This year the Widening Participation team in the Division of Medical Education ran their first ever residential summer school for aspiring medical students from widening participation backgrounds.

The total figure donated by our staff to charities via our Payroll Giving Scheme has exceeded £1million.

A central difficulty in resolving urban issues such as air pollution, traffic congestion and road safety is the large number of potential actors involved, each with competing perspectives and interests.

A project created by Dr Robert Appleby of the School of Physics and Astronomy that aims to teach visually impaired audiences about accelerator physics and the Large Hadron Collider has won a prestigious European Physics Society (EPS) award.Tactile Collider, which is...

Following the University’s recent success in the 2019 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, where the University was ranked first in Europe and third in the world for our social and environmental impact, and the publication of our Sustainable Development Goals report, we have further highlighted our impact in a double-page feature in the Global Goals Yearbook 2019.

Congratulations to Professor Nalin Thakkar, who becomes our next Vice President for Social Responsibility, from 1 September 2019.

As part of our commitment to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the University has become the first higher education institution to become a member of Slave-Free Alliance.

From 18-20 June the University hosted this year’s EAUC conference, welcoming delegates from across higher education and further education institutions to a completely single use plastic free event.

Final year medic, Joshua Strange, has been working with the homeless community in Manchester for the past five years.

Dr Hamied Haroon, a Research Associate at the School of Health Sciences and ‘a force of nature’, according to his colleagues in our Office of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, has been named the University’s Staff Volunteer of the Year 2019.

Earlier in the year Creative Manchester launched its inaugural Poetry Competition, which invited staff, students and alumni of the University to submit a poem themed around ‘Manchester means the world to me’.

ZIWO, a local Manchester group, was recently supported by The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in delivering a National Lottery Heritage Funded project.

The University, in conjunction with colleagues from The University Caterers Organisation (TUCO) hosted an event on 13 June to raise awareness of modern slavery in supply chains.

Tuesday 18 June saw the celebration of the fourth Great Science Share for Schools – an annual campaign to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with new audiences.

A team of scientists at the University has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world.

On Saturday 15 June over 3,000 people from our local and wider communities were welcomed onto campus for our third annual Community Festival.

This week The University of Manchester has revealed a comprehensive report and plan to address key issues facing humanity as set-out by the UN.

As part of the nationwide Age of Creativity 2019 Festival, Dancing with your Brain took place at Z-arts in Manchester on 29 May.

The University Library has introduced paperless book reservations – a move that will save enough paper to wrap around the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons more than 30 times.

When you jump into an Uber taxi do you think how that driver ensures they have a stable income and fair working conditions?

In 2018, the School of Social Sciences’ ‘Our Migration Story’ team and the Runnymede Trust partnered with the award-winning Olympias Music Foundation to work in a local Manchester School.

Ramadan Mubarak for all those currently celebrating.

Ever fancied walking on custard? How about trying your hand at making your own 3D model? Or perhaps you’d like to journey around sites of world-changing discoveries within the University of Manchester? Our free Community Festival is jam-packed with fun activities for all the family.

Manchester Histories is an independent charity spun-out of The University of Manchester’s Department of History and is overseeing the set of events for Peterloo 2019.

The Holy Month of Ramadan is a special time of year in the Middle East (and around the world) and it brings a change of pace for even the busiest of working lives, with reduced working hours, daylight fasting, and time devoted to prayer and reflection.