Students Engaging

Faculty Festival

We have come to the end of the term, with Graduation for our third year students quickly approaching. An important part of University is to discuss and engage with your work throughout the year.

There have been a number of occasions that our students have shown their work and engaged with the public, in and outside of the University. Here are a few examples.

HLSS Faculty Festival –

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities put on a wide-ranging celebration of student work in a two-day Faculty Festival. The festival offered an opportunity to explore and celebrate the new interdisciplinary relationship. The Sociology department took part displaying student work, which showed a great deal of knowledge exchange and impact across the wider community.

A huge thank you to all who came and got to see the awe-inspiring array of student efforts and guest speakers, as well as students and staff who gave up so much of their time and effort to make the event a success. We look forward to seeing at our next annual event!

Q-Step students also participated in a piece of research evaluating the Arts and Humanities Faculty Festival.

Q-Step Celebration Event

Q-Step held their annual event, celebrating the students work centred on work they had done with the Q-step external partners. The event brought together Q-steps centre industry placement partners and Q-Step students, giving them a space to engage together. It was also an opportunity for the students at all different stages of their Q-Step journey to engage in open discussion about future learning and quant-based careers.

The Q-Soc society made an excellent contribution on the day, even managing to organise the highly anticipated launch event for student members.

A great evening enjoyed by all.

Deconstructing Gender Discussion Day

On Wednesday 8th March it was International Women’s Day 2017. Members of the public were invited to celebrate the day, and view some of the portfolio work from the Deconstructing Gender unit.

The Unit's work reveals challenging questions about the expectations placed on women and men, framed by the media, the music and beauty industries and the political sphere. Many of the blog posts also consider the past and present role of feminist thought and activist spaces in resisting problematic gendered norms. The potential of ‘my feminist imagination’ is revealed, inspired by personal heroines as well as contemporary political or celebrity feminists. Yet the work here also uncovers the challenges to feminism(s) which fail to address intersectional experiences, of women of colour or those who do not conform to gendered stereotypes.