For one weekend in July, the observatory at Jodrell Bank, known for its huge radio telescope, transforms into Bluedot Festival.

The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is the University’s flagship widening participation scheme for local post-16 pupils who are from backgrounds currently underrepresented in higher education.

The University offers a range of widening access schemes aimed at talented post-16 students from under represented backgrounds to help support progression to the University or another research intensive institution.

The University’s Legal Advice Centre (LAC) is run by School of Law to give free legal advice to members of the public who are not able to access legal advice elsewhere and to provide real world experience to law students.

To recognise and communicate the outstanding social responsibility activities across the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), we will once again be holding the ‘Better World Showcase’.

With over 200 members of staff now volunteering as governors in local schools and colleges, many managers will have colleagues within their teams undertaking this important role.

Poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay, the University’s Chancellor, has launched a new university bursary designed to increase the number of black males embarking on careers in law and the criminal justice sector.

An outreach team from the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science returned from a project in Malawi this summer, teaching Computer Science in schools in the north of the country.

How often do you use public parks? Would it matter if they were no longer free?

Public engagement (PE) is a term that is used to describe the many ways we connect, share and involve the public with our work; whether it be research, teaching or social responsibility.