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Developing our Living Lab

Dr Jennifer O’Brien from the University’s School of Enviroment, Education and Development and Academic Lead for Sustainability Teaching and Learning has been awarded a Higher Education and SDGs Challenge Grant by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).

‘Writers sure enough’: Mentoring school children in poetry

In spring of 2022 the University’s Creative Manchester, the Centre for New Writing (CNW) and the Great Science Share for Schools launched this year’s Schools Poetry Competition, a civic engagement exercise that aims to nurture budding young poets in our local community.

Young people learn to talk their way out of conflict

Funding to facilitate research impact has allowed academcs from the University, Professor Hilary Pilkington and Dr Ajmal Hussain to work with practitioners from the Warrington-based Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation to develop a framework and toolkit for conducting ‘mediated dialogue’ with groups in conflict.

Monthly round-up

This month we’re opening our doors to friends and neighbours in the local community to go behind the scenes of the University and discover the exciting work taking place here. The much awaited in-person return of our annual Community Festival provides a free,...

Mediated dialogue

Funding to facilitate research impact has allowed academcs from the University, Professor Hilary Pilkington and Dr Ajmal Hussain to work with practitioners from the Warrington-based Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation to develop a framework and toolkit for conducting ‘mediated dialogue’ with groups in conflict.

Building a bottom-up bioeconomy

What could the future bioeconomy look like? And how can engineering biology fit into strategies to transition to sustainable industrial ecosystems that better meet society’s changing needs?

Local Matters

The University’s Manchester Institute of Education have developed Local Matters, a new research approach to understanding and responding to poverty in schools.

Monthly round-up

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...

New graphene film highlights sustainability

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.