Images of the illustrative masterplan for Manchester’s trailblazing new city centre innovation district have been revealed as ID Manchester’s draft Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) is published and a formal public consultation period begins. Local residents,...
Opening at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on 20 September 2023, the ‘Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building of a University’ exhibition explores how profits from slave trading, ownership of enslaved people, and manufacturing with slave-grown...
New data from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University has revealed disturbing ethnic inequalities in rates of financial hardship in the UK. In the three months leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 40% of people surveyed from the Arab, Any...
We are delighted to announce that two students from The University of Manchester, Ethan Williams and Binham Seyoum, have been awarded with a prestigious Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship! The Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship scheme is an incredible...
Manchester University Press are pleased to announce that their recent publication, The violence of colonial photography by Daniel Foliard, has been shortlisted for The British Academy Book Prize for Global Understanding. Since the launch of their trade list in 2020,...
Our graduates have a distinctive education and learn in a supportive, inclusive environment that encourages them to aim high, take intellectual risks, and develop sustainable solutions to problems both local and global. Students have opportunities to engage in the...
Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (Swahili for “educate a girl, educate the entire community with Astronomy”) is a project founded by Faculty of Science and Engineering PhD student Ann Njeri. The project is addressing the issue of gender disparity and...
Co-founded by the University's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health PhD student Beth Barnes, the Alternative Football League (AF League) is the North West's only fully inclusive football league for women, non-binary and transgender individuals. AF League have...
In collaboration with partners across the city and the globe, Manchester International Festival (MIF) invites an extraordinary range of artists, from a huge range of art forms and backgrounds to create brand-new work for Manchester. MIF23 runs from 29 June – 16 July...
Here’s our last round-up of the academic year before some in the Office for Social Responsibility take a deserved break in August. On 10 June we welcomed around 2,500 people from our local and wider communities onto campus for our seventh annual Community Festival. At...
