On the 12 October the University Tree Trail will go live.
Year: 2017
‘Placeshapers’ gather in Manchester to plan for local and global change
Following on from conferences in partnership with Oxford and Coventry, UMI3, The University of Manchester’s Innovation Company, hosted Anchor Institutions – Home Grown – Local Roots spreading Global Shoots.
Scholarship student becomes Rwanda’s youngest ever government minister
At 30, new Rwandan Minster for Transport, Jean de Dieu ‘Jado’ Uwihanganye is the youngest ever minister in the country and a hugely successful project manager, but none of this would have been possible without the backing of a unique scholarship from The University of Manchester.
Team Uganda
Five students from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health took part in the University’s flagship overseas volunteering project ‘Team Uganda’ this summer – this is a partnership project between the University and S.
White Helmets documentary screening
As part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science 2017 and one of our global inequalities research beacon public events for The University of Manchester, the University will be hosting a free film screening of the Oscar winning documentary, The White Helmets.
Be // Longing theatre performance on migration and inequalities
The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab researchers are collaborating with the award winning Take Back Theatre collective to explore migrants’ borders to belonging.
Sustainability Challenge
On Tuesday of Welcome Week all 8,000 new first year undergraduates students were invited to take part in the Sustainability Challenge.
The Volunteering and Social Justice Fair
The University is hosting its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair on Tuesday 17 October in Academy 1.
Animation18 launch
Our School of Computer Science has recently launched Animation18, an animation competition aimed at school and college students aged from 7-19.
Telling the Whole Story
Jennie Vickers and Hannah Niblett of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre presented a paper at the Archives and Records Association (ARA) conference on 30 August.