Social Responsibility

The Manchester Access Programme (MAP), The University of Manchester’s flagship widening participation scheme for local Year 12 students, is opening soon!

Happy new (academic) year! From Bolton to Bangalore, from London to Lagos, our new students arrived in Manchester in September to begin their studies.

The University will be hosting its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair (11am – 3pm) on Tuesday 15 October in Academy 1.

On Tuesday 17 September, over 5,000 first year undergraduates took part in the Sustainability Challenge – one of the biggest events in the University calendar and a social responsibility singnature programme.

Based in Manchester Central Library, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open-access library specialising in the study of race, ethnicity and migration.

Public lecture given by David Olusoga OBE to celebrate Black History Month at The University of Manchester

All of us are made up of a kaleidoscope of social identities: race, religion, age, gender, sexuality, disability; to name but a few.

For the past 18 months Professor Jo Neill has organised public events at the University and other locations around the country, raising awareness of the harm caused by prohibition of currently illegal drugs, in particular the synthetic endocannabinoid known as ‘Spice’.

SICK! Festival faces up to the complexities of mental and physical health, presenting an outstanding international arts programme, weaving in perspectives from researchers, clinical practitioners, public health professionals, charities and those with lived experience of the issues addressed.

Displaced individuals migrating to Europe from countries to the south and east of the continent face multiple, harrowing dangers; on arriving as asylum seekers and refugees they become some of the most vulnerable and marginalised people in society.