Information Lives in DIY Culture
This is a day-long event convened by Dr Kirsty Fife, explores the relationship between DIY cultures (grassroots and political cultures and practices) and information, archives, libraries and heritage.
Category Tackling Inequalities
Future-Proofing Equality in Children’s Fiction
Bringing together children’s publishers, writers, illustrators, specialists, academics and students, this symposium will facilitate urgent conversations and bold ideas around equity in children’s storytelling
Games Workshop Research Day : Saturday 11th October 2025
The Manchester Game Centre is hosting its second annual Games Workshop Research Day on 11 October 2025!
Please join us for a day of talks and games.
For its second outing the event will run all day from 9:30am until 8:30pm and has 3 parts.
Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a day of talks and gaming. This event is free and is open to everyone.
Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference : Call for Papers
Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference : Call for Papers
Professor Kirsty Fairclough will be delivering the keynote for the Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference at MediaCity, University of Salford, Manchester, UK on 10th December 2025 convened by Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou and Pete Deakin.
Bunker Talks at 150
Manchester Met's experimental art series Bunker Talks hits its 150th event. Sophie Atkinson looks back at how the talks achieved the milestone
Moving Images: Exploring Migration Through Audiovisual Storytelling
"Moving Images: Audiovisual Representations of Migration and Migrants", brought together academics, artists, community members, and practitioners from across the UK and beyond, fostering rich cross-sector dialogue around migration and representation.
Language and Social In/Justice: Advanced Workshop for Teachers
Led by Dr Ian Cushing, Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, this summer school brought together educators from a variety of schools, for an intensive, two-day summer school on linguistic justice. Teachers were given cutting-edge research resources to read, discuss, and apply in their own classrooms.
LUDeC Showcase: Collaborative Research in the Liveable City
This two-day conference showcases some of their innovative research traversing disciplinary boundaries to creatively envisage new ways of living and working.
Bunker Talks Autumn 2025
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 by interviewing industry guests about practice & research.
The Cost of Us : Filming for Good
The Cost of Us”, a thought-provoking short film, created by women from Trafford, exploring the impact of the cost of living crisis on women of all ages. Screenings were held in Partington, Stretford and Whalley Range in July 2025.