Social Responsibility

Teach First’s Futures programme works with sixth formers from backgrounds currently under-represented at university and is supported by the University’s central Widening Participation team.

The paper explains how a group of eighteen older adults were recruited and trained as co-researchers to take a leading role in a study aimed at developing ‘age-friendly’ communities in the Manchester area.

Now more than ever there is a strong call-to-action to press forward and accelerate gender parity.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 200 million women and girls around the world.

Caring for very ill surgical patients in resource-limited settings is a struggle faced daily by doctors and nurses in low and middle income countries.

On 24 January, militants affiliated with Islamic State launched an attack on a Save the Children office in Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan, killing six people including four Save the Children staff, and injuring 27.

The Better World Showcase, the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s social responsibility awards, took place on Monday 12 February.

Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Coram Voice are recruiting Independent Visitors (IVs) to befriend looked after children and young people in Manchester and the surrounding areas.

Jodrell Bank Observatory has been chosen as the UK’s nomination for World Heritage site status in 2019.

The University has gone up from 41st to 16th in the UK and has been named as one of the country’s top ten trans employers in the latest Stonewall Workplace Equality Index – an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay, bi and trans staff.