Social Responsibility

The University joined over 170 global organisations and news outlets by signing up for Covering Climate Now, a collaboration committing to proactively increase climate coverage in the week leading up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September.

For four years, our Cultural Explorers signature programme has provided a cultural entitlement for all ten year olds in wards neighbouring the University, funding all the costs of their school trips to our cultural institutions: the John Rylands University Library, Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, Manchester Museum and the Whitworth.

Each year the THE editorial team ask their data colleagues to take a fresh look at the data they collect for their suite of world rankings to find patterns of information that reveal something not necessarily obvious in their published results.

A University of Manchester academic has been recognised by the European Union (EU) for his work on tackling energy poverty.

This year the Widening Participation team in the Division of Medical Education ran their first ever residential summer school for aspiring medical students from widening participation backgrounds.

The total figure donated by our staff to charities via our Payroll Giving Scheme has exceeded £1million.

A central difficulty in resolving urban issues such as air pollution, traffic congestion and road safety is the large number of potential actors involved, each with competing perspectives and interests.

A project created by Dr Robert Appleby of the School of Physics and Astronomy that aims to teach visually impaired audiences about accelerator physics and the Large Hadron Collider has won a prestigious European Physics Society (EPS) award.Tactile Collider, which is...

Following the University’s recent success in the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, where the University was ranked first in Europe and third in the world for our social and environmental impact, and the publication of our Sustainable Development Goals report, we have further highlighted our impact in a double-page feature in the Global Goals Yearbook 2019.

Congratulations to Professor Nalin Thakkar, who becomes our next Vice President for Social Responsibility, from 1 September 2019.