• Writing Ethics with Adi Kuntsman and Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem

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

    GE 2.06 and on Teams. This training is designed for third-year PhD researchers and beyond and will focus on how to write about the results of your research and data collection with Ethics in mind.

  • HEY! Festival Manchester

    The Unitarian Chapel Cross Street, Manchester

    Join us for a unique, writer led, fully immersive arts festival in the centre of Manchester on St George’s Day. At Hey! you can talk to our Ear of Britain, Argue with a Woman, join in our interfaith blessing, sing your heart out to Mancunian mill songs and listen to talks, also participate in writing […]

    Free
  • Preparing for the Annual Progress Review

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

    GE 2.06 and on Teams. Annual Progress Reviews (APRs) give you the opportunity to demonstrate your research progress and receive formal feedback from academic reviewers. These take place annually and doctoral students must complete each review satisfactorily in order to progress to the next year of their research programme. In this informal session we’ll talk […]

  • Night Babies – Lucie McKnight Hardy in conversation with Andrew Michael Hurley

    Serenity Booksellers Stockport, United Kingdom

    Dark, disturbing and quieltly devastating, Night Babies is the haunting new novel from Lucie McKnight Hardy –  a pitch perfect slice of folk-horror that sees a troubled artist haunted by her past in rural Wales. Lucie will be in conversation with Andrew Michael Hurley (Starve Acre, Barrowbeck) and the talk will be followed by an audience Q&A […]

    $5
  • Bunker Talk #164: Benedict L Phillips

    Please register on Eventbrite if you wish to attend. A video recording of this talk will be available from 5 June. An A-Z of neurodivergent ideas Benedict Phillips is an established artist, curator, and consultant. His practice is eclectic, encompassing a broad range of methodologies, generating work as diverse as public art, performance, sculpture, photography, and media […]

    Free
  • Ethics Application Writing with Adi Kuntsman and Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem

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

    GE 2.06 and on Teams. You are cordially invited to the next event in our “writing ethics” series: a short writing retreat. Although primarily aimed at PhD students, the session would be beneficial for anyone who is reflecting on ethical complexities in their publications. The session will include a short presentation, followed on by hands-on […]

  • Bunker Talk #165: Stephen Sutcliffe

    The Salutation Pub - Upstairs 12 Higher Chatham Streey, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Please register on Eventbrite if you wish to attend. A video recording of this talk will be available from 19 June. UK based artist Stephen Sutcliffe (1968, Harrogate) creates and exhibits films, collages, wall paintings and photographs from an extensive archive of material he has been amassing since childhood, together with items found in institutional collections. Often […]

  • 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 ‘ready to […]

  • Ann Radcliffe, St Albans Abbey and the Gothic

    Follow in the footsteps of Romantic-era poet and Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), whose St Alban’s Abbey; A Metrical Romance (1826) brings to life the opening battle of the Wars of the Roses at  St Albans in 1455. Join Dr Elizabeth Bobbitt, Professor Dale Townshend and award-winning writer Rosie Garland (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) for […]

  • Amelia Edwards’s Ghost Stories and Dark Tourism with Emma Liggins

    An exploration of the lesser-known but fascinating nineteenth-century author Amelia Edwards. Amelia Edwards was a popular and unconventional British writer of ghost stories, murder mysteries and novels in the mid-Victorian period. She was also iconic for her celebrated work in Ancient Egypt, becoming one of the first female Egyptologists and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund […]

    Free (online)
  • 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 ‘ready to […]