School of Environment, Education, and Development

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ABSTRACT of paper This paper presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, drawing on life-history interviews with self-identified middle-aged participants from Greater Manchester, UK. The place of middle-age in debates about age within and beyond human geography is explored, including the extension of the category of youth and the deferral of older age. While lived experiences of middle-age are changing and significant, they are frequently overlooked in research. This paper argues that middle-age must be theorized through approaches and concepts of and around the middle. It draws upon more-than-representational theories as one such approach to thinking from and through the middle, emphasizing in-between affective states and forms of change, whilst highlighting a range of concepts and practices of the middle such as impasse, liminality and waiting. Thinking from and through the middle advances relational approaches to age by shifting attention away from the nodes at either end of a relation, towards the middle itself as being invariably in-relation. Geographers interested in ageing are urged to focus on the middle, be these moments of betweenness earlier or later in life, or midlife and middle-age itself. Future research must keep differences in experience at the fore and maintain a distinctly relational vantage point.

I have a new paper out in Social & Cultural Geography titled: Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle. It presents a research agenda on the geographies of middle-age, and the value of thinking around the middle more generally. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2537686

Party conferences 2025 | Policy@Manchester | The University of Manchester Our people

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A list of The University of Manchester panellists at the Labour Party Conference. Listed alongside their headshots are Professors Arpana Verma, Ian Mell, Daniel Dresner, Caroline Bond and Duncan Ivison.

At this year's Labour Party Conf, among the @manchester.ac.uk expert panellists we are pleased to see:

Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning discussing housing and infrastructure

Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology discussing school absence

#UKPolicy #PPEM #MIE

"The research highlights the importance of listening to communities [...] This kind of evidence is crucial for local councils and national bodies like Active Travel England as they work to design healthier, more inclusive urban spaces." - Dr Jack Benton

#ActiveTravel @ategov.bsky.social

🌍🎉 The Journal of Global Higher Education has officially launched!

We’re excited to share our inaugural issue, now available: journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...

Our submissions system will open by mid-September, we hope you’ll consider submitting your work!

#JGHElaunch #GlobalHigherEd

We are fully open-access, independent and academic-owned. We publish articles about higher education with a global disposition (broadly defined). This includes research articles, critical reflections, and practice pieces. Please consider publishing with us! journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...

Our first Community of Practice of semester 1 will take place on Tues 19 August 🎉

Join us at either 8am or 2pm BST to discuss the challenges development practitioners face when developing their personal resilience.

8am: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
2pm: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

All welcome!

Professor Khalid Nadvi begins new role as Head of School of Environment, Education and Development Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development at the Global Development Institute (GDI), has today (Friday, 1 August) started his new role as Head of the School of Environment, Education and De...

We’re delighted to welcome Prof Khalid Nadvi on his first day as the new Head of the School of Environment, Education and Development.

Khalid has held previous positions as Managing Director of @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Director of Research in the School.

Learn more: bit.ly/3UGydX6

Great to see this new open-access journal up and running - congratulations to MIE’s @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social and @selomer42.bsky.social and their co-editors.

Teens from disadvantaged areas face lower life satisfaction but not more emotional problems, new study finds New research led by experts from The University of Manchester’s Institute of Education has shed important light on how the mental wellbeing of young people is affected by the neighbourhoods they live ...

🏘️ Research led by experts from @educationuom.bsky.social ‪shed important light on how the mental wellbeing of young people is affected by the neighbourhoods they live in.

👉 Read here:
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t....

@chrisknowles22.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

Research reveals alarming decline in youth mental health in England A major new report, Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health, reveals that worsening mental health among 14–24-year-olds in England is real, widespread, and driven by ide...

📉 Youth mental health in England is in alarming decline

Report from @uomseed.bsky.social finds that worsening mental health in 14–24-year-olds is widespread & driven by social & economic pressures. The first-of-its-kind study calls for urgent, systemic change. ⤵️
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

NEW PAPER!

Thrilled to share this piece on early career perspectives on the future of child and youth mental health research, envisioning a field that continues strides in embracing complexity, centring diverse voices, and facilitating sustainable environments and systems

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YouTube video by The University of Manchester The truth about English water pollution and sewage

🚨 NEW: Graduate Aidan joins Prof. @jamie-woodward.bsky.social to reveal how England’s water firms mislead the public on #sewage #pollution.

youtu.be/5MJ_lC3Tcvw

Supported by @uomlibrary.bsky.social and generously sponsored by companies that have worked closely on building projects across the campus over the years: Avison Young, Arcadis, Balfour Beatty, BDP, CBRE, Halliday Meecham Architects, Recom Solutions, Rider Levett Bucknall, and Sheppard Robson. 👏

New book offers fascinating insight into University’s 200-year history A fascinating new book published by The University of Manchester has cast a new spotlight on how the institution’s campus has been shaped over two centuries of architectural change.Titled Building Tow...

Prepare to be distracted 😃 This major publication is now online and free to view in full!

Dive into a wealth of rare and previously unpublished material, documenting our university history through campus development.

Quick link 👉 archive.org/details/buil...

The Venice Architecture Biennale As part of the Biennale Sessions, students attended a dynamic panel discussion with international architects and modelmakers, gaining first-hand insight into the application of physical modelmaking in...

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale was an unforgettable opportunity for Manchester School of Architecture students, who attended the exhibition launch of AiM: The Architects’ Index of Modelmaking, and engaged with international architects and modelmakers.

@b15workshop.bsky.social

Meet the SEED Change-makers: how students are driving social impact at Manchester What happens when students are given the space, support, and encouragement to take action on the issues they care most about? At The University of Manchester’s School of Environment, Education and Dev...

What happens when students are given the space, support, and encouragement to take action on the issues they care most about?

The SEED Change-maker programme provides our students with the tools, confidence and platform to turn passion into action.

We're two years in, and just getting started

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...

what a month!

@jamie-woodward.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social @socialresponuom.bsky.social

Geography professor delivers impactful Westminster talk on microplastics Jamie Woodward, Professor of Physical Geography at The University of Manchester, recently addressed key stakeholders at Westminster to speak about the impact of microplastic pollution on our environme...

Prof Jamie Woodward recently contributed to the APPG on microplastics' roundtable 'Microplastic Pollution in Sewage and Sludge: Scale, Impact, and Solutions'

The event explored current and emerging solutions, and how government, regulators, and industry can work together to address the issue.

😆 but, is this salted caramel or dulce de leche?

📣Teaching Staff: teaching in Semester 1?

Update your taught course recommendations in Reading Lists Online as soon possible.

See our latest guidance on how to prepare your taught course materials for 2025/26 www.library.manchester.ac.uk/services/tea...

Mobilities I: Crisis - Cristina Temenos, 2025 In this report on mobilities, I discuss research published between 2017-present, focussing on how multiple crises intersect with mobilities. I examine how recen...

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️

'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

The Rise of the Far Right and the Rewriting of Europe’s Political Centre

🇪🇺 The rise of the far-right and the rewriting of Europe’s political centre

As far-right parties gain momentum across Europe, Dr Matt Varco shares how the very definition of the political 'centre' is shifting.

🔗 Read here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/humanities-b...

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The places in which we live, work and play have a huge impact on our health. Jack Benton looks at how we change our built environment to enhance health and wellbeing

#healthinequalities #fairerhealthforall #uomhealthierfutures

@uomseed.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁
@smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations.

#healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities

@ctemenos.bsky.social @oecd-env.bsky.social @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @mui-uom.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk