Do your bit on #GivingTuesday through our Making a Difference Fair, Swap Shop and HeartStart CPR Training on North Campus

One of our key ambitions for teaching, learning and the student experience here at the University is for there to be no barriers to studying and no boundaries to learning, with widening participation firmly embedded into how we run our institution.

The University Flagship Programme ‘One Student, One Campus, One Life – Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance’ are holding a number of events to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week and European Antibiotic Awareness Day.

October is a little early to be talking about Christmas, but planning something spectacular takes time.

20 Researchers from four schools across two faculties attend an event with more than 20,000 visitors

A multi-million pound project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund has been launched to restore areas in the North West transformed by heavy industries like coal mining, peat extraction and iron & steel production.

Dr Kingsley Purdam from the School of Social Sciences, recently led a session as part of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival which brought together older people to demonstrate their favourite recipes including those they remember from childhood, which they still cook now.

Competition for local school students that inspires celebration of National Poetry Day

In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford became the first person to create an artificial nuclear reaction, here in laboratories at the University.

I would like to welcome all colleagues back from the summer to the new academic year.

Come join the celebrations at the next Corridor cycle breakfast as we mark the 10th anniversary of UMBUG – University of Manchester Bike User Group!

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said the changes to Oxford Road, which include Dutch-style cycle lanes and improved pathways for pedestrians, would serve as a ‘blueprint’ for the rest of the city.

On the 12 October the University Tree Trail will go live.

Following on from conferences in partnership with Oxford and Coventry, UMI3, The University of Manchester’s Innovation Company, hosted Anchor Institutions – Home Grown – Local Roots spreading Global Shoots.

At 30, new Rwandan Minster for Transport, Jean de Dieu ‘Jado’ Uwihanganye is the youngest ever minister in the country and a hugely successful project manager, but none of this would have been possible without the backing of a unique scholarship from The University of Manchester.

Five students from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health took part in the University’s flagship overseas volunteering project ‘Team Uganda’ this summer – this is a partnership project between the University and S.

As part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science 2017 and one of our global inequalities research beacon public events for The University of Manchester, the University will be hosting a free film screening of the Oscar winning documentary, The White Helmets.

The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab researchers are collaborating with the award winning Take Back Theatre collective to explore migrants’ borders to belonging.

On Tuesday of Welcome Week all 8,000 new first year undergraduates students were invited to take part in the Sustainability Challenge.

The University is hosting its annual Volunteering and Social Justice Fair on Tuesday 17 October in Academy 1.

Our School of Computer Science has recently launched Animation18, an animation competition aimed at school and college students aged from 7-19.

Jennie Vickers and Hannah Niblett of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre presented a paper at the Archives and Records Association (ARA) conference on 30 August.

For one weekend in July, the observatory at Jodrell Bank, known for its huge radio telescope, transforms into Bluedot Festival.

The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is the University’s flagship widening participation scheme for local post-16 pupils who are from backgrounds currently underrepresented in higher education.

The University offers a range of widening access schemes aimed at talented post-16 students from under represented backgrounds to help support progression to the University or another research intensive institution.