Your biological clock is important to your health and wellbeing – so what is it? The Centre for Biological Timing in the Faculty Biology Medicine and Health is the largest research group in Europe working on the body clock and its role in human disease.

On 10 October colleagues from Student Recruitment and Widening Participation, the School of Arts Languages and Culture, and Creative Manchester hosted 150 pupils from Greater Manchester schools for a day to explore Black History and British society.

Greater Manchester schools are set to trial clean air monitoring systems across Greater Manchester Schools to determine how varying levels of air quality affects school children.

Sounds of the kora, a West African harp, played by local musician Jali sparked the start of the University’s annual Black History Month celebration event.

Each year, the month of October is celebrated as Black History Month (BHM) in the UK; the purpose of this being to recognise and celebrate the achievement of Black people in the UK and across the world.

On 1 October, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust (AIU) ran the first of ‘three’ takeover days at Manchester Central Library.

A major new guide to the treatment of pensions on divorce has been published by the Pension Advisory Group (PAG).

The University hosted its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair on Tuesday 15 October.

The University’s environmental sustainability initiative, 10,000 Actions, has won an IEMA Sustainability Impact Award.

Our Chancellor Lemn Sissay’s third poem of a triptych for the University focuses on Stellify, our package of extra-curricular activities to help students develop their skills and experiences to become socially responsible, innovative, resourceful graduates.

To recognise and communicate the outstanding social responsibility activities across the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), the fifth annual Better World Awards have now been launched.

Manchester Museum and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) are pleased to announce the unconditional repatriation of 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects to the Aranda people of Central Australia, Gangalidda Garawa peoples’ of northwest Queensland, Nyamal people of the Pilbara and Yawuru people of Broome.

A University community project has won the Equalities category of this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards.

The Manchester Access Programme (MAP), The University of Manchester’s flagship widening participation scheme for local Year 12 students, is opening soon!

Happy new (academic) year! From Bolton to Bangalore, from London to Lagos, our new students arrived in Manchester in September to begin their studies.

The University will be hosting its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair (11am – 3pm) on Tuesday 15 October in Academy 1.

On Tuesday 17 September, over 5,000 first year undergraduates took part in the Sustainability Challenge – one of the biggest events in the University calendar and a social responsibility singnature programme.

Based in Manchester Central Library, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open-access library specialising in the study of race, ethnicity and migration.

Public lecture given by David Olusoga OBE to celebrate Black History Month at The University of Manchester

All of us are made up of a kaleidoscope of social identities: race, religion, age, gender, sexuality, disability; to name but a few.

For the past 18 months Professor Jo Neill has organised public events at the University and other locations around the country, raising awareness of the harm caused by prohibition of currently illegal drugs, in particular the synthetic endocannabinoid known as ‘Spice’.

SICK! Festival faces up to the complexities of mental and physical health, presenting an outstanding international arts programme, weaving in perspectives from researchers, clinical practitioners, public health professionals, charities and those with lived experience of the issues addressed.

Displaced individuals migrating to Europe from countries to the south and east of the continent face multiple, harrowing dangers; on arriving as asylum seekers and refugees they become some of the most vulnerable and marginalised people in society.

After spending time in Zomba, Malawi for fieldwork, Global Development Institute (GDI) PhD student Mapenzie Tauzie, wanted to engage with the community where her research assistants lived.

In July, the University marked a decade of award-winning public engagement with an event that celebrated how we have worked with thousands of people of all ages and from all sectors, across Manchester and beyond.