• Postgraduate Research Exhibition

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The postgraduate research exhibition will feature current research being conducted at the University of Chester across a variety of disciplines. The research will be presented via posters, detailing what the researcher is doing, how they are doing it, and what impact this could have.

  • The Peaces We Keep, Make, Transform

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    This is a participatory art work inviting visitors to sit, pause, and write a promise of peace for themselves, someone they love, or the wider world. You may keep it, dissolve it in water, or place it in a box.

  • The Rows of Chester: A Unique Creation or a Unique Survival?

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The uniqueness of Chester's Rows lies first in the imaginative adaptation of a common medieval building form to the city's hilly site. However, they would not have seemed so unusual had comparable buildings elsewhere survived better. The talk will look at parallels for the building type, how it was adapted to the landscape, and the historical circumstances that prompted it.

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  • Supporting the next generation: inter-generational mentoring – how “the old” can mentor “the young”.

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The MACIE (Mentoring And Coaching In Education) research group have undertaken extensive research into mentoring, and what works well when mentoring relationships are successful. In this interactive workshop session we will take you through what we have learnt from our research into mentoring in education settings, and apply it to real life situations that you can use in your everyday interactions.

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  • Sustainability Walk – Energy

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    This led walk, which is also "wheels accessible", is one of four themed routes staged as part of the 2026 "Festival of ideas" that uses examples from the existing cityscape to demonstrate various aspects of the overall theme of 'Sustainability'.

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  • Talking Tours: Let’s Talk History

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    Lace up your plimsoles and sprint through the last century of Cheshire’s sporting past with Let’s Talk, History. Using historic sound recordings from Cheshire Archives’ collections, this free audio trail tells 100 years of stories about the county’s competitive, recreational and, at times, amusing sports.

  • Chester’s Social Health Pledge: One Conversation at a Time

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    What if one small conversation could make someone's day better? Join Public Health staff and Master of Public Health students from the University of Chester to explore social health and why simple moments of connection matter.