“I will not have chutney on my periodicals!” As part of the Manchester Festival of Libraries, Phillip Tipton will be giving a talk at Bury Library on 5th June on Victoria Wood’s work and its relationship to civic life and popular culture. There will be screening of the short playlet ‘The Library’, followed by Phillip’s talk […]
We are delighted to report that postgraduate researcher Alex Herod has just published her first academic article in the journal Studies in the Fantastic. The piece is entitled ‘Survival and Recovery: Addiction and the Therapeutic Potential of Horror Writing.’ The publication came about from Alex’s presentation at the Horror Studies Now conference at Northumbria University […]
Join us on Wednesday 23 April 2.30-4.30pm for the next English Research Seminar, presented in-person by guest speaker Éadaoin Agnew (Kingston University). The talk will be livestreamed in Lady Hale 100 and on Teams. Please contact Prof Scott Thurston (s.thurston@salford.ac.uk) for the link to join online. The Practice and Politics of Raja Yoga (1896) Swami […]
We are pleased to announce that the Northern School of Writing at the University of Salford is welcoming school teachers, educators, librarians, publishers, community organisers, academics and artists to a free, one day symposium on 30th June to explore challenges related to literacy and literary engagement in the City of Salford. Anyone interested or working in areas related to reading, […]
We are delighted to report that the general public in Scotland and elsewhere are being asked to choose which three quotes from previous Scots Makars, including Salford’s own Professor Jackie Kay, should feature on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the building. Jackie’s work, alongside that of Liz Lochhead and Kathleen […]
We are delighted to report the release of the latest National College Podcast in collaboration with the English Research Centre and our colleagues in Media Production, an initiative that developed out of the South African Modernism project led by Jade Munslow Ong. The podcast was recorded at Wigan College and explores studying English and related degrees in […]
The distinguished improvising pianist Roger Dean will be performing a piano solo in response to a specially commissioned film of a kinepoetic (dance & poetry) solo by Scott Thurston. The film, directed and photographed by Maria Andrews, was facilitated by technician Charlie Cragg at the New Adelphi Studio on the University of Salford campus in […]
Scott Thurston is performing his distinctive kinepoetic practice, combining dance and poetry, at three different venues in February and March. On 19 February he appears at the CONTEMPO series hosted by the University of Aberystwyth (contact Scott for information on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk). On 13 March he appears at the University of Plymouth’s Creative Talks series. See […]
The Arts for the Blues project recently announced new dates for its popular continuing professional development (CPD) days, starting on the 1 March with a day-long introduction to the Arts for the Blues model of creative group psychotherapy. For more details about the overall project please visit the Arts for the Blues website here. For […]
We are delighted to announce the details of Jade Munslow Ong’s inaugural professorial lecture on Wednesday 12th March 2025, between 5.30pm-8pm in the Chapman Building at the University of Salford. Jade’s lecture, entitled ‘Literature Unbound: Decolonising Modernism In and Beyond the Classroom,’ moves from a nineteenth-century South African farmhouse to the twenty-first-century classroom via a […]