PhD researcher Xsara Helmi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Research Doc Hub, LAURA), will have her poem To Be Unmade featured in Issue #9 of Indelible, the literary and arts journal from the London Arts-Based Research Centre. The issue, themed Awakening, launches on 11th October in print and digital formats. Helmi integrates poetic writing into her practice to navigate conscious […]
Lucy Hulton, current Creative Writing PhD student, and Widening Participation Fellow for the NWCDTP (2024-2025) has released a four-part podcast series themed around PhD applications. Lucy interviewed four current PhD students in the humanities from universities in the North West. So if you’re thinking about a PhD or are just curious, you can listen to […]
PhD candidate Lauren Pearl Holmes was delighted to present a paper at the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2025 Conference. The conference, held on 11 July 2025 at Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds, explored the theme of emotion in scholarship on women in the Americas. Lauren’s paper […]
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 […]