Early career researchers are invited to take part in the British Science Festival, taking place in Southampton next year and hosted by the University of Southampton. Award Lecture nominations - Are you, or do you know, an exceptional early career researcher? Every...
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Our Making a Difference Awards 2026 are open for entries
Are you making a difference to society or the environment, or do you know someone who is stepping up to make a change? If the answer is yes, then why not enter the University’s annual Making a Difference Awards for social responsibility. The Making a Difference...
Brilliant Club Part-Time Opportunities 2025-2026
The Brilliant Club – PhD and ECR part time opportunity (2025-2026) The Brilliant Club (https://bit.ly/3img91x [bit.ly]) is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school students access the most...
Lay Summaries with Impact – places still available
Training workshop: Lay Summaries with Impact Tuesday 02/12/2025 13:00 - 16:00, in person, on campus Open to academics and early career researchers Overview A lay summary provides you with an opportunity to clearly communicate your research to audiences beyond...
Come along to Engagement@Manchester: Collaborative Practice
Engagement@Manchester: Collaborative Practice Wednesday 26 November 12:30 – 1:40pm Room 3.204 University Place, Oxford Road (in-person) A community of practice: share, learn, connect Are you interested in public engagement? Would you like to hear and share some...
Being Human Festival 2025 – Latin Grooves and Global Moves!
On 14 November 2025, from 1pm to 1.50pm, join four-time Grammy Award–winning Puerto Rican percussionist Carlos Maldonado in concert with the Oxford Road Experiment, an eighteen-piece ensemble of talented young musicians and recent graduates from the University of...
Opportunity for early career researchers: British Science Festival 2026 Award Lectureship
Early career researchers can get involved in the British Science Festival, which is taking place in Southampton next year, hosted by the University of Southampton. Award Lecture nominations - Are you, or do you know, an exceptional early career researcher? Every year...
Participatory Research: Towards a Community of Practice
Participatory Research: Film screenings, discussion, and lunch Kanaris Theatre (Manchester Museum), Thursday 12 June, 10:00 – 12:15 A morning to connect researchers and UoM professionals undertaking collaborative, co-produced work with partners. Event tickets:...
Share your views and experience: Public engagement in research survey
Share your insights and support an important piece of advocacy work for Public Engagement and the wider research sector. The Royal Society is reprising the Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers [cms.wellcome.org] survey last conducted in 2015. There...
Tickets still available for Pint of Science Manchester – 19 – 21 May 2025
The Pint of Science festival is taking place Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 May this year in your local neighbourhood in Manchester. Scientists and researchers will bring their latest discoveries to the public into a pub or cafe near you. It's a chance to meet and discuss...
Book your place on the Public Engagement session on Wednesday, 21 May
Our Social Responsibility and Civic Engagement information sessions for colleagues continue with a focus on public engagement at our University. Public engagement – what, why, how will take place online on Wednesday 21 May at 12pm. Chaired by Dr Julian Skyrme,...
Engagement@Manchester: Inclusive Practice
Wednesday 7 May 12.30pm – 1.40pm Room 2.220, University Place, Oxford Road (in-person) A community of practice: share, learn, connect Are you interested in public engagement? Would you like to hear and share some inspiring ideas and practice? Do you want to network...
Engagement@Manchester – Creative Practice
Wednesday 26 March 1.30pm – 2.40pm Room 5.212, University Place, Oxford Road (in-person) A community of practice: share, learn, connect Are you interested in public engagement? Would you like to hear and share some inspiring ideas and practice? Do you want to network...
Pint of Science in Manchester – committee volunteer opportunity
2 x City Coordinators 1 x Comms Officer These roles will collaborate to oversee planning, management, and coordination of the annual science-communication festival in Manchester, 19-21 May 2025. This voluntary opportunity is aimed at postgraduates to develop...
Science Engagement and Impact – free event with Jamie Gallagher
Join Jamie Gallagher and New Scientist Live on Thursday 6 March 2025 from 2-3pm for an insightful session where we will discuss effective strategies for engaging audiences with science and measuring the impact of these efforts. Register to attend
Being Human Festival 2025 – call for applications now live!
The call for applications for Being Human Festival 2025 is now open! Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Each year we invite researchers and staff from universities and research organisations to take part in our national festival by organising...
Standing Up for Science – a free workshop for early career researchers
Standing Up for Science – a free workshop for early career researchers Friday, 7 March 2025, 10am – 4pm Hosted by the Office for Social Responsibility, The University of Manchester Build your skills and confidence to discuss research with the public, journalists, and...
Call for expressions of interest for the 2025 Universally Manchester Festival – a community day for all!
Get involved in showing our local friends and neighbours, the breadth of work that goes on at The University of Manchester. As part of our civic commitment to enhancing our relationship with members of our local communities, we are holding our annual university-wide...
Improve your research impact – new training available
Our University is providing new training to help research colleagues improve their impact. Our research delivers economic, environmental, social, cultural, health and wellbeing benefits across the globe. We use our research expertise and pioneering spirit to...
It’s less than a week to our Community Festival!
Come along to the University’s annual Community Festival and tell your family, friends and neighbours join us too for what promises to be a great day for all the family. There will be so much to do. Whether you are young or old, interested in science or art, want to...
Join us at this year’s Community Festival 2023
On Saturday 10 June we’ll once again be opening our doors to our local community. Ever fancied hunting for the stars, tickling a robot or fighting killer fungus? Ever wondered how strong chocolate is, how the nervous system works or wanted to share your Manchester...
Pint of Science 2023 – returning to Manchester 22-24 May – tickets now available
Pint of Science festival IS BACK! #Pint23 arrives in Manchester from 22-24th May, bringing a whole host of experts to your local pub to talk about everything from black holes to growing eyes in petri dishes. Get your tickets here before they sell out. For this year’s...
Help us develop a Community Engagement Research Suitability tool
Help us learn more about what help researchers need to engage with communities. We are looking for researchers to participate in a 1 hr one-to-one online interview and a 2 hr in-person group workshop on campus, in a project that aims to develop a Community Engagement...
Nominate someone for the John Maddox Prize 2023
Don’t miss the opportunity to nominate a courageous researcher for the John Maddox Prize 2023. It is the only global initiative of its kind to reward researchers advancing discourse in matters of public interest, despite facing difficulty in doing so. You have until 1...
Voice of Young Science Workshop – 14 April at Manchester – applications open for early career researchers
Applications are now open for the 2023 Voice of Young Science workshops with our first free Standing up for Science workshop commencing on Friday 14th April 2023 at The University of Manchester. Standing up for Science workshops equip researchers to engage with the...