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Hannah Helm’s (Our EDI Advocate) December EDI Update
Hello NWCDTP researchers! I hope you are all having a great month so far (although the grey and drizzly weather here in the North West leaves a lot to be desired…)Here is some key information you need to know for December:PGR Reps Winter SocialYour PGR Reps Adam North...

Hannah Helm’s (Our New EDI Advocate) November EDI Update
NWCDTP EDI Advocate: Blog Post (November)Hello NWCDTP researchers! My name is Hannah (she/her), and I am the new EDI Advocate for the NWCDTP. I will be working with the NWCDTP every Monday and Tuesday, focusing on improving inclusivity, accessibility and enhancing the...

As we begin to plan for Sexuality Summer School (SSS) 2024, we take a look back at SSS 2023
Funding Report, Sexuality Summer School 2023: (Up) Against Nature, Sunday 21st – Friday 26th May 2023This year’s Sexuality Summer School (SSS) once again saw 40 postgraduates attend the University of Manchester for a six-day programme of workshops, seminars, lectures,...

Robert’s Research on the Role of Music in Promoting Cultural Hegemony takes him to Hungary 1956 commemorations
Robert Laszlo Gyorgyi Instagram: @robiful Email: robert.gyorgyi@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Thesis Title The Role of...

Joel presented his research on the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead to the Tenth European Conference of Egyptologists in Warsaw
Thanks to the AHRC NWCDTP’s...

Jodie reports on how her Oral History course has put her in good stead for interviewing female sports coaches
Jodie Neville Email: jodie.neville2@stu.mmu.ac.uk Thesis: Female Football Coaches: Revealing, Recording, and Representing...

Lisa presents her paper ‘Beyond the Operator: The Women Connecting the Welfare State,’ at the Visions of Welfare conference at the Garden Museum
Lisa Kinch Twitter: @tele_exchange Instagram: @tele_exchange Email: l.kinch@lancaster.ac.uk Thesis: The Telephone Exchange...

Thomas Dukes reports on his project Archives at Play based at the Castlefield Gallery
Thomas Dukes Email: thomas.dukes@stu.mmu.ac.uk Thesis Title Castlefield Gallery and the Curatorial Project: Archives at Play...

Anna presents her paper ‘From Paper to Stone: Liverpool Stonemasons’ Illustrations, their Memorials, and the National and Transatlantic Trade in Cemetery Monuments’ to The Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Lisbon
Anna Fairley Twitter: @annaandthedead Email: a.j.fairley@liverpool.ac.uk Thesis: Structure, agency, and...

Rupert Smith delivers his paper on King Lear at Yale Divinity School’s annual Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology
Rupert Smith Twitter: @RupSmit Email: r.smith28@lancaster.ac.uk Website:...