Stephen Hicks stephenrhicks

VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches.
£37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026.
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
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23.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Research Associate (FSE) - Air Spaces: getting the measure of air:Oxford Road We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work an interdisciplinary project ‘Air Spaces: getting the measure of air’ lead by Professor Sophie Woodward in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.

Also Research Associate post (2 years, same salary and closing date) on same project, based in Environmental Sciences:
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

23.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We are recruiting two Research Associates for a new project ‘Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air’. This project explores how we can better understand air quality in multiple dimensions

Details of the RA in Sociology: lnkd.in/eNTgMuAZ

Details of the RA in Environmental Sciences: lnkd.in/e48X28NB

20.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We are recruiting two Research Associates for a new project ‘Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air’. This project explores how we can better understand air quality in multiple dimensions

Details of the RA in Sociology: lnkd.in/eNTgMuAZ

Details of the RA in Environmental Sciences: lnkd.in/e48X28NB

20.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Ripple Effect: Co-researching Work, Precarity + Contribution in Later Life International Women's Day 2026

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17.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

03.12.2025 21:41 — 👍 75 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 15

Creative Manchester are pleased to announce the release of four films celebrating interdisciplinary research projects which received funding through the University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump-Priming Call.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/YzW650XyEV6

27.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Ensemble Nist-Nah at Ascension in Hulme. Wonderful stuff 🔥

21.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

21.11.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Manchester people! Relax in a listening pod at Central Library and absorb some #deliaderbyshireday music commissions responding to the #deliaderbyshire & our archives which live at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

14.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Really looking forward to John Hamilton’s book on Trog for webelongdead.co.uk picked up a signed copy at fantastic-films.uk #FoFF2025

27.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Alexandre O. Philippe’s new film is out @darkskyfilms.bsky.social wonderful stuff.

27.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And some more…

09.09.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enjoying #ICRMC25 creative research methods conference lots of ideas to take back to @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social 😀

08.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Petticoat Lane Emporium, Ramsgate

24.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Less four weeks to go until we welcome Hallsworth Visiting Prof Justin O'Connor, Prof Abi Gilmore @uomsalc.bsky.social and Dave Moutrey OBE for a research café on cultural policy and planning in GM💭

📅16 Sept
📍Samuel Alexander Building

🔗 ow.ly/X94850WCH9Z

@uomhums.bsky.social

21.08.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Summer break in Deal…

18.08.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading this and, like the album, it’s 🔥🔥 @markdoyle.bsky.social

16.08.2025 09:59 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on October 7th on #4K in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TwinPeaks: #FireWalkWithMe (1992)!

In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series,

15.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 5

Moira Sinclair, Chair of Factory International, and John McAuliffe, Creative Manchester Director, introduce our research showcase event at #manchesterinternationalfestival2025

15.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

02.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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01.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#creativehealthandsocialcare #mentalhealth

27.06.2025 09:47 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

#creativehealthandsocialcare #mentalhealth

27.06.2025 09:47 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This was truly wonderful 🔥

25.06.2025 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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24.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BBC Sounds - 20th Century Radicals - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of 20th Century Radicals on BBC Sounds.

Obviously I’m loving this series 🔥@bbcsounds.bsky.social
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16.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

15.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Urgent Case for UMIST and the Hollaway Wall A crucial moment It is a crucial moment for Manchester's architectural legacy, as two significant planning applications, threaten to irrevocably alter the city's twentieth-century built heritage. Thes...

@themodernist.bsky.social on UMIST and Holloway Wall:
the-modernist.org/blogs/the-mo...

05.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TOMORROW: Join us with @mcrhistories.bsky.social as we unveil a new Heritage for Wellbeing toolkit, sharing insights into its development as you join in with an activity

🗓️ 4 June ⏰ 1pm 📍Bolton Library

🎟️ Book (free): www.eventbrite.co.uk...

#festivaloflibraries @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social

03.06.2025 09:23 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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