Press releases
Find out what's been happening in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
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New partnership secures funding to train 225 arts & humanities researchers
16 Aug 2018
The North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), led by The University of Manchester, is one of 10 consortia who will share more than...
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You may call me a BAME author, but this misleading term hides more than it reveals
14 Aug 2018
Apparently, I am BAME. This places me as a contender for The Guardian’s BAME awards or the Jhalak prize, both aimed at BAME writers like myself....
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Manchester Arena archive awarded National Lottery support
26 Jul 2018
Thousands of tributes left by the public to remember those killed or injured in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack will be preserved for the ...
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Manchester lecturer wins Women's Prize for Fiction
8 Jun 2018
Kamila Shamsie, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing, has won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction for her seventh novel ...
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Manchester academics appear in BBC's new Emmeline Pankhurst documentary
6 Jun 2018
A BBC documentary revealing the life story of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst features expert insight from two University of Manchester ...
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Professor Jeanette Winterson to deliver the Dimbleby Lecture
5 Jun 2018
The University of Manchester’s Professor of New Writing, Jeanette Winterson will deliver the annual Dimbleby Lecture on Wednesday 6 June.
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Manchester language documentation technology heads to Russia
18 May 2018
Students and citizens in Saint Petersburg will now have access to a Russian version of LinguaSnapp - The University of Manchester’s mobile app ...
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Four things you need to know about Russian media manipulation
10 Apr 2018
The crisis embroiling the West and Russia over the apparent use of chemical weapons in the English cathedral town of Salisbury can tell us a lot about...
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The 1918 book by Marie Stopes that launched the birth control movement
26 Mar 2018
Marie Stopes was a distinguished academic scientist and became the youngest doctor of science in Britain. But when her book Married Love was published...
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Graduate finally receives her certificate at surprise 101st birthday party
9 Mar 2018
A centenarian who completed her university degree in 1938 has finally received her certificate, after her daughter surprised her with it at her ...
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University maintains elite place in global subject rankings
28 Feb 2018
The University of Manchester has been placed in the global top 100 for each of the five broad subject areas measured in the independent 2018 QS World ...
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University launches multi-million pound Creative Manchester project
19 Feb 2018
The University of Manchester is investing £3.3m in a new project, Creative Manchester, which will help to support its ambitious strategic vision...
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'Our Migration Story' wins prestigious history prize
30 Jan 2018
An innovative website which tells the story of Britain’s past through migration has been awarded a prestigious Royal Historical Society prize.
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Jack the Ripper letter mystery solved by Manchester researcher
29 Jan 2018
A forensic linguist from The University of Manchester who analysed letters supposedly signed by Jack the Ripper has concluded that two of the most ...
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History graduate makes Winter Olympics team
25 Jan 2018
A freestyle skier who graduated in history at The University of Manchester last year has been selected by team GB to compete in next month’s ...
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The University of Manchester appoints Maxine Peake as Honorary Professor
23 Jan 2018
The University of Manchester is delighted to appoint Maxine Peake as an Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance.
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Teachers with Northern accents are being told to ‘posh up’
19 Jan 2018
The way we talk can reveal a lot about us and our origins – in terms of region, class and ethnicity. The UK has a wide variety of accents but ...
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The libraries of the future will be made of DNA
8 Jan 2018
There are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per ...
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Syrian nationalism is all about masculinity
13 Dec 2017
Bashar al-Assad, with his men. EPA/SANABy Rahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History To truly “belong” to ...
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From Cold War to information war? First in-depth investigation of RT launched
12 Dec 2017
The first-ever in-depth investigation into RT - the international news network formerly known as Russia Today - has been launched by researchers at ...
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Manchester joins global network of UNESCO Cities of Literature
1 Nov 2017
Manchester has been successful in its bid to join UNESCO’s worldwide Creative Cities network as a City of Literature.
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Research finds that children’s first names in Manchester mirror diversity of city
3 Oct 2017
Girls in Manchester are more likely than boys to have ‘unique’ names, and the names given to children are likely to reflect parents’...
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