Lou Chapelle’s artwork Voicing Silence responds to these questions, engaging with artists and Global Majority groups through a series of model making, poetry, dance and singing sessions contributing to the final collective video piece. The double holographic video installation is presented within a structure inspired by a Thai village house, a place of shelter and protection. In the
Go Green Salford is University of Salford’s annual month long festival to celebrate and promote environmental and sustainability activity on campus run by our Environmental Sustainability Team. Here is a round up some of the upcoming arts workshops and activities that you can get involved with and explore a range of environmental and sustainability themes
Gwen Riley Jones & Salford Youth Council with the University of Salford Art Collection 1st February to 28th April 2023 A new exhibition exploring positive social action, health and wellbeing through art and photography opened at the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery this month. The show is the culmination of a 12-month residency in which socially
In December, University of Salford attended Engage Online Conference 2022 organised by National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). It was a great opportunity for our new Public and Community Engagement Officer to connect with people in similar roles nationally to find out more about the current contexts for engagement, share and celebrate practice and
A series of public engagement activities to create knowledge transfer between researchers and the community in a fun and friendly environment accompanied immersive sci/art installation Microcosmic as part of Lightwaves 2022 at our Media City Campus recently. Microbial Puppet Masters was first exhibited at the prestigious The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in July 2022.
A mesmerising, immersive installation commissioned by University of Salford took pride of place in our Media City campus building this week attracting a public audience of over 2500 people as part of Lightwaves 2022, a contemporary light festival produced by Quays Culture. This inspiring sci/art collaboration between artist Paul Miller and Professor Chloe James with
The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) – an independent body which seeks to inspire and support the UK higher education sector in engaging with the public – describes an ‘engaged’ university as being one that ‘does not treat public engagement as an ‘add on’ or fringe activity. It embeds public engagement into the way it approaches its work. Typically, engaged universities will have
Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities and this year takes place from 10 – 19 November 2022. Here at Salford we are excited to be part of the festival for the first time this year and have a number of events taking place across the festival period. The festival seeks to
We are excited to be partnering once again with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University to host the ESRC Festival of Social Science from 22 October to 13 November 2022. The main theme for this year’s Festival is ‘My Local Area’ and will be a celebration
Today, the results of the second iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF2) have been made publicly available and we would like to share some of the key areas of activity (known as ‘perspectives’) where Salford places in the top quintile across the sector. Recognition of our very high levels of engagement in the ‘IP
