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The Home Magazine
Lucy Watson<br />
Hotel Gotham, Manchester The Home Magazine 2018.<br />
Content<br />
What is The Home<br />
Festival?<br />
How do I get<br />
involved?<br />
Home Festival<br />
Award<br />
About Strands<br />
Faculty Student<br />
Awards<br />
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The Home Magazine 2018.<br />
What is The Home<br />
Festival?<br />
The Home Festival is a series of<br />
themed events, activities and<br />
talks throughout the autumn and<br />
spring Term, focusing on how<br />
Manchester is a dynamic and<br />
diverse city with a rich social,<br />
cultural and radical past.<br />
The project enables Faculty of<br />
Arts and Humanities students<br />
at Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University to explore their ‘new<br />
home’ and see what a fantastic<br />
resource it is for their studies by<br />
delving into the four strands of<br />
activities;<br />
Radical Manchester<br />
Cottonopolis to the Northern Quarter<br />
Is Manchester a Northern Powerhouse?<br />
International City<br />
The city has a wealth of places to visit and experience,<br />
and there are a variety of ways it engages<br />
with the people and culture of Manchester<br />
making your studies and learning experience<br />
unique and individual.<br />
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How do I get involved?<br />
The Home Festival is a series of themed events,<br />
activities and talks throughout the autumn and<br />
spring Term, focusing on how Manchester is<br />
a dynamic and diverse city with a rich social,<br />
cultural and radical past.<br />
The project enables Faculty of Arts and Humanities<br />
students at Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University to explore their ‘new home’ and see<br />
what a fantastic resource it is for their studies<br />
by delving into the four strands of activities;<br />
Radical Manchester<br />
Cottonopolis to the Northern Quarter<br />
Is Manchester a Northern Powerhouse?<br />
International City<br />
The city has a wealth of places to visit and experience,<br />
and there are a variety of ways it engages<br />
with the people and culture of Manchester<br />
making your studies and learning experience<br />
unique and individual.<br />
Will Gillibrand<br />
6am, Fallowfield<br />
Please note that you might already have a strand allocated<br />
to your specific degree title if you study the following units<br />
*<br />
STEP ONE<br />
Pick a strand!<br />
Radical Manchester<br />
Cottonopolis to the Northern Quarter<br />
Is Manchester a Northern Powerhouse?<br />
International City<br />
Home Festival Award<br />
Molly Warnke<br />
STEP TWO<br />
Attend events and activities related to your<br />
chosen strand<br />
STEP THREE<br />
Use the termly events and city as a resource in<br />
your studies and gain your Home Festival Award<br />
BRONZE<br />
Create an artefact and display and/or present<br />
your artefact at the Faculty Student Showcase<br />
in the spring term.<br />
Based on your chosen strand you will work individually<br />
or as a team to produce a piece of<br />
work. This could be in any form decided by you.<br />
Previous artefacts have included presentations,<br />
photography, poetry, posters, podcasts, reports<br />
and films.<br />
GOLD<br />
Continue building your portfolio of Home Festival<br />
activities and make a presentation of your<br />
activities and experiences at the Faculty Student<br />
Conference.<br />
All presentations will automatically be short – listed<br />
for a Faculty of Arts and Humanities Student<br />
Award.<br />
Graduate with your Home Festival participation,<br />
awards and achievements on your transcript!<br />
SILVER<br />
Build your portfolio of Home Festival Projects<br />
and complete the Futures Skills Award<br />
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Radical<br />
— adjective Characterized<br />
by departure from<br />
tradition; innovative or<br />
progressive.<br />
WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE THIS STRAND?<br />
Manchester is synonymous with diversity and<br />
transformation and is recognised as one of the<br />
most influential cities in Europe.<br />
Throughout the years Manchester has maintained<br />
a spirit of independence and growth<br />
which has significantly impacted the way of<br />
living. The people of Manchester have continuously<br />
campaigned against injustice and prejudice,<br />
making it the unique city that it is today.<br />
WHAT WILL IT COVER?<br />
This strand includes topics relating to Manchester’s<br />
radical past. It explores the various<br />
boycotts, riots, protests that have taken place<br />
in Manchester, while it also looking at the progressive<br />
movements such as the suffragettes<br />
and the LGBT campaign.<br />
EXPLORE<br />
There will be a series of talks, visits, going on<br />
across the city linked to this strand to help inspire<br />
your project.<br />
PROJECT IDEAS<br />
Your group / individual project could be in different<br />
formats such as blogs, podcasts, posters,<br />
films, new articles, e-journals, brochure, booklet<br />
etc.<br />
– Podcast on has Manchester has lost its radical<br />
routes?<br />
-Poster on how LGBT nightlife has changed<br />
over time<br />
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– Blog on how music has shaped the identity<br />
of Manchester<br />
– Creative writing piece from someone who was<br />
at the Peterloo Massacre<br />
The Peterloo Massacre, 18<strong>19</strong>, St Peter’s Fields<br />
Over 60,000 peaceful pro – democracy and<br />
anti – poverty protesters gathered but were attacked<br />
by infantrymen and Yeomanry on horseback.<br />
Between 10 and 20 people died and 700<br />
were injured. The protest was hugely influential<br />
in giving ordinary people the vote, as well as<br />
leading to the rise of the Chartist movement,<br />
trade unions, and the establishment of The Manchester<br />
Guardian in 1821.<br />
The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition<br />
1857, Trafford Park<br />
Inspired by London’s Great Exhibition of 1851,<br />
the Manchester version was bankrolled by the<br />
city’s cotton trade business owners. 1.3m attendees<br />
visited the exhibition during its 142 – day<br />
run and it remains the largest art exhibition to<br />
ever be held in the UK with over 16,000 works<br />
on display. The orchestra that played at the<br />
opening became the Hallé.<br />
The millworkers’ stand against slavery 1862,<br />
Free Trade Hall<br />
In the 1860s, Manchester imported up to 75 per<br />
cent of all cotton grown on southern US plantations.<br />
Millworkers refused to touch raw cotton<br />
picked by US slaves resulting in Lincoln writing<br />
to them praising their stance. His statue now<br />
stands in Lincoln Square.<br />
The Battle of Bexley Square, <strong>19</strong>31, Salford<br />
10,000 unemployed men and women marched<br />
on Salford’s town hall in protest at the introduction<br />
of means testing at the height of recession.<br />
Deeply Vale festival, <strong>19</strong>76 – <strong>19</strong>79, Bury<br />
Deeply Vale was a free festival held for four<br />
years in the hills between Bury and Rochdale. It<br />
grew from 300 to 20,000 in two years, and was<br />
bigger and more organised than the nascent<br />
Glastonbury festival.<br />
Moss Side riots, <strong>19</strong>81, Moss Side<br />
Two days of rioting in the inner city district of<br />
Moss Side were fuelled by mass unemployment<br />
and racial tension, particularly between local<br />
youths and the police.<br />
Manchester is notorious<br />
for its radical ideas.<br />
As a result, its history<br />
is steeped in mass<br />
gatherings that embrace<br />
politics and protest.<br />
The Festival of the Tenth Summer, <strong>19</strong>86,<br />
Various venues<br />
A music and arts festival organised by Factory<br />
Records to celebrate 10 years since the Sex Pistols<br />
played the Lesser Free Trade Hall, viewed<br />
by many as catalyst for a generation of Manchester<br />
musicians. The final gig at G – Mex was<br />
headlined by New Order and The Smiths.<br />
Acid house raves, <strong>19</strong>86-92, The Kitchen,<br />
The Haçienda and beyond<br />
From <strong>19</strong>86 acid house became the underground<br />
sound of the city, from warehouses and illegal<br />
clubs like The Kitchen to Factory Records’<br />
legendary hangout The Haçienda and the city<br />
fully embraced the communal nature of the rave<br />
revolution.<br />
Section 28 rally, <strong>19</strong>88, Albert Square<br />
20,000 people descended on Albert Square for<br />
a rally against the Conservative government’s<br />
Section 28 act, which decreed that councils<br />
should not ‘intentionally promote homosexuality<br />
or publish material with the intention of<br />
promoting homosexuality’.<br />
Manchester Pride, <strong>19</strong>89-present day,<br />
Manchester gay village<br />
Manchester’s annual LGBT festival and parade<br />
attracts thousands from across the UK to the<br />
city’s gay village in and around Canal Street.<br />
The three – day celebration takes over the city<br />
every August bank holiday.<br />
Dpercussion, <strong>19</strong>97-2007, Castlefield<br />
Initially conceived as Manchester’s response<br />
to the <strong>19</strong>96 IRA bomb that injured 200 people<br />
and devastated the city centre, Dpercussion<br />
became a huge free urban music festival, with<br />
over 70,000 people pouring into Castlefield every<br />
August. The festival was a precursor to what<br />
became Parklife.<br />
Reclaim the Night, <strong>19</strong>77 – Present Day, Oxford<br />
Road<br />
A yearly women’s march in Manchester, is returning<br />
on the 22nd February to allow women<br />
to ‘raise their voices and unite their energies to<br />
stand up to street harassment, sexual violence<br />
and victim blaming<br />
England riots, 2011, Manchester and Salford<br />
Following the shooting of Mark Duggan, riots<br />
broke out all over the UK. Thousands of youths<br />
ransacked shops, attacked officers and torched<br />
cars in the city centre and over a thousand police<br />
and supporting staff were deployed. Police<br />
were called to 800 incidents in the city centre<br />
and the Fire Service reported 155 fires across<br />
the city centre and Salford.<br />
Stop Brexit and anti – austerity protests, 2017,<br />
Manchester City Centre<br />
Around 30,000 Anti – Brexit campaigners and<br />
activists, protesting the government’s austerity<br />
policies held rallies to coincide with the start of<br />
the Conservative Party conference. Protesters<br />
were demanding a second Brexit referendum<br />
and an end to the Government’s austerity policies.<br />
LGBT Campaign<br />
From protests to flash mobs, Manchester has<br />
played a significant part in the campaign for<br />
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)<br />
rights. The history of the Manchester’s LBGT<br />
community is an important part of the social and<br />
cultural history of the city and the North West.<br />
The LGBT community has had to campaign for<br />
its rights. Just fifty years ago many homosexual<br />
acts were illegal and the community was hidden<br />
and discriminated against. Manchester was<br />
the birthplace of the Campaign for Homosexual<br />
Equality in <strong>19</strong>64 and in the lead up to the passing<br />
of the <strong>19</strong>67 Sexual Offences Act, one of the<br />
influential meetings was held in Manchester on<br />
Deansgate. Currently the city hosts the United<br />
Kingdom’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and<br />
transgender (LGBT) community outside London<br />
and is renowned for its Gay Village centred on<br />
Canal Street.<br />
The Suffragette Movement<br />
In the nineteenth century Manchester was a<br />
hot-bed of radical and liberal thinking in many<br />
areas, political, social, economic and religious.<br />
Women were struggling to have a say in public<br />
affairs, to have a vote and in <strong>19</strong>03 Emmeline<br />
Pankhurst established the ‘Women’s Social Political<br />
Union’ in response to her dissatisfaction<br />
with the progress of the ‘Manchester Women’s<br />
Suffrage Committee’ at her house at 62 Nelson<br />
Stree, the Pankhurst centre.<br />
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The WSPU took a radical approach to attaining<br />
Women’s rights turning to increasingly militant<br />
tactics to raise awareness. These included burning<br />
down churches and MPs’ homes, destroying<br />
priceless paintings at Manchester Art Gallery,<br />
they even smashed all the windows in Oxford<br />
Street and bombed Oxted Station. As a result<br />
many were sent to prison where the women<br />
began to go on hunger strike as they wished to<br />
be given political prisoners status.<br />
The efforts of the Suffragettes was finally recognised<br />
in <strong>19</strong>28 in the Representation of the<br />
People Act, which finally entitled women to<br />
equal voting rights with men.<br />
Things to do<br />
— Volunteer with the LGBT Foundation<br />
— Help a young person living in the North West<br />
stay safe and reach their potential through<br />
Proud Trust<br />
— LGBT- HERITAGE TRAIL<br />
— Suffragette city: take a tour of 10 Manchester<br />
places that made Emmeline Pankhurst a political<br />
pioneer<br />
— Visit and volunteer at the Pankhurst Centre<br />
— Visit the Peoples History Museum as they<br />
mark the centenary of the Representation of<br />
the People Act (<strong>19</strong>18) with ‘Represent! Voices<br />
100 years On’<br />
Manchester and Communism<br />
In the middle years of the <strong>19</strong>th century, Friedrich<br />
Engels and Karl Marx, arrived from Germany to<br />
conduct much of their research into poverty and<br />
social conditions, fuelling their original take on<br />
how society could be reorganised along class<br />
lines.<br />
Engels lived in Manchester for several decades,<br />
the city where his radical philosophies were<br />
truly born and Manchester in the Victorian era<br />
was a catalyst for the development of Marxism.<br />
Their work resulted in some of the most influential<br />
political books ever written, including The<br />
Condition of the Working Class in England. Engel’s<br />
and Marx’s experiences in Manchester had<br />
a profound effect on their political philosophy,<br />
viewing capitalism as an unnecessary evil and<br />
soon wrote The Communist Manifesto which<br />
was able to show for the first time the essential<br />
features and laws of capitalism as a class-based<br />
social system of production and exchange.<br />
— Visit the Friedrich Engels statue at Tony Wilson<br />
Place which was transported in 2017 from<br />
the Poltava region of eastern Ukraine<br />
— Join Jonathan Scofield for The Friedrich Engels<br />
& Karl Marx Birthday Extravaganza Tour<br />
— Visit the desk and alcove where Karl Marx<br />
and Friedrich Engels worked at Chetham’s Library<br />
in 1845<br />
Schedule for<br />
Radical Manchester<br />
LT2<br />
03/10/2018<br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT2<br />
03/10/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
LT1<br />
14/11/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
LT1<br />
14/11/2018<br />
3pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
06/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
1 pm — 2pm<br />
LT1<br />
06/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
06/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
MET TALK FT CAROLINE DOWSETT<br />
Caroline Dowsett is a illustrator and maker from Manchester, working from her desk at The Engine House,<br />
Islington Mill, which she shares with 10 other creatives. Caroline works in a range of mediums, enjoying the<br />
process of seeing how her work can transfer through different materials, from working with ceramic and<br />
fabric, to painting murals and working on paper. Her practice is mainly focused on pattern and shape work,<br />
playing with different colour palettes and words to influence her pieces.<br />
MET TALK & PERFORMANCE BY KATE O’DONNELL — TRANSCREATIVE<br />
Kate O’Donnell is an award winning transgender performer, activist and theatre maker. In 2016 she founded<br />
Trans Creative a trans arts company which aims is to create platforms for trans people to tell their own stories.<br />
Her work includes the award – winning Big Girl’s Blouse and several well received cabaret performances. She<br />
is currently touring her critically acclaimed one woman autobiographical show ‘You’ve Changed’.<br />
In 2017 she curated Manchester first trans arts festival in which 50 trans voices were heard and was part of the<br />
MIF opening event ‘What is The City but its people?’. Other credits include: Feste in Twelfth Night (The Royal<br />
Exchange) Boy Meets Girl (BBC), Mum a short film co – created with Anne Marie O’Connor (winner of LGBT<br />
Short film London independent film festival) Sounds Like She (BBC Radio 3).<br />
MET TALK FT JEN YOCKNEY MBE<br />
Jen Yockney is one of the most prominent bisexual community activists in the UK, having worked on giving<br />
bisexual communities support and voice for the past twenty-plus years.<br />
That time has involved many levels of community work: frontline support at the UK’s oldest bisexual support<br />
group; publications and policy – making such as initiating meetings between the bi volunteer / activist community<br />
and GEO; and as a mentor actively reaching out to new volunteers to help bi groups and projects around<br />
the country blossom. In 2016 Jen received the MBE for ‘Services To The Bisexual Community’, the first such<br />
and the first time the title Mx appeared in the Honours List.<br />
MET TALK FT RUSSELL T. DAVIES<br />
Russell T. Davies was born in Swansea in <strong>19</strong>63. A graduate of Oxford University, he completed the BBC Director’s<br />
course before becoming a TV producer. He started writing whilst working in the Manchester department<br />
of Children’s BBC and has gone on to create several award-winning series including the ground-breaking<br />
Queer as Folk, Bob and Rose for which he won the British Comedy Award for Writer of the Year and Best<br />
Comedy Drama, The Second Coming for which he won the RTS Award for Best Network Drama and Broadcast<br />
Award’s Best Single Drama. He went on to revive the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who which<br />
received numerous awards and for which Russell won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series, and Torchwood for<br />
which he won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Drama Series. He has since created the trilogy Cucumber, Banana<br />
and Tofu for which he won the BAFTA for Best Drama Writer and BPG Innovation Award in 2016 and most<br />
recently adapted A Very English Scandal on BBC 1.<br />
MELANIE TEBBUTT — MEET THE PROF<br />
Melanie was the first in her family to receive a university education and has has never lost the desire to teach,<br />
research and spread the word about learning to as many people as possible. Her research focuses on the role<br />
of working-class women in the family economy, particularly their use of credit and the pawnbroker. It subsequently<br />
explored gossip networks in working class neighbourhoods and institutions. More recently, she has<br />
been researching and teaching the history of youth and exploring its implications for young people growing<br />
up in the present day.<br />
GIDEON KOPPEL — MEET THE PROF<br />
Gideon Koppel is an artist and filmmaker, whose work has been screened internationally and exhibited in galleries<br />
from Tate Modern, to MoMA New York. His first work for broadcast television was ‘Jones’ – a maverick<br />
BBC drama, styled as a German expressionist film. Koppel won the 2010 Guardian First Feature Film Award<br />
for his critically acclaimed ‘sleep furiously’ which has a soundtrack by Aphex Twin. The novelist John Banville<br />
described ‘sleep furiously’ as ‘simply, a masterpiece’. He is Professor of Film at Manchester School of Art and<br />
an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton, University of Oxford.<br />
MET TALK FT GULWALI PASSARLY<br />
Gulwali Passarlay is an Afghan political refugee currently residing in the UK. He left Afghanistan in 2006 and<br />
graduated with a degree in Politics from the University of Manchester. Now undertaking his MPA at Coventry<br />
University, CTPSR in Global Diversity Governance. He has recently founded ‘My Bright Kite’ CIC to empower<br />
refugee youth and create awareness about the challenges asylum seekers and refugees face in their host society.<br />
A Global Youth Ambassador for global children’s charity Theirworld, Gulwali has taken a long history<br />
of campaigning and leadership roles, including being the President of the United Afghan Peace Movement,<br />
Chairperson of the Afghan Youth Movement, Patron of the Separated Child Foundation, Commissioner of The<br />
Children’s Society, and Ambassador of various organisations. He has told his story of life as a refugee in his<br />
autobiography: “The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan”.<br />
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Cottonopolis<br />
— Metropolis and the<br />
centre of the cotton<br />
industry<br />
WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE THIS STRAND?<br />
Manchester’s landscape is constantly regenerating<br />
itself, just by observing the many cranes<br />
dotted around the Manchester skyline it is obvious<br />
that the city is still evolving. Regeneration<br />
has been key to Manchester’s identity, from<br />
‘cottonopolis’ which transformed a small market<br />
town into the cotton capital of the world, up<br />
to the regeneration and repurpose of the city<br />
centre and the Northern Quarter.<br />
WHAT WILL IT COVER?<br />
This strand will concentrate on urban and economic<br />
regeneration in Manchester focussing<br />
on the earliest and most important period for<br />
regeneration of the city, Cottonopolis, up until<br />
the redefining regeneration of the city itself and<br />
its Norther Quarter.<br />
Manchester is constantly evolving whether it<br />
be in the manufacturing of the popular culture<br />
city or learning and improving on projects like<br />
Hulme, it is certain that Manchester will always<br />
be in a state of flux. Regeneration also raises issues<br />
such as gentrification and social inequality<br />
which will be touched in this section.<br />
EXPLORE<br />
There will be a series of talks, visits, going on<br />
across the city linked to this strand to help inspire<br />
your project.<br />
PROJECT IDEAS<br />
Your group / individual project could be in different<br />
formats such as blogs, podcasts, posters,<br />
films, new articles, e-journals, brochure, booklet<br />
etc.<br />
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— Is Manchester losing its industrial soul to regeneration?<br />
— Can regeneration solve inequality in the city?<br />
— Explore the various styles/ subcultures within<br />
the city<br />
Manchester and the Industrial Revolution<br />
Manchester was at the forefront of cotton production<br />
during the late 18th and <strong>19</strong>th Centuryearning<br />
its title of ‘Cottonopolis’. Manchester<br />
evolved from a small market town, to a thriving<br />
metropolis , and exploded into global consciousness.<br />
Regeneration of the city was key<br />
to coping with the demands of the industrial<br />
revolution: the canals were developed, grand<br />
cotton mills and warehouses multiplies across<br />
the municipality, and the world’s first inter – city<br />
train link between Manchester and Liverpool<br />
was constructed. Iconic buildings like the Royal<br />
Exchange were built to facilitate the commercial<br />
deals that powered the industrial revolution.<br />
Manchester’s economy and reputation boomed.<br />
The Manchester Bee<br />
The Manchester working bee symbol was adapted<br />
during the Industrial Revolution in honor<br />
of the hard-working Mancuntions who drove<br />
Manchester to the international front runner of<br />
the Industrial Revolution.<br />
Most recently it has been used as a symbol of<br />
tenacity and resilience of Manchester in the<br />
face of adversity. Look out for the bees dotted<br />
about in Manchester’s architecture!<br />
De – Industrialisation<br />
The events of World War 1 devastated Manchesterr’s<br />
cotton monopoly. As Manchester focussed<br />
its efforts on the war, international competition<br />
overtook it. By the end of the war, Manchester<br />
was struggling to keep up. By the mid – <strong>19</strong>60s<br />
most of the mills and warehouses were for sale<br />
or rent; poignant reminders of Manchester’s<br />
once prosperous past.<br />
The city was plunged into poverty, as jobs were<br />
taken from the city. According to Urban Regeneration<br />
in the UK it took only 13 years from <strong>19</strong>71<br />
to <strong>19</strong>83 to cut manufacturing jobs by a third.<br />
The mass scale of unemployment in Manchester<br />
happened suddenly. It was clear regeneration<br />
was needed to encourage investment in the city.<br />
Northern Quarter / (N4 or<br />
NQ) / area of Manchester<br />
city centre, defined and<br />
named in the <strong>19</strong>90s as<br />
part of the regeneration<br />
and gentrification of<br />
Manchester.<br />
The Manchester Ship Canal<br />
An untouched piece of Manchester’s industrial<br />
past are the canals that run through the city.<br />
The Manchester Ship Canal was built in 1894 to<br />
cope with the demands of the industrial revolution.<br />
The canals were key to commercial imports<br />
and exports and were fundamental in defining<br />
Manchester as the Cotton Capital of the world.<br />
As the cotton industry declines so did the commercial<br />
usage of the canals as they struggled<br />
to facilitate modern ships. The canals have remained<br />
dormant ever since, however, Peel Ports<br />
Ltd. Have recently started an effort to regenerate<br />
the canal to the frustration of some critics.<br />
‘There’s no place like Hulme’<br />
In the wake of deindustrialised Manchester,<br />
housing slums, housing the working class of<br />
Manchester, were a common sight. Yet in areas<br />
of poverty, a strong sense of community thrived<br />
The Hulme Crescents<br />
The slums in Hulme were particularly notorious<br />
and the in the early <strong>19</strong>70’s the slums were demolished<br />
and a high density housing scheme<br />
called the ‘Hulme Crescents’ rehomes residents.<br />
The scheme was a failure from start to finish,<br />
and became a symbolic of inner city deprivation<br />
in Manchester. They fractured an existing<br />
community and are an example of regeneration<br />
gone awry. They were demolished in 1<strong>19</strong>4, 22<br />
years after they were constructed.<br />
WATCH VIDEO<br />
Following the demolition Manchester City Council<br />
received government funding to regenerate<br />
Hulme. Cooperation between local authority<br />
and private and public groups meant it would<br />
be rebuilt with the values of the community in<br />
mind and to the extent that it could re – establish<br />
itself.<br />
‘Homes for Change’ a community led housing<br />
cooperative which was unique not only in its<br />
architecture but also the process in which it<br />
was made. The medium-rise blocks reflect the<br />
diverse community and were practical truly suiting<br />
the residents. The project was a success<br />
and showed that regeneration could work for<br />
all parties involved where residents were consulted<br />
in the process.<br />
THE GENTRIFICATION OF MANCHESTER’S<br />
POP CULTURE<br />
Manchester: Pop Cult City<br />
The Smiths to Oasis , Coronation Street to Manchester<br />
United, Factory Records to Canal Streetto<br />
name a few cultural artefacts that have gone<br />
on to shape not only the symbolic transformation<br />
of Manchester, but also the physcial structure<br />
of the city. The economic impact it has had on<br />
the city is immeasurable.<br />
LISTEN SOUNDBITE<br />
The Hacienda<br />
The Hacienda was an infamous superclub<br />
that pioneered the Madchester house scene.<br />
Its movement stiumlated the night-time culture<br />
as many more night clubs followed in its<br />
course rejuvenating previosuly bleak areas of<br />
Manchester.<br />
WATCH VIDEO<br />
The Hacienda closed due to financial issues in<br />
<strong>19</strong>97 and luxury flats were built on its site. Gentrification<br />
is prevalent across Manchester with<br />
other legendary venues following suite such as<br />
The twisted Wheel, the home of norther soul being<br />
developed as a budget hotel and even more<br />
recently Sankey’s also being turned into flats.<br />
The venues and movements that defined Manchester<br />
as a pop cult city, which started out as<br />
a counter culture movement, have been appropriated<br />
as a cultural asset. Some argue that it<br />
has taken the edge out of the city, and instead<br />
replaced it with luxury flats and chain coffee<br />
shops.<br />
https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/mmu/<br />
items/1615466?query=Dave+Haslam&resultsUri=items%3Fquery%3DDave%2BHaslam<br />
TO THE NORTHERN QUARTER…<br />
REGENERATION IN THE <strong>19</strong>90S<br />
The city centre<br />
The fervour of regeneration took over the city<br />
following the failed Summer Olympic bid and<br />
<strong>19</strong>96 IRA bomb that ravaged the city. The Manchester<br />
Arndale, Royal Exchange and Corn<br />
Exchange buildings were partially rebuilt, and<br />
sites such as the Manchester Arena and The<br />
Velodrome were built.<br />
Spinningifields, Manchester’s business district<br />
did not formally exist until London Properties<br />
Ltd. Invested into the area driving employment<br />
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into the city, making Manchester once again a<br />
prosperous city.<br />
PODCAST St Anns: Roger Ward of Mr Tom’s<br />
Chophouse and Revd Nigel Ashworth of St<br />
Ann’s Church about the history of St Ann’s Manchester.<br />
Church and pub, the development of<br />
the city, the first oil boom and the importance<br />
of memorials... https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-08-st-anns<br />
PODCAST King Street: King Street remains Manchester’s<br />
premier shopping destination. In this<br />
episode, we chat to Manchester historian and<br />
tour guide Jonathan Schofield about the history<br />
of the street, its ups and downs and how it might<br />
develop in the future. https://soundcloud.com/<br />
cottonmouthmanchester/episode-05-king-street<br />
Inequality<br />
Manchester’s physical facelift is seen as an indicator<br />
of the thriving powerhouse of The North.<br />
However, issues such as increasing homeless<br />
population in the inner city, the high proportion<br />
of residents employed in relatively low paid retail<br />
jobs and the largest resident – workplace<br />
wage gap of England’s core cities perhaps suggest<br />
that the impact of regeneration has been<br />
quite modest.<br />
RECLAIM: Ruth Ibegbuna, founder and outgoing<br />
Chief Exec of the Reclaim Project about<br />
working class teenagers, young people in the<br />
city centre, funding charities and lots more<br />
https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-26-reclaim-project<br />
The Northern Quarter<br />
The Northern Quarter, especially Oldham Street,<br />
was formerly Manchester’s prime High Street.<br />
Following deindustrialisation in nearby areas<br />
and the construction of the Manchester Arndale<br />
in the <strong>19</strong>70s, activity in the area began to<br />
dwindle.<br />
Together with local businesses, Manchester<br />
City Council began a regeneration project in<br />
the area in the <strong>19</strong>90s. Altering the planning<br />
policies so that buildings could offer a mixed use<br />
purpose appealed to start – ups and the creative<br />
industries. Investments from bars to art galleries<br />
poured into the areas.<br />
Northern Quarter: Talk with Hayley Flynn, tour<br />
guide and owner of the Skyliner blog about the<br />
history of the Northern Quarter, the art of selling<br />
monkeys, the importance of street art, how to<br />
make a place distinctive and what’s coming next<br />
https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-20-northern-quarter-history<br />
Schedule for<br />
Cottonopolis to the NQ<br />
LT1<br />
10/10/2018<br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
10/10/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
LT1<br />
21/11/2018<br />
1 pm — 2pm<br />
LT1<br />
21/11/2018<br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
DAVID TYLER — MEET THE PROF<br />
David joined the Department of Clothing Design and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University in<br />
<strong>19</strong>79, now known as Manchester Fashion Institute. He has pursued a number of research interests related to<br />
responsive manufacturing (arising from my own PhD), team – working, systems modelling and new product<br />
development. These projects were funded by EPSRC and the DTI.<br />
His current research interests are in new product development, PPE, sustainability issues affecting apparel,<br />
mobile e-commerce, wearable technologies and textile digital printing.<br />
MET TALK FT KEMOY WALKER — AMBASSADOR FOR MANCHESTER AND MOSS SIDE<br />
Kemoy Walker is a prominent Youth Worker and Ambassador for Manchester and Moss Side. His work in<br />
Manchester helps young people; creating a voice and helping them with their aspirations especially around<br />
Performing Arts. In 2012 he was named as a youth ambassador for the suburb by Manchester City Council.<br />
That same year he met the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during the Diamond Jubilee. And just last year<br />
his achievements were recognised by the Prime Minister with a Point of Light award.<br />
He also runs a popular performing arts group called KYSO who do beatboxing, singing and dancing and were<br />
recently featured in a massive Co-Op Christmas advert in 2017!<br />
MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS — MEET THE PROF<br />
Michael Symonns Roberts is an award winning writer.<br />
His poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry .<br />
Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the<br />
T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received major awards from the Arts Council and the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow<br />
of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the English Association.<br />
MET TALK FT JASON BAILEY<br />
Jason Bailey is one half of the owner/operator team of GRUB. GRUB is a street food and drinks events company<br />
founded in 2014 after a successful run as street food traders. The focus of the events is always providing an<br />
inclusive, festival style atmosphere supported by exceptional food and drink supplied by truly independent<br />
producers and chefs. In addition to this GRUB is committed to assisting and mentoring street food traders in<br />
order to support the grass roots food drink community of Manchester whilst working out of re-purposed often<br />
neglected and forgotten areas of the city.<br />
Things to do<br />
LT1<br />
21/11/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
MET TALK FT IAN SIMPSON<br />
Born and raised in North Manchester, Ian is a passionate advocate for his home city and raising the profile of<br />
the Northern Powerhouse. Ian co – founded SimpsonHaugh with Rachel Haugh in <strong>19</strong>87, a design – led architectural<br />
practice which has played a major part in the regeneration of Manchester, contributing many masterplans,<br />
developments and buildings, including Beetham Hilton Tower, Urbis and Two St Peter’s.<br />
Ian supports revitalising cities using contemporary architectural language and high quality design. He champions<br />
tall, mixed use, high density, sustainable and viable propositions, which engender a sense of community<br />
through identity, and act as symbols of civic pride, confidence and ambition. As a tall building resident himself,<br />
Ian understands first – hand the benefits of urban, high density living.<br />
— Visit Quarry Bank Mill which resembles<br />
many of the textile mill that put Manchester at<br />
the forefront of cotton production<br />
— Visit Stockport’s Air Raid shelters and see<br />
what life was life for Mancunians during wartime<br />
— Visit Salford’s Lads Club which has stood for<br />
over 100 years and even served as background<br />
for the inside cover of The Smith’s highly acclaimed<br />
album The Queen Is Dead<br />
— Visit the Museum of Science and Industry<br />
and see how Manchester has evolved since<br />
the Industrial Revolution<br />
— See Manchester’s Gothic Library, which<br />
holds letters by some of Manchester’s most<br />
notable literary, figures<br />
LT1<br />
13/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
13/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
ALICE KETTLE — MEET THE PROF<br />
Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK. She has established a unique area of practice<br />
by her use of a craft medium, consistently and on an unparalleled scale.Her stitched works, many the size of<br />
huge figurative tapestries, exploit the textures and effects made possible through the harnessing of a mechanical<br />
process to intuitive and creative ends.<br />
She is currently a Professor in Textile Arts in MIRIAD Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan<br />
University. Her work is represented in various public collections such as the Crafts Council London, the Whitworth<br />
Art Gallery in Manchester, the Museo Internationale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy. Commissions<br />
include the National Library of Australia, the Scottish High Court in Edinburgh, Gloucester and Winchester<br />
Cathedrals and the School of Music & Drama at Manchester University.<br />
MET TALK FT CARL AUSTIN – BEHAN<br />
Former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Carl Austin Behan, born in Crumpsall, North Manchester, left school at the<br />
age of 16, worked in various retail roles before joining the RAF as a Firefighter at the age of <strong>19</strong>. Whilst serving<br />
in the RAF, he was awarded various awards including The Royal Humane Society Bronze Award for rescuing<br />
a pilot from a burning Hawk Aircraft. He was dismissed from the RAF in <strong>19</strong>97 as it was deemed my sexuality<br />
was “incompatible with service life”. Then he went on to join Greater Manchester Fire Service in <strong>19</strong>98. Left<br />
the Fire Service to set up a promotions company. Then in 2010 went on to set up a cleaning company. In 2001,<br />
Carl was crowned Mr Gay UK, elected to the Council in May 2011 and elected as Manchester’s youngest and<br />
first openly gay Lord Mayor in 2016 / 2017.<br />
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International/<br />
— adjective/ between<br />
or involving different<br />
countries<br />
WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE THIS STRAND?<br />
Manchester is a cosmopolitan city with many<br />
communities and ethnic groups. It is also recognised<br />
as the most linguistically diverse city<br />
in Western Europe with over 200 languages<br />
being spoken. Some people are born here; some<br />
people come here and each one helps shape<br />
Manchester into what it is today.<br />
WHAT WILL IT COVER?<br />
The strand includes many topics relating to<br />
Manchester’s cultural identity, from different<br />
perspectives, including migration, communities,<br />
culture and language. You will look at how Manchester<br />
is an evolving city with many diverse<br />
communities and because of this, it has become<br />
a booming multicultural city – helping boost the<br />
economy.<br />
EXPLORE<br />
There will be a series of tours, visits, going on<br />
across the city linked to this strand to help inspire<br />
your project.<br />
PROJECT IDEAS<br />
Your group project could be in different formats<br />
such as blogs, podcasts, posters, films, new<br />
articles, e – journals, brochure, booklet etc. If<br />
you have any queries, you can speak to your<br />
personal tutor<br />
— Make a podcast about use of slang across<br />
different areas<br />
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— Create experiences of a language teacher<br />
volunteer (Pros, Cons)<br />
— Make a poster about who is the Mancunian<br />
— Explore ‘Global Manchester’ and produce a<br />
poster/collage of the pictures you have taken/<br />
various evidence taken across the city<br />
— Explore the presence/impact of a certain community<br />
in Manchester and produce a poster/<br />
collage about it<br />
— Write a creative piece from the point of view of<br />
someone who has just migrated to Manchester<br />
Podcast by Rob Drummond<br />
Senior lecturer in the department of Language,<br />
Linguistics and TESOL.<br />
Listen to why Rob likes to work in Manchester<br />
as a Sociolinguist and use the rich resource of<br />
accents and dialects around the city.<br />
Migration<br />
Manchester has been attracting people from<br />
abroad since its inception by the Romans in 80<br />
A.D., but it was the industrial revolution that<br />
provoked large – scale immigration, beginning<br />
with Irish migrants taking up work in the mills<br />
and followed by Jewish migrants fearing persecution.<br />
Moving ahead to the mid-20th Century,<br />
migrants generally arrived in the country<br />
because of problems in their country of birth,<br />
such as war, discrimination, poverty. People<br />
who migrated from <strong>19</strong>71 – 2003 were mainly<br />
from Bangladesh, followed by Ugandan born<br />
Asians, Vietnamese, Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans,<br />
Rwandans, Zimbabweans, Somalians, Angolans,<br />
Bosnians, Kosovans and Albanians.<br />
According to a study in 2004, there was a big<br />
shift in the reason for immigration to Manchester.<br />
So many positive reasons such as study and<br />
employment have attracted people from around<br />
the world. Between 2010 and 2011 there was a<br />
large increase in the number of Chinese student<br />
immigrating reflecting the excellent higher education<br />
that the city can offer. More people have<br />
become attracted to the city for employment,<br />
education and lifestyle as Manchester is seen<br />
as a more desirable place to live. Immigration is<br />
beneficial to both Britain and those who come<br />
here. We can share language, music, food and<br />
fashion.<br />
Communities<br />
Manchester’s status as an international city is<br />
a rich and important part of the city’s history.<br />
It has attracted visitors from across the globe<br />
both as a place of refuge and as a city full of new<br />
and exciting opportunities. These communities<br />
include South Asian, East Asian, Afro – Caribbean<br />
and Jewish. These communities are spread<br />
across the Manchester. You can read more about<br />
them and their history in this section.<br />
The Curry Mile in Manchester<br />
Wimslow Road in Rusholme has become known<br />
as the ‘Curry Mile’. In the <strong>19</strong>70s, Manchester<br />
saw an influx of South Asian (Pakistan, Bangladesh,<br />
India) immigrants many of whom built<br />
communities in Longsight and Rusholme. Initially<br />
they went to work in textile mills and<br />
factories however many went on to open their<br />
own businesses.<br />
Manchester has recently<br />
recognised as one of<br />
Europe’s fastest growing<br />
cities.<br />
The curry mile features a rich and diverse range<br />
of cuisines reflecting the wide range of people<br />
who have immigrated to Manchester. It has<br />
been a focal point of Manchester in the late<br />
<strong>19</strong>70s by which point many of the predominantly<br />
Pakistani immigrants had settled down in the<br />
city. It is thought to be the largest concentration<br />
of South Asian restaurants outside of the<br />
sub – Indian content.<br />
Chinatown<br />
Manchester’s Chinatown is at the heart of city<br />
and is the third biggest Chinatown in Europe<br />
reflecting Manchester’s thriving Chinese/Asian<br />
community.<br />
After the Second World War, Manchester saw<br />
an influx of Chinese immigrants and in <strong>19</strong>48, the<br />
first Chinese restaurant opened in Manchester.<br />
There is an impressive arch that was erected<br />
in <strong>19</strong>87; just one year after Manchester was<br />
twinned with the city of Wuhan. The area is<br />
home to many restaurants, stores, bakeries and<br />
there is even a Chinese Art Centre. In 2013, the<br />
Bank of East Asia opened its first Manchester<br />
branch here reflecting the area’s reputation as a<br />
place of great opportunity. It is host to Chinese<br />
businesses but many other East Asian overseas<br />
businesses including Thai, Japanese, Nepali,<br />
Vietnamese, Singaporean and Malaysian.<br />
Jewish Community<br />
Manchester has had a notable Jewish community<br />
since the late 18th century. The first synagogue<br />
was a rented room, now the city is home<br />
to many prominent synagogues. In the early<br />
<strong>19</strong>th Century, immigrants from Germany and<br />
Holland joined many of whom were Jewish.<br />
Many found homes in Manchester’s semi-rural<br />
suburbs such as Cheetham Hill. Many places<br />
such as Prestwich still have a vibrant Jewish<br />
community today and Manchester even has<br />
its own Jewish Museum featuring stories from<br />
Manchester’s Jewish community.<br />
Manchester Irish Community<br />
Manchester’s Irish community play an important<br />
part in the history of the city. In 1841 a tenth of<br />
the city’s population was Irish living in a slum<br />
area in Ancoats known as ‘Little Ireland’ however<br />
this still offered a better life for many Irish immigrants,<br />
whom had become impoverished due<br />
to the Potato famine. By the early 20th century,<br />
the Manchester Irish were very well integrated<br />
especially in comparison to the Welsh or Scots.<br />
This can be attributed to various factors such<br />
as higher numbers, distinctive region, history<br />
and cultural traditions. Manchester has its own<br />
Irish World Heritage Centre, which is a major<br />
conference and events venue and major hub<br />
for the Irish community in Northwest England<br />
and offers a diverse programme of traditional<br />
cultural activities covering Irish dance, music,<br />
and Irish language groups. Find out more here.<br />
The Manchester Irish Festival is also the biggest<br />
in the UK and among the biggest in the world.<br />
Afro – Caribbean Community<br />
In the <strong>19</strong>50s and <strong>19</strong>60s, Britain saw an influx in<br />
immigrant from West Indies. Moss Side became<br />
a key area of black settlement however many<br />
of them did face adversity due to racism and<br />
social deprivation. Many people found hope and<br />
strength through the church and formed many<br />
of their own successful establishments. Today<br />
many Afro-Caribbean residents still reside in<br />
Moss Side but the area has been regenerated<br />
and the area was even featured in the Guardian’s<br />
Let’s Move To series. Since <strong>19</strong>72 Manchester<br />
has also been host to an annual Caribbean<br />
Carnival celebrating the rich and diverse culture<br />
the Caribbean has to offer.<br />
Manchester as a Place of Refuge<br />
From the earliest points in history, Manchester<br />
has been a place of refuge for many immigrants<br />
whom have had to flee their own countries to<br />
find a place of safety. Charities such as Refugee<br />
Action have supported those in need from Vietnamese<br />
refugees in <strong>19</strong>81 to helping support<br />
Syrian refugees today. Greater Manchester is<br />
home to one in four Asylum seekers in the UK<br />
and there are continued effort to support and<br />
home refugees whom are an important part of<br />
the community. More information can be found<br />
here and here.<br />
Culture<br />
Culture is a way of life of a group of people.<br />
Culture is the characteristics and knowledge<br />
of a particular group of people, encompassing<br />
language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music<br />
and arts. Manchester has been one of the<br />
country’s major cultural cities. Indeed in many<br />
senses, it has been considered after London to<br />
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e Britain’s ‘City of Culture’. In a multilingual<br />
and multicultural city, ideas are exchanged and<br />
creativity grows. It is a city of cultural richness,<br />
economic development and communication. It<br />
looks outwards to other cultures and cities.<br />
Manchester has a rich history of diversity and<br />
culture. Manchester has so many different communities,<br />
nationalities, multilingual people, all<br />
of which are good reasons to call Manchester a<br />
multicultural city. There are wide collections of<br />
different cultures in Art galleries, museums and<br />
exhibits within Manchester. You can explore<br />
how cultures have changed over time. You can<br />
use the collections to investigate issues associated<br />
with cultural identity or learn about new<br />
cultures you’re unfamiliar with.<br />
Culture can be seen through arts, architecture,<br />
museums, music, theatre, literature and sport.<br />
Manchester has very rich resources for enthusiastic<br />
students, explorers and researchers to<br />
learn more about different cultures.<br />
Why is Linguistic Diversity an Important Part<br />
of Manchester?<br />
Manchester is considered a multilingual city.<br />
Up to 200 languages are spoken by residents<br />
in greater Manchester including Urdu, Arabic,<br />
Mandarin, Cantonese, Bengali, Polish, Punjabi<br />
and Somali. Migration from the sub-Indian<br />
content has caused Urdu to become one of the<br />
most widely spoken languages in Manchester,<br />
alongside English. The independent reports that<br />
it is estimated half of Manchester’s adult population<br />
is multilingual, with an additional four in<br />
every ten young people being able to converse in<br />
multiple languages. Manchester Central Library<br />
has many books available in other languages so<br />
speakers can read books in their mother tongue<br />
or in a new language, they are learning.<br />
From an economic perspective, Manchester has<br />
good trade links with many other countries such<br />
as China and Middle Eastern countries. Good<br />
relations with our European allies are essential<br />
to maintain a good climate. In 2015, a Chinese<br />
consortium invested £265M to buy a 13% stake<br />
in Manchester City Football Club. Therefore,<br />
language skills are necessary to converse with<br />
overseas trade partners.<br />
Project Ideas<br />
Here you can watch a video and make your<br />
own version. This the first Flash Mob event<br />
that took place in Manchester, and was organized<br />
by Greek and Cypriot students. Greek flash<br />
mob takes place in various cities across the UK<br />
each year, where students dance to a traditional<br />
Greek song ‘Zorbas’. Choreographers, dancers<br />
and organizers tried to give an idea to the English<br />
community of their traditions and country.<br />
Schedule for<br />
International City<br />
LT1<br />
24/10/2018<br />
1pm — 4pm<br />
LT2<br />
24/10/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
LT1<br />
05/12/2018<br />
3pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
05/12/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
BLACK PANTHER FILM SCREENING AND DEBATE<br />
King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as<br />
his country’s new leader. However, T’Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from factions within<br />
his own country. When two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must team<br />
up with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje, Wakandan special forces, to prevent<br />
Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.<br />
Featuring an exclusive talk afterwards.<br />
MET TALK FT RABBI SILVERMAN AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SAM GONTARZ<br />
Sam Gontarz, was born in Lodz, Poland on 6th July <strong>19</strong>29. He was sent to Auschwitz in July <strong>19</strong>44 on his own<br />
after being separated from his family. He spent 2 years in DP camps in Germany and was finally brought to<br />
England in July <strong>19</strong>47 with the last transport of Boys.<br />
MET TALK FT HEART & PARCEL<br />
At Heart & Parcel, we bring women from migrant communities together by making dumplings and developing<br />
ESOL skills. Making dumplings involves many hands, communication and teamwork. We use this process as<br />
a method to engage with women using English as the medium.<br />
This new informal approach to ESOL allows women to develop their skills and realise their potential, giving<br />
space to explore these hidden resources whilst making friends across communities along the way.<br />
At Heart & Parcel we strongly believe there needs to be greater support and respect for women from communities<br />
across Manchester. We believe migrant communities should be valued on their wealth of previous<br />
experiences and wisdom, rather than their value be measured by the English language skills that they have<br />
not yet acquired.<br />
OLA UDUKU — MEET THE PROF<br />
Ola Uduku took up a Professorship in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture in 2017. Prior to<br />
this she was Reader in Architecture, and Dean International for Africa, at Edinburgh University. Her research<br />
specialisms are in the history of educational architecture in Africa, and the contemporary issues related to<br />
social infrastructure provision for minority communities in cities in the ‘West’ and ‘South’. She is currently<br />
engaged in developing postgraduate research and teaching links in architecture urbanism, heritage and conservation<br />
between West African Architecture schools and those in North West England.<br />
She has in the past published in the areas of African Architecture, African Diaspora Studies, Gated Communities,<br />
and environmental design teaching pedagogies.<br />
Things to do<br />
— Visit the International Society and get involved<br />
in their projects as an ambassador.<br />
— Explore Chinese contemporary culture at the<br />
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art<br />
LT1<br />
27/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
1pm — 2pm<br />
LT1<br />
27/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3pm — 4pm<br />
MET TALK FT DAWN ARCHER<br />
Dawn’s areas of expertise include pragmatics, corpus linguistics and the discursive practices of the English<br />
courtroom. She also has a growing interest in the language of emotion and has been investigating the linguistic<br />
performance of emotion, credibility and deception in a range of contexts.<br />
ANDREW HUNT — MEET THE PROF<br />
Andrew Hunt is a curator and writer based in London and Manchester, and is currently Professor of Fine<br />
Art and Curating at Manchester Metropolitan University. Between 2016 and 2017 he founded and directed<br />
the contemporary art festival Reading International and was a Research Fellow at Kingston University. His<br />
doctoral thesis ‘Six Years in the Development of a Contemporary Art Institution: Focal Point Gallery 2008 to<br />
2014’ concentrated on strategies for the expansion of an independently-minded publicly – funded UK visual art<br />
organisation in a period of austerity after the financial crisis. Since the early 2000s, he has worked on intimate<br />
solo exhibitions with significant international artists as well as high profile designers on projects that range<br />
from minor printed ephemera to major publications, exhibition design and new branding for art institutions.<br />
— Attend the Caribbean Carnival of Manchester<br />
— Visit the Manchester Jewish Museum.<br />
— Visit the Irish World Heritage Centre.<br />
— Explore China Town.<br />
— Join or start up your own nationality or culture<br />
society at the Union<br />
— Attend activities celebrating other cultures<br />
in Geoffrey Manton Atrium on our International<br />
strand days<br />
LT1<br />
27/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
MET TALK FT MOHAMMED AMIN MBE<br />
Since the age of 2, Mohammed Amin has always lived within two miles of MMU’s campus.<br />
From the slums of Moss Side, Amin attended grammar school and went on to read mathematics at Clare College,<br />
Cambridge and then a PGCE from Leeds University. Professionally Amin is a chartered accountant, a<br />
chartered tax adviser and a qualified corporate treasurer. In <strong>19</strong>90 he became the first Muslim to be admitted to<br />
the Price Waterhouse partnership in the UK.<br />
Amin devotes his retirement to making the world a better place.<br />
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Northern Powerhouse<br />
— noun / devolved<br />
political and economic<br />
power redressing the<br />
North – South economic<br />
imbalance, and to attract<br />
investment into northern<br />
cities and towns<br />
WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE THIS STRAND?<br />
This is a dynamic and contemporary topic to<br />
undertake for your home project. It examines<br />
Manchester, an international city that has the<br />
biggest economy in the north but also a range<br />
of growing social problems such as the largest<br />
homeless population outside of Manchester.<br />
The concept, introduced by the Conservative<br />
government, aiming to encourage a healthy<br />
economy in the North, centred around Manchester.<br />
Some have welcomed this, inviting the<br />
positives that will come out of it, but it raises<br />
the question of do social issues need to be addressed<br />
for Manchester to hold on to the title<br />
of ‘Northern Powerhouse’?<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHrRcK-<br />
IBKw<br />
WHAT WILL IT COVER?<br />
The strand looks at three aspects of the Northern<br />
Powerhouse Debate. It looks at Manchester’s<br />
digital and creative industry, which is rapidly<br />
growing. It touches on the development of Media<br />
City becoming the media hub of the country.<br />
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Finally it looks at homelessness in Manchester<br />
and what is (or isn’t) being done to combat this<br />
growing issue.<br />
EXPLORE<br />
There will be a series of talks and workshops<br />
going on around the city to help and inspire you<br />
with your project.<br />
PROJECT IDEAS<br />
— Can Issues such as growing inequality and<br />
homelessness coexist with Manchester’s ambitious<br />
future and still be considered a powerhouse?<br />
— How important are digital and creative industries<br />
to Manchester?<br />
— What features of Manchester justify its reputation<br />
as the Northern Powerhouse?<br />
— How can students help in the fight against<br />
homelessness?<br />
We want you to be creative and pick any platform<br />
that you think answers the question the<br />
best. Some potential project ideas may be:<br />
Produce a blog on how students can get involved<br />
in fighting homelessness. You could even<br />
volunteer and blog your personal experiences<br />
doing this.<br />
— Make a poster on Manchester’s digital and<br />
creative industries.<br />
— Create a podcast about the positives and negatives<br />
of the Northern Powerhouse.<br />
— Produce a blog about whether Manchester is<br />
the Northern Powerhouse<br />
The digital and creative<br />
industries have benefitted<br />
from the Northern<br />
Powerhouse using<br />
Manchester’s deep –<br />
rooted history as an<br />
industrial city.<br />
Welcome to Digital Manchester<br />
In this section, you will get a chance to look<br />
at some of Manchester’s biggest and growing<br />
digital companies.<br />
The digital and creative industries have benefitted<br />
from the Northern Powerhouse using<br />
Manchester’s deep – rooted history as an industrial<br />
city. The city’s digital community expected<br />
to create 23,000 jobs over the next decade and<br />
across Manchester’s three universities, there<br />
are 7,200 creative/media students and an additional<br />
6,000 students in computer – based studies.<br />
With skyrocketing rent prices in London,<br />
Manchester is becoming a lucrative alternative<br />
for many Media and computing graduates as<br />
Social Media plays an ever – increasing role in<br />
marketing and our lives.<br />
Listen to this podcast where Richard Eskins<br />
talks about Manchester Met’s links with digital<br />
and creative industries and why it is an exciting<br />
time to work in Manchester at the moment.<br />
Richard Eskins, senior lecturer in the department<br />
of Information and Communications.<br />
From Granada TV to Media City<br />
A waterfront destination with digital creativity,<br />
learning and leisure at its heart, Media City is<br />
home to BBC, ITV, Dock 10, The Lowry, Coronation<br />
Street and the Imperial War Museum.<br />
The Conservative government announced it<br />
would invest £78M into Manchester’s creative<br />
economy in 2016’s Autumn statement. The cornerstone<br />
of plans for the ‘northern powerhouse’<br />
is a development known as the Factory. The<br />
Factory will be an artist led, creative hub on a<br />
site west of the City Centre that was once home<br />
to Coronation Street.<br />
The project has been deemed a success by many<br />
and has helped transform the landscape and<br />
skyline of Salford. The project which started<br />
construction in 2007, won the 2015 award for<br />
best Regeneration Project of the Year at the<br />
MIPIM awards and millions continue to be invested<br />
in this project.<br />
Manchester as a Northern Fashion Capital<br />
Manchester has also developed an increasing<br />
fashion industry in recent years. It is home to<br />
brands such as Misguided, which saw its revenue<br />
rise to £55M last year and includes fans<br />
such as Ellie Goulding, Nicole Scherzinger and<br />
Taylor Swift. Other companies such as BooHoo<br />
and PrettyLittleThing have also seen continu-<br />
ous growth and have become staples of high<br />
street fashion.<br />
Manchester is also a forefront for high-end fashion<br />
with up and coming designers such as Manchester<br />
Met’s own Nabil El – Nayal, who recently<br />
designed a piece especially for international<br />
chart – topper Lorde’s Melodrama World Tour.<br />
Fashion is just another example of Manchester’s<br />
booming and fast-growing creative industries.<br />
Homelessness in Manchester<br />
Homelessness is a serious issue across the<br />
whole country but in Manchester it seems to be<br />
an ever-growing problem facing the city. With<br />
over 3,200 people being homeless or in temporary<br />
accommodation (an estimated 1 in 146<br />
people), Manchester has the largest homeless<br />
population outside of London. In Salford alone,<br />
there are over 325 homeless people. Homelessness<br />
in Manchester has increased 13-fold since<br />
2010 when the Conservative Government announced<br />
a number or austerity measures including<br />
cuts to housing programs and wages, forcing<br />
many people onto the street. Andy Burnham,<br />
the Greater Manchester mayor prioritised battling<br />
homelessness as one of his key pledges<br />
in his manifesto.<br />
It does however raise the question of whether<br />
or not Manchester can truly claim to be the<br />
Northern Powerhouse. Whilst there are booming<br />
industries and millions being invested into the<br />
city, there is a dark underbelly. People are being<br />
forced to sleep on the streets in harsh weather<br />
conditions and these numbers are increasing<br />
year on year. Is Manchester a Northern Powerhouse<br />
or does it need to resolve its increasing<br />
socio-economic problems first?<br />
Resources<br />
Talk with Eleanor Watts of Riverside Housing, exrough<br />
sleeper Jo Wilson and Alex King of CityCo<br />
about the rise in rough sleeping in Manchester<br />
city centre, the impact of Spice and what people<br />
can do to help. https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-02-rough-sleeping<br />
rough sleeping, we talk to Viv Slack of Street<br />
Support about the genesis of the app, how it’s<br />
evolved and continues to grow and how tech<br />
can help solve social problems.<br />
https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-16-street-support<br />
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Ivan Lewis MP and Cllr Beth Knowles, the leads<br />
on Mayor Andy Burnham’s homelessness team<br />
talk about how the situation is changing, whether<br />
it’s getting worse, and what the Mayor can do<br />
about it. https://soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-15-rough-sleeping-2<br />
Salford City Mayor. Paul Dennett has been City<br />
Mayor of Salford for just over a year. Here he<br />
talks about what he does, the inspiration he<br />
finds in the people of Salford, his role in Andy<br />
Burnham’s cabinet, the issue of homelessness<br />
and the need for developers and companies<br />
investing in the city to give back. https://<br />
soundcloud.com/cottonmouthmanchester/episode-11-salford-city-mayor<br />
Schedule for Northern<br />
Powerhouse<br />
LT1<br />
17/10/2018<br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
17/10/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
MET TALK FT ATUL BENSAL (SHEILA BIRD GROUP)<br />
Atul Bansal, the co – founder of the Sheila Bird Group epitomises his motto, ‘love what you do’ and breathes life<br />
and love into every one of his projects. Known for his magnetic energy, his creativity and frank and honest<br />
approach, he understands the effects work spaces have on teams and a business. The Sheila Bird Group is an<br />
interior design studio that breathe life and energy into work spaces to encourage people to talk, have fun and<br />
most importantly, love what they do. It is all about making noise for these businesses and creating and shaping<br />
working communities where thoughts and ideas are formed.<br />
Every space Sheila Bird creates challenges the office norm, makes people think differently and creates spaces<br />
that business and its teams can be proud of. Over the past thirty years they have worked with some of the<br />
biggest brands in the UK and globally and won awards for its business changing spaces.<br />
MET TALK FT VIKAS SHAH MBE<br />
Vikas S. Shah MBE is a serial-entrepreneur, investor, thinker and educator who has built businesses in diverse<br />
sectors around the world for almost 20 years. He is also a consultant and advisor to numerous entrepreneurs,<br />
business and organisations globally. He is frequently called-on to provide commentary and opinion, and has<br />
featured in media including: The Economist, Guardian, CNBC, BBC, Sky News, ITV News, the Telegraph,<br />
Bloomberg and the FT.<br />
LT1<br />
28/11/2018<br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
MET TALK FT MC TRIGGA<br />
Trigga real name Tundy smith was born in Moss Side Manchester.<br />
He is a pioneer in what we know today as Drums and Bass Music or DnB. Trigga picked up the Microphone at<br />
the tender age of 8 years old. He is now CEO of Sdc entertainment company which is one of the biggest brands<br />
on the scene. Shot in the streets of Moss Side in <strong>19</strong>98 he lost his eye but that didn’t stop him from doing the<br />
music for the Commonwealth Games in 2002 for Queen and country.<br />
Trigga has gained global recognition as and Mc/performer and a recording artist. He has recieved numerous<br />
music accolades from around the world Including Best Album on iTunes 2015 with Zed Bias and Madd Again.<br />
Up to date Trigga has worked with other leading artists such as Wiley, Skepta, Giggs, Jme and many more.<br />
Things to do<br />
LT1<br />
28/11/2018<br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
MET TALK FT DANNY BROCKLEHURST<br />
Danny is a BAFTA and International Emmy winning screenwriter whose credits include Come Home, Safe, Ordinary<br />
Lies, Exile, The Driver, and The Five. Danny wrote several episode of the Channel 4 series Shameless as<br />
well as contributing to Jimmy McGovern’s The Street and Accused.<br />
— Sign up the Northern Powerhouse Newsletter<br />
and get the latest news<br />
— Visit Media City UK – 20 Minutes by tram<br />
— Donate your time, items or money to The<br />
Big Change<br />
— Take a tour of The Northern Quarter<br />
— Go see a show free as an audience member.<br />
Previous shows include Jeremy Kyle, Mastermind,<br />
the Voice and Let It Shine.<br />
— Volunteer at a homelessness charity. Offer<br />
your skills and resources to local organisations.<br />
The Union advertise a variety of different roles<br />
with diverse organisations on their website.<br />
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Inspirational Series<br />
Schedule for<br />
Inspirational Series<br />
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INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
Manchester Met’s latest series features a range<br />
of speakers who have helped ignite social change<br />
and become leaders in their field. These talks<br />
will highlight important social issues and help<br />
inspire students and staff alike to challenge the<br />
status quo.<br />
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THE SERIES:<br />
Develop awareness of social issues and how you<br />
can combat them.<br />
Cultivate confidence in yourself; do not allow<br />
prejudices to hold you back<br />
Become inspired by individuals who share similarities<br />
with yourself and have made a positive<br />
change.<br />
Understand that everyone has the opportunity<br />
and ability to be successful in their fields.<br />
Be conscious of the opportunities that are available<br />
to everyone<br />
LT1<br />
20/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
20/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
NONA MCDUFF OBE — INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
In 2017, Nona received an OBE for services to higher education. Nona is a panel member for the Government’s<br />
Teaching Excellence Framework panel which makes judgements on the shape of excellence in learning and<br />
teaching and student support in higher education. Nona has served on the ministerial Social Mobility Advisory<br />
Group, addressed the all – party parliamentary group on diversity in HE, sits on the advisory boards of<br />
two research projects and chairs the Higher Education Race Action Group which has over 300 members from<br />
institutions across the UK. Nona is the Director of Student Achievement at Kingston University.<br />
DR DEBORAH GABRIEL — INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
Dr Deborah Gabriel is a former journalist who has spent the last decade as an award-winning academic,<br />
achieving recognition both for her educational practice and research. She is currently based at Bournemouth<br />
University, where she lectures in politics, media and communication, specialising in social justice pedagogy<br />
and critical race pedagogy, teaching from a critical race/gender standpoint. Dr Gabriel specialises in qualitative<br />
– interpretative research using critical, transformative and emancipatory paradigms, heavily informed by<br />
Black feminism and critical race theory. She is the Founder and Director of Black British Academics, a project-oriented,<br />
consultancy-based network, focused on tackling racial inequality in higher education.<br />
Giulietta Ellman<br />
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The Gambia Development<br />
School 20<strong>19</strong><br />
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan Universityis<br />
delighted to present the January 20<strong>19</strong> Development School in<br />
partnership with Global Hands Leicester.<br />
Attending the Gambia Development School is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity<br />
that will challenge you and encourage you to engage in a<br />
transformative learning process, impacting the way you perceive and<br />
interact with the world.<br />
You will experience the hustle and bustle of Brikama market, deconstruct<br />
group observations on golden beaches and visit a range of cultural<br />
sites including the Kunta Kinteh Island slavery houses. You will<br />
alsoexperience everything from volunteering on building projects to<br />
going on a short placement visit, relevant to your chosen studies or<br />
interests.<br />
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS<br />
— Visits to historical sites including Kunta<br />
Kinteh Island (formerly James Island), Fort<br />
Bullen and Gambia National Museum.<br />
— Learn about globalisation and cultural competence.<br />
— Work with a village/community through a<br />
participatory action approach to identify their<br />
problems and develop solutions.<br />
— Embark on a placement with a local company<br />
or organisation.<br />
— Discover new approaches and ways of working<br />
with communities.<br />
— Stay with a Gambian family for a day.<br />
— Test yourself to the limits and make new<br />
friends for life.<br />
HOW TO APPLY<br />
To register your interest in taking part in the<br />
Gambia Development School visit<br />
www2.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/research/<br />
community-scholarships/gambia/<br />
To take part in this trip you must meet Gambian<br />
immigration requirements. UK citizens do<br />
not need a visa before travelling and flights<br />
and accommodation will be booked by Global<br />
Hands.<br />
Estimated travel dates: January 20<strong>19</strong>. Dates<br />
may be subject to change due to flight availability.<br />
If you have any questions or require further information<br />
contact Natalie Carragher on N.Carragher@mmu.ac.uk<br />
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As part of a large-scale national<br />
network of projects, Manchester<br />
Metropolitan University in<br />
partnership with the Students’<br />
Union is delivering a film and<br />
arts festival which will explore<br />
hate crime and inclusivity as two<br />
opposing constructs.<br />
Manchester is a strong and diverse community and its<br />
resilience has been tested in the past year. We are proud to<br />
be part of a city that has responded to violence with love,<br />
music and art.<br />
We have more in common than we do differences, and that’s<br />
what we want to celebrate.<br />
This festival is all about exploring how to bring people<br />
together. And our students are at the heart of that. We’d<br />
like you to consider how we can create and sustain diverse<br />
communities that celebrate equality and difference. How<br />
we can create a supportive culture that fights for victims of<br />
discrimination at University and in Manchester. And how can<br />
we imagine other futures with art.<br />
You could explore the negative side, the positive side,<br />
the voices of those who are not usually heard, a personal<br />
experience, an imagined future or anything else that reflects<br />
the themes.<br />
This could take the form of:<br />
+ Dialogue.<br />
+ Monologue.<br />
+ Public recital of politically or socially important speeches.<br />
+ Poetry.<br />
+ Spoken word performances.<br />
You are welcome to perform your own work or perform<br />
pieces submitted by the creative writing programme of study.<br />
Your work can be used in and around the event in the form<br />
of flash mob performances around campus as a way of<br />
advertising the festival. With your submission please specify<br />
how you would like it to be performed.<br />
We require an expression of interest by Friday 22 June and<br />
you to submit your work to arts.festival@mmu.ac.uk by<br />
Thursday 20 September 2018.<br />
There are three cash prizes of £500 each<br />
available for entries across the project for the<br />
most innovative and original production<br />
If you would like to perform an original piece written by or<br />
work collaboratively with our creative writing students this<br />
can be set up by David Shirley (D.G.Shirley@mmu.ac.uk) and<br />
James Draper (J.Draper@mmu.ac.uk.)<br />
For more information visit: theunionmmu.org/arts-festival<br />
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Faculty of Arts<br />
and Humanities<br />
20<strong>19</strong> Undergraduate<br />
Showcase & Conference<br />
Annual event held on campus that provides Arts and Humanities undergraduates<br />
the opportunity to professionally present, perform, or<br />
demonstrate their work or research to the faculty, staff, students, and<br />
the public.<br />
Mission of Showcase & Conference<br />
To honour the achievements of our undergraduate<br />
students.<br />
Submissions<br />
Options to submit and/or present on research<br />
or creative project from both university studies<br />
and personal projects and endeavors.<br />
You can make more than one submission however,<br />
separate forms will need to be completed<br />
for each offer.<br />
Who can register?<br />
Undergraduate students from the Faculty of<br />
Arts and Humanities in all fields of study with<br />
a research project or creative work are eligible<br />
to participate in this event.<br />
Registration<br />
12 November – 7 December 2018<br />
https://mmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/20<strong>19</strong>ugshowcase<br />
Timeline<br />
— Register for Showcase<br />
— Registration: 12 November – 7 December 2018<br />
— Poster Printing Deadline: Friday 8 March 20<strong>19</strong><br />
— Showcase set up: Friday 15 March (Please<br />
note students are required to set up their own<br />
submission pieces)<br />
— Opening Ceremony: Monday 18 March<br />
— Exhibitions, presentations, workshops and<br />
guest speakers<br />
— Closing Ceremony & Award Presentations:<br />
Friday 22 March<br />
Faculty Student Awards<br />
Each year students within the faculty are recognized<br />
for their outstanding work, commitment<br />
and passion for their degree. Both staff<br />
and students will be nominating students from<br />
the faculty for awards to be presented at the<br />
closing ceremony.<br />
Submissions to the Undergraduate Showcase<br />
will automatically be shortlisted for an Award.<br />
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FACULTY STUDENT<br />
AWARDS / 22 March<br />
The awards highlight the huge<br />
amount of talent and potential<br />
within the Faculty and the<br />
passion our students have for<br />
their subjects.<br />
They also aim to recognise and<br />
reward outstanding effort and<br />
showcase how our students<br />
have been able to apply skills<br />
such as Critical Thinking,<br />
Creativity and Communication<br />
to real – life situations in order<br />
to make a difference in our local<br />
community.<br />
Staff and Students are invited<br />
to nominate a student and you<br />
can nominate the student for<br />
multiple categories! Nominations<br />
do not have to be directly related<br />
to university studies.<br />
Outstanding Contribution to Arts, Humanities<br />
& Culture<br />
Do you know someone who is passionate about<br />
the arts and humanities? Perhaps they are a<br />
talented artist, poet, dancer or musician? Has<br />
their passion inspired you and maybe others to<br />
get involved? (All students who have contributed<br />
to the Faculty undergraduate Showcase are<br />
automatically shortlisted for this Award)<br />
Outstanding Contribution to the Local<br />
Community<br />
Our students contribute thousands of hours<br />
in the local community. This could be through<br />
supporting disadvantaged groups or by volunteering<br />
and working with a community project.<br />
Outstanding Student Entrepreneur of the Year<br />
It takes an innovative and committed person<br />
with extraordinary self-motivation, vision and<br />
passion to set up a business while at university.<br />
This award aims to recognise our student<br />
entrepreneurs’ hard work.<br />
Outstanding Contribution to Media and<br />
Communications<br />
Some students take responsibility for delivering<br />
information and news that they believe fellow<br />
students really need. Do you know a talented<br />
journalist, photographer or someone who has<br />
given you information that has made a real difference<br />
to your life at university?<br />
Outstanding International/Multicultural<br />
Initiative of the Year<br />
Do you know someone who has organised or<br />
contributed to a brilliant international or multicultural<br />
event/initiative? This award recognises<br />
those who have helped celebrate the multicultural<br />
community at MMU and beyond<br />
Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity<br />
& Inclusivity<br />
Some students go beyond to ensure that Manchester<br />
Met is a diverse and inclusive community.<br />
Do you know someone who has developed or<br />
promoted new initiatives or worked on projects<br />
to raise awareness of issues, or actively challenges<br />
discrimination, or celebrates any of the<br />
protected characteristics (age; disability; gender;<br />
marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy<br />
and maternity; gender identity; race; religion<br />
or belief; sexual orientation)?<br />
Outstanding Fundraiser of the Year<br />
Do you know a student who generously devotes<br />
their time to fundraise for a charity they are passionate<br />
about? This might be through an event<br />
they have organised or helped raise awareness<br />
for a particular cause.<br />
Outstanding Contribution to Academic<br />
Communities<br />
Is there a Course Rep, peer mentor, ambassador<br />
or maybe a volunteer who you know makes a<br />
real difference in the Faculty? This could be<br />
through a student group or simply helping at a<br />
Faculty – based event. This is an award for an<br />
individual or group of students who have contributed<br />
to an event or project that has made<br />
a significant positive impact on the community<br />
of students at Manchester Met University and<br />
the wider community.<br />
Outstanding Academic Achievement<br />
Do you know a student who has completed or<br />
is currently involved in working on a significant<br />
research project, a thesis or scholarly paper,<br />
presentation at a conference, or other scholarly<br />
work? Or do they demonstrate initiative, perseverance,<br />
and the ability to overcome significant<br />
obstacles in attaining his/her degree<br />
Outstanding Placement of the year Award<br />
An award for a student who as part of placement<br />
or work-based learning activities, has excelled<br />
and achieved above what is usually expected of<br />
a student on such an activity, by showing enthusiasm<br />
and commitment to the organisation they<br />
have worked with, its ethos and its objectives<br />
The Home Festival Award<br />
An award for a student who has engaged with<br />
The Home Festival.<br />
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