Welcome to AHEAD
AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue) is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University.
AHEAD – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue, aims to elevate the Faculty in national discussions, advocating for the significance of arts, humanities, and social sciences in addressing contemporary challenges and making a positive difference.
Our world-leading research and education changes lives. Our expertise spans, art, design, fashion, English, politics, history, sociology, criminology, architecture, journalism, languages and more.
AHEAD presents a rolling programme of events and collaborations on a range of topics, disciplines and research areas from across the faculty and throughout the year.
Please join us in making a positive impact through research.
We hope you enjoy the programme!
Download the Public Engagement Calendar for upcoming activity involving Manchester Met’s Arts and Humanities Researchers
Events Programme
Our Researchers are sharing their creativity and wisdom across the university all year round. Here are a selection of ways you can hear about their impact and conversations
Highlights from the Faculty
Creative Resilience and End-of-Life Care: Insights from the Jarman Now Project
Dr Elisa Oliver discusses the first in a series of feasibility events supported by AHEAD in collaboration with Jarman Now.
Sleep, AI and the concept of home explored by Poets of Colour at first public readings
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.