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Manchester researchers launch major UKRI funded project to understand “air inequalities” A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...

📢Major new UKRI-funded research project:

'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities

Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...

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Coming on June 23rd on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #Hairspray (1988)!

After decades of pushing the boundaries of bad taste with his underground provocations, John Waters found surprising mainstream success with this infectiously irreverent

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Coming on June 23rd on #4K and Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #DesperateLiviing (1977)!

Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with

Today we're celebrating #IWD2026 with MACFEST, @healthierfutures.bsky.social and a panel from Uncertain Futures. They shared findings from their project using art as research to explore older women's experience of work.

We also welcomed performers Filiz Ozum and Gulcin Bulut,

Our @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social event with MACFEST for international women’s day #iwd2026 kicks off at the Whitworth Art Gallery with the Uncertain Futures Team talking about their work

VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches.
£37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026.
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
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Also Research Associate post (2 years, same salary and closing date) on same project, based in Environmental Sciences:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We are recruiting two Research Associates for a new project ‘Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air’. This project explores how we can better understand air quality in multiple dimensions

Details of the RA in Sociology: lnkd.in/eNTgMuAZ

Details of the RA in Environmental Sciences: lnkd.in/e48X28NB

We are recruiting two Research Associates for a new project ‘Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air’. This project explores how we can better understand air quality in multiple dimensions

Details of the RA in Sociology: lnkd.in/eNTgMuAZ

Details of the RA in Environmental Sciences: lnkd.in/e48X28NB

Ripple Effect: Co-researching Work, Precarity + Contribution in Later Life International Women's Day 2026

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The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

Creative Manchester are pleased to announce the release of four films celebrating interdisciplinary research projects which received funding through the University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump-Priming Call.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/YzW650XyEV6

Ensemble Nist-Nah at Ascension in Hulme. Wonderful stuff 🔥

Manchester people! Relax in a listening pod at Central Library and absorb some #deliaderbyshireday music commissions responding to the #deliaderbyshire & our archives which live at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Really looking forward to John Hamilton’s book on Trog for webelongdead.co.uk picked up a signed copy at fantastic-films.uk #FoFF2025

Alexandre O. Philippe’s new film is out @darkskyfilms.bsky.social wonderful stuff.

And some more…

Enjoying #ICRMC25 creative research methods conference lots of ideas to take back to @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social 😀

Petticoat Lane Emporium, Ramsgate

Less four weeks to go until we welcome Hallsworth Visiting Prof Justin O'Connor, Prof Abi Gilmore @uomsalc.bsky.social and Dave Moutrey OBE for a research café on cultural policy and planning in GM💭

📅16 Sept
📍Samuel Alexander Building

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@uomhums.bsky.social

Summer break in Deal…

Reading this and, like the album, it’s 🔥🔥 @markdoyle.bsky.social

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Coming on October 7th on #4K in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TwinPeaks: #FireWalkWithMe (1992)!

In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series,

Moira Sinclair, Chair of Factory International, and John McAuliffe, Creative Manchester Director, introduce our research showcase event at #manchesterinternationalfestival2025

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#creativehealthandsocialcare #mentalhealth