climate Uncertainty” the project is one of three funded UK projects exploring how societies have understood and adapted to climate change in the past and how we can learn from them to become ...

Every year, HCRI honour the students with the highest dissertation mark for International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) and intercalated Global Health (GH) respectively. This year the winners of the Outstanding Dissertation Aw...

In the latest edition of the series, we heard from creative sector researchers and practitioners from The University and its cultural partners. They explored how their field of work has been impacted by and adapted to the crisis. Dr Abi Gilmore, S...

HCRI student Ben is in the final year of his PhD, which examines the ways aid organisations are operating in insecure environments, focusing particularly on remote forms of humanitarianism in Syria. He took some time out in Autumn 2019 to intern with...

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester welcomes its audiences to SALC: Connect, Engage, Inspire – a digital repository for its wide-ranging arts and cultural activities. Through this new portal, you can explore the...

DigiFest will take place on Friday 4 September and Saturday 5 September this year, and will mark the 50th anniversary of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970), a landmark piece of legislation pioneered by Lord Alf Morris (1928-2012). ...

The two winners are Yared Alemu from Ethiopia studying Humanitarian and Conflict Response MA full-time in October, and Patrick Magona from Uganda, studying the Global Health MSc. The Equity and Merit Scholarship will open for applications on 1 Aug...

The aim of the HCRI Policy Brief Series is to disseminate cutting edge academic research in an accessible and meaningful way, engaging with policymakers, governments, humanitarian practitioners and the general public. We acknowledge that a gap still ...

Presented by the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester, Writing the Pandemic invited young people (aged 11-18) from Greater Manchester high schools and colleges to send in written responses to life in lockdown. From letters to poems, short s...

Three postgraduate research students within the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology have successfully completed their PhDs, despite the unprecedented circumstances of concluding their work under lockdown. Katharine ...

The unexpected ending to the academic year has impacted the studies, social life, and summer of all of our students, including our graduating class, who have spent three years contributing to the environment of our institute, the wider university, an...

The virtual celebration for the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will take place at 3pm on Tuesday 28 July and will be available to view on the SALC YouTube channel. The celebrations will stay online following the event, therefore any students ...

On World Poetry Day (21 March 2020), Creative Manchester and the Centre for New Writing launched a Twitter-based micropoetry competition. This invited budding writers to express their thoughts about the climate within a 280-character poem, for the ch...

Responding to the WHO’s warning that misinformation surrounding COVID-19 constitutes an ‘infodemic’, Professor Peter Knight has secured funding for a new research project that will focus on conspiracy theories as a particularly harmful kind of misinf...

The accents of educated city dwellers across the North of England are becoming more similar, according to new research from The University of Manchester. ...

The part-time virtual academic programme, a sister to HCRI’s face-to-face International Disaster Management Masters course, is responding to an increasing demand within global disaster and resilience space. The course recognises the importance of dis...

Lao Zi, the founder of the philosophy known as Daoism, has earned the respect of people in all circles in China. Lao Zi's philosophy, after more than 2000 years, is still influencing the daily lives of Chinese people, heavily influencing their way of...

Presented by the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester, the Schools Poetry Competition has been running annually since 2017, when it was launched by University Chancellor and poet, Lemn Sissay. It encourages Manchester school pupils aged 7 t...

With concerts cancelled and venues closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Martin Harris Centre at The University of Manchester is now opening a virtual window allowing audiences to share in the joy of music and connect with The University’s tale...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester staged an exhibition and ceremony for this year’s International Photography Competition, which promotes mutual understanding between the UK and China. Hundreds of family-themed submissions were recei...

During the University of Manchester Student Union awards Humanitarian and Conflict Response MA student, Hatty Ruddick, swept up two awards – Campaigner of the Year, and Most Persuasive Campaigner of the year. In the same week, Hatty was elected to th...

A May 2020 report published by Dr Larissa Fast and Christina Bennett for the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), From the ground up: it's about time for local humanitarian action, brings together two years of research about local humanitarian action. ...

Manchester Histories is taking its festival online after the coronavirus outbreak caused the cancellation of June's event, by launching its first ever DigiFest. The festival will work with individuals and community groups to present their stories, id...

 Dr Rubina Jasani discussed her collaborative partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST), the challenges refugee and migrant women face in the COVID-19 crisis and the limits of self-advocacy. We begin by asking Rubina about her involvem...