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  • Two-Day Writing Retreat

    Two-Day Writing Retreat at Didsbury Parsonage Trust with a focus on practice, creative methods, & communities This two-day summer retreat is for researchers who work with creative methods and practice, or who are engaged in research with communities and members of the public. This is an opportunity to come together and reflect on writing-in-progress and the particular […]

  • Gothic Crossroads Conference 2025

    A conference exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror Studies. Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies,Manchester Metropolitan University, 25th-27th June, 2025 The event is free for all MMU students and includes creative workshops, readings and reading groups - you're welcome to attend as much or as little as you like. The […]

  • Seminar 6.6: Shuwen Wang

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Grosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. Tea, coffee, juice and snacks provided. Email Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).

  • Seminar 6.7: Sumithreyi Sivapalan

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    A series of informal seminars led by and for Arts and Humanities doctoral students. Each seminar is presented by a different PhD researcher and involves plenty of interactive discussion. This is a friendly, supportive space in which we develop critical research skills and build community. Seminar 6.7: Sites of Belonging and Unhomeliness: exploring ‘home’ through […]

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    August: Writer’s Retreat

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019, and […]

  • Seminar 6.8: Manchester’s queer sonics

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    When and where: Thursday 28th August 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea, coffee, juice and snacks provided. Presenter: Markus Hetheier. Markus is a 5th year part-time practice-based PhD candidate at the School of Digital Arts (SODA). His artistic research project […]

  • Seminar 6.9: Wendy Allen

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Seminar 6.9: Barbara Hepworth and the self never sculpted: Can Hepworth’s use of the maquette in her sculptural practice inform a new creative practice in poetry? When and where: Thursday 11th September 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea, coffee, juice […]

  • Queer Kinship Studies – International Perspectives

    This free one-day symposium will debate under-explored themes in Queer Kinship Research, including reproductive technologies, consensual non-monogamies (CNMs), bisexualities/plurisexualities, transnational dynamics with regards to sexual and intimate citizenship, and de/colonial politics.

  • Practice-based Conversation with Helen McGhie

    Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Poetry Library roundtable and on Teams. Informal staff-led conversation series, organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon and hosted by the Poetry Library, with a focus on practice-based research. In this session Helen McGhie, Senior Lecturer in Photography with SODA, will lead a discussion on creative reflective practice as a methodology and initiate some discussion around the differences […]

  • Practice-based Conversation with Susannah Thompson: Writing About Creative Practice

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    GE 2.06 and on Teams. Informal staff-led conversation series, organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon and hosted by the Poetry Library, with a focus on practice-based research. In this session, ‘Writing about Creative Practice’, Susannah Thompson (Professor of Art History and Criticism) will lead a discussion aimed at practitioners seeking to articulate their practice and the forms […]

  • Writers’ Retreat with Chad McDonald

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    In person only in GE 2.06. Writers’ Retreats give PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. You will need to arrive […]

  • Arts & Humanities Induction

    Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    GE 2.06 and on Teams. The induction will be run as a hybrid event which you can attend either in-person or online, followed by an in-person lunch from 1.00pm - 2.00pm. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet academic staff, fellow doctoral research students, and to learn more about the interdisciplinary community in […]