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

As skin ages, we see a decline in skin barrier function, which can leave elderly people vulnerable to skin damage. We believe that these changes may partly be due to changes in the skin’s lipid profile, and changes in the bacteria living on the sk...

In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile, resource-rich states ...

The winners of the Sociology Public Engagement Prize 2019 are Professor Debora Price and Jaime Garcia Iglesias. Debora Price won the staff category for her work on the Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce. A hugely influential report prod...

Prof Khalid Nadvi has taken up the role of Managing Director of the Global Development Institute. Khalid follows on from Diana Mitlin who completed her term at the end of August. David Hulme, who was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list, cover...

Welcome to the new season of events at the Martin Harris Centre. We have an exciting and diverse programme lined up this season, with a range of events from drama, literature, music and more. The season launches with a free concert as part of the ...

How do Germans feel and think about China? Peter Hays Gries, MCI Director, talks with Kerstin Lohse-Friedrick to analyse the ideological drivers which shape the views of Germans on China. The MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies) Experts p...

Lukasz Stanek has received a research grant from the Canadian Centre for Architecture, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to work on the project Africanisation of Ghanaian Architecture. In 2018 the Canadian Centre for Architecture launched...

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...