Social Responsibility

As part of our commitment to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the University has become the first higher education institution to become a member of Slave-Free Alliance.

From 18-20 June the University hosted this year’s EAUC conference, welcoming delegates from across higher education and further education institutions to a completely single use plastic free event.

Final year medic, Joshua Strange, has been working with the homeless community in Manchester for the past five years.

Dr Hamied Haroon, a Research Associate at the School of Health Sciences and ‘a force of nature’, according to his colleagues in our Office of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, has been named the University’s Staff Volunteer of the Year 2019.

Earlier in the year Creative Manchester launched its inaugural Poetry Competition, which invited staff, students and alumni of the University to submit a poem themed around ‘Manchester means the world to me’.

ZIWO, a local Manchester group, was recently supported by The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in delivering a National Lottery Heritage Funded project.

The University, in conjunction with colleagues from The University Caterers Organisation (TUCO) hosted an event on 13 June to raise awareness of modern slavery in supply chains.

Tuesday 18 June saw the celebration of the fourth Great Science Share for Schools – an annual campaign to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with new audiences.

A team of scientists at the University has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world.

On Saturday 15 June over 3,000 people from our local and wider communities were welcomed onto campus for our third annual Community Festival.