The University will be hosting our first digital version of the annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair from 20–22 October.

Vocal, a not-for-profit organisation hosted by the Univesity, brings people and health research together to benefit all.

2020 marks 50 years since a landmark piece of legislation: The Chronically Sick and Disabled Person’s Act 1970.

With the impact of Covid-19, the number of people finding cycling is a safe and mentally and physically beneficial way to travel has grown.

The Black History Trail project is designed to respond to the underrepresentation of students of African and Caribbean heritage in key disciplines at the University of Manchester.

MICRA (Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing) is a leading research centre carrying out research into fundamental questions about ageing. MICRA has been engaged in collaborative work with the Pensions Advisory Group (PAG) - an interdisciplinary...

The 5th annual Great Science Share for Schools which took place earlier this year saw registrations from over 90,000 young people.

Policy@Manchester’s Lessons from Lockdown collection bring together articles from researchers from across all three of our Faculties.

Each year since 1987, October is celebrated as Black History Month (BHM) in the UK.

Manchester Day of Action is a global volunteer activism programme which inspires alumni worldwide to join together and support a local cause.

University of Manchester students volunteering at the Mentoring Charity “ReachOut” have given a staggering amount of their free time this academic year despite some projects finishing slightly earlier than expected due to COVID 19 and lockdown.

The Manchester Access Programme is the University’s flagship widening participation scheme.

The University’s first virtual Enterprise School recently named the winner of its newly launched entrepreneurship programme.

In August our Environmental Sustainability Team hosted a post-screening discussion of The Story of Plastic film, followed by a Q&A on the University’s commitment to eliminating avoidable single-use plastics by 2022.

Alliance Manchester Business School will host a new institute funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to make the UK economy more productive.

We hope this finds you well.

Manchester Histories is taking its festival digital this year, with the announcement of its first ever DigiFest.

Academic clinicians from the University’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health have been working on hospital wards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to support the NHS and put their expertise to use where it could have the most impact.

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre has launched a campaign to collect the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At this time of year, we love welcoming our friends and neighbours on to our University campus to enjoy our Community Festival.

Scott Dean, Vicente Orts Mercadillo and Clara Skuse, who are studying Graphene and 2D Materials at the University, have supplied more than 55 reusable face masks to a surgery and ambulance service in Essex and the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

A University of Manchester graduate with Aspergers Syndrome has made the most of the Lockdown to put together a documentary about the impact of his condition on mental health.

Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, students from across the University have continued to support communities and engage with social responsibility activities.

The University is inviting all students, staff, alumni, offer holders and members of our wider community to join the first ever Virtual Purple Wave on Sunday, 6 September.

Youth voices have never been more important for shaping the future.