Following his election, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, announced his ambitions for making Greater Manchester one of the leading green cities in Europe.

On 25 January, national Young Carers Awareness Day, the University hosted the first Greater Manchester Higher Young Carers Day; a day designed to celebrate young carers in our local area.

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is collaborating with the School of Nursing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University to deliver a new online Master’s programme in Disaster Management.

Students, staff and alumni can run for free in this year’s Great Manchester Run when they commit to fundraising to help young people from Greater Manchester to access a world-class education.

Student volunteering was promoted and celebrated at the University as part of a week-long campaign in Student Volunteering Week (19 – 25 February), run by the Division of Student Development and Community Engagement in partnership with the Students’ Union.

Chancellor, Lemn Sissay, has written and performed a new poem to shine a light on the people at The University of Manchester and beyond who make a difference to others.

Manchester Museum has appointed Esme Ward as its Director, the first woman to hold the role in the Museum’s 125-year history.

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor from the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Politics Department has been working in collaboration with a local environmental group called Upping It.

Amongst public concerns regarding the value and viability of health and social care services, effective independent regulation to ensure high quality care for services users is vitally important.

Teach First’s Futures programme works with sixth formers from backgrounds currently under-represented at university and is supported by the University’s central Widening Participation team.

The paper explains how a group of eighteen older adults were recruited and trained as co-researchers to take a leading role in a study aimed at developing ‘age-friendly’ communities in the Manchester area.

Now more than ever there is a strong call-to-action to press forward and accelerate gender parity.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 200 million women and girls around the world.

Caring for very ill surgical patients in resource-limited settings is a struggle faced daily by doctors and nurses in low and middle income countries.

On 24 January, militants affiliated with Islamic State launched an attack on a Save the Children office in Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan, killing six people including four Save the Children staff, and injuring 27.

The Better World Showcase, the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s social responsibility awards, took place on Monday 12 February.

Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Coram Voice are recruiting Independent Visitors (IVs) to befriend looked after children and young people in Manchester and the surrounding areas.

Jodrell Bank Observatory has been chosen as the UK’s nomination for World Heritage site status in 2019.

The University has gone up from 41st to 16th in the UK and has been named as one of the country’s top ten trans employers in the latest Stonewall Workplace Equality Index – an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay, bi and trans staff.

Over the festive season a number of achievements and milestones for social responsibility have been celebrated.

The University of Manchester and its main construction partners – Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine – have established a £20,000 fund to support neighbourhood initiatives in areas closest to the University’s construction sites around Oxford Road and near Owens Park, Wilmslow Road.

This year’s Great Manchester Run takes place on Sunday, 20 May and includes a 10k and ½ Marathon.

Do you know a University of Manchester student, member of staff or alumnus who you think is worthy of a Volunteer of the Year Award? Then please make a nomination.

Sustainability Champions form a University-wide network of individuals who are leading positive change for sustainability in their own areas and in a range of ways.

We are delighted to confirm that The University of Manchester has successfully maintained its Fairtrade University status.