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The Doctoral Academy for the Faculty of Humanities, The University of Manchester
AMBS PGRs - Join an inclusive space to connect, reflect, and be heard. This event brings together Black students, Black academics, and allies to shape actions that improve Black student experience in AMBS.
📅 25th February
🕒 1 to 3 PM
📍 Location: TBC
Register here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
📅 25th February
🕒 1 to 3 PM
📍 Location: TBC
Register here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:49 AM
AMBS PGRs - Join an inclusive space to connect, reflect, and be heard. This event brings together Black students, Black academics, and allies to shape actions that improve Black student experience in AMBS.
📅 25th February
🕒 1 to 3 PM
📍 Location: TBC
Register here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
📅 25th February
🕒 1 to 3 PM
📍 Location: TBC
Register here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Join us for the 2026 Methods Fair!
An annual one-day event in collaboration with Methods North West, it brings together researchers and PGRs to explore research methods across the humanities and social sciences.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 May
👉 Call for submissions: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
An annual one-day event in collaboration with Methods North West, it brings together researchers and PGRs to explore research methods across the humanities and social sciences.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 May
👉 Call for submissions: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Join us for the 2026 Methods Fair!
An annual one-day event in collaboration with Methods North West, it brings together researchers and PGRs to explore research methods across the humanities and social sciences.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 May
👉 Call for submissions: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
An annual one-day event in collaboration with Methods North West, it brings together researchers and PGRs to explore research methods across the humanities and social sciences.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 May
👉 Call for submissions: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/T6x3...
Hear from one of our PGRs Amy Todd, PhD English and American Studies, on her experience with PhD, pregnancy and parenthood.
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My experience with PhD, pregnancy and parenthood.
(Amy Todd, PhD English and American Studies) I’m one year into my full-time PhD and (unexpectedly yet very happily) pregnant. Unfortunately, like many of us, my first thoughts go to – can we afford th...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Hear from one of our PGRs Amy Todd, PhD English and American Studies, on her experience with PhD, pregnancy and parenthood.
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Guest lecture from Emeritus Professor Sue Sanders:
'Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month',
🗓️ 5pm 18 February, University Place, Theatre A (and online).
Sue is co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month and Chair of Schools OUT UK.
Book your ticket: www.ticketsource.co.uk/catherine-at...
'Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month',
🗓️ 5pm 18 February, University Place, Theatre A (and online).
Sue is co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month and Chair of Schools OUT UK.
Book your ticket: www.ticketsource.co.uk/catherine-at...
January 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Guest lecture from Emeritus Professor Sue Sanders:
'Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month',
🗓️ 5pm 18 February, University Place, Theatre A (and online).
Sue is co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month and Chair of Schools OUT UK.
Book your ticket: www.ticketsource.co.uk/catherine-at...
'Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month',
🗓️ 5pm 18 February, University Place, Theatre A (and online).
Sue is co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month and Chair of Schools OUT UK.
Book your ticket: www.ticketsource.co.uk/catherine-at...
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Researching with care: The importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Researching with care: The importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
PGRs - Learn about the abolished Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP) that thousands of people are still living with.
This event will showcase Incarceration, a play written by Brian Daniels.
🗓️ 2.30 to 5pm, 4 February
👉 Details and Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-with-...
This event will showcase Incarceration, a play written by Brian Daniels.
🗓️ 2.30 to 5pm, 4 February
👉 Details and Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-with-...
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 AM
PGRs - Learn about the abolished Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP) that thousands of people are still living with.
This event will showcase Incarceration, a play written by Brian Daniels.
🗓️ 2.30 to 5pm, 4 February
👉 Details and Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-with-...
This event will showcase Incarceration, a play written by Brian Daniels.
🗓️ 2.30 to 5pm, 4 February
👉 Details and Book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-with-...
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Researching with care: the importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Researching with care: the importance of flexible methods in research with disabled and/or chronically ill people (and beyond)
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
🗓️ Thursday 29 January ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
This MNW seminar draws on care-full research with young people with an ostomy.
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin...
The Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership Course is back for 2026!
The course is unlike most leadership programmes. It will leave you with the power to actually shape the future.
Offered to all UoM PGRs in Humanities.
👉 documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
The course is unlike most leadership programmes. It will leave you with the power to actually shape the future.
Offered to all UoM PGRs in Humanities.
👉 documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
January 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
The Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership Course is back for 2026!
The course is unlike most leadership programmes. It will leave you with the power to actually shape the future.
Offered to all UoM PGRs in Humanities.
👉 documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
The course is unlike most leadership programmes. It will leave you with the power to actually shape the future.
Offered to all UoM PGRs in Humanities.
👉 documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
ARTS & CRAFTS FOR CALM
Hosted by the PGR Creative and Active Wellbeing Community
🪷 Take a mindful break from your research!
📍 Location: Jean McFarlane Building, 1st Floor, G306
🗓 Date: Monday, 9 January 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–2:30 PM
Register now on: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Hosted by the PGR Creative and Active Wellbeing Community
🪷 Take a mindful break from your research!
📍 Location: Jean McFarlane Building, 1st Floor, G306
🗓 Date: Monday, 9 January 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–2:30 PM
Register now on: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
January 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
ARTS & CRAFTS FOR CALM
Hosted by the PGR Creative and Active Wellbeing Community
🪷 Take a mindful break from your research!
📍 Location: Jean McFarlane Building, 1st Floor, G306
🗓 Date: Monday, 9 January 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–2:30 PM
Register now on: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Hosted by the PGR Creative and Active Wellbeing Community
🪷 Take a mindful break from your research!
📍 Location: Jean McFarlane Building, 1st Floor, G306
🗓 Date: Monday, 9 January 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–2:30 PM
Register now on: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Minding the Gaps in Translation: How can translation studies help us navigate the realities of cross-language research?
🗓️ Thursday 5 February ⏰ 10am-1pm
Join the first workshop in the Lost & Found In Translation Series!
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfit-mindi...
🗓️ Thursday 5 February ⏰ 10am-1pm
Join the first workshop in the Lost & Found In Translation Series!
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfit-mindi...
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Minding the Gaps in Translation: How can translation studies help us navigate the realities of cross-language research?
🗓️ Thursday 5 February ⏰ 10am-1pm
Join the first workshop in the Lost & Found In Translation Series!
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfit-mindi...
🗓️ Thursday 5 February ⏰ 10am-1pm
Join the first workshop in the Lost & Found In Translation Series!
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfit-mindi...
The Doctoral Academy Support Hub will be open during the usual hours (10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday) up to and including Tuesday 23 December 2025.
The Hub will then close from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and re-open on Monday 5 January 2026.
Wishing you all a restful festive break!
The Hub will then close from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and re-open on Monday 5 January 2026.
Wishing you all a restful festive break!
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December 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The Doctoral Academy Support Hub will be open during the usual hours (10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday) up to and including Tuesday 23 December 2025.
The Hub will then close from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and re-open on Monday 5 January 2026.
Wishing you all a restful festive break!
The Hub will then close from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and re-open on Monday 5 January 2026.
Wishing you all a restful festive break!
📢 Call for Applications!
The Upjohn Institute’s Early Career Research Awards provide a resource for junior researchers (those within six years of earning a Ph.D.) to conduct research related to policy on employment issues.
The deadline to apply is January 23, 2026.
www.upjohn.org/news/upjohn-...
The Upjohn Institute’s Early Career Research Awards provide a resource for junior researchers (those within six years of earning a Ph.D.) to conduct research related to policy on employment issues.
The deadline to apply is January 23, 2026.
www.upjohn.org/news/upjohn-...
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
📢 Call for Applications!
The Upjohn Institute’s Early Career Research Awards provide a resource for junior researchers (those within six years of earning a Ph.D.) to conduct research related to policy on employment issues.
The deadline to apply is January 23, 2026.
www.upjohn.org/news/upjohn-...
The Upjohn Institute’s Early Career Research Awards provide a resource for junior researchers (those within six years of earning a Ph.D.) to conduct research related to policy on employment issues.
The deadline to apply is January 23, 2026.
www.upjohn.org/news/upjohn-...
Wishing all our PGRs a wonderful festive break 🎄!
Watch the Faculty's highlights video with a selection of our key moments from 2025, including successes across research, teaching and learning, and social responsibility.
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Watch the Faculty's highlights video with a selection of our key moments from 2025, including successes across research, teaching and learning, and social responsibility.
staff.manchester.ac.uk/uomhumscomms...
Humanities festive video 2025
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Wishing all our PGRs a wonderful festive break 🎄!
Watch the Faculty's highlights video with a selection of our key moments from 2025, including successes across research, teaching and learning, and social responsibility.
staff.manchester.ac.uk/uomhumscomms...
Watch the Faculty's highlights video with a selection of our key moments from 2025, including successes across research, teaching and learning, and social responsibility.
staff.manchester.ac.uk/uomhumscomms...
The Mental Health Support Team will remain open to support PGRs on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 December.
If you feel distressed or need support during the closure period, there are options available to you so please visit www.manchester.ac.uk/closure-supp... for available services.
If you feel distressed or need support during the closure period, there are options available to you so please visit www.manchester.ac.uk/closure-supp... for available services.
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Mental Health Support Team will remain open to support PGRs on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 December.
If you feel distressed or need support during the closure period, there are options available to you so please visit www.manchester.ac.uk/closure-supp... for available services.
If you feel distressed or need support during the closure period, there are options available to you so please visit www.manchester.ac.uk/closure-supp... for available services.
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🎓 Congrats to our grads! 🎓
Yesterday, we celebrated our Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute graduates. Wishing you all the best as you tackle global challenges ahead! 🌍✨
📸 Our academics in graduation attire.
Yesterday, we celebrated our Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute graduates. Wishing you all the best as you tackle global challenges ahead! 🌍✨
📸 Our academics in graduation attire.
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🎓 Congrats to our grads! 🎓
Yesterday, we celebrated our Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute graduates. Wishing you all the best as you tackle global challenges ahead! 🌍✨
📸 Our academics in graduation attire.
Yesterday, we celebrated our Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute graduates. Wishing you all the best as you tackle global challenges ahead! 🌍✨
📸 Our academics in graduation attire.
🚀 Applications Close Friday 19th December for MEC Researcher Launchpad!
Are you a PhD student (Years 2–4) with big ideas and ambitions to create real-world impact? This is your chance to take your research into the world!
Full details here: www.entrepreneurship.manchester.ac.uk/researcher-l...
Are you a PhD student (Years 2–4) with big ideas and ambitions to create real-world impact? This is your chance to take your research into the world!
Full details here: www.entrepreneurship.manchester.ac.uk/researcher-l...
December 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🚀 Applications Close Friday 19th December for MEC Researcher Launchpad!
Are you a PhD student (Years 2–4) with big ideas and ambitions to create real-world impact? This is your chance to take your research into the world!
Full details here: www.entrepreneurship.manchester.ac.uk/researcher-l...
Are you a PhD student (Years 2–4) with big ideas and ambitions to create real-world impact? This is your chance to take your research into the world!
Full details here: www.entrepreneurship.manchester.ac.uk/researcher-l...
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Methodological, Ethical & Safeguarding Challenges of Researching Mixed & Mutable Extremism
🗓️ Thurs 18 Dec ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
Are you researching Incels, misogyny, far right ideology or conspiracy theory groups online?
#ResearchMethods #Methodology #Methods #ResearchingExtremism #ResearchingHate 1/2🧵
🗓️ Thurs 18 Dec ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
Are you researching Incels, misogyny, far right ideology or conspiracy theory groups online?
#ResearchMethods #Methodology #Methods #ResearchingExtremism #ResearchingHate 1/2🧵
Mixed & Mutable Extremism Research: Methods, Ethics & Safeguarding
Methodological, Ethical & Safeguarding Challenges of Researching Mixed & Mutable Extremism. A Methods North West Lunchtime Session.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Methodological, Ethical & Safeguarding Challenges of Researching Mixed & Mutable Extremism
🗓️ Thurs 18 Dec ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
Are you researching Incels, misogyny, far right ideology or conspiracy theory groups online?
#ResearchMethods #Methodology #Methods #ResearchingExtremism #ResearchingHate 1/2🧵
🗓️ Thurs 18 Dec ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
Are you researching Incels, misogyny, far right ideology or conspiracy theory groups online?
#ResearchMethods #Methodology #Methods #ResearchingExtremism #ResearchingHate 1/2🧵
Creative Manchester recently participated in the BEYOND Conference, where they showcased our own Harry O’Brien, whose project Data Sonification for Algorithm Behaviour is part of the 1st year of his PhD Electroacoustic Music Composition.
Find out about it here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Find out about it here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Creative Manchester recently participated in the BEYOND Conference, where they showcased our own Harry O’Brien, whose project Data Sonification for Algorithm Behaviour is part of the 1st year of his PhD Electroacoustic Music Composition.
Find out about it here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Find out about it here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
Calling all PGR Parents! Join the Parents and Carers Christmas Event for a festive lunch, family games, carol singing, and of course a special visit from Santa with presents 🎅!
Register your attendance (for catering purposes) using the QR code provided.
Register your attendance (for catering purposes) using the QR code provided.
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Calling all PGR Parents! Join the Parents and Carers Christmas Event for a festive lunch, family games, carol singing, and of course a special visit from Santa with presents 🎅!
Register your attendance (for catering purposes) using the QR code provided.
Register your attendance (for catering purposes) using the QR code provided.
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The next seminar from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social is from Dhiraj Murthy, on racial inequalities in GenAI 👇🏾
@uomsoss.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
CoDE SEMINAR: 'I’m Just a Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me for Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested in Generative Artificial Intelligence'
🗣️Dhiraj Murthy
📅12.30-2pm [UPDATED START TIME], 11 Dec 2025
📍Uni of Manchester & online
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🗣️Dhiraj Murthy
📅12.30-2pm [UPDATED START TIME], 11 Dec 2025
📍Uni of Manchester & online
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December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The next seminar from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social is from Dhiraj Murthy, on racial inequalities in GenAI 👇🏾
@uomsoss.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
Humanities PGRs! Help shape the future of career development for postgraduate researchers 😀
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Humanities PGRs! Help shape the future of career development for postgraduate researchers 😀
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
🗓️ Thursday 4 December ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
In this Methods North West Seminar, Mark Gatto (Northumbria University) will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism.
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
🗓️ Thursday 4 December ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
In this Methods North West Seminar, Mark Gatto (Northumbria University) will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism.
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
Exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism to challenge patriarchal norms and inspire inclusive change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
🗓️ Thursday 4 December ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
In this Methods North West Seminar, Mark Gatto (Northumbria University) will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism.
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
🗓️ Thursday 4 December ⏰ 12-1pm 🌐 online
In this Methods North West Seminar, Mark Gatto (Northumbria University) will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism.
Sign up now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
The British Federation of Women Graduates has announced their annual travel bursary, available for women postgraduate students enrolled at an institution in North West England or North Wales.
Entry deadline 5pm 9th January 2026.
Entry deadline 5pm 9th January 2026.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The British Federation of Women Graduates has announced their annual travel bursary, available for women postgraduate students enrolled at an institution in North West England or North Wales.
Entry deadline 5pm 9th January 2026.
Entry deadline 5pm 9th January 2026.
The next film showing for the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Film Club will be Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi).
For PGRs interested in MENA (esp. Iranian) cinema this is the film to see!
Everyone welcome 😀!
For PGRs interested in MENA (esp. Iranian) cinema this is the film to see!
Everyone welcome 😀!
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The next film showing for the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Film Club will be Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi).
For PGRs interested in MENA (esp. Iranian) cinema this is the film to see!
Everyone welcome 😀!
For PGRs interested in MENA (esp. Iranian) cinema this is the film to see!
Everyone welcome 😀!
Join this Methods North West Lunchtime Seminar
'Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism' with Dr Mark Gatto (Northumbria University)
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday 4 December
⏰ 12-1pm
🌐 online
Sign up now! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
'Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism' with Dr Mark Gatto (Northumbria University)
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday 4 December
⏰ 12-1pm
🌐 online
Sign up now! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
Exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism to challenge patriarchal norms and inspire inclusive change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Join this Methods North West Lunchtime Seminar
'Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism' with Dr Mark Gatto (Northumbria University)
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday 4 December
⏰ 12-1pm
🌐 online
Sign up now! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...
'Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism' with Dr Mark Gatto (Northumbria University)
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday 4 December
⏰ 12-1pm
🌐 online
Sign up now! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1963287905...