Tag Talks

Bunker Talks 2025

Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, and dialogue, interviewing industry guests about practice & research.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science October-November 2024

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.

19th Century Now!

Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today. 

AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis

AHEAD at Manchester Met invites you to join regional and national thinkers, as well as researchers and practitioners working in arts and humanities, to help us set out a new agenda for how these disciplines can contribute to the policy debate and be a vital force in discourse about national renewal.

19th Century Now!

This event celebrates Man Met’s 19th Century roots in art and design education, and the transformative impact 19th Century ideas.

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.