Welcome to the 2025 festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.
Since 2019 we’ve had a consistent mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century
Welcome to the 2025 festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.
Since 2019 we’ve had a consistent mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century.
This year’s programme brings you free films from three continents, in an eclectic mix of crime classics and lesser-known gems chosen by crime experts and film enthusiasts. Our experts will be on hand to introduce their movie choices and to answer your questions at Q+A sessions after each screening.
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 is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science is a nationwide event celebrating social science research.
A series of fascinating public events are hosted each autumn by our researchers, offering an insight into some of the country’s leading social science research.
MMU and the Manchester Poetry Library invites you to attend 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a series of poetry readings, panels, and workshops led by academics in the field. Our events examine how poetry can create transformational social change in partnership with our public and policymakers.
How can grief technology (‘grief tech’) help us to remember someone after they die? What are the real-world implications of this technology? And finally how can immersive theatre help us to ask these questions?.
Manchester is on a mission to establish itself as a global digital leader by 2026. As a globally recognised digital city, leading researchers in Digital Inequalities from Manchester Metropolitan University, in collaboration with experts with learning disabilities, have joined forces to demonstrate how digital strategies across the UK can be co-produced and include the perspectives of people with learning disabilities.
U-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.
U-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.
U-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.