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07/09/2026

What are the 'cool girls' reading, do you have the same taste in books as your favourite Heated Rivalry star, and have you created your own personal syllabus yet? In the digital age, books are both a status symbol and a means of creating community.

In this episode of the New Books Network podcast, María Angélica Thumala Olave, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Edinburgh, chats to Dave O'Brien about the emotional engagements and social bonds forged by reading.

Listen: www.newbooksnetwork.com/the-love-of-books🎧

05/09/2026

For the final instalment in our blog series, Kélina Gotman reflects on attention, autonomy, solidarity and the possibility of a more thoughtful future.

What might happen if we made more space for uncertainty, reflection and genuine dialogue?

Read the blog here ⬇️
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09/05/kelina-gotman-in-conversation-day-five/

Want to know more about Kélina Gotman's new book What is a thoughtful life? Catch up on our week-long blog series here,
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/

05/09/2026

It's the final day of the , and we're shining the spotlight on The industrialized designer by Leah Armstrong.

In a recent Q&A, Leah discusses gender, labour and the design profession, challenging us to look beyond the myth of the lone designer and consider the wider networks, identities and systems that shaped the profession.

Read the full interview: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/08/04/5-questions-with-leah-armstrong-on-gender-labour-and-the-design-profession/

Get 30% off until 30 September with code EVENT30. Shop the full DHS reading list here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/08/27/dhs-2026-reading-list-more/

04/09/2026

On the new episode of Pod Save the UK, author Taj Ali speaks to Nish & Coco, sharing reflections from the worst racist violence in over a century, and explains why the white working class has more in common with the South Asian community than they might think.

Listen to the episode on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VmWeoS6jMVW9SIUWO9Bq2

Taj's book 'Come what may we're here to stay' is out later this month.

Pod Save the UK · Episode

04/09/2026

It's Day 2 of the Design History Society (DHS) Conference in Brno and we're shining the spotlight on Confessions of Monuments by Emin Artun Ozguner.

Exploring monuments, architecture, print culture and public spectacle, the book examines how design practices helped shape and represent the early Turkish nation-state in the first half of the twentieth century.

Get 30% off until 30 September with code EVENT30.

Shop the full DHS reading list: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/08/27/dhs-2026-reading-list-more/

04/09/2026

Day three of and we're ending on a high!

Join us at 3pm today on the MUP stand for the launch of What is a Thoughtful Life? by Kélina Gotman. We'd love to see you there as we celebrate this new publication✨

Find out more about What is a Thoughtful Life? by following our week-long blog series featuring author Kélina Gotman.

Each day this week, we’re publishing a new question from an extended conversation exploring , , , intimacy and ,
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/

04/09/2026

General elections are no longer general - from the North of Scotland to the South of England, the parties representing constituents in Parliament differs greatly. As the 'Burnham Bounce' slows down, can Labour gain the votes that they need to consolidate their power?

In this 15-minute podcast with Electoral Calculus, Professor Richard Rose discusses our fractured electorate, coalitions, and his predictions for 2029.

Listen on Spotify🎧 www.open.spotify.com/episode/2GAFpO4NBOyCCAQ8CHbKW0?si=dl5cMlgBRGO4BwesD9437g&nd=1&dlsi=b33c37c8850043cb

Politics By Numbers · Episode

04/09/2026

It's the final day of the Royal Geographical Society annual conference!

We've loved meeting so many of you this week. There's still time to pitch your proposal and find out more about our geography and social sciences books - just pop by the MUP stand before the end of the day.

Our digital reading list is over on the blog for those of you who couldn't make it, with 30% off included titles until 30th September: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/08/26/rgs-ibg-2026-reading-list/

Thanks to Jai Seaman for this great photo of the stand - can you spot your book?

03/09/2026

Rock band Xiu Xiu go record shopping at Amoeba, the world's largest independent record store, in Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode, and pick up a copy of
John Robb's 'The art of darkness'.

Watch the video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGNnDK0x0Y
John's books are available from all good bookshops & online.

Xiu Xiu goes record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In...

03/09/2026

What are 'safe third countries', and do they actually help protect those seeking asylum?

In her recent presentation for Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre, Michelle Pace investigates the growing prominence of “safety” within contemporary asylum governance, and asks whether this focus is less about humanitarianism and more about relocating protection responsibilities beyond state borders.

Watch 'When “Safe” Stops Meaning Safe: Language, Protection and Contemporary Asylum Governance' here: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/when-201csafe201d-stops-meaning-safe-language-protection-and-contemporary-asylum-governance

Visiting Fellows Presentations Trinity Term 2026 - Professor Michelle Pace