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Keep up to date with events, conferences and seminars both in the Graduate School and further afield.
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Research IT Updates
Last Virtual Drop-in Session!Next Wednesday (21 July) is our last virtual drop-in session before the summer break. Thank you to everyone who has popped into our virtual chat room to speak to members of Research IT about a huge variety of topics including new research...
COVID-related extension requests
PGRs who are unable to conclude research within the prescribed programme may apply to extend the programme. Information can be found in PGR FAQs. For those in receipt of funding, please refer to the relevant section of the page (UKRI-funded, University of Manchester...
Updates from UoM Research IT
Research IT Drop-in SessionsAt Research IT we know how busy researchers are, and how talking face to face can be the easiest way to communicate a problem or complex research idea. That’s why every other Wednesday in term-time we host virtual drop-in sessions so you...
Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and Black Youth Expressive Culture – 2 July 2021
3pm - 6.15pm, Friday 2 July 2021 Online workshop. Sign up via Eventbrite. Free. All welcome. Rap is a leading youth cultural form in the UK—hugely popular with young people, fostered in educational settings and promoted through the music industry and sponsorship...
Do you recognise any of these belongings?
As the Graduate School has undergone a deep clean during the COVID-19 campus closure, all belongings left in the clusters have been collated and moved.The links below show photographs of a few items (these are part of larger batches of belongings including library and...
Screen Studies Conference 2021 – registration closes Sunday 13 June
The 30th International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen. The conference takes place online from Friday 25 June to Sunday 27 June. Over 100 speakers will present papers on a wide range of topics in screen studies, and a thematic strand will...
Research IT Updates
Helping to Celebrate 200 years of The Guardian NewspaperUniversity libraries are increasingly hosting their collections online to reach a wider audience, however conventional web publishing platforms, such as WordPress, have been found to lack essential features that...
Festival of Social Science 2021 – call for applications
Deadline Friday 09 July 2021The Festival of Social Science 2021 offers an opportunity for researchers to hold either in-person or online events/resources aimed at non-academic audiences. Events/resources which are aimed primarily at academic audiences are not eligible...
Postgraduate Research Students Conference
Download this notice as a PDF documentThe German Historical Institute London will hold its 26th postgraduate research students conference on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 January 2022. Its intention is to give postgraduate research students from the UK and Ireland working...
The International Association for Media and History
The International Association for Media and History is an organization of scholars, filmmakers, broadcasters and archivists dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, television, and other related media. They encourage scholarly research into the relations...