Manchester School Research Articles

Curiosity over conformity: The Maker’s Palette – a case for hands-on learning

Abstract The Maker’s Palette is a creative model delivering hands-on learning and teaching. Devised in 2007 in response to increasingly risk-averse students within the Manchester School of Art, its craft centred approach empowers the individual to take ownership of their personal creative development. Informed by the creative thinking theories of J. P. Guilford and the professional practice of the author, the implementation of the model into the undergraduate curriculum resulted in unexpected impact beyond the university. Consciously designed with flexible parameters that enabled a variety of delivery modes it offered opportunities to address teacher development and the challenges of embedding process focused creative methodologies into the classroom. This article argues that the Maker’s Palette provides a compelling model for hands-on learning and offers evidence that could be further developed and used to support, validate and underpin an approach currently at threat within academic establishments at every level of education.

Monetary Policy Preferences of the EMU and the UK

We estimate the central bank policy preferences for the European Monetary Union and for the UK. In doing so, we extend the theoretical framework suggested by Cecchetti etal. (The Manchester School, Vol. 70 (2002), pp. 596-618), by assuming that policy preferences change across different regimes. Our empirical results suggest that the weight that policy makers put on inflation is typically profound. Furthermore, it appears that volatility shifts of the economic disturbances are the main factor, which generates variation in policy preferences.

Designing for Movement: Dance Costumes, Art Schools and Natural Movement in the Early Twentieth Century

Using costumes created for the School of Natural Movement led by Madge Atkinson in the early twentieth century, this article focuses particularly on the role of design education and the more informal understandings of design emerging from experimentation in modern dance. It locates artistic collaborations between costumes and choreography in the cultural history of Manchester during the early twentieth century. In particular it discusses the development of unique approaches to design by the designers Walter Grimmond, Lilian Reburn, Stella Mary Pearce and Eleanor (Ella) Slinn, arising from their involvement with Atkinson and her dancers. It also considers the influence of leading design teachers, such as Walter Crane and Lewis Foreman Day, at the Manchester School of Art and Design, who constructed an innovative curriculum shaped by trade, cultural tourism and Asian philosophical perspectives. The combination of the designers' knowledge of pattern, colour, shape and ornament and the dancers' interaction with kinaesthetic image-making produced a set of diverse approaches to costume design and movement expression. This creative application of design principles, supported by the proximity of the Manchester textile industry, helped to construct an artistic milieu in which modern conceptions of design and performance were advanced in Britain.

Lincoln, Cobden, and Bright: The Braid of Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century’s Transatlantic World

Abraham Lincoln is usually described as a purely American, almost provincial, figure. But his ideas and wartime policies should also be understood in a transatlantic context, since Lincoln’s ideas and policies conform so remarkably to the patterns of classical liberal ideas in Europe in the nineteenth century, and especially to the Manchester School of Richard Cobden and John Bright. In contrast to the failures and disappointments of Continental liberalism, Lincoln’s triumph in the American Civil War represents a world historical victory for bourgeois liberal democracy.

Universities, the Humanities and Civic Life, c.1880–1930: A Pilot Study of the Manchester School of History

Universities, the Humanities and Civic Life, c.1880–1930: A Pilot Study of the Manchester School of History

Design Collaborations: The Good, the Bad, and the Unthinkable

This conceptual paper is a study of the impact of three drivers: collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and co-operation, which we recognise as the new imperatives for future design practitioners. Contextually, seeing national and international shifts in design, we challenged the idea of single mono design courses and questioned our own validity. Subsequently, we undertook a fundamental re-think of what an art school is for. By taking the notion of interdisciplinary design education this resulted in new curricula, a re-branding as the Manchester School of Art, and a physical resource to match our ambition. This paper articulates the design process employed in engaging staff to reflect and re-focus on the essence of an art school, and through doing this, develop a collegiate approach to the re-design of our buildings, a coming together of our distinct departments under a coherent brand, and the embedding of pedagogical collaboration through curricula in the form of the experimental Unit X. “X” enabled us to reflect back upon and question what is a subject. Ultimately, we discussed what is innovation and the place of risk-taking in learning. These tensions and questions have become ongoing debates and drivers for future developments and research.

Methods of symbolic anthropology and Manchester schools in Uzbek contemporary ethnology

Methods of symbolic anthropology and Manchester schools in Uzbek contemporary ethnology

UK Citizen Rainfall Network: a pilot study

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Climate change and the city: Building capacity for urban adaptation

The significant shifts in climate variables projected for the 21st century, coupled with the observed impacts of ongoing extreme weather and climate events, ensures that adaptation to climate change is set to remain a pressing issue for urban areas over the coming decades. This volume of Progress in Planning seeks to contribute to the widening debate about how the transformation of cities to respond to the changing climate is being understood, managed and achieved. We focus particularly on spatial planning, and building the capacity of this key mechanism for responding to the adaptation imperative in urban areas. The core focus is the outcomes of a collaborative research project, EcoCities, undertaken at the University of Manchester's School of Environment and Development. EcoCities drew upon inter-disciplinary research on climate science, environmental planning and urban design working within a socio-technical framework to investigate climate change hazards, vulnerabilities and adaptation responses in the conurbation of Greater Manchester, UK. Emerging transferable learning with potential relevance for adaptation planning in other cities and urban areas is drawn out to inform this rapidly emerging international agenda. Approaches to build adaptive capacity challenge traditional approaches to environmental and spatial planning, and the role of researchers in this process, raising questions over whether appropriate governance structures are in place to develop effective responses. The cross-cutting nature of the adaptation agenda exposes the silo based approaches that drive many organisations. The development of a collaborative, sociotechnical agenda is vital if we are to meet the climate change adaptation challenge in cities.

Narratives from call shop users: Emotional performance of velocity

Abstract In recent years, the debate on emotions has been influenced by postconstructionist research, particularly the use of performativity as a key concept. According to Judith Butler (1993, 1997) the construction of emotions is a process open to constant change and redefinition. The final result of emotionlanguage “natural” development is what is known as technoscience. New ways of naming emotions have emerged within technoscience. In our research on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by cyber-café and call shop users, we came to understand how these technologies are significant in those users’ daily life. The emphasis will be on analyzing emotions related to the use of ICT in the aforementioned settings. Using the concept of performance (Butler, 1990), we will explore how narratives create a need for particular emotions, which did not exist before they were performed. To understand this performance, we use an ad hoc tool called Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) as it is used by the Manchester School. Analysis has revealed the existence of a membership category in which velocity is salient as performance. This ‘velocity’ seems to follow the evolution of technoscience in the social sciences. We will observe velocity in the context created by two concepts, Donna Haraway’s (1990) cyborg and Alessandro Baricco’s (2007) mutant.

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Disarming the Intragaze: Internet and the World-Wide Cult

This paper was presented in 1999 at the conference 'Visions & Voices' in honour of 50 years Manchester School of Social Anthropology (founded by Max Gluckman) for the panel 'Digital sociality'. It describes a dystopian take on the Internet on the eve of the widely announced Y2K disaster. In 16 steps the Internet is described as janus-faced, both a network to expand one's self and a web the user gets caught in. For this the author uses the trope of witchcraft and applies ethnographic data on Chwezi spirit possession.

Editors' Introduction to Special Issue of the Manchester School on Structural Breaks and Monetary Policy

The Manchester SchoolVolume 81, Issue S3 p. 1-2 Editorial Editors' Introduction to Special Issue of the Manchester School on Structural Breaks and Monetary Policy Alastair R. Hall, Alastair R. HallSearch for more papers by this authorDenise R. Osborn, Denise R. OsbornSearch for more papers by this authorChris Orme, Chris OrmeSearch for more papers by this author Alastair R. Hall, Alastair R. HallSearch for more papers by this authorDenise R. Osborn, Denise R. OsbornSearch for more papers by this authorChris Orme, Chris OrmeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 October 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12046Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume81, IssueS3Special Issue: Structural Breaks and Monetary PolicyOctober 2013Pages 1-2 RelatedInformation

Time for TEA – support students’ mental health

Earlier this year, Newall Green High School in Manchester was recognised in the national Resilience and Results awards because of its work in supporting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of students and the school community. Kevin Buchanan explains what they do.

Building resilience in the school setting: A case study

Earlier this year, Newall Green High School in Manchester was recognised in the national Resilience and Results awards because of its work in supporting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of students and the school community. Kevin Buchanan explains what they do.

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Radicals, Tories or Monomaniacs? The Birmingham Currency Reformers in the House of Commons, 1832–67*

Benjamin Disraeli described Thomas Attwood as a ‘provincial banker labouring under a financial monomania’. The leader of the Birmingham Political Union, Attwood's Warwickshire accent and support for a paper currency were widely derided at Westminster. However, the themes of Attwood's brief parliamentary career were shared by the other men who represented Birmingham in the early‐ and mid‐Victorian period. None of these MPs were good party men, and this article illuminates the nature of party labels in the period. Furthermore, it adds a new dimension to the historical understanding of debates on monetary policy and shows how local political identities and traditions interacted with broader party identities. With the exception of Richard Spooner, who was a strong tory on religious and political matters, the currency men are best described as popular radicals, who consistently championed radical political reform and were among the few parliamentary supporters of the ‘People's Charter’. They opposed the new poor law and endorsed factory regulation, a progressive income tax, and religious liberty. Although hostile to the corn laws they believed that free trade without currency reform would depress prices, wages and employment. George Frederick Muntz's death in 1857 and his replacement by John Bright marked a watershed and the end of the influence of the ‘Birmingham school’. Bright appropriated Birmingham's radical tradition as he used the town as a base for his campaign for parliamentary reform. He emphasized Birmingham's contribution to the passing of the 1832 Reform Act but ignored the currency reformers' views on other matters, which had often been at loggerheads with the ‘Manchester school’ and economic liberalism.

PATENT LICENSING IN A LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE: COMMENT*

This comment indicates that the derivation of the fixed fee for licensing both firms in Kabiraj (The Manchester School, Vol. 72 (2004), pp. 188–205) uses a different definition from that in Kamien and Tauman (Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 101 (1986), pp. 471–491) and Kamien et al. (Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 21 (1992), pp. 483–508). It not only points out that this different definition is not reasonable, but also yields interesting new findings that are qualitatively different from those reported in Kabiraj (2004).

McLuhan, Burawoy, McLuhan: A Extensão das Comunicações Antrópicas Sobre a Equação Humana, o Método do Caso Estendido e a Extensão Humana

Uma das principais contribuições de Marshall McLuhan aos campos da cultura, tecnologia e comunicação foi a ideia de “extensões do homem”, subtítulo de sua obra-prima
 Understanding media (1964). Aqui a ideia de “extensão humana” é explorada para aplicá-la às ciências humano-sociais, juntamente com a noção de “método do caso estendido” promovida por Michael Burawoy, atual Presidente da Associação Internacional de Sociologia
 (International Sociological Association), com suas origens na Escola de Antropologia Social de Manchester. O conceito de “extensão humana” é apresentado como abordagem
 alternativa à “evolução” de artefatos e é ligado ao trabalho em comunicação de Marshall e seu filho Eric, chegando até a ideia recente de uma “equação humana” geral.
 Palavras-chave
 Marshall McLuhan, Michael Burawoy, Eric McLuhan, Extensão Humana, Método do Caso Estendido, Equação Humana, Escola de Comunicação de Toronto, Ciência Antrópico-Social, Ciência Natural-Física, Steve Fuller,
 Difusão da Inovação, Teoria da Extensão, Desumanização e Re-humanização, Abordagem Tetrádica, Éden às Avessas

Prevalence of respiratory symptoms at two time points in a population of children in Manchester—a cohort study

ObjectiveAlthough the prevalence of asthma and atopy has been noted to have increased in recent decades, patterns of asthma prevalence have, traditionally, been difficult to track. Most reports on trends...