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

The NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) has awarded researchers at The University of Manchester, Manchester Camerata, and the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust an 18-month grant to evaluate the impact of Manchester Camerat...

15-19 June 2022 saw the return of Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries. Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcased a vibrant and varied programme of 80 events in libraries across al...

Each year, the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) seeks essays that explore an aspect of the American experience, researched and written by UK-based undergraduate students. Essays engaging with current issues like racial and environmental...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute has announced the winners, runners up and commended entries of their ‘Words For Your World’ School Writing Competition, in partnership with UK-Med and Save the Children UK.The competition asked seconda...

The Creative Climate Resilience project has produced a video documenting its work in the community to bring climate change awareness via a St George’s Day parade by the Parish of St Cuthbert in Miles Platting.  Bringing together families, costumes, c...

The RBOC N+, Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities is a new network of researchers, institutions and industry partners working on forecasting how cities and their systems will deal in 2051 with resilience to security threats. The network brings tog...

Joe Carrick-Varty, an alumnus of the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, has scooped the Eric Gregory Award recognising a collection of poetry from a poet aged 30 or below.  The prize was presented to Carrick-Varty and six other E...

On 18 May 2022, Creative Manchester hosted a roundtable discussion with David Olusoga OBE and other broadcasting vanguards to reflect on the legacy of Granada TV, as well as the past, present, and future of British television. The event marked the re...

The University of Manchester Community Festival (25 June 2022)  is a rare opportunity for the entire organisation to share, celebrate and have fun with each other and the general public, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is throwing some...

Poetry is the prevailing theme of The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures outing to the Manchester Histories Festival Celebration Day on 12 June 2022. Taking place at Gorton Monastery, the School will fly the flag for po...

The Manchester China Institute, Creative Manchester and School of Arts, Languages and Culture have returned to collaborate on a fourth instalment of the UK-China International Photography Competition.The winners of the this year’s competition were re...

Q: How would you describe the British Pop Archive?HB: The British Pop Archive (BPA) at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library is the first specifically designated popular culture archive in the UK. The BPA celebrates popular culture, youth c...

This cross-platform event between the Digital Futures, Creative & Heritage and Data Science & AI themes and the Creative Manchester platform will highlight and map out expertise, strengths and possible directions at the intersection of AI/data scienc...

This year’s Sexuality Summer School (SSS) at the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture will focus on ‘The Desire for Identity’ as a central theme. The SSS is an annual five-day series of workshops and seminars for postgraduates engaged in the...

To celebrate the launch of the British Pop Archive, Creative Manchester is hosting a roundtable discussion with David Olusoga OBE and broadcasting vanguards to explore the past, present, and future landscape of British television.The John Rylands Lib...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host its annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day on 29 April 2022 in University Place.  It is set to be an exciting day, with a plethora of speakers from organisations such as Save the Childr...

On Monday, 7 March 2022 the University will welcome David Wengrow FBA, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.The lecture, titled ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’ will draw on Professor Wengrow’s collaborati...

From Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 October, Manchester Oxford Road will be adorned with a plethora of brand new visual arts commissions, installations, and live entertainment.The 3-day event is an opportunity to discover and celebrate the new ideas, inn...

On 10 November, researchers from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Creative Manchester will host a hybrid workshop exploring research and knowledge exchange with the creative and cultural industries.Focused on the creative and cultural i...

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for AI, has announced over 400 fellowships for 2021-22 across the 12 University partners. The University of Manchester is home to 33 of those Turing Fellows, across all three University Faculties...

A new report, The COVID-19 Pandemic, published today by the Longevity Science Panel (LSP) (with contributions by MICRA's Professor Debbie Price), highlights that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, link...

When Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone joined the University of Manchester's music department in 1999, he could never have envisaged that two years later the events of 9/11 in his home country of America would take him...

This year's Micropoetry competition was themed around the 2021 'Year of Space', and presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with the Geological Society of London and the Centre for New Writing. Entrants were asked to write a poem in respons...

This summer, The University of Manchester will be holding virtual celebrations for its graduating students, to celebrate the successful completion of their studies. These will be hosted locally for the majority of programmes in the week beginning Mon...

Since 2009, the charity Survivors Manchester has worked in five prisons in the North West to break the silence of the sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation of boys and men and empower those affected to move towards positive futures.Through the S...

The report highlights a lack of transparency around public land deals and questions whether Manchester City Council is getting value for money when disposing of its land assets to private developers. The report estimates that Manchester may be paying...

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...

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...

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...

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...