Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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
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'.
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.
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.
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".
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
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).