Researchers’ Night: Rethinking nightshift cities after dark
At night, workers keep cities running. During this trail after dark, we will uncover their hidden lives.
Friday 05/04 20.00 -
Irish World Heritage Centre
Join anthropologists and urbanists on an evening ramble through the streets of Manchester to discover the hidden lives of night workers as they keep things going while the city prepares to go sleep, pray or party.
Organiser: Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork, Ireland where he conducts a project on Precarity in Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland. Julius-Cezar’s latest book is Invisible Migrants: Working the Night shift in 24/7 London. IMISCOE Research Series (2023).
Collaborator: Marion Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design at the University of Westminster, UK. She has led research projects on the night for two decades and recently completed a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship project on urban design and the urban night. Her latest open access article is Night-time and strategies for regeneration in two medium-sized town centres (2024).
