Researcher Rob Drummond explains regional accents findings to Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham

Research projects

Find out about some of our leading creative writing, poetry, linguistics, screen, games, Gothic and place writing studies.

Individual projects

  • A researcher talking to a local resident with the Accent Van recording studio

    Manchester Voices

    A research project exploring the accents, dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester.

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  • Three people sat on a bench with palms trees on each side, on a beach looking out to a cloudy sky and sea.

    PLACE 2020 and PLACE 2021

    Creating two digital anthologies that feature views from artists around the world on what place means now.

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  • A greetings card showing 3 figures stitching a flag that's half Union Jack and half a red banner saying 'A merry Christmas and a happy new year'. The text underneath the image reads 'A stich in time saves nine'.

    Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian Greeting Cards

    Digitising a collection of nineteenth-century greeting cards to make them more accessible to the public and for academic study.

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  • A mountain landscape with blue sky, green hills and a lonely-looking hut in the foreground.

    What is place writing now?

    A series of major events in which leading artists from around the world discussed their creative and critical approaches to writing place now.

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