Social Responsibility

Cameras at the ready, the University’s first Sustainability Challenge Photography Competition is soon closing for entries!

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:

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.

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.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

The trial of a groundbreaking volunteer buddy scheme aimed at improving mobility in older adults has been launched in in Manchester, Cardiff and Stoke.

The University of Manchester’s Dr Anisa Jafar has been named as Young Researcher of the Year by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), for her commitment to Global Health and Emergency Research and for being an excellent role model for young researchers.