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SUMMARY:March: Writer's Retreat
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThe 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 he regularly took part in writers’ retreats during his postgraduate research. \n\n\n\nYou will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. You may access data online\, but the retreat is a day free from active researching\, mobile phones\, or other internet access (emails\, Instagram\, online shopping\, etc.) that steals away focus and attention from writing! \n\n\n\nThere will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. \n\n\n\nWe hope the writers’ retreats will be a source of collegial support as you work alongside fellow PGRs who share similar goals—but also pressures and insecurities—in relation to academic writing. \n\n\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary requirements no later than 2 weeks before the date of the retreat you are attending. \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so please email Fran Brooks if you wish to book a spot. 
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/march-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250310T030000
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SUMMARY:Reflecting on researcher vulnerability
DESCRIPTION:Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this  online masterclass. \n\n\n\nMethods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. \n\n\n\nIn this interactive online masterclass\, we will be exploring the topic of researcher vulnerability – the physical and/or emotional harm an individual may encounter when conducting research. Whether feeling upset about participants’ emotional stories when listening back to and analysing interviews\, or anxious about how future readers might perceive more vulnerable academic writing. We will reflect on what we mean by the term researcher vulnerability\, explore when it has impacted our own research experiences\, or might do in the future\, and discuss how we can move towards an academic culture more open about researcher vulnerability. \n\n\n\nClick here to join the session and then follow the link. \n\n\n\nDr Chloe Steadman: a Methods Masterclass
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/reflecting-on-researcher-vulnerability/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:International Film première– The Last Shoemakers of Doon Valley
DESCRIPTION:As part of Go Global Week 2025 in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we will be showcasing a second film premiere by current PhD student Lokesh Ghai and his friend and collaborating filmmaker Jaymin Modi. \n\n\n\nThis film is a celebration of the resilient community of shoemakers of the Doon Valley in northern India. Shoemaking involves understanding the anatomy of the foot and translating creative ideas of footwear design with attention to comfort\, the nature of materials\, and the needs of daily life and work. While exploring people’s love for hand-crafted shoes\, the film raises the question: for how long will these shoemakers be able to continue their craft against the odds of mass production\, fast fashion\, caste discrimination and recent leather politics in India  \n\n\n\nThis film screening will be of interest to a range of students and connects themes that include: Social history\, capitalism and urbanisation\, heritage\, small-scale artisans’ business\, marginalisation\, human rights\, foot anatomy\, post-colonial studies\, and slow and fast fashion.  \n\n\n\nFollowing the premiere screening there will be a Q&A with a Guest Speaker and Director Lokesh Ghai.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/international-film-premiere-the-last-shoemakers-of-doon-valley/
LOCATION:Cinema GF12 SODA Building\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250307T140000
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SUMMARY:Archives as Adventure: International Research In Progress
DESCRIPTION:An illustrated talk followed by Q&A discussing an exciting international research project in progress\, unearthing extraordinary archive material from a range of private and public archives in Germany\, Poland\, and France. \n\n\n\nManchester Metropolitan University researcher and writer Rachel Lichtenstein is currently six months into a two-year project to find previously unknown documents\, images\, recordings\, and other material relating to a Yiddish poet who once lived in London’s East End. Come and hear about her research adventures and detective work\, which has resulted in some incredible discoveries across Europe. Feel free to ask questions on international collaborations\, funding for projects and research as practise in this exciting session designed to inspire future global researchers to take up your own adventures!
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/archives-as-adventure-international-research-in-progress/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:PhD Led Seminar: 5.9
DESCRIPTION:This is a series of informal seminars led by and for Arts & 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. \n\n\n\nWhen and where: Thursday 6th March 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 are provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Ogechukwu (Oge) Okeke. Oge has a background in public health and health promotion (MSc) and is currently a PhD student at Manchester Fashion Institute\, MMU. Her PhD research unboxes the narrative that reusing clothing is all about solving environmental problems. In the quest to solve these problems\, donated second-hand clothing from Western countries are exported to developing countries like Nigeria\, which has led to significant environmental challenges and loss of capital. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Oge will begin with a brief introduction of her PhD research\, followed by Q&A and open discussion forum. The session aims to open up platforms for discussion around the question “Why do fashion waste crises exists?”. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no pre-reading for this session. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend: Email Loretta at 21441661@stu.mmu.ac.uk to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-led-seminar-5-9/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:PhD Student Led Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening presented by Manchester Met for GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey \n\n\n\nJason will be reading from and talking with Monique about his first non-fiction book\, “The Possibility of Tenderness”\, a personal history and migration tale narrated through the lens of plants and dreams — a people’s history of the land\, a family saga\, and an archival detective story through time. \n\n\n\nThe event will open with a drinks reception and Jason and Monique will be happy to sign copies of their books\, available for purchase on the night — including “Passiontide” and advance copies of “The Possibility of Tenderness”. \n\n\n\nBook your FREE tickets here:  \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/jason-allen-paisant-in-conversation-with-monique-roffey/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Building\, 4 Rosamond Street West\, Manchester\, M15 6LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Updated: Linking your Research to Impact
DESCRIPTION:This week’s training session on thinking about the connections between your research and real world impact outside of the university\, will now be led by Dale Townshend from the English Department. You’re welcome to join us online or in person. \n\n\n\nThis will be a hybrid session\, hosted online on TEAMs and in-person \n\n\n\n‘Thinking About Impact in the Arts and Humanities’ \n\n\n\nThis session will commence with an outline of an Impact Case Study (ICS) that is currently in preparation in the School of English. Having been spoken through the aims and objectives of this particular ICS\, participants will be invited to explore more broadly the ways in which their own research projects might inform the impact agenda. \n\n\n\nDale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely in the field of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic writing.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/linking-your-research-to-impact/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T153000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102301Z
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SUMMARY:Postponed - What is Interdisciplinary Research?
DESCRIPTION:This is just a reminder that the panel discussion on Interdisciplinary Research\, which was due to take place tomorrow as part of the training session\, has unfortunately had to be postponed until the summer. More to follow in due course. \n\n\n\nWhat is interdisciplinarity and what does it look like in the day to day of your research? What are some of the challenges and opportunities of working across disciplines? What role does collaboration and co-creation play in successful interdisciplinary research? In this panel discussion MMU researchers from across the Faculty will reflect on their own interdisciplinary research projects and open up the conversation to PhD researchers. \n\n\n\nThis event is in person and online\, the link for Teams is available via the Moodle area.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/what-is-interdisciplinary-research/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250220T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102312Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Led Seminar: 5.8
DESCRIPTION:This is a series of informal seminars led by and for Arts & 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. \n\n\n\nSeminar 5.8: ‘Autoethnography as a methodological process: exploring nature connection and photography as a therapy after trauma and illness’ \n\n\n\nWhen & where: Thursday 20th February 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams (the link can be found on Moodle)\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks are provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Nicola Lewis-Dixon. Nicola is in her 2nd year of part-time\, practice-based PhD research. She is co-founder of Photography on Wellbeing CIC\, set up by her and her business partner when they shared a photography-based creative approach in their own healing journeys. In Nicola’s case\, this was following cervical cancer\, years of invasive surgeries\, a close-to-death encounter and a subsequent hysterectomy. Following this\, Nicola went wild swimming with her camera in hand as a form of her own self-initiated social prescribing. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Nicola will start by introducing the many strands of embodied research that are combined to explore themes of the politics of cancer\, class\, shifting identity\, connection to place\, the idea of ‘thin places’\, and phototherapy to reclaim the body and express what words cannot initially say. Nicola will share samples of her video\, photography and print-based practical work\, all of which are made with sustainability in mind\, including her home-made botanical inks. Finally\, in-person attendees will take part in a mindful cyanotype printing taster session\, while online attendees will be asked to participate in some mindful at-home phone camera exercises. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no pre-reading for this session\, but for Q&A you may want to think about embodied research methods\, therapeutic art\, and the other topics discussed above in relation to your PhD project. You could also try safely getting into a lake\, whatever the weather\, if that’s something you would enjoy! For in-person attendees\, try mindfully walking over to Grosvenor East and if possible\, perhaps collect some foliage en route (even old tatty stuff is fine – it’s the silhouettes that will be captured in the cyanotype print). \n\n\n\nPlease note: Cyanotype printing isn’t a messy process\, but we will be working with low-toxic chemicals so you may wish to wear an old jumper just in case. Gloves will also be provided for those that wish to use them. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend: 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).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-led-seminar-5-8/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:PhD Student Led Seminar
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