Volunteer of the Year Awards 2022: entries close soon
Nominate your star volunteers before Sunday, 6 March (midnight).
Sustainability Challenge Photography Competition 2022: entries close soon
Cameras at the ready, the University’s first Sustainability Challenge Photography Competition is soon closing for entries!
Student Volunteering Week smashes multiple records
Breaking one record is enough cause for celebration, but at this year’s Student Volunteering Week, the University’s and Students’ Union volunteering teams have been celebrating more than one milestone! Discover how our students have made a difference in the community:
Novel research identifies fresh ‘mixers’ in river pollution ‘cocktail’
An international research team from The University of Manchester, The University of Birmingham and other UK and Indian collaborators, have discovered that water pollutants in rivers are caused by a mixture of chemical cocktail caused by natural chemical processes related to downstream flow.
On Cancer publication launch event
The University’s Policy@Manchester are delighted to announce the launch of our new publication, On Cancer, and to share a national launch event in London, on 3 March.
College Behind Bars: Lessons from the US Bard Prison Initiative
The University's School of Social Sciences is pleased to invite you to our virtual Making a Difference event:College Behind Bars: Lessons from the US Bard Prison Initiative, a documentary and Q&A about one university’s 20-year struggle to provide tuition-free,...
Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2022
The University’s School of Social Sciences is pleased to announce that this year’s Arthur Lewis Lecture is to be given by Sir Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research in the medical faculty at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Public Procurement: price-taker or market-shaper?
The pandemic has thrust the role of public procurement in the UK and other countries into the spotlight like never before, raising concerns and questions about how value is defined in publicly funded contracts.
2022 Our Year – a year for young people and children in Manchester
As part of our civic engagement, working in partnership with Manchester City Council, the University has pledged to listen and act together to create a programme of activities for young people.
Trial of groundbreaking ‘buddy’ scheme for older adults launches
The trial of a groundbreaking volunteer buddy scheme aimed at improving mobility in older adults has been launched in in Manchester, Cardiff and Stoke.