This October, the University will offer the opportunity to recognise and celebrate Black History Month at a variety of events. This year’s theme ‘Saluting our Sisters’ highlights the crucial role that Black women have played in shaping history, inspiring change, and...
Happy new academic year! This month's newsletter is jam-packed with stories of our impact. Here are five examples of what we've been up to over the last month. We were proud to host a delegation at the Manchester Museum for the unconditional return of 174 cultural...
The University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy aims to protect and enhance our environment and prevent uncontrolled climate change. One of the core goals of the strategy, is ‘Valuing Nature’ which focuses on how we work with and alongside nature. We want our...
Join Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o on Thursday, 12 October for a fascinating lecture exploring how to remedy colonial legacies. On Thursday, 12 October 2023, the Universty's School of Social Sciences are hosting their Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture, this year welcoming an...
The University of Manchester has been shortlisted for a Green Gown Award in the 2030 Climate Action category for its work supporting our new Environmental Sustainability strategy. The awards ceremony will take place this November. Our new Environmental Sustainability...
As part of the University's pharmacy undergraduate curriculum, Year 3 pharmacy students will be running health screening clinics at convenient locations across our campus. The clinics are free and open to all staff and students. The health screening check will involve...
The Aboriginal Anindilyakwa community of Australia’s Northern Territory recently celebrated the return of 174 cultural heritage items, as part of a landmark repatriation project organised with Manchester Museum. A handover ceremony took place on 5 September, when the...
The Tour of Britain has captured the imagination of millions across the country, waiting eagerly by the route or tuning in to catch a glimpse of some of the world’s most talented sports people. Setting off (at breakneck speed) just down the road in Altrincham earlier...
The Department of Public Health, based in the University's School of Health Sciences has developed a series of open-access courses on public health and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a key part of the United Nations' work to improve lives and...
A new partnership dedicated to tackling the impact of textile waste in the football industry has been launched between The University of Manchester and RÆBURN Design – a leading sustainable fashion studio. The UK disposes of one million tonnes of textiles every...
We are delighted to announce that between Saturday, 21 October and Friday, 17 November, the annual Festival of Social Science returns to Manchester for its tenth year, with events taking place both virtually and in person. The Festival of Social Science is a...
UK-Med, the UK’s official Emergency Medical Team based at The University of Manchester, has deployed a specialist team of humanitarian workers to Morocco following the recent earthquake. The team of five humanitarian workers is made up of specialists in responding to...
Images of the illustrative masterplan for Manchester’s trailblazing new city centre innovation district have been revealed as ID Manchester’s draft Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) is published and a formal public consultation period begins. Local residents,...
Opening at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on 20 September 2023, the ‘Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building of a University’ exhibition explores how profits from slave trading, ownership of enslaved people, and manufacturing with slave-grown...
New data from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University has revealed disturbing ethnic inequalities in rates of financial hardship in the UK. In the three months leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 40% of people surveyed from the Arab, Any...
We are delighted to announce that two students from The University of Manchester, Ethan Williams and Binham Seyoum, have been awarded with a prestigious Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship! The Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship scheme is an incredible...
Manchester University Press are pleased to announce that their recent publication, The violence of colonial photography by Daniel Foliard, has been shortlisted for The British Academy Book Prize for Global Understanding. Since the launch of their trade list in 2020,...
Our graduates have a distinctive education and learn in a supportive, inclusive environment that encourages them to aim high, take intellectual risks, and develop sustainable solutions to problems both local and global. Students have opportunities to engage in the...
Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (Swahili for “educate a girl, educate the entire community with Astronomy”) is a project founded by Faculty of Science and Engineering PhD student Ann Njeri. The project is addressing the issue of gender disparity and...
Co-founded by the University's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health PhD student Beth Barnes, the Alternative Football League (AF League) is the North West's only fully inclusive football league for women, non-binary and transgender individuals. AF League have...
In collaboration with partners across the city and the globe, Manchester International Festival (MIF) invites an extraordinary range of artists, from a huge range of art forms and backgrounds to create brand-new work for Manchester. MIF23 runs from 29 June – 16 July...
Here’s our last round-up of the academic year before some in the Office for Social Responsibility take a deserved break in August. On 10 June we welcomed around 2,500 people from our local and wider communities onto campus for our seventh annual Community Festival. At...
Tom Fryer, a PhD student from the University’s Institute of Education, developed a project which aims to widen participation to university by supporting students from under-represented backgrounds with their UCAS personal statements. Tom was inspired to start Write on...
Nick Weise from the University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering founded Maretório, a project focussed on making space to facilitate meaningful communication about climate change for those vulnerable, coastal communities in Brazil who may be most affected by it....
Recent research from the University of Manchester found that people over 65 who self-harm are 145 times more likely to die by suicide than people of the same age who had not self-harmed. This research was a catalyst for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care to build...
