Researchers have worked with professional authors to write stories inspired by discoveries in neuroscience and genetics. Comma Press, an independent publisher, explores the ways in which arts practitioners and scientists inform and interact with each other's practice....
Creative experiments
Ketso: a hands-on kit for creative engagement
A 'workshop in a bag' for engaging with the public, wider stakeholders and research participants, Ketso is a hands-on kit for creative engagement. It offers a structured way to run a workshop through reusable coloured shapes that are used to capture everyone's ideas....
Everyday Austerity
At the height of the public spending cuts, the Everyday Austerity research project looked at the impact the austerity policies were having on everyday life for families and communities in Greater Manchester. Dr Sarah Marie Hall spent two years working with six...
Facing Out
Living with a facial disfigurement can be incredibly socially isolating. Facing Out is a two-year project that explores the impact of acquired facial disfigurement from head and neck cancers and their treatments. With Arts Council England/National Lottery, the...
Robot Orchestra
Inspiring the next generation of engineers, the Robot Orchestra, led by Professor Danielle George, enables young people to learn computer coding and recycle things to make robot instruments, which are linked together by a robotic conductor to play music. The Orchestra...