The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North conference

The Public Programmes team at The Nowgen Centre have launched #DesignforMSK, a new project that aims to raise awareness of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in young people.

A team of staff and students from the University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute and its Dalton Cumbrian Facility are cycling 143 miles from Cumbria to Manchester on 7&8 July to celebrate the life and achievements of John Dalton and raise money for the Stroke Association.

The School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) is a four year catalyst scheme which has been running with support from the University of Manchester and Research Councils UK since 2013.

Children from 20 schools across Greater Manchester have joined forces with engineers from Siemens, music experts from the Hallé Orchestra and academics from The University of Manchester to create musical robots for the University’s ‘robot orchestra’ project.

On Friday 20 May, more than a dozen teams from across the University took part in Business in the Community’s (BiTC) Give & Gain Day, the global day of employee volunteering.

Give It Don’t Bin It is an annual campaign that encourages all Manchester students leaving the city in the summer to donate their unwanted items to charity and recycle as much as they can.

The Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) and Salford Research and Development at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust have been working with St Ambrose Barlow RC High School to bring art to the world of inflammation science and research.

Manchester Town City Hall was packed full of thousands of visitors when they dropped in on The Brain Box event on Sunday 19 June, as part of Manchester Day.

Monday 20 June saw the opening of the Ramadan Tent Project on the University campus.

Manchester Town Hall will become the city’s largest laboratory on Sunday 19 June as scientists from across the city join forces for Manchester Day’s Brain Box attraction.

The University has won a national prize for The Works, our ground-breaking employment and skills initiative.

The University’s School Governor Initiative (UMSGI), which supports staff to take up school governor positions in local schools and colleges, has been honoured with the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK

Congratulations to the School of Physics and Astronomy who have achieved a Silver Athena Swan Award.

A professor from the University of has been presented with an Ohtli award, which is the highest recognition that a citizen of Mexico living overseas can receive from the country.

An innovative ‘revolving motorcycle project’ set up by an academic at the University is changing the lives of young people in Tanzania.

A huge well done to the 1,114 staff and students who completed the Great Manchester Run as part of the first ever University Purple Wave – and generated thousands of pounds for charity.

This month sees changes at the top of the Global Development Institute, as Uma Kothari’s term as managing director comes to an end.

We are delighted to announce two new Vice Deans for Social Responsibility, who will be joining Professor Ken McPhail, the Associate Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities.

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust began an Arts Council funded, Bangladeshi women’s project: ‘Kotha and Kantha’, in April 2016.

The Greater Manchester Walking Festival runs across the region from 1-31st May and this year has featured over 200 free guided walks in Manchester and the surrounding districts.

In November, the University will launch the biggest environmental sustainability initiative in the higher education sector -10,000 Actions.

The annual Volunteer of the Year Awards took place in the Whitworth Hall on 11th May, attended by over 170 guests.

Multilingual Manchester is preparing to deliver a new project on ‘Multilingual Communities’, to be launched in October.

The University has awarded Francesca Gains (Politics and policy@manchester) and Kevin Ward (Geography and cities@manchester) an ESRC (Economic and Social Ressearch Council) Impact Accelerator Award to establish a hub for the University’s impact work on Devo Manc and the Northern Powerhouse.