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 […]
We are delighted to report that Caroline Magennis has appeared in The Times this week, interviewed about her book Harpy. You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/e8hEA47W
We are pleased to announce Caroline Magennis’ workshop on Wednesday 16 July for Jot Books in Manchester. The event will feature a short reading, group discussion and a writing workshop focused on the theme of intimacy in fiction, life-writing and hybrid forms. For more information, please see this link.