Past events
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Platform Politics: Luke Yates in conversation
18:30 - 20:30 4 December 2024
Join Luke Yates for the launch of his new book 'PLATFORM POLITICS: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy' at this event organised by Blackwell's bookshop. The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about,...
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Research Cafe: Sketching and Illustration as Research Tools
16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2024
Can sketching, graphics and illustration help us to think about research in new ways? How might they transform the ways we think about research data and outputs? Join us for a discussion on sketching, illustration and graphics as tools in academic research. We will invite a panel of artists and researchers to discuss their experiences in creating...
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Teenage Kicks Zine Making Workshop
15:00 - 16:00 4 December 2024
Join us for a zine-making workshop reflecting on experiences of teenage life and young adulthood. This hands-on workshop will allow you to explore your experiences of the highs and lows of teenage life through your own zine. The workshop will respond to the Teenage Kicks - Andrea’s Story Exhibition showing in the Samuel Alexander Class Corridor...
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Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation and resistance in a post-industrial English city - Ajmal Hussain
13:00 - 14:30 16 January 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Ajmal Hussain from the University of Warwick shares his research. ‘Left behind’ denotes a particular constituency of otherness, wherein disenchantment with the status quo is a consequence of the economic and material decline that accompanied the disappearance of large-scale industry in the UK. It is a particular...
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Building solidarity: CoDE Early Career Research Network Meeting
12:00 - 17:00 3 February 2025
Connect with other early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity at this in person meeting of the CoDE Early Career Researcher Network.
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2025
Riccardo De Vita, Manchester Metropolitan. NETWORK RESILIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL BRANCH CAMPUSES International Branch Campuses (IBCs) are one of the most prominent manifestations of globalisation in the Higher Education sector. Their diffusion grew exponentially in recent years, despite concerns about their financial...
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Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing - Yunis Alam
13:00 - 14:30 20 February 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Yunis Alam from the University of Bradford shares his research. In this talk I will be exploring a range of themes linked with insider research, ethnography and the extent to which research can be a political venture. I will also be speaking about owning and being committed to research, which may be especially...
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Building Resistance: empowerment, unity and representation
17:00 - 19:00 6 March 2025
Join us for a powerful evening of conversation & testimony as we bring together people from across Nottingham to discuss how we effectively organise to build positive change in the black community. All welcome. At a time when the City Council is making painful cuts that harm our communities the police force is in special measures and the health...
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"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn
15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder, four of manslaughter, after a "joint enterprise" prosecution that presented evidence that the young people were in a gang and had killed Hafidah principally because...
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research - online taster session
12:30 - 13:30 19 March 2025
This session gives you a taster of the two-day summer school on creative approaches to qualitative research which is team taught by members of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Here we introduce how we think about creative approaches to qualitative research in the morgancentre and we will give you a flavour of some of the approaches...
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