Looking back at the Crime and Justice Film Festival 2026
Over the years the Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival has shown great films which spark debate on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century.
Stories
Articles, blogs and stories highlighting research from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met, including english, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, criminology, applied social science, and arts disciplines spanning across architecture, design, fashion, fine art, performance and digital arts.
Research Spotlight : Manchester Voices
Manchester Voices is a large-scale sociolinguistics research project which explores the rich tapestry of accents, dialects, and identities that make up Greater Manchester.
AI Literacy Lab and Manchester Festival of Libraries – 11 June 2026
This project joins researchers, artists and organisations involved in promoting awareness around generative AI, and promoting AI literacy.
Event: Roots of Resistance: A walk through history with forgotten feminist Rosa Grindon
Roots of Resistance - Discover Rosa Grindon—a suffragist, botanist, and Shakespearean lecturer to explore feminism and the role of plants in shaping memory and identity
Social Justice Lecture Series : Ecological Harm Reduction: Reimagining Drug Policy with Clemmie James
In this powerful and eye-opening talk, expert Clemmie James will reveal how drug prohibition is not only failing to reduce harm, but is also quietly driving deforestation, environmental destruction, and social injustice across some of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet.
Delving Deep Inside the Bunker Talks with Evelyn Pratt
Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are, what they do,…
Beyond Babel Festival Returns for 2026
Now in its tenth edition, Beyond Babel returns to celebrate multilingual cultures and cinema as a space for connection and exchange.
New Resource : Performance Research Group – Granny Jackson’s Dead
Granny Jackson’s Dead is a pioneering project that demonstrates how immersive theatre can function as an impactful method for public deliberation on emerging technologies.
20th May 2026 : Visual Arts Book Launch : Adam Walker – Textual Actants
Please join us for an event celebrating the publication of Adam Walker’s new book, Textual Actants (Infrastructure) (Ma Bibliothèque). Adam will be joined in conversation by Susannah Thomson, Laura Haynes, and Nell Osborne, who will also give readings of their work.
Celebrate St George’s Day with HEY! Festival as part of The Fete of Britain
The Centre For Fiction presents Hey! a free pop-up literary festival of talks, workshops, song and discussion . Hey! is the writer led wing of a rolling series of events across the UK called The Fete of Britain.