Articles tagged with 'humanities-local' | University of Manchester

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2023
29
November
2023
| 13:18 Europe/London
Dr Roaa Ali, Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries, won a collaborative Wallace Foundation Award. Partnering with Silk Road Rising (Chicago), Roaa Ali will examine the role and impact of arts service organisations in shaping the American South...
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23
November
2023
| 16:18 Europe/London
A new postgraduate course addressing the global environmental crisis and the challenges of building sustainable societies has been launched by The University of Manchester.According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...
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17
November
2023
| 12:04 Europe/London
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research hosted the AI for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Early Career Researcher Winter School, bringing together over thirty participants from twenty institutions and ten countries.The week-long pro...
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13
November
2023
| 10:26 Europe/London
The University of Manchester is one of five partner organisations who together have been awarded £37.5 million from The Economic and Social Research Council to fund the UK Data Service until 2030. Of this award £7 million is to support our team at th...
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10
November
2023
| 14:17 Europe/London
Renowned Swiss politician Ruth Dreifuss will deliver the inaugural Department of Criminology Annual Lecture at the University of Manchester on Wednesday, 15 November 2023.Madame Dreifuss, the former President of Switzerland, will discuss her experien...
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07
November
2023
| 15:30 Europe/London
It’s an industry with an estimated 2.5 billion global players with games played on consoles, mobile devices and VR headsets. How can video games be a tool that offers educational benefits to this worldwide audience?Following on from the livestream ev...
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07
November
2023
| 11:48 Europe/London
Race & Ethnicity in Britain is a new podcast mini-series produced in collaboration between the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Surviving Society.In the first episode, host Chantelle Lewis discusses the challenges of communicating research ...
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06
November
2023
| 10:21 Europe/London
Art History’s Edward Wouk, together with Professors Sasha Handley and Stefan Hanß, both of History, have co-curated the landmark exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s material world at the Whitworth (30 June 2023-10 March 2024), together Whitworth Curator (His...
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31
October
2023
| 10:48 Europe/London
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research is thrilled to co-sponsor a public lecture with The Productivity Institute and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.Join us on Tuesday, 5 December from 17:30 to 18:30, for a le...
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30
October
2023
| 13:13 Europe/London
Academics from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) based at AMBS, in partnership with colleagues from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manchester, presents the "3D Printers on the Road" project. This project aims to...
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30
October
2023
| 12:48 Europe/London
Four University of Manchester academics have received funding to work across several government departments as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Policy Fellowships programme.Representing the Faculty of Humanities, the four academics have ...
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25
October
2023
| 17:23 Europe/London
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) is thrilled to latest addition to its recently launched MIOIR Working Paper Series:Working Paper 2023-05: The Principles of Digital Transformation for Development (DX4D): Systematic Literature R...
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23
October
2023
| 17:18 Europe/London
In the midst of a persistent housing crisis in the UK, the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research's presents its latest blog "Tackling the Housing Crisis: Taking a Closer Look at Challenges in Delivering Modular Housing". Authored by the researc...
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18
October
2023
| 16:45 Europe/London
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) at AMBS have just published an article titled "Innovation Intermediaries at the Convergence of Digital Technologies, Sustainability, and Governance: A Case Study of AI-Enabled E...
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25
September
2023
| 11:47 Europe/London
We are delighted to announce the return of the ESRC Festival of Social Science to Manchester. From Saturday, 21 October to Friday, 17 November, the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford will be org...
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25
August
2023
| 13:53 Europe/London
This academic year will see SALC host a new research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: ‘Beyond Radical: Queer Theory and the UK’.A diverse body of scholarship that has developed over more than 30 years, ‘queer theory’ has pr...
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09
August
2023
| 18:17 Europe/London
The postdoc will work with Dr Cornelia Lawson and Professor Philip Shapira at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research on the project “Innovations in the Lab: Leveraging Transformations in Science”, sponsored by the UoM Faculty of Humanities Large...
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03
August
2023
| 13:26 Europe/London
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) is pleased to be a partner on a four-year coordination and support action grant from the European Commission’ Horizon Europe programme for the Era-Learn project consortium. Titled 'Strengthening...
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01
August
2023
| 15:37 Europe/London
The “AI for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy” (AI4STIP) EU-SPRI Early Career Researcher Winter School is now inviting applications from current doctoral students and eligible postdocs (3 years from PhD award).AI4STIP will consider the impli...
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28
July
2023
| 11:00 Europe/London
A panel of judges including former University Chancellor and poet Lemn Sissay, Creative Manchester Director and Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe and Manchester-based poet and critic Maryam Hessavi, gathered to judge this year’s Micropoetry Competit...
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21
July
2023
| 10:39 Europe/London
Legal professionals ‘sitting on the fence’ in terms of embracing new technologiesA lack of understanding by, and encouragement from, management is proving a barrier to the uptake of technologies like artificial intelligence in the legal services sect...
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18
July
2023
| 17:40 Europe/London
MIOIR’s Professor Kieron Flanagan, Dr Barbara Ribeiro (Assoc Professor at SKEMA Business School and an Honorary Lecturer at The University of Manchester) and doctoral researcher Priscila Ferri contributed a chapter to the newly published OECD - OCDE ...
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03
July
2023
| 15:01 Europe/London
Ed Whiting, who will take up the role within the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) at AMBS, is currently a Director within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities where he helps the public sector engage with the key...
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20
June
2023
| 16:17 Europe/London
Now in its seventh year, the competition is aimed at pupils from Greater Manchester schools, encouraging children to use poetry as a means of self-expression. The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester’s 2023 Schools Poetry competition took p...
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16
June
2023
| 12:04 Europe/London
This 8th July 2023, GM4Women2028 are hosting their Dialogue Deeds Determination event in collaboration with GMCA Women & Girls Equality Panel and funded by the School of Social Sciences Community Partnership Fund.GM4Women is a charity focused on prom...
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14
June
2023
| 09:56 Europe/London
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research's latest blog article, written by Trang Tran, an MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship student, delves into the potential of 3D bioprinting in addressing the global issue of organ trafficking and h...
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13
June
2023
| 13:35 Europe/London
Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation Policy and Business Engagement: Evidence from Three UK City Regions.A new report commissioned by the Innovation Caucus sheds light on the potential for regional economic growth through innovation policy and...
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09
June
2023
| 13:09 Europe/London
Academics from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) based at AMBS are seeking applicants to work on the UMRI Interdisciplinary Research Pump-prime project, which aims to develop more comprehensive approaches to the successful adopt...
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05
June
2023
| 20:53 Europe/London
SALC’s Athena Swan Bronze Award completes the accreditation by this Charter of all Schools in the Faculty of Humanities. The School’s application adopted an intersectional approach to gender, ethnicity and disability; and our attendant five-year Acti...
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01
June
2023
| 15:10 Europe/London
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) is pleased to present the latest additions to its newly launched MIOIR Working Paper Series. These two new working papers showcase our commitment to exploring essential research themes, such as ...
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