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Four University of Manchester academics have been made Fellows of The British Academy, in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences. ...

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE is to lead a new annual series of literature events, as part of a new 3-year artistic partnership between The University of Manchester and arts venue HOME. ...

Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records in the days following its release, becoming the quickest film ever to break the $2bn barrier and ranking as the second-highest grossing film in history after only 11 days. The Marvel epic is still creeping...

The English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album “Unknown Pleasures” 40 years ago. The front cover doesn’t feature any words, only a now iconic black and white data graph showing 80 wiggly lines representing a signal from a pulsar...

Bill Kaysing was a former US Navy officer who worked as a technical writer for one of the rocket manufacturers for NASA’s Apollo moon missions. He claimed that he had inside knowledge of a government conspiracy to fake the moon landings, and many con...

An alumna of The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures has been given an Outstanding Alumni Award for her disability advocacy work. The Outstanding Alumni Awards are presented annually to alumni of The University for th...

A love of poetry was kindled in school children from Manchester who participated in the third annual schools poetry competition, organised by Creative Manchester and founded by Prof John McAuliffe of The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writ...

Master’s student representative for the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute Hanna Matt has won this year’s University of Manchester Students’ Union award for ‘Student Rep – Biggest Engagement with Feedback’. Hanna was nominated by peer...

An accomplished Music graduate has scooped the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at this year’s BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Katie, who studied Music at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cul...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is marking the third successful outing of its annual Young People in Humanitarianism conference. The full-day event was attended by a delegation of schoolchildren a...

MCI Director Pete Gries welcomed a delegation from the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Wednesday 20 June. The delegation included development economists interested in collaborative applied research with Universi...

MCI has launched its scholars in residence programme and welcomes applications for visiting periods lasting from a few weeks to a whole year. The programme is open to researchers working in China studies at all career stages (from PhD students to Pro...

The harrowing and in some cases inconclusive stories of five refugees have been told by Cathleen Miller, a Fullbright Scholar serving as Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at the University of Manchester, for Aljazeera. Published in the run-up ...

Exploring the migration stories of Manchester is the goal of a brave, award-winning music education project. Olympias Music Foundation was awarded £22,650 from Arts Council England to form the collaborative music education scheme Making Manchester...

The Martin Harris Centre has hosted its annual summer musical performance with a difference, the Relaxed Performance singalong. The Relaxed Performance is masterminded with inclusivity as a priority. Staged more informally than other events, the p...

David Olusoga OBE’s insightful and engaging Inaugural Lecture at the University of Manchester is now available to listen online. Available as a podcast to those who were unable to attend, and to those who wish to experience the presentation again,...

The BGC is a new research centre, bringing biblical and gender studies together with issues faced by men and women in the contemporary church. The Sophia Network’s ‘Minding the Gap’ report recently demonstrated that, although women make up 65% of ...

Imagine a world in which Siri always understands you, Google Translate works perfectly, and the two of them create something akin to a Doctor Who style translation circuit. Imagine being able to communicate freely wherever you go (not having to mutte...

Languages tutor at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Dr Sheena Kalayil is to launch her third book ‘The Wild Wind’ this week (11 June 2019). Dr Kalayil's latest novel follows the life of Sissy Olikara, who lives...

A new master’s in Egyptology offered by the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is the first of its kind to be entirely online. Led by Dr Nicky Nielsen, MA Egyptology is already accepting admissions from those wishing...

Professor of British History at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Professor Hannah Barker has scooped the coveted Social History Society’s Book Prize for her literary contribution to the history of the Industrial R...

Photography is a medium that can bring people of all nationalities together, revealing the humanity we all share, which was the mission of the Manchester China Institute (MCI) and Creative Manchester when they launched their International Photography...

On 28 May 2019, PhD students and staff from the Centre for Biblical Studies travelled to Durham for the Northern Universities’ Postgraduate Day For Biblical Studies. The event brought together students from The University of Manchester, Durham Uni...

An innovative new podcast created by second year English Literature students from the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures transports the culture and economy of Victorian Manchester to the airwaves. Downloadable on Sou...

The toolkit will focus on simulating disaster events in real time from the perspective of key actors. Students will be able to analyse primary data from images, GIS data and policy documents to produce a response strategy which dynamically res...

An exciting new partnership between an English Literature and Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust serves to give conservation wings with poetry. Dr Clar...

The John Rylands Library, Manchester, is holding a special event ‘The Aldine Edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers: Roots and Legacy’, shining a spotlight on the collections of ancient Greek epistolographers included in the Aldine. Organis...

Music composed by the University of Manchester Reader in Music Kevin Malone, inspired by grueling 18th century textile miller life, is being performed by the Orchestra of Opera North. Conducted by Robert Guy and brought to life by violinist An...

University researchers, teachers and leading politicians came together at the House of Commons on Wednesday 22 May, to call on policymakers to develop a comprehensive policy that recognises the UK as a multilingual society, and to ensure that provisi...

A linguistics expert from The University of Manchester’s Institute of Education is calling for different varieties of English spoken around the world to be recognised as equally legitimate - particularly in the classroom - and for their variances to ...