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Media Club careers event

We’ve got some places left on the Insight into Broadcasting and Journalism course on Monday 25^th March.  If you’d like to come along, please get your applications in to us as soon as you can. 

Full details at: 

http://www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/students/events/themediaclub/

We’ve extended the deadline for applications, so you’ve still got time.  We can however only accept cheques until 12^th March – after that, it will be cash only we’re afraid.

Best Wishes

The Media Club

Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research (http://humanitiesandpublicengagement.wordpress.com)

Applications are invited from Humanities postgraduate and early career researchers across the North West to take part in this AHRC-funded initiative, which will explore practical methods of finding ways of engaging the public with your research – an increasingly important consideration for researchers entering an academic marketplace which expects research to create impact.

The project will take the form of two workshops. The first, to be held at Keele University on Friday May 17th 2013, will address the idea of “Connected Communities”. At this event, invited community partners (Staffordshire Archive Service, Englesea Brook Museum, the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum and the New Vic Theatre) will explain their experiences of the nature of collaborative relationships, suggesting ways of establishing meaningful contact with local research institutions, prompting discussions of how such a working-relationship can be sustained and how it can develop the long-term prospects of both researcher and community partners.

Developing from this, the second workshop, to be held at Liverpool University on September 27th  2013, will address the “Care for the Future” theme. Talks from Gladstone’s Library, the Reader Organisation, the Prince's Trust and the Wordsworth Trust will explore the variety of contexts in which Humanities researchers might interact with it, from digitisation projects which preserve and make accessible a resource, to uses of reading which seek to enhance health and well-being.
The workshops will be supplemented by a blog, which will enable participants to discuss their experiences of seeking public engagement opportunities throughout the time between the workshops. Each participant will be asked to write a short post to contribute to this blog.

To apply, please send a letter of support from your supervisor, a brief outline of your research project, and a brief (500 word) description as to how you see your project being utilised in a public engagement collaboration to j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk and k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk by Friday March 29th 2013.

Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination

Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination

An afternoon symposium at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, all welcome


15 March 2013

12.30 arrival and coffee

1.00

Opening remarks (Jerome de Groot)

1.15

Lauren Working (Durham)

Unnatural Disobedience: Sedition and the Literature of Tobacco in Jacobean England

1.45

Philipp Rössner (Manchester)

Tobacco and Mechanisms of British Imperial Control. The case of Scotland and the Atlantic Economy

2.15 Coffee

2.30

Bruna Gushurst-Moore (Plymouth)

‘Take of Tobacco Leaves Bruised two pound’

3.00

Lucy Munro (Keele)

Keynote

'Joking about Tobacco on the Early Jacobean Stage'

4 end

Training for Peer Mentors

If you have recently volunteered to be a Peer Mentor, then please follow this link for info on training for Peer Mentors. It is vital that all new Peer Mentors undergo training before taking up their new role.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DwmDkYiemr0qaNTVuWTS-cot_QHtQZHrzoIUibDH0Iw/viewform

Finally, many thanks to those of you who have volunteered - it is much appreciated!

EAC Research Seminar

Wednesday 6 March, 5 pm

Samuel Alexander A113

Dr John Nash, Durham University

“Talk, talk, talk”: Virginia Woolf and Ireland

 

All welcome

 

EAC PG Social

Attention postgraduates and staff in EAC:

You are warmly invited to an EAC spring celebration at Kro Bar (Oxford Road, M13 9PG), Thursday, 7 March, from 5.00, in the upstairs rooms. Apart from welcoming the warmer weather (they say), we also hope to welcome our new PhD students and any other new arrivals to EAC.

Do join us for some free wine and for the legendary fast-disappearing snacks. Postgraduates and members of staff are all welcome.


Best wishes

David Firth and Rena Jackson
Postgraduate Representatives
English, America Studies and Creative Writing

Name this blog

 

Name this blog

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is holding a competition to name its new student blog.

We want a name that sums up what it’s like to be a student at Manchester .*

The winning entry gets a prize of £50 plus 2 academy tickets.

Closing date – Monday 11^th March 2013

Send an e-mail with your suggestion to:

Michael.sanders@manchester.ac.uk

*(keep it clean)

Student Blog Competition

Your subject needs you

Have you got what it takes to blog for your subject?  Could you blog for the School?

·      We’re looking for first year students with a lively writing style to blog about their experiences of studying at Manchester. 

Could you give an honest, entertaining and informative account of your life as a student?

·      If so, then we’d like to hear from you.  Send your blog entry (max 400 words, pictures & videos can be included) on the subject of ‘campus life’ to:

Michael.sanders@manchester.ac.uk

Closing date – Monday 11^th March 2013

The best entries will be invited to become the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures’ official blogger for their subject.  We will also be awarding a prize to the best blogger in the School.

Mike Sanders on Radio 4

Mike's work on the Chartist Hymn Book made it on to the Radio 4 'Sunday' programme! The feature starts at 20:23 and runs for about six minutes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qsr8l

EAC Research Seminars Spring 2013

All seminars are in A113 (Samuel Alexander Building) at 5 o’clock

 

Wednesday 27^th February

Prof Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University

‘Scorbutic Nostalgia and the Trials of Imagination’ 

 

Wednesday 6^th March

Dr John Nash, Durham

‘“Talk, talk, talk”: Virginia Woolf and Ireland’ 

 

Wednesday 20^th March

Prof. Simon Gikandi (John Edward Taylor Visiting Fellow), Princeton 

‘Race and the Problem of Modern Time’

 

Wednesday 17^th April

Dr Ruth Ahnert, Queen Mary

‘Network analysis and the archives: Protestant letter networks in the reign of Mary I’

 

Wednesday 24^th April

Brook Lecture

Prof. Helen Fulton, University of York

 

Wednesday 1^st May

Dr Santanu Das, Kings College London

‘India, Empire and the First World War: Objects, Images, Words’

 

Become a Peer Mentor - volunteers needed!

Recruitment has now begun for the EAC Peer Mentoring scheme. Becoming a Peer Mentor is not only an impressive role to put on your CV, but it also gives you the chance to contribute to helping next year's first-year students manage the transition between college and university.

If you had a good experience of Peer Mentoring this year, please sign up and help to give others the experience that you had. Equally, if you felt there were things that could be improved within the scheme, this is your chance to make a difference. Attached is a leaflet explaining more about the role.

If you're interested in developing skills of communication and teamwork, and eager to improve the university experience for first-year students, then please email me at chloe.williamson@student.manchester.ac.uk by Wednesday 27th February.

Please include your name and your student ID number.

Thanks,

Chloe Williamson

EAC Peer Mentoring Co-ordinator

Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)

The University of Manchester recently launched this year’s Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES). I’m writing to ask you if you would take a little time to complete the survey.

PTES is the only national survey to gather students’ opinions about their taught postgraduate experience. Your opinion is really important to us as PTES helps us to identify where we are doing well as well as areas for improvement, and compare our performance nationally, and so to make changes that will help make the experience better for students in future.

The survey opened on Monday 18^th February and run until 30^th April. It’s quick and easy to complete. Information is submitted securely. Results are anonymous and are confidential to the university. You can access the survey through http://my.manchester.ac.uk

We do hope you will take part and by doing so help us to make the experience for future taught postgraduate students even better still. 

PTES 2013 is run in association with the Higher Education Academy, the national body for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education in the United Kingdom. Since the survey began in 2009, over 85,000 taught postgraduate students have taken part.

Careers Event for EAC students - 13th March

English, American Studies & Creative Writing

Careers event: Weds 13^th March, 4.30 – 6.00pm

A7 Samuel Alexander Building

Thinking about your career?  Wondering what to do once you’ve graduated?  Here’s an opportunity to come and hear former students from our department talk about the uses they have made of a degree from the department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing.

We have arranged for a panel of former students, from a variety of occupations (including media, journalism, writing, accountancy and local government) and at different stages in their career, to come and talk to you about their experiences and the ways in which their degree has helped them in their chosen career.  There will also be a chance for you to ask them questions.  Confirmed speakers include:

·      Phoebe Myers BA (Hons) English and American Literature 1990 - "I am a Divisional Accountant working in the NHS for Stockport Foundation Trust three days a week.  I am studying for an MA in Visual Culture one day a week, and I do various other things on my fifth day – currently GSET Tutor on Interactive Arts degree course at MMU."

·       Dan Poole: BA (Hons) English and American Studies 2003 - "I’m at Monocle magazine (www.monocle.com), where my title is sub editor & writer. As you might guess my roles are sub-editing and writing for the magazine, as well as acting as editorial manager for the advertorials that appear in the mag."

·      Mark Piggott, MA Creative Writing 2006 – "I’m an author and journalist. As an author I write contemporary fiction, including novels and short stories. As a journalist I investigate and write features for national newspapers including the Times and Guardian. You can read about my work on my website at www.markpiggott.com"

·      Rosie Rees-Bann, MA English & American Literature 2012 – “I’m on the graduate management training scheme at Manchester City Council.”

There are 50 spaces available and you need to book a place.

To book a place please register here:  

https://www.myinterfase.com/manchester/CareerFair/Detail/dXhsYmsrMWtvcUlybG9sNGhQci9sVVMwbUdzWk9Zbk9jSXlQeXNDbmhDOD01

In case of any difficulties contact Dr Michael Sanders: michael.sanders@manchester.ac.uk