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Postponed – What is Interdisciplinary Research?
Postponed – What is Interdisciplinary Research?
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. What is interdisciplinarity and what does it look like in the day to day of […]
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Updated: Linking your Research to Impact
Updated: Linking your Research to Impact
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. This will be a hybrid session, hosted online on TEAMs and in-person 'Thinking About Impact […]
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Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey
Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey
Join us for a very special evening presented by Manchester Met for GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey Jason 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 -- […]
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PhD Led Seminar: 5.9
PhD Led Seminar: 5.9
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. When and where: Thursday 6th March 2025 from […]
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Archives as Adventure: International Research In Progress
Archives as Adventure: International Research In Progress
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. Manchester Metropolitan University researcher and writer Rachel Lichtenstein is currently six months into a two-year project to find previously unknown documents, images, recordings, and […]
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International Film première– The Last Shoemakers of Doon Valley
International Film première– The Last Shoemakers of Doon Valley
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. This film is a celebration of the resilient community of shoemakers of the Doon Valley in northern India. Shoemaking […]
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Reflecting on researcher vulnerability
Reflecting on researcher vulnerability
Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. In 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 […]
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March: Writer’s Retreat
March: Writer’s Retreat
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 […]
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MYRIAD: Creative Health Careers Showcase
MYRIAD: Creative Health Careers Showcase
Join us on the 12th of March for an exciting and informative all-day conference exploring potential career opportunities in the exciting and growing field of Creative Health; how taking part in creative activity can support a community’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. The event has been designed to inspire university students across Greater Manchester […]
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Research Funding: Postdocs
Research Funding: Postdocs
This workshop is dedicated to postdoctoral research funding opportunities and the practicalities of applying for them. One way of continuing your research after you’ve finished your PhD is by securing a postdoctoral fellowship. There are a number of schemes open to researchers in the Arts and Humanities, including those run by the British Academy, the […]
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Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Join award-winning visiting poet, translator and editor Jeffrey Yang for an engaging collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. In groups we will co-translate a poem by Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770 CE), teasing out different wordings and phrasings for the translation and playing with language. Using a ‘crib’, or word-for-word […]
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Manchester Translation Series: In Other Words
Manchester Translation Series: In Other Words
In an increasingly interconnected literary landscape, translation is not just a feature but a defining force in contemporary publishing. In this panel, poet and translator Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin (ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry Translation Centre) and Sana Goyal (Wasafiri) on the intricate, dynamic editorial practices that shape contemporary literary magazines. How […]
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Thinking Ethics
Thinking Ethics
This session dedicated to ethics is designed to be responsive to your needs, as identified in the ethics survey conducted earlier in the year. It will be an opportunity to think critically about the role that ethics plays in Arts and Humanities research, from a philosophical as well as a methodological perspective. The workshop will […]
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Manchester Translation Series: Translating the Contextual
Manchester Translation Series: Translating the Contextual
Poet-translators A. E. Stallings and Jeffrey Yang have worked across diverse sets of text – from ancient didactics and illustrated epics to Modern Greek activists in Stallings’ work, to translations of Tang-Song Dynasty poets and contemporary Chinese and Uyghur activists in Yang’s work, and much more. Beyond the textual and semantic, how do they translate […]
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Manchester Translation Series: Trends in Translation
Manchester Translation Series: Trends in Translation
Join editors Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta Books), Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Jeffrey Yang (New Directions, New York Review of Books) for a lively conversation on the current UK and US markets for literature in translation, chaired by Brian Sneeden (World Poetry Books). Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (2019) and God […]
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Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Join Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. A.E. Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Her poetry collections include Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (2012), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (2006); […]
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Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading
Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading
We’re delighted to welcome Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings and award-winning poet-translator Jeffrey Yang to Manchester Poetry Library for the third annual Manchester Translation Series. The event will include a poetry reading, along with a discussion on topics related to translation and the roles of literature in our current geopolitical moment. A.E. Stallings […]
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‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
Please note this in an in-person only event in GE 2.06 Struggling to edit your writing? Get help from your peers! In our editing clinic, you’ll discuss a draft of your work and get feedback to improve your writing skills. Before attending the clinic, you’ll be asked to complete a short task and to identify […]
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Using thematic and structural approaches to narrative analysis
Using thematic and structural approaches to narrative analysis
Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. Narrative analytical methodologies provide social researchers with mechanisms and frameworks to explore people’s lived experiences. They allow researchers to gain understanding of how people experience social and material contexts from […]
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“In it together”: Collaborative research and writing
“In it together”: Collaborative research and writing
Collaborative research is “unruly, rich and messy”, and collaborative research, writing and publishing offers unique opportunities and challenges to postgraduate and early career researchers. In this hands-on workshop we will explore the struggles and strategies of collaborative work for ECRs, and try out a collaborative, playful simulation of academic co-authorship. This event is in person […]
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‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
Struggling to edit your writing? Get help from your peers! In our editing clinic, you’ll discuss a draft of your work and get feedback to improve your writing skills. Before attending the clinic, you’ll be asked to complete a short task and to identify the work you want to share with your peers. The task […]
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PGR/ECR L19C Seminar Series 2024-25
PGR/ECR L19C Seminar Series 2024-25
PGR / ECR L19C Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series 2024-2527 March 2025 - online (free) Teaching the Long 19th Century Novel through Reader-Response Theory The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group is organised by volunteer PGRs and ECRs at Manchester Metropolitan University. It aims to foster inter-institutional and multi-faculty networking and offers platforms for its […]
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Looking Ahead to the Annual Review
Looking Ahead to the Annual Review
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 about what to expect from […]
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Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar
Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar
This even will take place in Geoffrey Mantion G.09A and online. This afternoon research seminar provides an opportunity to trace the transnational dimensions of print culture in the long nineteenth century. It explores the uneven dynamics of both popular and personal print networks, as conveyed across borders in a range of modes, forms, and media. […]
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Pitching to the Media
Pitching to the Media
With Professor Andrew McMillan and Lucy Zhou (Head of Publicity at Canongate). From both a writers and publicists point of view, find out about getting your work out there beyond the academy, how pitching to the media works and how to frame wider narratives around the narrow focus of your work. Please email Fran Brooks […]
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April: Writer’s Retreat
April: Writer’s Retreat
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 […]
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Pigs in Chinatown: A Discussion on Fiction and Film with André Forget
Pigs in Chinatown: A Discussion on Fiction and Film with André Forget
Join us for a special evening presented by the Manchester Writing School and the Pop Screen Cultures Research Group - André Forget in conversation with Reuben Martens. Canadian novelist André Forget will be reading from and talking about his debut novel, In the City of Pigs (2022, Dundurn Press), which chronicles the story of a […]
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