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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

In the latest edition of the series, we heard from creative sector researchers and practitioners from The University and its cultural partners. They explored how their field of work has been impacted by and adapted to the crisis. Dr Abi Gilmore, S...

HCRI student Ben is in the final year of his PhD, which examines the ways aid organisations are operating in insecure environments, focusing particularly on remote forms of humanitarianism in Syria. He took some time out in Autumn 2019 to intern with...

MICRA’s successful summer webinar series continued with an event on immunology and COVID19. This was chaired by Professor Rachel Watson, Co-Director of MICRA. Professor Tracy Hussell spoke on the The Coronavirus Immune Reponse and Clinical Outcome...

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester welcomes its audiences to SALC: Connect, Engage, Inspire – a digital repository for its wide-ranging arts and cultural activities. Through this new portal, you can explore the...

Humanities academics have been made Fellows of The British Academy, in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences. ...

The part-time virtual academic programme, a sister to HCRI’s face-to-face International Disaster Management Masters course, is responding to an increasing demand within global disaster and resilience space. The course recognises the importance of dis...

With concerts cancelled and venues closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Martin Harris Centre at The University of Manchester is now opening a virtual window allowing audiences to share in the joy of music and connect with The University’s tale...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester staged an exhibition and ceremony for this year’s International Photography Competition, which promotes mutual understanding between the UK and China. Hundreds of family-themed submissions were recei...

During the University of Manchester Student Union awards Humanitarian and Conflict Response MA student, Hatty Ruddick, swept up two awards – Campaigner of the Year, and Most Persuasive Campaigner of the year. In the same week, Hatty was elected to th...

 Dr Rubina Jasani discussed her collaborative partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST), the challenges refugee and migrant women face in the COVID-19 crisis and the limits of self-advocacy. We begin by asking Rubina about her involvem...

HCRI staff and students have spent the last few weeks reflecting on the events happening both in the UK and the USA, including the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and listening to the wider debates this has opened up around racism, whit...

Since the beginning of February 2020, Helena Bull has been carrying out a Simon Industrial Fellowship at The University of Manchester, with Creative Manchester. This Fellowship builds on the existing relationship between The University and Manchester...

Talented students at the Centre of New Writing have responded to the global Covid-19 pandemic through poetry and spoken word, reflecting their thoughts on the complex, ever-changing world in which we live. Through their poetry, the students reflec...

The Kabul Olympics, the latest poetry collection by John McAuliffe, Professor of Poetry at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, has been announced as poetry book of the month in The Guardian. The Kabul Olympics was published...

Hongshuo Fan, a NOVARS PhD student at The University of Manchester’s Department of Music, has been recognised for his outstanding performance as a self-financed student abroad by the Chinese government. The award is the highest accolade the Chines...

The Manchester China Institute (MCI) and Creative Manchester have said how ‘hugely rewarding’ it has been to receive hundreds of creative submissions to the International Photo Essay Competition during these unusual times. The images, according to...

Lockdown conditions did not hold IARSS 2020 (the 23rd Iron Age Research Student Symposium) back from being a success. Organisers of the event, which was due to take place on 3-4 June 2002 at The University of Manchester, chose to take their outing...