Past events
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Exhibition: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people
2 - 30 September 2026
This exhibition is the outcome of a 10-month research project which aimed to better understand older LGBTQ people’s experiences of housing with care. The project observed the process of co-designing Kindred House, an extra-care housing scheme developed through a collaboration between a community steering...
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The Hidden Architecture: Systems that Shape Research Culture
11:00 - 13:30 8 July 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring how the infrastructures available dictate the boundaries of the research done. Universities and cultural institutions must change to allow interdisciplinary, collaborative research to flourish. This ambition takes many forms – from building shared digital...
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Interdisciplinarity & Lost in Translation? Bridging Research Cultures Through Dialogue & Speed Networking
14:00 - 15:30 8 July 2026
Each research discipline has its own ethos - distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly...
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Exhibition: Irrepressible - celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre
1 July - 2 September 2026
For the last 20 years, the Morgan Centre has explored the relational nature of social life as it is experienced in the everyday. Fuelled by unruly imagination and curiosity, and an inventive openness to new and different disciplinary and methodological approaches, the Morgan Centre has aimed to create...
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Irrepressible: an exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre
15:00 - 16:30 1 July 2026
Join us to celebrate 20 years of the Morgan Centre with an exhibition private view, poetry and creative activities For the last 20 years, the Morgan Centre has explored the relational nature of social life as it is experienced in the everyday. Fuelled by unruly imagination and curiosity, and an inventive...
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What is Resilience Really and how do we grow it?
11:00 - 11:30 25 June 2026
Talk: What is Resilience Really and how do we grow it? Over the last ten years Resilience has become a widely used term in organisations, mental health and wellbeing, sometimes referred to as the latest “buzzword.” But what is resilience, why do we need it and how do we find it? In this talk...
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Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms
13:30 - 16:00 25 June 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the North West, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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Solstice and Equinox series: Cosmic Titans – in conversation with David Olusoga
18:00 - 21:00 19 June 2026
Join Creative Manchester and Jodrell Bank for an evening that moves between science, art and philosophy to ponder what it means to imagine the universe when what we know is only ever partial. Reflecting on Cosmic Titans – an exhibition of sculpture, installation and photographic work created through...
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Frederick Douglass: A Global Life (SOLD OUT)
17:30 - 19:00 18 June 2026
Exploring the legacy and continued relevance of this remarkable abolitionist campaigner and advocate for social justice. Join us for the Inaugural Frederick Douglass Lecture, presented in a partnership between the Manchester Lit & Phil, The University of Manchester and CARISMA. Context In 2021, the...
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Creative Health Research Symposium: Social Care and Creative Practice
11:30 - 15:00 16 June 2026
Creative Manchester’s creative health and social care symposium focuses on arts and creative practices this year related to social care. This year, Creative Manchester’s creative health and social care symposium focuses on arts and creative practices developed by various regional organisations....
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