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2021
14
January
2021
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16:13
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Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the deadl...
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06
January
2021
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11:26
Europe/London
Professor Michael Wood has been awarded an OBE for his services to public history and broadcasting in the New Year Honours list 2020. Wood, a historian and broadcaster, was appointed to the position of Professor of Public History at The University in...
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05
January
2021
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12:39
Europe/London
A Music PhD student from The University of Manchester is among eight talented musicians shortlisted for Composition: Wales 2021. Cameron Biles-Liffell, who also completed his master’s degree at The University’s Department of Music, was selected for h...
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2020
16
December
2020
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10:13
Europe/London
All of the students who’ve completed their Masters, during the added challenges and unpredictability of a global pandemic, should be extremely proud of themselves. Within HCRI, this year’s dissertations highlight not just the breadth of topics within...
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15
December
2020
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09:58
Europe/London
For anybody completing their Masters in 2020, a significant amount of their studies has taken place against a backdrop of COVID-19, uncertainty, and unexpected challenges. Despite this, the standard of work produced by HCRI’s students across all of t...
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11
December
2020
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14:53
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Manchester joined UNESCO’s worldwide Creative Cities network as a City of Literature in 2017, following a successful bid coordinated by a consortium involving The University of Manchester, Manchester City Council, Manchester Metropolitan University a...
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08
December
2020
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11:50
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) will be hosting a celebration to mark the strength and resilience of its students in a virtual event.The celebration will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 16 December 2020, an...
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03
December
2020
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12:51
Europe/London
This year, university life has presented challenges that might have previously been unthinkable. The impact of COVID-19 continues to reverberate, yet in face of this, our staff, students, alumni and external partners have pulled together and achieved...
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30
November
2020
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16:44
Europe/London
A graduate from The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has had a piece of his music played on BBC Radio 3.Alexander Hopkins’ ‘Wash Me Thoroughly’, which he wrote over lockdown in May 2020, was played as part of the station’s Night Tracks ...
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30
November
2020
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13:18
Europe/London
3D scanning technology is being used to bring some of Manchester’s most celebrated cultural sites to all.The School of Arts Languages and Cultures, The Institute for Cultural Practices, Creative Manchester and Digital Futures have launched an excitin...
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19
November
2020
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17:19
Europe/London
Mary Trend, Creative Writing MA student from The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, has been awarded the Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) Literature Prize for her novel-in-progress, Bitter Honey, which explores unapologetic female ambit...
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19
November
2020
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09:41
Europe/London
Researchers in Higher Education institutions often find the process of accessing businesses and organisations difficult. Equally, arts and cultural organisations may not be fully aware of how best to collaborate with researchers, nor of the value of ...
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18
November
2020
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14:34
Europe/London
MCI Director Pete Gries has contributed to a new report published by the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, which presents recent survey findings on European public opinion towards China. Nearly 20,000 Europeans were surveyed in September-O...
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18
November
2020
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10:01
Europe/London
The workshop, which took place via Zoom on 11 November, was a collaboration between Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the University’s Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work. Its varied, 3-hour programme brought together distinguish...
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04
November
2020
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14:48
Europe/London
Open-access monographs are a big headache for the arts and humanities: most publishers currently charge authors enormous sums, and new publishing models urgently need to be explored. Professor Helen Beebee (Philosophy) is the Editorial Chair of an ex...
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30
October
2020
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15:48
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) was thrilled to present a number of events with the Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) this year, which has just wrapped up its latest outing - a successful all-digital event.
For the f...
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30
October
2020
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12:57
Europe/London
Throughout October, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (and the wider University of Manchester community) celebrated Black History Month with a series of events and resources.
From 'in conversations', to workshops, to reading lists, these...
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28
October
2020
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16:26
Europe/London
Egyptology has stormed The University of Manchester’s Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Awards.
Nicky Nielsen and Joyce Tyldesley received Outstanding Teaching Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year, while both academics also ...
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22
October
2020
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16:36
Europe/London
Congratulations to six Manchester academics who have been named as new Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, the national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences. We are delighted that five of the new Fel...
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19
October
2020
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09:25
Europe/London
Throughout October, the British Council is running an online festival for cultural exchange between the UK and China. Around 50 cultural institutions from both countries have provided digital content that forms more than 75 individual cultural projec...
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16
October
2020
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10:45
Europe/London
On 11 November, The University is hosting a Music, Health & Wellbeing workshop that will serve to answer these questions. Presented in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, th...
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14
October
2020
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10:47
Europe/London
Students from the Centre for New Writing have launched the 2020 edition of the Manchester Anthology, MANY.
The Manchester Anthology 2020 presents the work of talented new writers from the Centre. Despite the challenges this year has brought with i...
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07
October
2020
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16:14
Europe/London
In an exciting collaboration between The University of Manchester Drama Department, The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester, the playwriting course has been introduced to provide MA students with a gateway to a writing career in the theatr...
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24
September
2020
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16:38
Europe/London
In celebration of Black History Month 2020, The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester has collaborated with the Centre for New Writing, The Department of American Studies and Creative Manchester to pull together an extensive suggested...
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24
September
2020
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16:34
Europe/London
The Abstainer, the latest novel by Dr Ian McGuire, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, was published officially on September 17 2020 by Scribner UK.
Set on the streets of Victorian Manchester, The Abstai...
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23
September
2020
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16:35
Europe/London
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...
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11
September
2020
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14:55
Europe/London
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...
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04
September
2020
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10:03
Europe/London
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...
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02
September
2020
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16:16
Europe/London
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...
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18
August
2020
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15:15
Europe/London
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 ...
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