Social Responsibility

Here’s our last round-up of the academic year before some in the Office for Social Responsibility take a deserved break in August. On 10 June we welcomed around 2,500 people from our local and wider communities onto campus for our seventh annual Community Festival. At...

Tom Fryer, a PhD student from the University’s Institute of Education, developed a project which aims to widen participation to university by supporting students from under-represented backgrounds with their UCAS personal statements. Tom was inspired to start Write on...

Nick Weise from the University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering founded Maretório, a project focussed on making space to facilitate meaningful communication about climate change for those vulnerable, coastal communities in Brazil who may be most affected by it....

Recent research from the University of Manchester found that people over 65 who self-harm are 145 times more likely to die by suicide than people of the same age who had not self-harmed. This research was a catalyst for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care to build...

School children had the chance to explore their scientific curiosity with top scientists across the country. As part of the Great Science Share for Schools campaign, more than 500,000 primary and secondary school pupils took part in a celebratory event where they had...

The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library (Rylands) is set to enrich and transform the researcher and visitor experience, thanks to the John Rylands Next Chapter project, a £7.6 million capital investment. The project, one of the lead...

Nasal breathing, magic mushrooms, inequalities in healthcare and cures for cancer were just some of the topics that our fabulous students were talking about in our second year of the University's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Undergraduate ‘Talking Science’...

University of Manchester reseachers Dr Jaime Garcia Iglesias, Professor Brian Heaphy and Dr Neta Yodovich who work on the Dating App Connections project have been collaborating with Harvey Kennedy-Pitt and his colleagues at Black Beetle Health, a community public...

Our new environmental sustainability strategy, Our Sustainable Future, has been approved by the Board of Governors. The strategy will launch in the autumn and run for five years, up to 2028. It describes how we will reduce our carbon footprint, promote sustainability...