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Engagement@Manchester: Inclusive Practice

25 Mar 2026

Join our community of practice to share, learn and connect on Wednesday, 15 April 12.30pm – 1.45pm at 5.206 University Place, Oxford Road (in-person).

Are you interested in public engagement? Would you like to hear and share some inspiring ideas and practice? Would you like to network with other like-minded people interested in engagement? Then come along to this series of informal sessions exploring different aspects of public engagement.

Open to: All University colleagues, students and community partners.

Whether you’re new to public engagement or already experienced, you’re very welcome to join.

In this shared practice session, we’ll explore inclusive practice through short case studies sharing practice from recent projects, followed by a Q&A and time to connect with other attendees. Our speakers and projects include:

  • Tess Hartland will share ‘Echoes of Displacement’ a comic that centres on the experiences of older people seeking asylum in Manchester. The storyline draws on experiences shared with Tess during her research and was created collaboratively with older people and refugee charities.
  • Jerome De Groot and Matt Stallard will talk about a resource developed through the Manchester’s DNA project (2022-2024), which brings together learnings and reflections from community engagement workshops that explored experiences of working between academia and the community, barriers to engagement, and ideas to support future relationships.
  • Working with partners Venture Arts, Pinc College and Manchester Deaf Centre, Belonging in Wild created space for reflection on how different lived experiences shape our relationship to environmental action. Through artist residencies, workshops, and new artwork created to feature in Manchester Museum's Wild exhibition, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing young adults shared a creative vision of what nature and wildness represents to them.

We will supply tea/coffee and cake, and you are welcome to bring your lunch along to the session.