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

The N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) was established to enable and foster research collaborations that will help address the problems of policing in the 21st century and achieve international excellence in policing research.  Founded in 2...

A new report from social scientists linked with the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group and the Alliance Manchester Business School recommends a range of new approaches for developing neighbourhood support for older people. The report is the re...

The Centre for Biblical Studies extends its congratulations to Peter Oakes, currently Professor of New Testament, who has just been appointed to the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. This prestigious Chair was established in 1904 a...

Read the University's latest information on Coronavirus. In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision to postpone all events at the Ma...

This year, Manchester Confucius Institue collaborated with Manchester Airport in its community outreach efforts by hosting workshops and events around Manchester to celebrate Chinese New Year. The Institute - which is a partnership between The Uni...

The study ‘An analysis of mortality trends in developed countries’ by the Longevity Science Panel (LSP) reveals that, contrary to what we might have expected from mortality trends over the last few decades, more people are dying sooner across many hi...

Alumni from The University of Manchester's Music Department have been instrumental in the Olympias Music's Women's Voices choir event taking place on 12 March 2020. The choir will present a series of songs on the theme of modern femininity. ...

Burgess Fellow at Centre for New Writing, Jessica Moor, who studied an MA in creative writing at the Centre for New Writing is the second MA alumna to be included in The Observer's top ten debut novelists of 2020 for her literary thriller, Keeper. ...

Thursday 5 March is World Book Day, an initiative aimed at making books more accessible for all children and for celebrating authors, illustrators and in general. Here at Centre for New Writing, we champion creative writing all year round, but World ...

The Global Development Institute (GDI) has retained its position as one of the top 10 places to study in the 2020 QS World University rankings. The Institute was ranked as the 9th best for Development Studies in the world. Professor Khalid Nadvi, ...

Dr Ian Scott, Senior Lecturer in the American Studies department at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures was recently an academic consultant on ‘The Californian Century’, an insightful BBC Radio 4 series telling the dramatic history of the stat...

An independent inquiry into the UK’s severe regional inequality has said that Government must learn the lessons of the past and “think big” if it is serious about levelling up the UK economy. ...

Awards and appointments  Stefan Bouzarovski was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the ‘UiO:Energy’ strategic priority area at the University of Oslo.  Jo Deakin has been appointed Special Advisor to a new Horizon 2020 project, UPLIF...

Professor Peter Gatrell from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester is one of five authors to have their books shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize. His book titled The Unsettlin...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has supported the inaugural Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo) North West event, bringing practitioners together to discuss global health expertise. The ga...

Siobhán Jolley, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Biblical Studies, participated in the prestigious residential research programme at the British School at Rome (BSR). ...

The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has confirmed six awards for its Seedcorn projects. Three of the multi/inter-disciplinary projects are fully-funded by MICRA, while the Institute has also secured external fundi...

Peter Gries, Director of the Manchester China Institute and Professor of Chinese politics at the University discusses how coronavirus is affecting the local community. The Year of the Rat has not started well. In China, over 10,000 people have...

Manchester Central Library hosted a day-long event to reflect on the complex history and legacies of the Nigeria-Biafra war. Even though the conflict lasted less than three years (July 1967 to January 1970), the Biafra War marked a rupture in the ...

Professor Chris Phillipson of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has collaborated on a new book on understanding insecurities in later life. Professor Phillipson, together with Amanda Grenier (University of Toron...

Read the latest coronavirus information from The University of Manchester. The international community has come a long way in coordinating its response to new infectious disease outbreaks since SARS and MeRS, but as the current outbreak of coronav...

Research fellow with the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing Sophie Yarker has contributed to a new report exploring the potential for microfunding for social mobility. Ambition for Ageing’s Changing a place: Microfunding, co...

Sarah Lagot Odwong, a Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA graduate has been included in Uganda’s Sunday Vision Top 40 Under 40. The list recognises outstanding managers/leaders who act as a beacon to their peers and whose work has led to posi...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has been re-designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Conflict Analysis and Programming. Over the next two years, HCRI will work closely with colleagues at the WHO headquarters in Geneva,...

The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) welcomes a new Director, Alistair Burns. Alistair is a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at The University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist at the Greate...

A new report from social scientists and architects linked to the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) recommends inter-generational development for the Northern Gateway project. In 2018, Manchester announced the largest and most ambitiou...

Challenging domesticity in 1890-1990s Britain will be on the table at a new workshop ‘Activism and the home’ hosted by The University of Manchester and The Pankhurst Centre on 3 April 2020. Historians and heritage practitioners will be squaring up...

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...