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10 Jan BZ303, Visualising SMART: CityVerve and SMARTER Communities

Tom Jefferies
Recent funded research work in Manchester School of Architecture interrogates the nature,
experience, operation and visual identity of the contemporary connected hyperdense,
hyperdispersed, and SMART city.

Emerging from a discussion between health and architecture, the interplay between real and
digital space, use of data sets, art, culture and technology underpins this enquiry. Case studies
and projective design work explores the Scottish Highlands, the Oxford Road Corridor, London
Docklands.

Collaborators in this work include Dr Laura Coucill, Richard Brook, Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr,
Richard Morton, Jane Anderson, Kevin Logan, Masters students in the Re_Map and
Infrastructure Space Ateliers in the Manchester School of Architecture, Highlands and Islands
Enterprise, NHS Highlands, Innovate UK, CISCO, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP and Satellite
Applications Catapult.
12 Jan GM107 LT, Making Students Count.
John Goldring, Julie Scott Jones
The Sociology Department at Manchester Metropolitan University is taking part in a 19 million
initiative aimed at promoting quantitative research and analysis in undergraduate and postgraduate students. We are one of 15 Q-Step Centres across the UK that is conducting research
on how best to achieve this. Our initial focus was on developing a curriculum that was both
engaging and challenging to students. We face many challenges resulting from a general
distain for maths and for some, an anxiety towards any form of numbers work. We turned to
pedagogy to address these issues and have great success in enabling students to engage with
quantitative analysis.
17 Jan BZ303, Complexity Planning & Urbanism: Digital Future Cities
Ulysses Sengupta, Robert Hyde, Pok Yin Cheung

We are a new research cluster (set up this summer and currently externally funded buy
Innovate UK CityVerve + Horizon 2020) within the school of architecture called Centre for
Complex Planning & Urbanism. We are also founding members of the DACAS ESRC Strategic
Network (London, Manchester, Tokyo, Wuhan, Aberdeen, Sao Paulo). Our work uses a
complexity framework to develop new digital tools, computational thinking and urban theory
addressing spatio-temporal dynamics within urban processes. The research is transdisciplinary
and currently spans Future Cities, Smart Cities, the Internet of Things, agile governance and
cities as complex adaptive systems.

19 Jan GM107 LT, The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU)
Chris Fox
PERU is a multi-disciplinary research and evaluation unit based in the Department of Sociology.
We have approximately 12 full-time staff and a number of associates from around the

University. Most of our work supports the development, implementation and rollout of policy and
practice in the public sector, but increasingly we also work with clients from the not-for-profit and
private sectors. We specialise in quantitative methods including Randomised Control Trials,
Cost-Benefit Analysis and longitudinal surveys, but we are also leading innovative projects to
find new ways to bring together quantitative and qualitative methods. You can find out about us
on our website: www.mmuperu.co.uk

24 Jan BZ303, Moving through Landscape: Northern Identities


Nicola Bishop, Kirsty Bunting
This 'show and tell' conveys a developing cross-disciplinary network involving several MMU
scholars (cultural geographers, social/cultural historians, literary critics, sociologists, and
those researching digital humanities, television studies, creative writing, and outdoor
studies) who are examining the construction of northern identities through the relationship with
local landscapes. Focusing particularly on the act of immersion or movement through the
landscape, the papers explore engagement with visual, symbolic, emotional, intellectual, and
cultural markers of a variety of northern landscapes, both rural and urban.
26 Jan GM107 LT, Craft Narratives
Alice Kettle, Steve Dixon
Professor Steve Dixon and Professor Alice Kettle will discuss the role of narrative and
storytelling in contemporary crafts, with reference to practice-led research at MSA. They will
discuss their recent projects; Steve's which deal with ceramics, memory and commemoration,
and Alice's concerning stitch and textile as a contemporary chronicle.
31 Jan BZ303, Visual Cultures (Part I): Space and Conflict
Jim Aulich, Fionna Barber, Jane Brake, Simon Faulkner, Beccy Kennedy, Gavin
MacDonald, and Rosemary Shirley

Two longstanding areas of research within the Visual Culture Group are the visual cultures of
conflict and contested territories. These areas overlap in the concepts of borders and territory
as experienced, imagined and represented. Work has explored artistic and activist responses to
specific geographies, such as Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, the two Koreas, and Chinas
relationship with Taiwan and its special administrative regions. Other topics explored by this
researchers under the headings of space and conflict include: the rural as a neglected space in
narratives of modernity; the visual culture of gentrification; the circulation of social media
imagery, including images of the European migrant crisis; and art that exploits and reflects upon
pervasive geospatial technologies such as digital mapping and remote survey imagery. While
varied in topic and approach, there is a strong geographical aspect to much of this work, and
some of the researchers in this session have previously collaborated with colleagues in HLSS
under the banner of 'Creative Geographies'.

2 Feb GM107 LT, Film, Languages and Media in Education (FLAME)


Carmen Herrero

Film, Languages and Media in Education (FLAME) is a pioneering research group at


Manchester Metropolitan University established at the end of 2013. It develops research and
knowledge exchange activity in the areas of multimodality, literacies and new media applied to
second language teaching (e.g. the effective use of films, new media, and audio-visual material
in the second language classroom). The multidisciplinary nature of Film, Languages and Media
in Education research allows for great breadth in the work carried out. Our research relates to
Film and Media Studies, Languages, Linguistics, Audiovisual Translation, Psychology,
Sociology, Technology and Education, in addition to other areas. The talk will introduce the
research group and current projects and share experiences on national and international links.

7 Feb BZ303, Stories from the BlackBox


Photography staff will be sharing their practice research: Including Sian Bonnell, Dave Penny,
Sylvia Waltering, Richard Page, Gavin Parry, Paul Proctor, Alan Jones. We will share the
diversity and meeting points of practice and research within the Photography team, and
demonstrate how this is informing our teaching.

9 Feb GM107 LT, tbc


Jo Ormrod/ Helen List

14 Feb BZ303, Ambition for Ageing: Manchester Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods


Stefan White
The 10m Greater Manchester Ambition for Ageing Big Lottery funded project targets the
reduction of social isolation amongst older people. CSI, with partners Southway Housing Trust,
won the competitive tender to act as Local Delivery Lead in Manchester City (one of eight
projects across GM). Called Manchester Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods (MAFN), we are
facilitating development of resident-led Age Friendly Neighbourhood Partnerships (AFNP) in
each of three study areas in Manchester City (AF Moston/ AF Burnage / AF Hulme & Mossside), co- researching, developing, implementing and evaluating projects designed with and by
local older people to reduce social isolation and increase Age-Friendliness. The project makes
specific, strategic and tactical contributions to approaches designed to address the urgent need
for greater integration of health and social care programmes. Using architectural designresearch. It both develops and delivers a resident-led evidence based locality-design
approach, involving multi-level governmental and institutional stakeholders. Our groundbreaking approach brings together a mixture of research methodologies from social science; the
geographical analysis of big data; and the creative expertise of architecture - to not only

discover the dimensions of place but also to act to improve them - collaboratively with local
residents and city agents.

16 Feb GM107 LT, Sports Leisure History Research: gender, class and collaborations
The SpLeisH Research Team

Dr Sam Oldfield will first outline the work of International Sport & Leisure History members,
focusing on recent activities that have established collaborations across continents and with
major partners. These include projects bringing gender, oral history and sport together and
collaborations with the National Football Museum, Manchester City, the North West Film Archive
and Manchester Libraries for example. She will discuss the groups plans and crossdepartmental opportunities.

Dr Dave Day will then discuss using sports history to explore class and gender. Historians from
a range of sub-disciplines have studied the grand narratives surrounding class and gender. This
short presentation reports on a number of projects undertaken that are utilising sports and
leisure history to further illuminate these narratives both at the individual and institutional level.
The contexts range from the coaching and training history of the Victorian and Edwardian
periods, the struggles of women to gain acceptance in rowing, hidden histories of nineteenthcentury sportswomen, and the impact made by the Northern industrial middle class on the
development of local sport. Taken together these studies emphasise the contribution that sports
and leisure histories can make to an understanding of wider historical issues.

21 Feb BZ303, The Games Research Network


Paul Wake, Sam Illingworth

The Games Research Network, established in 2016, is a multi-disciplinary research group of


academics and professionals working on games, gaming and play. Based at Manchester Met,
the group brings together researchers from across the university including the sciences, the
arts and humanities, education, and sociology and aims to support and promote research into
games and gaming. https://gamesresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/
23 Feb GM107 LT, Visual Cultures (Part II): Museums and Archives
Dr Danielle Child, Dr Bex Lewis, Desdemona McCannon, Dr Alison Slater, Dr Philip
Sykas, and Dr Myna Trustram

Emergent research themes grow out of individual and shared practices and work experience.
This session offers a taste of of the range and variety of our approaches. For some, these
centre on museums and archives, the challenges of understanding collections and our attitudes

toward them. These include issues of granularity, memory and mortality. Others look at
changing perspectives on the work of art and the art worker. The contribution of women as
designers, illustrators and editors to British print culture is one area that has led to many
collaborative research opportunities. Contributors to include.

28 Feb BZ303, Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage


Melanie Tebbutt
The Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage has developed out of the Manchester
Centre for Regional History (MCRH), established in 1998, which has been the leading centre in
the North West for urban and regional history, with particular strengths in local and community
histories and archaeology. The MCRH has a record of public-facing and collaborative research
projects that have aimed to empower local communities through history by involving them in coproduced research. It has been supported by an active Friends group of members from outside
Manchester Met. The renamed Centre for Public History and Heritage is continuing to promote
historical research on Manchester and the North West and now encompasses a broad portfolio.
This includes research and public engagement around heritage and regional history in other
parts of the world, such as France (Lorraine), Russia (St Petersburg), Scandinavia, Belgium,
work on ancient sites and manuscripts in Myanmar, and comparative research on English and
Swedish country houses. The Centres researchers engage with the complex identities and
inter-relationships that connect people, places and landscapes, and approaches that emphasise
heritage as a concept with many meanings and definitions. All are interested in developing work
across disciplines and establishing links with colleagues across the Faculty and University who
share these interests.

2 March GM107 LT, The Cooperative Network


Jim Aulich, Alison Slater, Jo Darnley, Olga Kuznetsova, Cilla Ross
The Cooperative Network is a multidisciplinary association of scholars and professionals from
Man Met and the Cooperative College who are interested researching cooperative models of
organisation. It proposes to undertake this research from social, political, economic, educational
and cultural points of view and, ultimately, to develop interdisciplinary projects relating to
cooperativism at a time when the neo-liberal order is in crisis and social democracy is
imperilled.
Dr Cilla Ross will speak about how the work of the Co-operative College, the Co-operative
Heritage Trust and MMU is pushing new frontiers through its futures critical thinking on cooperative education, research and capacity building in Rochdale, which now tops the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation index of absolute decline and is the UKs most struggling city (2016).
Dr Alison slater will report on Co-operative Rochdale: learning together, stronger together a
one-day event in various locations across Rochdale Town Centre on Saturday 17th June within
the UK Co-operative fortnight 2017.
Prof Jim Aulich will talk about the visual and material culture of the cooperative movement and
its embodying cooperative values.

Jo Darnley holds an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award between the MSa Research Centre,
ESRI and the National Co-operative Archive (NCA) in Manchester. Jo will talk about early
findings from her research. The title of her project is Co-operative responses to gender in
interwar Britain: a critical archival case study of co-operative movement visual and material
culture.
Dr Olga Kuznetsova "Making academia interested in co-operative affairs and making cooperatives interested in the academic debate".

7 March BZ303, tbc


Kirsteen Aubrey

9 March GM LT2, Gender and Sexuality: Research, Networks and Public Engagement
Jon Binnie, Christian Klesse, Andrew Moor
This session will present brief presentations on current RKE activities on gender and/or
sexuality. This will include:
Andrew Moor will be talking about funded networking workshops on LGBT Community/
Charity Projects and Manchester LGBT Film Festival.
Jon Binnie and Christian Klesse will talk on research into Queer Film Festivals and
Cultural Activism
Further contributions: TBA

14 March BZ303, tbc


Kathryn Brownbridge & Shuyu Lin

16 March GM107 LT, tbc


Andrea Zapp & Alison Welsh
21 March BZ303, Gothic Studies at Manchester Met: Bodies, Buildings and Beyond
Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies
This talk will highlight some of the world-leading research that currently undertaken in
Manchester Metropolitans Centre for Gothic Studies. This talk will provide an overview of the
current research interests of researchers Linnie Blake, Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Xavier Aldana Reyes,
Dale Townshend and other affiliated members. The session will outline the interdisciplinary
Gothic research currently being undertaken in the fields of film studies; Affect theory; Brexit and
the European Gothic; vampirism; the Gothic architecture / Gothic fiction relation; and cultural
discourses around infection and inoculation.

23 March GM107 LT, What Goes on in the Studio?: The Art Research Lab
The Art Research Group

World-renowned artist Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was often described as a daring visionary lord
of the alchemical phantasmagoria of painting (Jerry Saltz, The Dazzler) who woefully ripped up
his and other artists rulebook with anarchic inventiveness and intellectual brilliance. His painting
from 1969 (developed at the height of American Abstract Expressionism) entitled "The Higher
Powers Command: Paint the Upper Right Hand Corner Black!" was an acknowledgment of the
tacit, built-in mystery of painting: that we dont make art so much as art tells the artist what it
wants to be (Jerry Saltz ibid.). This show and tell session will give an introduction into the
studio as research lab, and the research undertaken by members of the art research group with
particular focus on contested sites (Rawlinson, Lewis, Jurack) and
painting as
research (Maloney, Quaife, Harthorne).

28 March BZ303, Criminology, SUAB (Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours)


Rob Ralphs and Paul Gray (Criminology), Sarah Galvani (Social Care), Lucy Webb
(Nursing) and Oliver Sutcliffe (Chemistry)
The Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours Research Group launched in April 2015. It brings
together an interdisciplinary group of academics from faculties across MMU. Leading this group
are Professor Sarah Galvani (Social Care and Social Work), Dr Lucy Webb (Nursing) and Dr
Rob Ralphs (Criminology). In addition, the group comprises colleagues from: Chemistry and
Environmental Science; Economics; Psychology; Sociology; Sports Science; as well as our
external partners from user-led groups, service providers, practitioners and policy makers. The
groups aim is to continue developing and expanding its world class research programme and
ensure its research influences both policy and practice. Its overall purpose is to develop and
conduct (inter-discipline) research and related activities that ultimately result in a better service
for people who experience problematic substance use. We achieve this through the production
of high quality research and ensuring wide dissemination and application in policy and practice.
30 March GM107 LT, Asian Cultures
Alnoor Mitha
This talk will focus on The Colombo Art Biennial, 'Conceiving Space'. This year the theme for
Colombo Art Biennale (CAB) will include up to 73 artists from 21 countries across 10 venues in
Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is our most ambitious festival to date with a cluster of educational and
community activities in Slave Island and an exclusive Architects programme (including Turner
Prize winners, Assemble), with a Great Feast and performative platforms. Alnoor will also report
on the HeartBeat project, a multi-disciplinary research project examining craft and sustainable
practice, beginning with a short artist-residency working with Warli painters in rural Maharashtra
in January.

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