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.
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.
The Proud Place is the new golden and energy efficient three-storey LGBT+ Community Centre and Queer Public Place in Manchester’s city centre. Completed in 2022, it is the only purpose-built LGBT+ community centre in the UK and provides a safe and accessible ‘third place’ for LGBT+ people.
Research from MMU is changing the lives of people with communication and profound intellectual disabilities across Africa and India, concludes a new publication by the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR).
Children imprisoned in custody during COVID lockdowns were failed by the youth justice system, experiencing increased vulnerabilities and eradication of rights, which led to devastating effects on their mental health.
How will AI affect our language and environment? Do we all have equal access to sleep? And what constitutes the idea of ‘home’? These were a few of the concepts explored by three writers taking part in a pioneering project to support emerging poets of colour in Northern England.
Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities are at the forefront of embracing inclusive growth is not just an economic necessity but a social imperative. Their multidisciplinary projects demonstrate how integrating diverse perspectives leads to more effective and equitable growth strategies.
Saturday school students from History, Politics and Philosophy’s Society and Change Saturday Club, has recently co-produced some amazing work with a local poet and the Mixed Museum
Design, Music and Play are being used to support people living with dementia in Greater Manchester and internationally.
Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue.