Prometheus, Alliance Manchester Business School’s annual programme, exclusively designed for leaders from UK third sector organisations, took place earlier this month.

There has been lots of equality and diversity activities going on across campus over the summer, here’s an update on just a few of them.

Over the next couple of months there will be some significant changes to Oxford Road around the University.

For the past few years, the University has run the successful Green Impact scheme.

This month the Procurement Team has reached a milestone now that 500 of our suppliers have signed-up for a free sustainability action plan.

Staff and students across the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health are working hard to support the global fight against antimicrobial resistance.

While extinctions have happened since life first evolved, we are at a point in the Earth’s history where humans are present to document these changes, and to realize our own involvement in the unfolding story.

Sarah Zaman and Dave Ames from the School of Computer Science, recently attending a reception at St James’s Palace hosted by Prince Andrew, HRH The Duke of York, to celebrate the success of computing education in schools.

In July 2016 the Green Impact team at the Centre for Primary Care (CPC) organised a sustainable travel campaign.

Members of the Tackling Food Poverty research project celebrated International Older People’s Day with an interactive cooking demonstration at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival recently.

Since 2014 the University of Manchester has been involved with the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme, an initiative that aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about dementia.

In this article we hear from Professor Yaron Matras from School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures about the benefits of promoting language diversity.

The University’s commitment to supporting students in becoming socially responsible and highly employable citizens of the world has stepped up a gear, with a new initiative that seeks to encourage all Manchester students to become ‘the best graduate they can be’.

The University is holding its biennial Supplier Exhibition for staff and post-graduates on the 10 November in Whitworth Hall from 10am to 4pm.

The University currently offers one of the most generous widening participating (WP) led financial support packages within the Russell Group, which is based solely on financial need.

The University has won the UK Heart Safe Educational Establishment of the Year 2016.

Alliance Manchester Business School has recently launched a ‘Managing Responsibly: Practicing Responsibility, Sustainability, Ethic’ MOOC.

The School of Law is excited to be welcoming its 10th cohort of students this October onto the Pathways to Law programme.

Jaw-dropping and hair-raising science experiments will be the order of the day during the latest Spectacular Science takeover of Manchester Museum.The hands-on day of amazing science, run by top scientists from the University, offers challenges, live experiments, and...

Dr Kingsley Purdam and older people from the Tackling Food Poverty research project recently held an interactive cooking demonstration at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival to celebrate International Older People’s Day.

A giant wooden sculpture of the brain as part of the Brain Box science extravaganza organised by Professor Andreas Prokop and Professor Stuart Allan, both based within the School of Biological Sciences, is now a permanent exhibition at FBMH, AV Hill Building.

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With such a large population at the University, food waste sometimes occurs despite our best efforts to minimise it.

The Green Impact team at Christies Bistro, one of the busiest food outlets on campus, have started their own herb garden for the chefs to use in their cooking.

JustFest Presents: The Volunteering and Social Justice Festival, Tuesday 18 October