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

A student from The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing has been awarded a literature prize for his unfinished post-Brexit novel. Thomas Lee was handed the PFD prize for Best Fiction on 9 December at the Literature Live: Annual Caroli...

The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) and Mills & Reeve LLP hosted a joint seminar on Pensions and Divorce. Marking the launch of The Pension Advisory Group's long-awaited 'A guide to the treatment of pensions on divor...

Blue Mythologies, the latest book by Professor of Visual Arts at The University of Manchester’s Department of Art History Carol Mavor, has been celebrated as ‘richly eclectic’ by the Guardian’s PD Smith. The book covers the history of art, photogr...

The University of Manchester alumnus and Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) Advisory Group member Jamie Peck is awarded the 2020 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Distinguished Scholarship Award.  ...

The first class of the Global Development Institute (GDI) Merit Scholars graduate as part of the winter 2019 graduating class. The students were chosen from over 2,700 applicants and joined the GDI in September 2018 from Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana.  ...

Stephen Walker’s project 'Putting the Body of Manchester on Display' has received funding from the JRRI Digital Humanities grant to run from September 2019 to July 2020. The project uses GIS mapping alongside the University of Manchester’s Map Col...

Dr Deljana Iossifova has been awarded funding under the Royal Society’s Challenge-led Grants Scheme to lead research on Sustainable Sanitation in India and Brazil (TOSSIB, £499,993 FEC). The project runs from 2019 to 2022. TOSSIB (Towards Susta...

MARG's Dr Deljana Iossifova has been awarded funding under the international scheme Towards a Sustainable Earth (UKRI, NSFC and JST) for the project ‘A Systems Approach to Sustainable Sanitation Challenges in Urbanising China’ (SASSI, £519,880 FEC). ...

The evolution of medical practice through innovation and the development of new materials is explored in a pop-up exhibition produced by students from the University of Manchester’s MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies course. Instrumental Change featu...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has launched the Winter 2019 edition of its newsletter, which is now available to download here. ...

A doctoral student at The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has been given an award for an outstanding paper on music composition at this year’s international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL).  ...

Following the success of previous concerts, The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra returns on 30 November to the Whitworth Hall with a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, edited by Barry Cooper and conducted by Robert Guy. ...

The School of Social Sciences is celebrating the opening of the Justice Hub, a network that includes our Legal Advice Clinics, Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre and cutting edge teaching and research within legal technology. The Justice Hub allow...

The Law and Technology Initiative at The University of Manchester won the award for 'Alliance of the Year' at the British Legal Technology Awards. The initiative brings together academics in Law, Business and the School of Computer Sciences, alongsid...

A virtual guide that tells the story of what it was like to live in New Testament times has been launched by the Centre for Biblical Studies. Led by Prof Peter Oakes, this vivid new resource transports readers to Pompeii, where the city’s rich evi...

Students of Drama and Electronic Engineering lent their talents to an event at the heart of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest chapter of The University of Manchester’s fruitful partnership with MIF. Shining a light on these pla...

The University of Manchester hosted the Turing Institute Workshop on 'Robotics and AI for Health and Social Care' on 28-29 October. This was chaired by Angelo Cangelosi and Chris Todd, from MICRA, and Heather Draper from Warwick University. Thi...

A University of Manchester Drama alumna has been recognised for harnessing her creative talents to benefit the community at the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, took home the Young Creative of the Year award at the eve...

A pioneering new way to learn about music has been launched for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season. The Notes app encourages concert-goers to break convention and leave their smartphones on during performances, sending subscribers timely notifi...

Creatives will be joining the discussion on issues affecting the burgeoning city of Manchester as part of a special weekend-long event. Contemporary theatre company Quarantine (Wallflower; Summer.), is bringing people together from all sides of th...

Last month (17 October), the 2019 outing for the Manson Memorial Lecture brought lively discussions on religion and sociology thanks to an engaging talk by Prof Andréas Dettwiler of the University of Geneva. The professor of Theology gave a paper ...

First published in The Conversation on 31 October 2019. Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to infrastructure development plans from the African Development Bank and the Initi...

Dr Christian Goeschel, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, was invited to discuss his book Mussolini and Hitler in a live radio interview. Dr Goeschel spoke about the...

Applicants have been invited to register their interest in the cultural discovery being carried out by the Melbourne and Manchester Graduate Research Group. The Group is an international research training group, comprised of researchers and jointl...

The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) is celebrating the success of the 2019 Manchester Literature Festival, which has drawn to a close after over two weeks of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature. Th...

A University of Manchester drama alumna has been shortlisted in the Young Creative of the Year category of the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, is one of five people up for the award, which recognises young people aged...

The University of Manchester’s extensive Peterloo Collection is the first to be launched on the innovative new digital platform, giving users all over the world access to the unique documents within the collection. Built in collaboration w...

HCRI are inviting applications for a lectureship in responses to the climate crisis for the first time in the Institute’s history. The lectureship is part of an expansion in the Institute designed to build upon existing strengths around the inters...

More than 150 staff and students from The University of Manchester attended a very special music event on 14 October proving that percussion is for everyone. Celebrating 100 years of Deaf Education, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the pre-eminent solo percus...

Dr Olga Ulturgasheva secures €6 million Synergy grant, awarded by the European Research Council to groups taking on today's biggest challenges, such as curing cancer, tackling climate change, or forecasting earthquakes. ...