Manchester Museum is celebrating South Asian Heritage Month with an unmissable two-day festival featuring film, music, workshops and more.

As regular followers know, May is the month of our most important awards for social responsibility. Sixteen winners and 23 highly commended projects – ranging from addressing period poverty, biodiversity and LGBT+ history education – were recognised at our Makinga...

The University of Manchester has a strong history of innovation and delivering positive change.

The University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering has produced a new short film highlighting the benefits of graphene around sustainability and the progress of this ‘wonder material’ towards commercialisation.

Staff and students from across the University came together at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) on 11 May for a series of lectures and panel discussions on social responsibility.

Our Global Development Institute have recently created a blog documenting the progress of the Community Savers project, a collaborative project with tenants from Hopton Court, Hulme, inspired by the work of Shack Dwellers International in Africa and Asia.

The University has published its 2021 Responsible Investment Report, confirming that it has ended investment in fossil fuel companies and has exceeded its target of reducing the carbon intensity of its other holdings.

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