Social Responsibility

The University of Manchester and the Students’ Union champion student leadership in access and widening participation through Access All Areas.

To highlight and share some of great work that goes on the Faculty of Science and Engineering a ‘Better World Showcase’ was held in January.

Dr Joseph Mutale and Dr Vidyadhar Peesapati, Director and Deputy Director for Social Responsibility in the University’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, made a week-long trip to Lusaka in Zambia at the end of November.

Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust has recently received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the ‘Coming in From the Cold’ project.

Researchers from The University of Manchester have met leading politicians to urge them to take action on racism in the workplace, after their research found that the issue is still commonplace in the UK.

UK-Med, a disaster response charity based at The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), is a partner in the UK’s International Emergency Medical Team which has been verified by the World Health Organization as part of their emergency medical team initiative.

On Tuesday 10 September 2016, the first Sustainability Seminar Series began with a talk from Professor Ian Cotton and Sian Nord about how the University uses energy.

On 24 January the School of Law hosted a very successful Clinical Legal Education and Access to Justice seminar in association with the Greater Manchester Law Centre and the Clinical Legal Education Organisation.

With a deadline of midnight on Wednesday 1 February there are just a couple of days left to enter the Making a Difference Awards 2017.

Manchester is celebrating after being named the first carbon literate University and museum in the world.