Do you have an innovation idea, challenge or question?
On 18th March, from 4–6pm, Unit M (UoM's Innovation Unit) are hosting a drop-in session at the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, with experts from across our innovation community there to help!
➡️ Sign up: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Are you a PGR looking for a supportive collective environment to progress your writing?
We would like to offer 20 places to SEED, SoSS & AMBS PhD students to a writing retreat hosted at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
Book on Eventbrite.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-re...
The 2nd workshop in the Methods North West Lost & Found Translation Series is coming this April!
📢: Ethics and Practicalities of Working with Multi-lingual Data
📅: University of Liverpool
⏰: 1pm - 4pm Thursday 9 April
For details, and to book: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/gQz7...
A reminder that the call for submissions for the 2026 Methods Fair is open 😀!
This years Fair “Methods for Change: Connecting People, Places, and Purpose” takes place on 27 May at UoM.
Submit your abstract for a lightning talk or poster here: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
📢There are a number of taster sessions scheduled for the M@M 2026 Summer School courses!
In these sessions you will meet the course leads, and see if the full Summer School course would benefit your research.
Register via the course webpage here! www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/metho...
Interested in the Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research Summer School course?
This MNW seminar is a taster session where you will get the opportunity to learn more about the course and how the summer school course could benefit your research.
Sign up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
AMBS PGRs - Join an inclusive space to connect, reflect, and be heard. This event brings together Black students, Black academics, and allies to shape actions that improve Black student experience in AMBS.
📅 25th February
🕒 1 to 3 PM
📍 Location: TBC
Register here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Join us for the 2026 Methods Fair!
An annual one-day event in collaboration with Methods North West, it brings together researchers and PGRs to explore research methods across the humanities and social sciences.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 May
👉 Call for submissions: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
Hear from one of our PGRs Amy Todd, PhD English and American Studies, on her experience with PhD, pregnancy and parenthood.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-exp...
Guest lecture from Emeritus Professor Sue Sanders:
'Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month',
🗓️ 5pm 18 February, University Place, Theatre A (and online).
Sue is co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month and Chair of Schools OUT UK.
Book your ticket: www.ticketsource.co.uk/catherine-at...
Researching with care: The importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
PGRs - Learn about the abolished Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP) that thousands of people are still living with.
This event will showcase Incarceration, a play written by Brian Daniels.
🗓️ 2.30 to 5pm, 4 February
👉 Details and Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-with-...
Researching with care: the importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
The Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership Course is back for 2026!
The course is unlike most leadership programmes. It will leave you with the power to actually shape the future.
Offered to all UoM PGRs in Humanities.
👉 documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
ARTS & CRAFTS FOR CALM
Hosted by the PGR Creative and Active Wellbeing Community
🪷 Take a mindful break from your research!
📍 Location: Jean McFarlane Building, 1st Floor, G306
🗓 Date: Monday, 9 January 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–2:30 PM
Register now on: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Minding the Gaps in Translation: How can translation studies help us navigate the realities of cross-language research?
🗓️ Thursday 5 February ⏰ 10am-1pm
Join the first workshop in the Lost & Found In Translation Series!
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfit-mindi...
The Doctoral Academy Support Hub will be open during the usual hours (10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday) up to and including Tuesday 23 December 2025.
The Hub will then close from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and re-open on Monday 5 January 2026.
Wishing you all a restful festive break!
📢 Call for Applications!
The Upjohn Institute’s Early Career Research Awards provide a resource for junior researchers (those within six years of earning a Ph.D.) to conduct research related to policy on employment issues.
The deadline to apply is January 23, 2026.
www.upjohn.org/news/upjohn-...
Wishing all our PGRs a wonderful festive break 🎄!
Watch the Faculty's highlights video with a selection of our key moments from 2025, including successes across research, teaching and learning, and social responsibility.
staff.manchester.ac.uk/uomhumscomms...
The Mental Health Support Team will remain open to support PGRs on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 December.
If you feel distressed or need support during the closure period, there are options available to you so please visit www.manchester.ac.uk/closure-supp... for available services.
🎓 Congrats to our grads! 🎓
Yesterday, we celebrated our Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute graduates. Wishing you all the best as you tackle global challenges ahead! 🌍✨
📸 Our academics in graduation attire.
🚀 Applications Close Friday 19th December for MEC Researcher Launchpad!
Are you a PhD student (Years 2–4) with big ideas and ambitions to create real-world impact? This is your chance to take your research into the world!
Full details here: www.entrepreneurship.manchester.ac.uk/researcher-l...
Methodological, Ethical & Safeguarding Challenges of Researching Mixed & Mutable Extremism
🗓️ Thurs 18 Dec ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
Are you researching Incels, misogyny, far right ideology or conspiracy theory groups online?
#ResearchMethods #Methodology #Methods #ResearchingExtremism #ResearchingHate 1/2🧵
Creative Manchester recently participated in the BEYOND Conference, where they showcased our own Harry O’Brien, whose project Data Sonification for Algorithm Behaviour is part of the 1st year of his PhD Electroacoustic Music Composition.
Find out about it here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Calling all PGR Parents! Join the Parents and Carers Christmas Event for a festive lunch, family games, carol singing, and of course a special visit from Santa with presents 🎅!
Register your attendance (for catering purposes) using the QR code provided.
The next seminar from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social is from Dhiraj Murthy, on racial inequalities in GenAI 👇🏾
@uomsoss.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
Humanities PGRs! Help shape the future of career development for postgraduate researchers 😀
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
🗓️ Thursday 4 December ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
In this Methods North West Seminar, Mark Gatto (Northumbria University) will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism.
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
The British Federation of Women Graduates has announced their annual travel bursary, available for women postgraduate students enrolled at an institution in North West England or North Wales.
Entry deadline 5pm 9th January 2026.
The next film showing for the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Film Club will be Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi).
For PGRs interested in MENA (esp. Iranian) cinema this is the film to see!
Everyone welcome 😀!
