SALC Making a difference

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When the World’s on Fire

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 29, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, Environmental sustainability, Music, Teaching and Learning

The aims of this project include developing partnerships with creative or cultural organisations/practitioners such as Ebonit Sax Quartet, and creating new relationships with XR and its ally ActionNetwork. The project also seeks to extend their reach to Leeds through...

DNA Day

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 29, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, English Literature and Creative Writing

The following activity is a work-in-progress and currently on hold due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The description below reflects the aims of the project and its proposed framework. A day of events celebrating and investigating genetics on DNA day, the anniversary of...

Sexuality Summer School (SSS) 2020: Queering the Archive

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 29, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, Equality and Diversity, Media and Cultural Studies

The following activity is a work-in-progress and currently on hold due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The description below reflects the aims of the project and its proposed framework. The Sexuality Summer School (SSS) is organised within the framework of the Greater...

School Poetry Competition

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 29, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, English Literature and Creative Writing, Teaching and Learning

The Centre for New Writing has organised the annual schools’ poetry competition for the past 3 years, working in collaboration with local high schools. The Centre has established a sustainable model, to ensure this competition can be an annual initiative run in...

Deaf Education & Audiology: a journey through artefacts, archives and creativity

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 20, 2020 | Arts Management and Museology, Engagement and outreach, Equality and Diversity, Teaching and Learning

The histories and lived experiences of D/deafness are rich and complex. Extraordinary technological advances have been made in the exploration of hearing, alongside a better appreciation of the social and psychological impact of sensory perception on learning. The...

Beyond Belief Archive

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 20, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, Religions and Theology, Teaching and Learning

The Beyond Belief archive is currently an under used public resource that provides a wide range of communities across the UK the opportunity to learn about issues in the study and practice of religions, about cultural and religious diversity, and about the...

Congolese Women Speak

Congolese Women Speak

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 19, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, Equality and Diversity, Modern Languages and Cultures, Translation and Intercultural Studies

Blog post written by Siobhan Brownlie, March 2020Since February 2019 I had been doing volunteer work with three Congolese asylum seekers, encouraging them to write about their homeland. The culmination of the project was an evening at the Alliance Française where the...

Teaching creative writing in hospital

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 19, 2020 | Engagement and outreach, English Literature and Creative Writing, Research, Teaching and Learning

Blog post written by Horatio Clare.I have been working with staff and patients - known as 'service users' - on a secure ward in a psychiatric hospital in Wakefield in order to identify and develop ways in which creative writing may be used to aid recovery from mental...

Whose past is it, and who gets to tell it? Greenheys Community History Day (GPS foray)

Whose past is it, and who gets to tell it? Greenheys Community History Day (GPS foray)

by Maria P. Arias | Apr 19, 2020 | CAHAE (Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology), Engagement and outreach

This is a short report on a collaborative project started late last year. It is focused upon an area called Greenheys, which is situated behind the University of Manchester. Greenheys has an interesting recent history. It is currently a Science Park, but up until the...

Recreating an Early Modern Beer Recipe

by Maria P. Arias | Feb 16, 2020 | Environmental sustainability, History, Teaching and Learning

This project will introduce a dedicated week of activities relating to key themes in the social responsibility agenda within the level two undergraduate module HIST21152: The Stuff of History: Objects Across Borders, by inviting a professional brewer, for a period of...

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