You are invited to join us for our English Research Seminar on 1st October 2025 from 1.15-3pm. Please contact Prof. Caroline Magennis on c.magennis@salford.ac.uk for the venue and any further details. Our speakers will be Aisling Logan (PhD Candidate) and Dr Jack Wilson (Lecturer in English Language). Both abstracts are below – Aisling’s paper is […]
Ursula Hurley, Professor of Life Writing at the University of Salford, has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year Award at the 2025 Times Higher Education Awards (often dubbed ‘the Oscars of higher education’). Ursula has been acclaimed for her unique approach enabling challenging or unconventional PhD projects and her groundbreaking application […]
What does it mean to feel Irish in 2025? Salford’s own Professor Caroline Magennis will seek to answer this question in her inaugural lecture this October.Caroline, Professor of Contemporary Irish Literature, will deliver a wide-ranging lecture on Thursday 9 October in the iconic Peel Building on our Peel Park campus that will explore how Irish […]
We are delighted to report that Hannah Helm has contributed a chapter to a new edited collection entitled Children’s Literature and Culture: An Introduction, published by Routledge. You can find out more about the publication here. We are also happy to share news of an article that Hannah co-authored with other University of Salford staff and […]
We are overjoyed to announce that our PhD candidate Valerie Waterhouse has won the inaugural Kitty Kelley dissertation fellowship, worth $25,000! Valerie received the award for her research on the often-overlooked Northern working-class writer, Malachi Whitaker (1895–1976). Her thesis comprises a literary biography of Malachi Whitaker (1895–1976), with a critical reflection on biographical processes. The […]
We are delighted to report that on Wednesday 11 June we held our annual research event at the Friends Meeting House in central Manchester. We had eight presenters throughout the day – in panels of two – with a 50:50 balance between our postgraduate researchers and staff researchers, and a keen and engaged audience. As […]
PhD researcher Xsara Helmi recently presented at the transdisciplinary conference Sacred Arts 2025: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual, hosted by the London Arts-Based Research Centre at the University of Oxford, as part of the Sacred Soundscapes section. Her paper, The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the Divine and Sublime, […]
Arts for the Blues co-founder Vicky Karkou (Edge Hill) appeared at Children and Young People’s Mental Health Roundtable at the House of Lords on 3rd June, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health and the National Centre for Creative Health. Vicky spoke to the group about the Arts for the Blues project and […]
Postgraduate researcher Lucy Power will be speaking about her research into writers’ groups with a talk at Chorlton Library as part of the Manchester Festival of Libraries on Thursday 5th June from 6-8pm. Lucy’s presentation is based on her experience with editing the anthology The Writers’ Table which emerged from the Chorlton Writers’ Café, run […]