Flash Fiction Winners announced at Awards Ceremony
The latest edition of the annual SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition invited undergraduate students to submit an original and unpublished piece of writing of less than 250 words. The winners were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 11 December, with prizes...
Teaching Black History: An Introductory Black History Training Programme
This summer witnessed the launch of Teaching Black History, a six-week training programme, open mostly to young people of African and African Caribbean heritage who have an interest in researching and teaching Black history within a community context and/or seeking to...
Citizens Assemble!
What are we doing about the climate emergency? What are we not doing? What more could we be doing? What more should we be doing? These questions (and others) are addressed in A Citizens’ Assembly, a new play written by me, Andy Smith (part-time Lecturer in Theatre...
Musica Festival 2024
This year’s Musica festival featured seven events, held from 3-9 March. Polyphonic: We were delighted to see an audience of students and the public join us to celebrate the programme featuring predominantly women, non binary and gender diverse composers and musicians....
Manchester’s American Connections: A Public History Project
The American Connections project, which received support from the SALC Social Responsibility Fund, highlights how Manchester’s growth and development has been inextricably connected to the wider world, and in particular to transatlantic exchange. It does this by...
Caring for your voice
In our latest blog Dr Sarah Weston, Lecturer in Theatre Studies, shares her insights into the Vocal Care project – funded by the SALC Social Responsibility Award: “I am sitting in a rehearsal room on a cold afternoon in February when Robert instructs the group to ‘get...
Green Creative Industries Day
Green Creative Industries Day was held on Thursday 29 February at the Martin Harris Centre.The aim of the event was to provide insight into how creative practitioners and cultural institutions across Greater Manchester have responded to the climate crisis in the...
Sexuality Summer School 2024 – ‘Queer Friendship and Other Intimacies’
This year’s Sexuality Summer School (SSS) once again saw 40 postgraduates from across the UK and well beyond attend the University of Manchester for a week-long series of events combining seminars, lectures, and workshops alongside a public events programme in...
2600 miles by train: My research conference journey and why I loved every minute
SALC Professor Thea Cameron-Faulkner details their experience of travelling environmentally responsible for a recent research conference to Poland. Picturesque; if I had to explain Kazimierz Dolny in a word, that would be it. However, there’s a lot more to say about...
Social Responsibility Awards Spring / Summer 2024
Project Leads: Andy Smith Title: A Citizen's Assembly Summary: A Citizen's Assembly is a new play by Andy Smith and Lynsey O’Sullivan in which the audience act as people who have met to discuss the climate emergency. It is part of a wider research project called...
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