As a society, we face multiple challenges including global warming, social fragmentation, an ageing population and low productivity. These and other overlapping grand challenges are sometimes called the ‘poly-crisis’. A new government has brought with it a renewed focus on addressing the poly-crisis with aspirations to improve productivity, tackle the climate crisis and rebuild trust in public institutions. Arts and humanities have a crucial role to play in helping us all to understand our changing world and in shaping our response to the grand challenges of our time.

AHEAD invites you to join regional and national thinkers, as well as researchers and practitioners working in arts and humanities here at the University, to help us set out a new agenda for how arts and humanities can contribute to the policy debate and be a vital force in discourse about national renewal.

Manchester Game Centre co-director, Chloé Germaine, will be sharing insights about the research being carried out in the Centre as part of the sector-wide response to the poly-crisis. From psychological benefits to promoting action on climate change, find out why game research is so important.

This event takes place on 15th November between 10am-3pm in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Lowry Building.