The University has joined the Government in its declaration of a ‘climate emergency’, reaffirming our position and commitment to being a world-leader in sustainable development.

The University joined over 170 global organisations and news outlets by signing up for Covering Climate Now, a collaboration committing to proactively increase climate coverage in the week leading up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September.

For four years, our Cultural Explorers signature programme has provided a cultural entitlement for all ten year olds in wards neighbouring the University, funding all the costs of their school trips to our cultural institutions: the John Rylands University Library, Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, Manchester Museum and the Whitworth.

Each year the THE editorial team ask their data colleagues to take a fresh look at the data they collect for their suite of world rankings to find patterns of information that reveal something not necessarily obvious in their published results.

A University of Manchester academic has been recognised by the European Union (EU) for his work on tackling energy poverty.

This year the Widening Participation team in the Division of Medical Education ran their first ever residential summer school for aspiring medical students from widening participation backgrounds.

The total figure donated by our staff to charities via our Payroll Giving Scheme has exceeded £1million.

A central difficulty in resolving urban issues such as air pollution, traffic congestion and road safety is the large number of potential actors involved, each with competing perspectives and interests.

A project created by Dr Robert Appleby of the School of Physics and Astronomy that aims to teach visually impaired audiences about accelerator physics and the Large Hadron Collider has won a prestigious European Physics Society (EPS) award.Tactile Collider, which is...

Following the University’s recent success in the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, where the University was ranked first in Europe and third in the world for our social and environmental impact, and the publication of our Sustainable Development Goals report, we have further highlighted our impact in a double-page feature in the Global Goals Yearbook 2019.

Congratulations to Professor Nalin Thakkar, who becomes our next Vice President for Social Responsibility, from 1 September 2019.

As part of our commitment to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the University has become the first higher education institution to become a member of Slave-Free Alliance.

From 18-20 June the University hosted this year’s EAUC conference, welcoming delegates from across higher education and further education institutions to a completely single use plastic free event.

Final year medic, Joshua Strange, has been working with the homeless community in Manchester for the past five years.

Dr Hamied Haroon, a Research Associate at the School of Health Sciences and ‘a force of nature’, according to his colleagues in our Office of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, has been named the University’s Staff Volunteer of the Year 2019.

Earlier in the year Creative Manchester launched its inaugural Poetry Competition, which invited staff, students and alumni of the University to submit a poem themed around ‘Manchester means the world to me’.

ZIWO, a local Manchester group, was recently supported by The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in delivering a National Lottery Heritage Funded project.

The University, in conjunction with colleagues from The University Caterers Organisation (TUCO) hosted an event on 13 June to raise awareness of modern slavery in supply chains.

Tuesday 18 June saw the celebration of the fourth Great Science Share for Schools – an annual campaign to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with new audiences.

A team of scientists at the University has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world.

On Saturday 15 June over 3,000 people from our local and wider communities were welcomed onto campus for our third annual Community Festival.

This week The University of Manchester has revealed a comprehensive report and plan to address key issues facing humanity as set-out by the UN.

As part of the nationwide Age of Creativity 2019 Festival, Dancing with your Brain took place at Z-arts in Manchester on 29 May.

The University Library has introduced paperless book reservations – a move that will save enough paper to wrap around the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons more than 30 times.

When you jump into an Uber taxi do you think how that driver ensures they have a stable income and fair working conditions?