Our University will be planting trees and wildlife-friendly hedges on the University Green space with saplings provided for free under the Queen’s Green Canopy project.

Luminaries from the worlds of pop culture and academia flooded the John Rylands Research Institute & Library earlier this month to celebrate the launch of the British Pop Archive (BPA) and the exhibition ‘Collection’.

Dr Jo Mylan and Dr Filippo Oncini of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) have co-published a new report ‘Transforming Food Provision through Sustainable Innovation’, with Usman Aziz (Manchester Climate Change Agency), Dr Adrian Morley (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Carol Morris (University of Nottingham).

Our University has retained its status as one of the top universities in the country for openness in animal research.

Almost 100 girls from three schools across Manchester spent a day at the University’s Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) learning about entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

Manchester Histories Festival is back! Returning for its eighth edition from the 8-12 June 2022.

After two years of digital ceremonies, the University’s volunteering team returned on Tuesday 10 May with their Volunteer of the Year Awards at Whitworth Hall.

The winners of the University’s first Sustainability Challenge photography competition have been announced as part of The Making a Difference Awards.

SEERIH (Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub) are preparing for the final month of this year’s Great Science Share for Schools.

Saturday 18 June, 1:00 – 4:00pm

Manchester Museum’s Top Floor is a space for people to come together to learn, share ideas, build community and make plans.

Manchester Museum has announced that is has appointed Hannah Hartley as its Environmental Action Manager, a new position for the museum.

The University has provided free places on its Masters in Educational Leadership in Practice programme to a group of 15 Afghani refugee women, supporting them in their ambition to set up schools, colleges and nurseries for Afghani refugees living in exile.

There’s so much to do at our Community Festival.

On 10 May we were joined by staff, students, alumni and friends from around the world to celebrate the incredible and inspiring work of our University community.

There is just one week to go before our 2022 Making a Difference Awards take place, live from the Whitworth Hall on Tuesday 10 May. The Making a Difference Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the many different types of social responsibility achievements of the...

The University of Manchester has retained its position as one of the world’s leading institutions in the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, released at a special event on Wednesday 27 April.

Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor, Reader in Environmental Politics at the University, is the lead author of a major report commissioned by Oxfam America that investigates the impacts of climate breakdown and climate mitigation and adaptations on care work.

A date for your diary - Tuesday 10 May 18:00 – 19:30 Join us live from the University’s Whitworth Hall to celebrate how our staff, students, alumni and external partners are making a difference Everyone is invited to join our Chancellor Lemn Sissay OBE and our...

On the Saturday 25 June we’ll once again be opening our doors to the local community.

Dr Maria Sharmina, a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Sustainable Consumption Institute has co-published the report 'Being Brave: Innovative Solutions to Public Food Procurement' with Tess Hayton and Dr Rebecca St Clair. The...

Dr Eli Krull, a researcher at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the University, has co-authored a teaching case on the organisational paradox of affordable housing insurance in flood-prone areas in the UK.

Increasing numbers of children are born each year using sperm or eggs from donors.

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has just published its recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donation (gamete (egg and sperm) and embryo donation).