Co-founded by the University's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health PhD student Beth Barnes, the Alternative Football League (AF League) is the North West's only fully inclusive football league for women, non-binary and transgender individuals. AF League have...
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’...
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...
During the fourth and final week of the Bike Month Challenge, University of Manchester staff leapfrogged Trafford Council to clinch top place in the regional cycling challenge by riding more than 19,500 miles during May. More than 150 University staff joined the...
A team from the University's Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has researched the link between animal agriculture, biosafety and nature conservation to offer a suggestion as to how the future of land use could look. Dr Steffen Hirth and Dr Dan Welch suggest that...
