Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester and leads the five year Wellcome Trust research project, Co-Creative MiND: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease.

His recent books include “The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice: (2017: Chicago); Anthropology and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds.

Andrew’s recent film, theatre and multi-media works include Ms MaNDY’s Adventures in Wonderland (Theatre production: 2025), See, Make, Sign (Exhibition; 2019, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York). The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (BBC Arts, Odeon Cinemas, Edinburgh Festival 2015).