Championing Creative Excellence

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

The Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) encompasses 15 researchers working to transform the way we think about cities.
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.

Bunker Talks Spotlight : Zodwa Nyoni

On 15th July 2025, Bunker Talks made a very significant move to the Grosvenor East building in order to delve into the research and writing of Manchester Met Scriptwriting Lecturer, Zodwa Nyoni.

Ties That Bind: Reflections on Community and Justice

Across 10 screenings between Wednesday 7th May and Friday 27th June 2025, the Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival showed films which provoke discussions around 21st century crime, justice and punishment.