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...
Addressing the Awarding Gap – A Workshop with Dr Paul Campbell
On Wednesday 3 April we welcome Dr Paul Campbell (inaugural Director of University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education) to deliver a two-hour workshop on the topic of addressing the awarding gap in higher education. This workshop will take place...
Whose past is it, and who gets to tell it? (Part 2)
This is the second of our University of Manchester Social Responsibility projects exploring the largely ignored working class history of Greenheys, an area behind the university now housing the Science Park. Building upon previous work, this project again brought...
Social Responsibility Awards Autumn / Winter 2023
The many strong applications for the first round of projects supported by SALC SR funding in 2023-24 shows the diversity and range of SR-related work going on in our school.
Review of SALC Social Responsibility Awards – Spring / Summer 2023
2023 saw a wide range of activity by staff and students from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures working with diverse communities and other partners.
Black British History: Postgraduate Take Over with Olivia Wyatt and Renée Landell
Dr Jack Webb, Lecturer in Modern British History and final year History student Esther Akinlosotu are helping to showcase the work carried out in Black Studies in the UK at postgraduate level.
Social Responsibility Awards, October 2022
We are delighted to be announce the first round of projects from the Social Responsibility (SR) / Cultural Engagement Awards. The project descriptions below demonstrate the extraordinary range and reach of SR related work being undertaken across the School of Arts,...
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