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January 2026: My Cultural Life with Dr Kim Wiltshire, Reader in Creative Writing<\/strong>
<\/a>She loved to read, and she loved to write. Kim tells us how she found ways to express herself – and get paid for it. Just don’t ask her to be at her desk writing at 9am.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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October 2025: My Cultural Life with <\/a>Dr Elke Weissmann<\/a>,<\/strong> Reader in Film and Television<\/a> <\/strong>
From her undergraduate days right up to the present, find out if Elke really had a thing for Sting, and why she enjoys longform Chinese historical tv.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 2024: <\/strong>Edge Hill graduate and associate tutor shortlisted for 2024 music award<\/strong><\/a>
Big shout out to drumming Music Production alum Oisin McAvoy, who was nominated in UK Music’s Outstanding Music Academic Partnership (MAP) Graduate Awards 2024. Now an associate tutor at Edge Hill, as well as continuing to sit behind the kit with his band Keyside.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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March 2024:<\/strong> Creative Writing Lecturer Dr Kim Wiltshire in award-winning project<\/strong><\/a>
Dr Kim Wiltshire has joined forces with an award-winning arts and health organisation to launch Create+, a pioneering project aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of frontline staff at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Feb 2024: Wuthering Bites: student\u2019s passion for the Brontes leads to a new career\u2026and an encounter with vampires<\/a><\/strong>
A student on the MA Nineteenth Century Studies is taking her research on the life and works of the Bront\u00eb siblings into spooky new places and a new career at the Bront\u00eb Parsonage Museum in Haworth. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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