Category Tackling Inequalities

Art historian and critic Claire Bishop presents Ancestral Avant-Gardes

The Art Research Group at Manchester School of Art invites you to a conference organised by Professor Claire Bishop from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Visiting Chair on Campus 2025 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University

Bunker Talks 2025

Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science October-November 2024

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.

A series of fascinating public events are hosted each autumn by our researchers, offering an insight into some of the country’s leading social science research.

Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’

Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.

Policy impact of free schools educational policy

New research, conducted by Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with the National Foundation for Educational Research, will help fill the evidence gap as to whether policy can help increase opportunities and reduce disparities across the UK in education.