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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.

The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025

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

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

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.

Our Digital Afterlives at ESRC Festival of Social Science

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?.

ESRC Festival of Social Science : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences

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.