The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025
The Crime and Justice Film Festival shows films which provoke debate and an alternative take on 21st century crime, justice and punishment
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 Ancestral Avant-Gardes conference organised by Professor Claire Bishop
Can digital mixed reality technology offer an engaging sensorial experience for audiences with additional needs?
“Sensorial Dreams,” an immersive VR theatre experience presented at The Royal Exchange Theatre, combined sensory…
Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers
A body of scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that schools are places where linguistic injustice is…
Bunker Talks 2025
Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.
Future Flares Festival returns for a 3rd Edition to explore our changing world through art, performance and play
Future Flares Festival returns for the third time, to bring a vibrant programme of performances, talks and workshops
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 .
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis invites MMU academics and guests to discuss themes of cultural policy
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.