News
As you'd expect in such a large and engaging Faculty, we have lots of great, news-worthy activity.
The news feed below features news from across Humanities, with Faculty and School stories.
If you prefer you can see news specific to each of our Schools on their sites:
- Alliance Manchester Business School
- School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
- School of Law
- School of Environment, Education and Development
- School of Social Sciences
Humanities headlines
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Leeds Neighbourhood Networks up for discussion at Ageing Better event
20 Feb 2019
Key points on the ageing population will be up for discussion at a special event hosted by the Centre for Ageing Better in Leeds next month. The ...
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UK may struggle to maintain influence at the UN after Brexit, study finds
20 Feb 2019
The UK needs to demonstrate its added value to the United Nations and adopt a principled and values-driven foreign policy if it is to maintain its ...
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Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
19 Feb 2019
With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change ...
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Fulbright Scholar Cathleen Miller on her time at Manchester and her greatest inspiration
12 Feb 2019
Cathleen (Cathy) Miller, a Fulbright Award recipient at The University of Manchester, is a Professor of English at San Jose State University, where ...
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‘Hostile Environment’ NHS policies are failing refugees and asylum seekers
12 Feb 2019
There is mounting concern that these changes will make vulnerable migrants’ access to these services more difficult, but no research had ...
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Community, inequality and everyday life workshop
7 Feb 2019
MICRA collaborates with the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives A workshop bringing together early career researchers and staff from the ...
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Neighbourhoods and dementia study host their end of study conference
7 Feb 2019
The ESRC/NIHR neighbourhoods and dementia study was co-ordinated by The University of Manchester and aimed to explore how people living with dementia ...
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PhD Case studentship - ESRC fully funded PhD opportunity
7 Feb 2019
Precarious employment and pension planning studentship offered by MICRA and NEST. Studentship: 3 year, full time, fully funded PhD studentship ...
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Manchester undergraduate wins the Royal Northern Sinfonia Young Composers’ competition
4 Feb 2019
A University of Manchester Music student has won the Royal Northern Sinfonia Young Composers’ competition. Alex Dakin (Year 3) has won ...
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HCRI lecturer to speak at Behavioural and Social Science Research in Extreme and Adventurous Settings conference
4 Feb 2019
A lecturer from the HCRI at is due to speak at the Behavioural and Social Science Research in Extreme and Adventurous Settings Conference in ...
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Manchester contributes to major WHO report into age-friendly cities
4 Feb 2019
Case studies from 11 cities working to make their environments better places in which to grow older have been included in a major new report from the ...
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PhD Studentship: How are digital platform innovations re-configuring urban mobility systems?
4 Feb 2019
SCI’s Mike Hodson and Andy McMeekin have recently been awarded an AMBS PhD Studentship that addresses the question: how are digital platform ...
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Broad regional accents are a barrier to social mobility, research finds
4 Feb 2019
Many people aspire to improve their lives through gaining promotion at work, new qualifications or starting a new career. However, research by ...
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Biggest ever map of human Alzheimer’s brain published
4 Feb 2019
A study of the differences between healthy brains and those with Alzheimer’s Disease has produced largest dataset of its type ever.
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HCRI students go on research field trips to Uganda and Mumbai
1 Feb 2019
Staff and students from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute went on two research field trips abroad at the beginning of January....
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Workshop opportunity for individuals with lived experience of dementia or MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) as either patients or carers
30 Jan 2019
A project co-developed between The University of Manchester and GMMH foundation trust, is looking at how technology can be used in early ...
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University of Manchester - University of Toronto: MUI double success
30 Jan 2019
Kevin Ward and Ian Mell have both been awarded funding from the new UoM-UofT joint research fund. The University of Manchester and the University ...
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Henrik Ernstson: Humanities 'spotlight on'
30 Jan 2019
Henrik joined The University of Manchester in 2018, as Lecturer in Geography having previously held positions at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and...
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World Health Organisation publishes report on Age Friendly Cities and Communities featuring major contributions from MICRA researchers
29 Jan 2019
The World Health Organisation report aims to provide a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade ...
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Round up of papers, awards and external engagement, Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
29 Jan 2019
Here is a selection of papers, talks and external engagement from the weeks before and since the festive break. Awards Ian Mell has been awarded...
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Working mothers up to 40% more stressed, study finds
28 Jan 2019
Biomarkers for chronic stress are 40% higher in women bringing up two children while working full-time, new research has found.
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New outreach film launched by Multilingual Manchester
23 Jan 2019
A short film highlighting the outreach and public engagement work of the Multilingual Manchester (MLM) research unit at The University of Manchester ...
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Involving older people in the design of cities
19 Jan 2019
Staff in Sociology and MICRA (Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing) have published a new book, Age-Friendly Cities and ...
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HCRI lecturer wins GCRF QR Fund grant
18 Jan 2019
Dr Birte Vogel, Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Manchester, has won a six-month GCRF QR Fund grant worth ...
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Quatuor Danel premiere of Richard Whalley’s Mantle Plume in Utrecht
16 Jan 2019
Dr Richard Whalley has recently completed a 30-minute string quartet inspired by Icelandic geology, entitled ‘Mantle Plume’, written for ...
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Spring/summer 2019 season at the Martin Harris Centre
14 Jan 2019
Welcome to the spring 2019 season at the Martin Harris Centre. The new season brings an exciting and varied programme for you with a wide range of...
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Caring for the hills protects us from flooding, says new research
14 Jan 2019
A restoration scheme on the hills of the Peak District has the potential to reduce the level of flood risk to the towns and villages below, according ...
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Brexit: what do the latest developments in parliament mean for Theresa May?
10 Jan 2019
A cross-parliamentary group of MPs has struck again, landing another major blow against the government ahead of the vote on Theresa May’s Brexit...
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MCI Director meets with PRC Consul General in San Francisco
9 Jan 2019
Lee Kai Hung Chair Professor Peter Gries discusses US-China relations with PRC Consul General in San Francisco On Wednesday, 2 January, MCI ...
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MCI Director Peter Gries interviewed on 40th anniversary of US-China relations
8 Jan 2019
An interview series commemorating 40 years of US-China relations has featured Lee Kai Hung Chair Peter Gries. To mark the 40th anniversary of...
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David Olusoga OBE becomes Professor at The University of Manchester
7 Jan 2019
Historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor of Public History.
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Energy Systems In Greater Manchester – Lunchtime Networking Events
3 Jan 2019
Could your research interests inform the decarbonisation of Greater Manchester? Join us for lunch and explore opportunities to collaborate with UoM ...
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New Year Honours for University people
28 Dec 2018
Professor Fiona Devine has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours as has honorary lecturer in dentistry, Dr Claire Stevens.
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Sociology Public Engagement Prize 2018
20 Dec 2018
Dr Helen Holmes and Hayley James from the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) have been announced as the winners of the 2018 Sociology Public Engagement ...
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Legal Advice Centre shortlisted for Modern Law Awards
20 Dec 2018
The School of Law is delighted to announce that our award-winning Legal Advice Centre has been shortlisted for the Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Awards ...
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Ugandan graduate hopes to use skills to prevent flooding in his home country
20 Dec 2018
A student from Uganda who was able to do his master’s degree at The University of Manchester thanks to an Equity and Merit scholarship has just ...
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The Census may fail to capture the UK’s language diversity, researchers warn
20 Dec 2018
Researchers at The University of Manchester’s Multilingual Manchester research unit have advised the Office for National Statistics that the ...
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Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
19 Dec 2018
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates. Rob Bellamy: 2018 has...
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How to understand Corbyn’s confusing no-confidence vote against Theresa May
19 Dec 2018
Not for the first time in the Brexit process, confusion reigned in the UK parliament on December 17, when opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, proposed a...
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Work of Albena Yaneva featured in Nature
18 Dec 2018
The work of Albena Yaneva, Professor of Architectural Theory at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA), and her PhD student Stelios Zavos on the ...
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International students - universities must lead fight against intolerance of migrants
13 Dec 2018
What happens when the president of the world’s leading superpower makes inflammatory comments about immigrants and wins an election based ...
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The Journal of Vactional behaviour publishes research by Sheena Johnson on "Career Plateau"
11 Dec 2018
Dr Sheena Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester has had two publications accepted by The Journal of ...
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Congratulations to MICRA PhD Researcher Hayley James - winner of the Sociology Public Engagement Prize
11 Dec 2018
MICRA is delighted to congratulate our PhD Researcher, Hayley James on winning the award for the UoM Sociology Public Engagement Prize (PhD). ...
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News from Centre for New Writing students, staff and alumni – December 2018
10 Dec 2018
PhD student Mariah Whelan has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award for her poem 'Viaduct'. On 28 November ...
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Multiple successes for Manchester undergrads at world’s most prestigious student awards
5 Dec 2018
Two University of Manchester students have won the highest award possible at this year’s prestigious Undergraduate Awards.
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Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’, study finds
4 Dec 2018
Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’ to cope with the stresses of constant darkness, isolation and ...
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Event discusses how to ensure Greater Manchester’s economy thrives
3 Dec 2018
Almost a year on since the UK Government published its Industrial Strategy, academics, representatives from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority ...
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New global survey highlights bribery and corruption in businesses
3 Dec 2018
While progress has been made, improvements to companies’ anti-bribery and corruption strategies are still needed, according to the 2018 Global ...
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Manchester hosts first conference for justice campaign
30 Nov 2018
The first-ever conference for the Innovation of Justice campaign, which campaigns in defence of people who have been victims of miscarriages of ...
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Research says creativity to be more important for job growth between now and 2030
28 Nov 2018
A new study of 35 million UK job adverts from 2013-2017 finds that employers require creativity in jobs that are particularly likely to grow in ...
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