This year, Manchester Outreach Dentists (MODs) won our Making a Difference Award, for their outstanding contribution to widening participation.

The University’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub works with businesses looking to be more sustainable in their use of plastics.

Academia and industry experts from the UK are exploring ways of converting carbon dioxide and waste into sustainable fuels and chemicals to meet net zero targets.

Student volunteers across The University of Manchester have given up over 1,000 hours of their time to support the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

The project contributes to current research gaps on the wellbeing and progress of neurodiverse people, offering new insights for future service provision and the inclusion of marginalised communities.

The University of Manchester Botanical Grounds (The Firs) is part of the Firs Environmental Research Station, located close to Owen’s Park in Fallowfield.

Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, is celebrating South Asian Heritage Month from 18 July – 17 August, with a number of online activities.

We are pleased to announce that the University has been awarded £500,000 of funding from Wellcome, which will be matched with University funds to provide £1M to accelerate and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) throughout our research and discovery approach.

Want Not Waste are on a roll! For the second year in a row, the team have won the student category of our Making a Difference Awards, for their outstanding contribution to environmental sustainability.

Dr Stephanie Snow and the NHS Voices of Covid-19 team were recently announced as the winners of the emerging impact research category in our Social Responsibility 2021 Making a Difference Awards.

Harriet Larrington-Spencer a doctoral researcher in Geography at the University, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Shaw Trust Disability Power 100, as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK.

In June our Chancellor, poet, playwright and big supporter of our social responsibility agenda, Lemn Sissay, was awarded an OBE for services to literature and charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

In June 2021, The Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) published a new report titled: Business Schools and the Public Good, highlighting best practice from a diverse range of business schools across the UK, including Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS).

In June 2021, Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) delivered its first-ever PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Progress Report, since committing to PRME’s Six Principles in 2019.

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) Professor Frank Geels has been appointed as the Co-Investigator of a new £20 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded research and innovation centre.

Our annual Community Festival returned for three days of exploration, interaction and conversation to engage families and audiences from the under 5’s to the over 60’s, from across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Alliance Manchester Business School has won a grant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to investigate how organisations embed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic business decisions.

During the COVID19 pandemic, over 40 students from across the University have joined forces with residents, volunteering almost 200 hours to transform a garden at temporary accommodation in Manchester.

Last week the university’s Policy@Manchester launched their latest publication: On Air Quality.

Roots & Branches is an ambitious, environmentally-driven partnership project led by Manchester Museum.

The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is the University’s flagship widening participation scheme.

Making our planet sustainable is a goal that our students are passionate about.

Experts from the University and the Anna Freud Centre are working with leaders from Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and the city-region’s secondary schools on a major new project that will survey children about their wellbeing and preparedness for life beyond school, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join our British Sociological Association Early Career Event on the 9 & 10 September – “Towards Greater Food? Taking Stock of Food Support in the COVID-19 crisis”

Cultural engagement encompasses our creative programmes as well as partnerships with our cultural institutions – all of which contribute to our role as a key driver of social development and cultural exchange.