GET INVOLVED
We are passionate about collecting and sharing the heritage of the region’s Global Majority communities and ensuring that community projects are archived at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre.
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust offers ongoing training to community groups with an interest in producing archive quality oral histories. We can also help with other aspects of project planning and delivery – from bid writing support to workshops, exhibition space and the long term preservation of your research.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a project idea, email: [email protected] or call 0161 275 2920
We Are Hiring!
We are excited to announce that we have two vacancies available:
Young People & Schools Engagement Officer (Permanent)
We are looking for a skilled practitioner with a background in education, youth or engagement work with young people and schools who is experienced at centring young people and their needs.
You will have experience of developing creative learning activities using primary source material and be a motivated self-starter that is committed to active anti-racist practice in a range of formal and informal educational settings.
Download Job Description and Person Specification:
Young Persons and Schools Engagement Officer
Deadline:
12pm, Thursday November 30th 2023
Social Media Intern (18 months – Fixed Term)
This is an exciting opportunity that would suit an imminent/recent graduate or a tech savvy, motivated and creative individual to gain valuable experience in the community heritage sector.
The social media intern will be responsible for managing the Centre and Trust’s various social media accounts and supporting the wider team to create engaging content.
You will have awareness of and commitment to the work of the AIU RACE Centre and Education Trust with an understanding of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and delivering in an actively Anti-racist environment.
Download Job Description and Person Specification:
Deadline:
12pm, Thursday November 30th 2023
Volunteering
We’re keen to hear from volunteers with specific skills and knowledge. We would also like to support those interested in pursuing a career in museums, libraries, archives or heritage. Example volunteer roles are listed below (click on the links for more information.
If you’re interested in volunteering with us, please take a look at our Volunteer Policy.
What our volunteers say
Transracial Adoption: Negotiations between Heritages
Earlier this year a group of MA students from the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester undertook work placements here at the RACE Centre. In this guest blog, Jasmine shares some of what she learned from working on the Family Relations subsection of our library.
Rebecca Bailey
Rebecca Bailey, 25, is an assistant exhibitions manager at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally from Salford, and later Warrington, she completed a six-month internship as an oral history assistant with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust as part of her MA in Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester. “The internship […]
Holly Randhawa
Holly Randhawa, 23 and from Birmingham, was an intern with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust for six months. She arranged the placement through the Institute for Cultural Practices’ placement scheme, a course offered to postgraduate students at the University of Manchester. “My official title is sound archive assistant, which involves creating digital sound clips from […]
Daniella Carrington
Cultural officer at the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Trinidad and Tobago Daniella, 33, spent eight months as an intern with the trust in 2017, initially as part of a work placement while studying for her master’s degree in Museum Studies with the University of Manchester, and then as a volunteer. Assisting […]
Reflecting on my Experiences at the Centre
The first two months of my placement at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust, based in Manchester Central Library, has been both an enriching and rewarding experience. As part of the University of Manchester’s Institute for Cultural Practices placement scheme, I have had the pleasure of working with the fantastic […]
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OUR BLOG
Keep up to date with our current projects, events and activities.
Muslims Like Us- Islamophobia Awareness Month
Muslims Like Us event at Manchester Central Library, (21 Nov 2023) As part of Islamophobia Awareness Month, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre hosted an open mic event on 21st November 2022. Collaborating with Muslim Writer’s North and spoken word-artist/poet, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, the session followed workshops with young people during South Asian Heritage Month (read […]
‘Not a race riot’: Looking back on the 1981 Moss Side uprising.
Marking the 42nd anniversary of the Hytner Report, Claire Fox, Academic Director of the AIU RACE Centre, draws on the Elouise Edwards collection to consider the media coverage, and in particular, the language used to describe the 1981 Moss Side Uprising.
A Black History Manifesto for Manchester
Every year as October approaches there is a flurry of activity around Black History. For Black History Month 2023, we’re taking a different approach. Find out about our call-to-action.