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1. The Graduate School
Arts, Languages and Cultures

2. Why come to Manchester?
• Graduate School – a community of postgraduate
scholars
• World-class supervision and teaching
• Amazing libraries, learning resources, institutions
and organisations in the city
• Excellent support for learning and studying
• Great new facilities – space, common room
• Innovative training enhancing experience and
employability

3. The Graduate School
• Space – common
rooms, training space,
workstations
• Online community
(@alcgradschool)
• Events and training
• Community and
collegiality

4. Our students say:
• ‘A welcoming, intellectually stimulating place to
work and learn’
• ‘Manchester SALC really is at the cutting-edge of
vibrant contemporary scholarship and postgrad
development. I can't think of any other place I'd
rather be doing my research’
• ‘It's a real community. Whether for reading
groups, conference planning, or daily crisis
support, people are ready to dive in’

5. Great Libraries, world-class facilities

6. Excellent supervision and support
• Biggest collection of • Excellent range of
scholars in the Arts and courses, programmes of
Languages in Europe study, projects
• Staff are world-leading • Dedicated
in their areas – RAE administrative support
2008 many areas came for PG students
in the top 5 in the UK • eProg, bespoke learning
software for PGR
students

7. Our students say:
• ‘Being at Manchester gave me the confidence
(personal as well as intellectual) to ask big
research questions, and challenge
orthodoxies’
• ‘a supportive, inspiring & lively research
environment’

8. Our students stay
• Every year around half our PhD cohort studied
and trained here at MA level
• They are joined by students from around the
world in doctoral research
• Nearly £800,000 a year in PG funding

9. Leading and innovating in training
• Artsmethods@manches
ter.ac.uk
• World-class training for
PGR students
• Outreach, partnership,
research support,
developing your career
and your skills at PGT
and PGR level