Social Responsibility

Sounds of the kora, a West African harp, played by local musician Jali sparked the start of the University’s annual Black History Month celebration event.

Each year, the month of October is celebrated as Black History Month (BHM) in the UK; the purpose of this being to recognise and celebrate the achievement of Black people in the UK and across the world.

On 1 October, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust (AIU) ran the first of ‘three’ takeover days at Manchester Central Library.

A major new guide to the treatment of pensions on divorce has been published by the Pension Advisory Group (PAG).

The University hosted its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair on Tuesday 15 October.

The University’s environmental sustainability initiative, 10,000 Actions, has won an IEMA Sustainability Impact Award.

Our Chancellor Lemn Sissay’s third poem of a triptych for the University focuses on Stellify, our package of extra-curricular activities to help students develop their skills and experiences to become socially responsible, innovative, resourceful graduates.

To recognise and communicate the outstanding social responsibility activities across the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), the fifth annual Better World Awards have now been launched.

Manchester Museum and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) are pleased to announce the unconditional repatriation of 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects to the Aranda people of Central Australia, Gangalidda Garawa peoples’ of northwest Queensland, Nyamal people of the Pilbara and Yawuru people of Broome.

A University community project has won the Equalities category of this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards.