Winner

Developing a model for teaching LGBT+ History to secondary school students

Thomas Donnai – Faculty of Humanities

This project addressed a political narrowing of the History curriculum and a lack of training for new teachers on how to make marginalised groups visible in the History curriculum. It developed a unit covering LGBT+ History, seeking to ‘skill trainees up’ and helping them disseminate good practice once in post as teachers.

SDGs: 4, 10

“Winning a Making a Difference Award in 2022 was a real high point for me; getting recognition for my three- year project and its impact was great and I was so pleased to share the good news with partners and beneficiaries. Celebrating success is important!”

Highly Commended

Klezmer Ensemble Performance
Richard Fay – Faculty of Humanities

This project established a Manchester node in the revitalisation of Klezmer – music used for Jewish weddings which was decimated during the holocaust. It founded a klezmer ensemble and linked module in the University’s music department; facilitating students’ developing intercultural awareness, and combatting anti-Semitism.

SDGs: 4, 16

Reache Education Programme

Aisha Awan and team – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health & Northern Care Alliance

This project works with Refugees and Asylum Seekers arriving in the UK, providing an education programme for English and medical PLAB examinations, helping healthcare professionals undertake conversion courses. The service has had huge success for English pass rates as well as placing clinicians within Clinical Practice placements throughout the local NHS Trusts.

SDGs: 1, 3, 4

Winner

Promoting Educational Equality for Girls by addressing Period Poverty in Liberia

Chantal Victoria Bright – Faculty of Humanities

This project worked with a local seamstress in Liberia to develop a convenient alternative to impractical disposable pads; simultaneously creating employment and addressing challenges around period poverty and its impact on education and ensuing life outcomes.

SDGs: 3, 4, 5

Highly commended

MyMaternity Care App

Jenny Myers and colleagues- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project brought together women, industry partners and healthcare professionals to develop an app specifically designed to support self-monitoring of blood pressure and blood glucose. The app has been used by more than 450 pregnant women, reducing the need for hospital visits and enabling better remote support during pregnancy.

SDGs: 3, 9, 12

Drones Optimized Therapy System (DrOTS): Use of Drones for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Nepal

Uttam Pudasaini, Biplav Pageni and Sushant Yadav – Faculty of Humanities

This project is designed for the rapid diagnosis of new Tuberculosis cases through the utilization of drones and smart pillboxes, called MERMS (Medication Event Reminder-Monitors), to overcome the access barrier in remote, geographically isolated areas and improve treatment patient compliance. The project plans to assist Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population by generating the data necessary to assess the suitability of drone-based services for nationwide expansion.

SDGs: 3, 9, 17

Winner

Ageing Well in Place at Hopton Court

Hopton Hopefuls tenants group (Hulme), Whitney Banyai-Becker, Sophie King and Diana Mitlin – Faculty of Humanities

This project is a tenant-led initiative which seeks to ensure that older tower-block tenants can age well and die with dignity in the place they call home. The project has carried out a tenant-led survey of older people’s needs, and advocates for better care for older people in their community.

SDGs: 3, 10, 17

#BeeWell: Making Young People’s Wellbeing Everybody’s Business

Neil Humphrey – Faculty of Humanities

This project is a new programme led by the University of Manchester, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA). It combines academic expertise with youth-led change to make the wellbeing of young people everybody’s business.

SDGs: 3, 10, 17

“Receiving a Making A Difference award has been fantastic for our team – it recognises the importance of the University’s social responsibility agenda and the work that goes into ensuring that projects like #BeeWell have an impact on society.”

Highly Commended

Reading Mentors

Kyna Ho and Reihaneh Farzinnia – Faculty of Humanities

This project is a student-led mentoring scheme that supports primary school pupils to become confident and able readers. Difficulty reading is a key barrier to engaging with education provision across all subjects for children, reducing comprehension and diminishing their confidence in education settings.

SDGs: 4, 10

Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge (GMEC)

Dr Lynne Bianchi and team – Faculty of Science and Engineering

This project saw hundreds of 7-14-year-olds taking part in a blended-learning style 2021 Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge. Pupils, teachers, families, industry and academic engineers came together at the height of school closures to engage pupils in practical learning related to Sustainability and Well Being.

SDGs: 11

ScienceX

Daniele Atkinson, Lindsey Gage and Francesca Guratsky – Faculty of Science and Engineering

This project inspired a new generation of scientists from the city’s hard-to-reach groups. Held at Manchester Central Library, alongside a complementing digital platform, ScienceX engaged more than 7000 people, creating a community of STEM enthusiasts by revealing our scientists’ impact in addressing the climate crisis.

SDGs: 4, 13

Winner

Cucusonic: translating biodiversity into new music in Colombia

Rupert Cox and Alejandro Valencia-Tobon – Faculty of Humanities, UoM Alumni

This project raised public awareness of the biodiversity of Colombia and its importance globally by translating natural soundscape recordings and bioacoustic data into a new music album. The international music and bio-science collaboration set up a remotely organised network with diverse local communities to collect and record sounds and stories from the Colombian Neotropical forests, inviting high profile musicians to create tracks from the field recordings.

SDGs: 13

“The award enhanced the profile of my work and methods to international research collaborators, leading to a new interdisciplinary, public engagement project with Aix Marseilles University in France.”

Highly Commended

Empowering a rural community to protect themselves from COVID-19 in Sri Lanka
Dr Raj Ariyaratnam and Kunasingam Satgunarasah – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

The project involved engaging communities through their mother tongue as means to prevent language being a barrier to healthcare equality. It aimed to improve attitudes towards mask wearing and vaccinations among global rural and poor communities by addressing the knowledge vacuum created by authentic health information were being published mainly in English on mainstream and social media platforms.

SDGs: 3, 10

Winner

Trafford 500 Words

Wendi Swan, Jonny Huck and Rebecca Grant – Wellfield Junior School and Faculty of Humanities

This project entailed a creative writing competition, working with over 600 children (aged 7-11) through partnership with over 50 Primary Schools across Trafford. It aimed to ensure fundamental skills such as reading and writing were developed, despite the disruption to education from the pandemic.

SDGs: 3, 4, 17

Highly Commended

Dab Hands: That’ll Need Stitching
Lucy Burscough – Public contributor (artist)

This project used artwork to boost wellbeing and community spirit during the pandemic. Embroidery kits were posted out, resulting in contributions from nearly 300 medical students, healthcare workers, students out of mainstream education and older residents across the region. The embroideries will become the ‘skin’ of a large sculpture of a sewing hand, to be exhibited at Manchester Museum in autumn.

SDGs: 3, 11, 17

Winner

Still Parents Exhibition

Lucy Turner and team- The Whitworth Art Gallery

This project comprises a partnership between The Whitworth Art Gallery and Sands (Stillbirth and Neo Natal Death Charity). The award-winning programme supports parents who have experienced the loss of a baby in pregnancy or just after birth.

SDGs: 3, 10, 17

Highly commended

Our Shared Cultural Heritage

Sadia Habib – Manchester Museum

This project aims to make museums and heritage organisations better places for young people to tackle cultural inequalities and showcase cultural heritage from diaspora perspectives. The pandemic shifted Our Shared Cultural Heritage online, creating a safe, positive and supportive digital space for more young people.

SDGs: 8, 10, 16

Winner

The Black Excellence Network

George Obolo – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project has been set up to challenge the racial disparities seen between black students and other ethnicities within UK higher education and competitive courses.

SDGs: 4, 10

Highly Commended

OneEd Community

Yin Hei Lee – Faculty of Humanities

This project provides mathematics E-learning resources to students from low-income families for free and forever. By providing free access to quality educational resources created by experts, the project aims to narrow the gap between underprivileged and privileged students, allowing them to climb up the social ladder more effectively.

SDGs: 4, 10

Reducing inequalities in cancer tumour genetic screening

Professor David Wedge – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project collected and analysed cancer tumours from Nigerian, Kenyan and South African populations, revealing substantial differences in genetics between different ethnic groups that were previously unknown. This work has the potential to spur personalised medicine tailored to people with different ethnicities, thus improving their health outcomes following a cancer diagnosis.

SDGs: 3, 9, 10

The Manchester Muslim Medical Student Guide (First Edition)

Mohammed Ullah and team- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Student Support

This project created a manual for Muslim students which can help them navigate their time at Medical school. It provides an inclusive learning environment and covers many key topics which are not addressed by other means. The outcomes are higher retentions, less issues related to faith and support and guidance for students to help them with any issues regarding faith and studying.

SDGs: 4, 10

Winner

Irene Manton Lecture

Samantha Franklin – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project, set up by our Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, in collaboration with the Linnean Society of London, provides free annual lectures to commemorate and celebrate the role that women have played in contributing to the development of natural sciences and aims to increase diversity in science. So far, over 540 people have attended the lectures with a varied audience.

SDGs: 3, 4, 5

Highly Commended

International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge campaign

Enna Bartlett and colleagues – Faculty of Science and Engineering, Professional Services

This project entailed an online, magazine-style campaign that focused on telling staff and students’ personal stories of gender inequality for 2021 International Women’s Day. With support from colleagues across the University, 18 stories were published across University websites, conveying the campaign’s important message through its novel and honest content.

SDGs: 5

Student Winner

Enactus Manchester – Rekindle

Mahima Jethani – Faculty of Humanities

This project focuses on ensuring sustainable communities in Manchester by seeking out clothes and refurbishing them. Rekindle is trying to combat the issue of fast consumerism through building a sustainable student community.

SDGs: 11, 12

Staff Winner

Concretene: a low-carbon, graphene-enhanced concrete

Alan Beck and colleagues – Faculty of Science and Engineering

This project aims to mitigate the environmental impact of the construction industry, by producing Concretene: a lower-emitting version of concrete. Large-scale site trials demonstrated up to 30% less concrete was required for the same structural performance as standard RC30 concrete in floor-slab applications, helping reduce 25-30% of CO2 emissions.

SDGs: 9, 11, 12

Highly Commended

Furniture 4 Reuse

Simon Atkinson, Alan Wright and Peter Liddell – Professional Services

This project prevents unnecessary University furniture waste, and promotes reuse and recycling. All unwanted University furniture can be returned to the furniture store and items suitable for re-use are available for staff free of charge. Items that are assessed at the furniture store as not being suitable for re-use will be disposed of to a local furniture re-use company upmcr.com rather than sent for disposal.

SDGs: 9, 11, 12

A Greener Centre for Postgraduate Education and Training (CPPE)

Nuala Hampson and GCPE Greener Team – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project aims to reduce the impact of the Centre for Postgraduate Education and Training (CPPE) on the environment, from small steps such as reducing the amount of paper used, to linking in with green initiatives at the head office. A session run at CPPE’s national meeting on the environmental crisis resulted in organisational and individual engagement across England.

SDGs: 3, 12, 13

Biko Bikes

Charlie Major and Phoebe Parry – Student Action

This project is trying to reduce climate change in Manchester by maintaining and renting out bikes to students for £1 a week, thereby encouraging students to cycle. It works as an alternative to public transport, which is often inaccessible. All money from the project is reinvested into itself to ensure full sustainability.

SDGs: 3, 11, 13

Musical Agriculture (IWA-ANEM): A Song for Climate Change

Rita Robert Otu and colleagues – Faculty of Humanities

This project seeks to address challenges such as deforestation, climate change and environmental injustices, by using music and food to initiate a variety of educational programs for key groups such as women, and children.

SDGs: 1, 2, 13

Incredible Edible

Akhila Ficel and Alice Wheatley – Student Action

This project is a student-led initiative that seeks to raise awareness about environmental issues, food justice, and sustainability by cultivating organic vegetables and herbs around the University for the local community to use and access free of charge. Student volunteers gain new skills and learn more about how to grow food sustainably on small plots.

SDGs: 2, 3, 11

Student Winner

Manchester Outreach Medics (MOMs)

Manchester Outreach Medics team – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This project runs events for young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who want to become doctors. These events aim to improve understanding of the medicine application process, and improve the students’ self-confidence.

SDGs: 4, 10

Staff Winner

Psychology Education and Wellbeing in Schools (PEWS)

Dr Debbie Smith and Dr Elizabeth McManus – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This projects works at a school in a deprived area, which is associated with generally poorer health outcomes and lower attendance at university. Its primary aim is to promote and teach simple health behaviour skills and techniques that can become positive habits that last into adult life. It also celebrates diversity and encourages university education as an option for anyone.

SDGs: 3, 4, 10

Highly Commended

Reading Mentors

Kyna Ho and Reihaneh Farzinnia – Faculty of Humanities

This project is a student-led mentoring scheme that supports primary school pupils to become confident and able readers. Difficulty reading is a key barrier to engaging with education provision across all subjects for children, reducing comprehension and diminishing their confidence in education settings.

SDGs: 4, 10

Commuter Student Peer Mentoring

Nick Weise and student peer mentoring team – University-wide

This project addresses the lack of opportunities commuter students have to build social / cultural capital and access to members of the university community who understand their situation. Through the peer mentoring scheme, commuter students transitioning into the University now see learners who are like them before they start and can form supportive peer networks.

SDGs: 4

Winner

Creating a Sustainable World: Jennifer O’Brien and team, School of Environment, Education and Development

This is a course that aims to equip and empower students to take action for sustainable development.

Watch the video: Creating a Sustainable World

Highly commended

The Law in Practice course: Philip Drake and team, School of Social Sciences

This is a course that provides our students with real-life education, where they assist clients who cannot access legal help elsewhere.

The Global Online Learning Forum: Senathirajah Ariyaratnam and team, School of Medical Sciences, Division of Dentistry

This is a flexible platform that brings real-time teaching provision to dental professionals in Asia and Africa.

Winner

Manchester Urban Observatory: James Evans and team, School of Environment, Education and Development

This is an organisation that brings data, sensors & expertise together to improve decision making in cities.

Watch the video: Manchester Urban Observatory

Highly commended

OpenPIL: improving access to medicines information: Malik Ahmed and team, School of Health Sciences, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry

This is an organisation that aims to make information about medicines more reliable and openly available.

Pandemic ethics: Ruth Bromley, School of Medical Sciences, Division of Medical Education

This project is an emergency ethical support service for GPs to support them through the pandemic.

Winner – staff

The Justice Hub COVID-19 Virtual Vacation Scheme: Philip Drake and team, School of Social Sciences

This is a scheme that continued to provide legal advice to those most vulnerable during the pandemic.

Watch the video: The Justice Hub COVID-19 Virtual Vacation Scheme

Winner – student

The Blackburn Poetry Project: Rebecca Grant, School of Environment, Education and Development

This is a collaborative arts project which aims to challenge negative narratives about the town of Blackburn.

Watch the video: The Blackburn Poetry Project

Highly commended – staff

Congo’s Activist in Exile: Jake Gill and team, Blue Shoes Productions and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

This project involved a partnership between the School of Arts, Languages and Culture and Blue Shoes Productions. They developed a short documentary to highlight Jenny Dakosta Van Mputu’s refugee experience in the UK.

Highly commended – student

MedReach: Kajal Patel, School of Medical Sciences

This is an online mentoring platform for Year 12 students from less advantaged backgrounds hoping to start medical-related careers.

Winner

Protecting Kenyan communities against COVID-19: Johnny Huck and team, School of Environment, Education and Development

This project involves a multi-disciplinary collaboration with local partners in Kenya. The team worked together to encourage people to use face masks during the pandemic.

Watch the video: Protecting Kenyan communities against COVID-19

Highly commended

Mad COVID: Jo Edge and team, School of Social Sciences and School of Arts Languages and Cultures

This project is a user-led collective for people with serious mental illness during the pandemic.

Great Science Share for Schools goes digital!: Lynne Bianchi and team, Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub, Faculty of Science and Engineering

This is a programme that was transformed due to the pandemic into a fully digital experience to support teachers and families working at home or in school.

#TheSmileBehindTheMask: Aryana Jizan and team, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

This is a student-instigated social media campaign to help healthcare professionals and students to communicate more effectively while wearing protective PPE and face-masks.

Winner

StillBorn project: Adinda van’t Klooster School of Medical Sciences, Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine

This is a collaborative art and poetry project that aims to raise awareness of stillbirth and give people a voice to talk about their experiences.

Watch the video: StillBorn project

Highly commended

IntoUniversity Manchester North: IntoUniversity Manchester North Team

This is an educational charity that supports some of the most disadvantaged young people in Manchester.

Needs of those bereaved by suicide: Sharon McDonnell and team, Division of Psychology and Mental Health, School of Health Sciences

This project involved conducting a national suicide bereavement survey to identify people’s experiences and needs, which will inform future policy.

Winner

Young People in Museums as part of South Asian Heritage Month: Barinur Rashid –Manchester Museum

This is a project that engaged young people to celebrate the diverse heritage of South Asian history and culture.

Watch the video: Young People in Museums as part of South Asian Heritage Month

Highly commended

The Early Years Programme at the Whitworth: Lucy Turner – The Whitworth

This is a sector-leading programme that uses art to inspire and engage under 5s and their carers.

Science Learning at Home: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

This project created a new online hub of scientific resources and activities that were launched soon after last year’s lockdown.

Winner – staff

Science Grrl: Heather Williams, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, School of Health Sciences

This is a grass-roots network that addresses the under-representation of women in science.

Watch the video: Science Grrl

Winner – student

My Story Campaign: Tanyaradzwa Mwamuka and team – Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health

This is a campaign project that aims to empower individuals of Afro-Caribbean descent through a programme of creative, positive imagery.

Watch the video: My Story Campaign

Highly commended

With Women Book Project: Catherine Millan and the With Women Book Project participants, Division of Student Experience

This is a project that created a book promoting the career of midwifery to young people from BAME communities.

LIVE with Scientists: Ayse Latif and team, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences

This is a non-profit initiative devoted to providing equal access to science for everyone.

Winner

PPE Printing Project for Local NHS: Brian Derby and the PPE Printing Project Team, School of Natural Sciences

This project addressed the critical demand for personal protective equipment during the pandemic. Staff and students printed and assembled visors for NHS staff and for a partner project in Uganda.

Watch the video: PPE Printing Project for Local NHS

Highly commended

Manchester Museum from Home: Wendy Gallagher and Museum staff – Manchester Museum

This project created of a platform of digital participatory activities and events as a response to the pandemic.

Return of Cultural Heritage: Manchester Museum repatriation: Esme Ward – Manchester Museum

This project involves unconditional repatriation of 43 cultural heritage objects to Australia’s First Nations peoples.

Winner – student

Want Not Waste: Want Not Waste Team – Cross-faculty

This is a student-run, zero-waste shop with local produce, workshops, upcycling afternoons, a TerraCycle station and talks on sustainability.

Watch the video: Want Not Waste

Winner – staff (research impact)

Lifecycle assessment of solar energy in Kenya: Velma Mukoro, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

This research project assesses the environmental impacts of using solar electrical systems in Kenya.

Highly commended

Light and Air: Lorraine Wolter and team, School of Social Sciences, Alliance Manchester Business School

This is a project that uses sustainable clothing to spark conversations and empower people to live an eco-friendly life.

Winner – student

Manchester Outreach Dentists: Manal Hamad and team, School of Medical Sciences

This is a project that aims to help disadvantaged sixth-form students with their applications to the Dental School.

Watch the video: Manchester Outreach Dentists

Winner – staff

Project Inc. Manchester Museum Partnership: Anna Bunney – Manchester Museum

This is a partnership that aims to make Manchester Museum more accessible for neuro-diverse young people.

Watch the video: Project Inc.

Highly commended – student

Library Peer Network: Adam Cooke and team, University Library

This project is a peer-led network for students from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds.

Reading Mentors: Kyna Ho and team, School of Environment, Education and Development

This is a group of volunteers who help school children who need extra support to become confident and able readers.

MedReach: Kajal Patel, School of Medical Sciences

This is an online mentoring platform for Year 12 students from less advantaged backgrounds hoping to start medical-related careers.

Highly commended – staff

Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge: Lynne Bianchi and team, Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub, Faculty of Science and Engineering

This is an annual campaign that engages pupils with the engineering design process.

Winner

Service Learning in Pharmacy: Mobilising undergraduate students to deliver health promotion education within high school settings: David Allison, Emma Williams, Sarah Willis and Rebecca Rafferty.

This project involved pharmacy undergraduates delivering assessed core curriculum public engagement workshops to high school pupils. Workshops covered a variety of public health topics relevant to 14-16 year olds such as Antibiotic Resistance, Alcohol, Diabetes, Mental Health & Sexual Health Awareness. Since 2017 approximately 3000 pupils across 14 Manchester schools have received these workshops, delivered by 416 undergraduate students.

“We are all so pleased, and proud, to have won the 2020 MaD award for our innovative Service Learning in Pharmacy programme. This was a fantastic team effort, including undergraduate students, high school teachers and pupils. We hope that other Schools of Pharmacy will follow our lead as Service Learning is a great way to help improve the health of the population whilst developing professional attributes in trainee pharmacists.” David Allison

Watch the short film: Service Learning in Pharmacy

Highly commended

The student-led massive open online course: parasitic worms: life stories: Kathryn Else.

This MOOC was inspired by the unmet need of educating people about how they get infected with parasitic worms.

Bringing Social Responsibility into School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Projects: Karen Cosgrove.

This project integrated social responsibility within the University undergraduate teaching portfolio.

Winner

Wellspring: Elliot McKernon.

Many apps offer treatments for mental health issues, but studies find these are ineffective, as the most effective way to treat mental illness is through a doctor, but many are reluctant to do this. The Wellspring app bridges the gap between those with mental illness and treatment by providing clearly written information about symptoms, self-help and treatment. The information is written by a clinical psychologist and a mental health lecturer to be concise and easily understandable.

Watch the short film

Highly commended

Electric Bazaar: Alicya Mamo, Shamima Khonat and Sarah Sharif.

Electric Bazaar is an ethical fashion social enterprise that gives talented artisans the recognition they deserve, whilst preserving the rich handicrafts of Pakistan.

Want not Waste: Holly Smith

Want Not Waste is a student-run plastic-free shop that promotes a sustainable way of life.

Winner (student)

Refugee and Asylum Seekers’ Conversation Club: Alice Lavery.

Refugee and Asylum Seekers’ Conversation Club are a student led volunteer group that runs conversational English lessons for refugees and asylum seekers across Manchester. With 11 classes every week they aim to help ease their transition into life in the UK by improving language skills and providing a friendly and welcoming environment.

Watch the short film: Refugee and Asylum Seekers’ Conversation Club

Highly commended (student)

Once a Month: Bethany Veal and team.

Once A Month is a monthly project that aims to combat period poverty.

Manchester’s First Language Community Project: Sophie Pathmanathan.

Manchester’s First Language Community Project is a new way of engaging our students with local communities.

Engaging with HIV policy and service delivery: a three-way approach: Jaime Iglesias.

This outreach project looked at intentional HIV infection amongst gay men.

Winner (staff)

Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today: Saskia Warren & The Whitworth.

Beyond Faith is a ground-breaking co-curated exhibition and events programme at the Whitworth, presenting the work of five contemporary Muslim women artists with pieces from its collection. It challenges exclusion in art spaces and highlights the often-overlooked contribution of Muslim women to culture in Britain. By raising the selected artists’ profiles, it also seeks to inspire cultural career pathways for young people from under-represented backgrounds.

“It was good to get recognition from the University for the hard work that goes into these projects and also to give a further platform to the artists involved. We have already had interest from different groups and organisations in doing a version of the event in different regions of the UK with different local Muslim women artists. Moving into the future and thinking about the impact of COVID-19, we will be exploring how the programme might work in different contexts. What I was really struck by was that all 5 of the artists watched the awards ceremony and that the recognition really mattered to them as a sign of validation from a leading university. All of them got in touch about the award and felt recognised and accepted by an elite institution.” Saskia Warren

Watch the short film: Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today

Highly commended (staff)

MIB Programme of Public Engagement with Research & Researchers: Nicholas Weise.

The aim of this public engagement project was to support people to age well within the neighbourhoods of Brunswick and Levenshulme.

Community interventions to promote ‘ageing in place’: developing the ‘Village’ model in Manchester:Christopher Phillipson.

‘Ageing in place’ supports people to age well, working with older people in the Brunswick Estate and Levenshulme.

Coming in from the Cold: Jennifer Vickers.

Coming in from the Cold aims to increase the volume and visibility of archives relating to Greater Manchester’s BAME communities.

Winner (student)

CreateZim: Tarisiro Fundira and Nyasha Goredema.

CreateZim is a community organisation that seeks to create mental health discourse among Zimbabwean youth (16-25) as a way of providing the rare opportunity to have necessary conversations, whilst simultaneously creating safe spaces complemented by an interactive online platform.

“Winning such a prestigious award has been the gift that keeps on giving. Not only has it facilitated the education and support of Zimbabweans in mental health, it has also sparked further expansion of our movement and therefore a sense of hope throughout the African continent that such a neglected issue can and will be tackled!” Tarisiro Fundira and Nyasha Goredema

Watch the short film: CreateZim

Winner (staff)

Participating with Panama: Andrew Gray and Amanda Bamford, Manchester Museum.

The Participating with Panama project engaged people within rainforest communities in Panama to fully involve them in conservation work to save critically endangered species. A public engagement aspect also provided incomes and sessions which inspire schoolchildren to care for local environments.

Highly commended

NHS at 70: The Story of our lives: Stephanie Snow, School of Medical Sciences.

The NHS at 70 project aimed to create a national public archive of NHS history.

Winner

Peterloo 2019: Karen Shannon, Janine Hague and Charlie Booth.

Peterloo 2019 marked the bi-centenary of one of the most important episodes in the history of Manchester. It brought together over 46 different cultural organisations and 50 community groups with over 600,000 people taking part. The programme of special events was led and delivered by Manchester Histories (MH) who also led linked initiatives throughout the year in the areas of learning, volunteering and working with young people.

Watch the short film: Peterloo 2019

Highly commended

Seven thousand feet: Christine Wilcox-Baker.

Seven thousand feet is a science-art project bringing together Manchester-based clinicians, research scientists and artists, with a common interest in diabetes.

International Arts and Homelessness Summit and Festival: Matt Peacock.

With One Voice is an international movement that aims to strengthen the arts and homelessness sector through exchanges in practice and policy.

Winner

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab under Siege: Cat Lumb.

This co-curated exhibition with The Partition Museum, India, was the first Indo-UK museum partnership of its kind. It presented the Indian voice on the massacre of hundreds of peaceful protesters by a British General on 13 April 1919 and increased awareness of this historical event with British audiences.

Watch the short film: Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab under Siege

Highly Commended

Queering the Whitworth: Dominic Bilton.

Queering the Whitworth is designed to research The Whitworth’s collection in order to (re)discover missing LGBTQ+ narratives.

Winner

International Postdoc Appreciation Week: Ines Hahn and team.

Introduction of the ‘Postdoc Appreciation Week’ aimed to raise awareness and celebrate the incredible achievements of our >2000 diverse postdoctoral researchers, who are vital to achieving the University’s research, teaching and social responsibility goals. 17 inclusive events took place across all three Faculties, attracting more than 600 participants. The Postdoc Appreciation Week will now become an annual event at the University.

“It has been fantastic to gain recognition for our initiative. The award helped our efforts to showcase, recognise, and celebrate the fantastic and enormous contributions research staff make towards the University and society. It also encouraged us to grow our initiative: Together with 17 institutions, we organised the first UK/ROI-wide Postdoc Appreciation Week events in 2020.” Ines Hahn

Watch the short film: International Postdoc Appreciation Week

Highly Commended

Unearthing the Hidden Voices: Intersectionalities in Higher Education Conference: Dr Hamied Haroon.

Unearthing the Hidden Voices was a national conference held in June 2019 which brought important issues around the intersectionality of identities to the fore.

Queering the Whitworth: Dominic Bilton.

Queering the Whitworth looks at the Whitworth’s art collection and (re)discovers LGBTQ+ connections with the artworks.

Special Achievement

The Diversity and Inclusion Student Ambassador Programme: Catherine Prescott, Neelam Rai, Kalifa Cuben, Idris Ogunlade, Shanaz Baksh, Safiyya El Diwany, Raska Soemantoro and Iman Usmani.

The D&I Student Ambassador Programme is a collaboration between the University and the Students Union and aims to improve outcomes for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students. It employs students to take action to increase student sense of belonging, create ‘safe spaces’ to have conversations on inclusive environments and empower people to tackle micro-aggressions and discrimination.

Winner

Building Better Futures: Delivering social responsibility outcomes through construction frameworks: Paul Maccabee and team.

Building Better Futures is a unique HE construction framework that has been established to deliver capital projects supporting the £1bn, ten-year campus masterplan. A PS-led sub-group drives the delivery of social responsibility outcomes through the projects, bringing lasting benefits to our communities.

“We are so proud to have received this recognition of our cross Professional Services teamwork. Delivering great projects with our Partnership Contractors and creating innovative and life-changing opportunities for the people of GM. We now have a blueprint for future delivery.” Samantha Johnson (worked alongside Paul Maccabee),

Watch the short film: Building Better Futures

Highly Commended

The Justice Hub (PS Team): Sue Gordan.

The Justice Hub includes that the Dementia Law Clinic, Miscarriage of Justice Review Centre and Legal Technology Initiative run smoothly.

Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge: Lynne Bianchi.

The Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge (GMEC) is an annual engineering challenge for primary and Key Stage 3 pupils.

Winner (student)

Want not Waste: Holly Smith.

Want Not Waste is a student led initiative making zero waste living affordable and accessible to all. As a not-for-profit enterprise they aim to educate and share skills via free workshops such as slow-stitch repair and homemade DIYs and sharing meaningful content on our social media. After 1 year of running, the shop has built links with the local council, various departments of the university, other local ethical businesses and the student body.

“Winning the Making a Difference Award was such a boost of energy for us. We feel proud, appreciated and a renewed sense of purpose. This has had a positive impact on volunteer’s confidence. The award has really raised our profile to reach more people, in fact, we received an immediate flurry of social media attention and email subscriptions following our award. I think a lot of people within the University share our vision but perhaps didn’t know we existed and are now tuning in which is great.” Holly Smith

Watch the short film: Want not Waste

Winner (staff)

Sustainability in undergraduate laboratory practical classes and beyond: Maggie Fostier and Ruth Grady.

The University of Manchester has pledged to eliminate ‘avoidable’ single-use plastic by 2022. Sustainability in UG Laboratory Practical Classes developed a systematic approach to reduce single use plastic in biology laboratory classes which has already generated a reduction of more than 26,000 plastic items/year for 5 practicals.

“Winning the Awards gave us a big boost of energy. The 6R method (review, reduce, reuse, refill, replace, recycle) was developed to reduce single use plastics in our practical classes, but we are now adapting it to research labs, home and campus. We’ll share with everyone soon!” Maggie Fostier and Ruth Grady

Watch the short film: Sustainability in undergraduate laboratory practical classes and beyond

Established project (staff)

bluedot festival sustainability programme: Teresa Anderson and Tim O’Brien.

The bluedot festival sustainability programme is a dedicated programme of sustainability initiatives and awareness raising at the bluedot music and science festival. It shows a commitment to continually innovate and advance the sustainability of the festival as well as discuss with audiences the fragility of planet earth.

Watch the short film: bluedot festival sustainability programme

Highly Commended

Food Waste: Matheiu Augustin.

Olio Food Distribution works with a group of volunteers to collect and distribute food from within the university and a select few surrounding establishments so that it isn’t wasted.

Winner (staff)

Inside Out: Working Scientifically at the Museum: Amy McDowell, Louise Bousfield and Lynne Bianchi.

‘Inside Out’ empowered children as science communicators. 150 primary children uncovered how Manchester Museum ‘works scientifically’ in its research, collections care, animal husbandry and beyond, and then created films about their findings. Their findings have been showcased to over 3000 people at university and school events.

“Thank you very much for the Making a Difference Award this year. It is so exciting for the efforts of colleagues, and of the teachers and pupils on the project, to be acknowledged. It really demonstrates to our partner schools that the University values the relationship and the work.” Amy McDowall

Watch the short film: Inside Out

Highly Commended (staff)

Year 10 Work Experience Project: Natalie Liddle.

The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Work Experience Week is an annual work experience programme for Year 10 students from widening participation backgrounds.

Tactile Collider: Robert Appleby and team.

Tactile Collider is taking the latest in particle accelerator research and making it accessible to blind and visually impaired children and adults.

Winner (student)

The Black Pharmacists Collective: Unekwuojo Agada and team.

The Black Pharmacists Collective (BPC) is a group of black MPharm undergraduate students, working together to close the enrolment and attainment gaps between white and black students. The BPC is working on improving access to studying, enhancing soft skills and widening career prospects of black students through events and workshops.

Watch the short film: The Black Pharmacists Collective

Highly commended (student)

Manchester Outreach Medics: Matthew Maden, School of Medicine.

Manchester Outreach Medics is a well-established Access All Areas outreach project.

Medics in Primary Schools: Sylvia Osahan, School of Medicine.

Medics in Primary Schools aim to inspire primary school students from widening participation backgrounds to consider a career in science and/or medicine.

Exceptional contribution

Julia Riley

Julia Riley has been instrumental in reviving and championing Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre’s Education programme. From a starting point of virtually zero in 2009, Julia has firmly established Jodrell Bank as a new national centre of excellence for STEM education and has pioneered new approaches to Widening Participation.

Winner

Learning criminology inside: Emily Turner, Rose Broad & Caroline Miles

Learning Criminology Inside is a prison-based module for students studying Criminology in which ten third year undergraduates and ten inmates from HMP Risley learn together inside the Prison’s education setting.

Watch the film: Learning criminology inside

Highly Commended

Not for profit project: Frances Johnson, Xavier Duran, Phil Galvin, Mike Arundale & Supervisory Staff

The ‘not for profit’ project sees students on the Masters of Business Administration work with over 20 UK-based charities annually, to help tackle key business issues from organisational design to strategic marketing. They deliver 2,400 hours of consultancy plus extensive additional group research over a three month period.

Inclusive healthcare education for non-native English speakers: Sheena Cruickshank, Ian Miller, Tahiya Alam, Ewan Chammings, Indira Mclean & Ian Nield

Health matters to us all but accessing reliable, accessible information about health is challenging especially if there are language barriers. These co-developed English/health lessons for students learning English have a wide uptake and are reached via online learning.

Winner

Keep on Keep up: Emma Stanmore & Paul Dewick

“We were surprised and delighted to receive the Making a Difference award for Social Innovation. It gave such a boost to the team and encouraged us to apply for further funding and an accelerator programme to scale up the Keep On Keep Up (KOKU) technology for falls prevention and healthy ageing.” Emma Stanmore, Award winner.

Keep on Keep up is a gamified exercise and falls prevention digital platform that has been created with and for older people using tablet-technology. It promotes access and engagement to exercise based on clinically proven routines, and improves awareness of nutrition, safety at home and health literacy.

Watch the film: Keep on Keep up

Highly Commended

Energy Market Innovation with UrbanChain: Richard Banach & Somayeh Taheri

This project is a partnership with UrbanChain to develop an energy trading platform using blockchain and artifical intelligencetechnologies that can reduce energy bills for households by up to 50% and for SMEs by up to 40%.

ESOL Stepping Stones: Sharon Freeman, Ludovica Serretrice, Elena Lieven, Katy Finch, Helen Allwood & Thea Cameron-Faulkner

ESOL Stepping Stones provides a high quality, low cost, innovative English Language teaching programme for non-English speaking mothers. The programme combines language content and parenting information.

Student winner

Have you heard?: Jason Chu, Donna Littlewood, Jack Barton, Katie Downes, Luke Chaplin, Maddy Hurry, Julieta O’Flaherty, Marina Rosca, Katie Walwyn-Brown, Mike Daniels, Kirsty McIntyre & Aidan Rooney

“The group were buzzing to have been nominated, let alone actually win a MAD Award. This was a wonderful achievement for the team. We’re all reinvigorated to progress our mission of connecting adults with science in a community setting and clearing the haze that often surrounds scientific news.” Jason Chu, Award winner

Have You Heard? is a project set up by a small group of scientists and students at the University of Manchester with theaim of providing the public with the tools to clear the haze that often surrounds scientific news stories in the news in this troubling era of ‘fake news’.

Watch the film: Have you heard?

Staff winner

Knead for speed: Adrian Harwood & Alistair Revell

“It was great that our work was recognised with a MAD award, and a privilege to be picked out from the range of fantastic things going on here. We originally trialled it at my daughters’ school and her friends keep asking me to bring it back! The project was particularly enjoyable as it was closely linked to our research and involved almost all of our group. I think this was important as it demonstrates that quite complex industrial research can, with a bit of imagination, be tweaked to be relevant for an audience of any age.” Adrian Harwood and Alistair Revell, Award winners.

This project introduces 250 school children from across Greater Manchester to computer modelling of air flow together with virtual reality. It is based on technology developed as part of a research programme funded by Jaguar Land-Rover.

Watch the film: Knead for speed

Staff Highly Commended

Humanising the Sciences: Nick Weise

Through interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues from Arts and Humanities, Nick has acted to broaden the reach of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology’s public programme with research to audiences not traditionally served by science outreach initiatives.

Dental care for refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants

Joanne Cunliffe

Through this unique initiative, Dentistry students are providing free dental care to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants in Greater Manchester. The project is both expanding the clinical experience of our students, as well as providing valuable services to displaced individuals who lack access to dental care.

Still Life pilot: Still Life Pilot Team

Still Life brings together women who have experienced stillbirth, researchers, midwives and creative practitioners to raise awareness of stillbirth, and engage the public with the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre’s research on the placenta and stillbirth.

Winner

Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre: Claire McGourlay & Fintan Walker

“It was an honour to receive the award. Winning the award made me feel like our work had not gone unnoticed and that it was appreciated. It has meant that the Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre has been promoted internally and externally”. Claire McGourlay, Award winner

The Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre, one of four across the country, provides law students with a unique opportunity to investigate cases of people convicted of serious crimes who are maintaining their innocence. They are part of a national network raising awareness and sharing skills.

Watch the film: Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre

Highly Commended

Orchid Pollinator Experience: Rachel Webster, Minsung Kim & Noah Mabey

The Orchid Pollinator Experience was created as an engaging virtual reality world giving people an insect-eye view of orchid pollination. Aiming to highlight the importance of pollinators in the environment and prompt discussions about threats to orchid species, the experience toured 5 shows in 2018 reaching about 12,000 people.

Staff Highly Commended

Project Malawi 2018: Team of Project Malawi 2018

A team from the Computing at Schools Regional Centre and the School of Computer Science ran a pilot project to bring computing to pupils and teachers in schools in Malawi. In 2018, a new team visited the same area and implemented a number of lessons learnt from the pilot, including a more gender-balanced team and improved training and support for teachers to make the impact more sustainable.

Changing perceptions of disability with conflict survivors: Ruth Daniel & In Place of War Team

In Place of War has delivered a programme using forum theatre to help change perceptions of those with disabilities facing stigmatisation in Northern Uganda that have been affected by the war. Forming a theatre company, with trainers from National Theatre UK, the group has delivered outreaches to over 1,000 people and started a process of changing attitudes towards disabled people.

The BBC Loneliness Experiment: Pamela Qualter, Christina Victor, Manuela Barreta, Claudia Hammond & Geraldine Fitzgerald

Loneliness affects most of us at some point in our lives. The BBC Loneliness Experiment aimed to collect new data on loneliness and discuss the findings via a radio series on BBC Radio 4 and The World Service.

Student Highly Commended

The Health Equity Voice: Rose Mary Nakame, Winfred Nakaweesi & Steven Twinomugisha

The Health Equity Voice project empowers health workers in Uganda to tell their stories of serving in rural public hospitals. These stories, together with those from young African leaders bridging the health inequality gaps, were profiled on a platform, curated to relevant stakeholders to inform budgeting, programming, policy, public opinion, and academia.

Winner

‘YARAN’: Amir Keshmiri & Melina Safari

The ‘Yaran’ project is a successful initiative aimed at tackling mental health problems amongst Persian-speaking communities in Greater Manchester.

Watch the film: ‘YARAN’

Highly Commended

The CARMers group: Yvonne Awenat, Patricia Gooding, Gillian Haddock, Dan Pratt & Charlotte Huggett

The CARMers group comprises eight individuals with lived-experience of mental health problems who generously contribute their highly personal lived-experience perspectives enabling researchers to produce research that is grounded in real life needs.

The AudioLab & The MixLab: Jemma Tanswell

Jemma has co-led The AudioLab and MixLab projects which have engaged young people seeking employment with science. As well as fostering creative partnerships between talented young creatives and researchers from multiple disciplines across the University.

A Rubbish Night at the Museum: Sherilyn MacGregor, Simon Pardoe , Anna Bunney & Claudia Alonso

This community-led event gave voice to a common concern about rubbish in neighbourhoods across the city. It translated results of a research project and drew on contributions from a wide range of people to produce an interactive and well-attended event.

Winner

Shabtis in schools: Amy McDowall, Cat Lumb & Campbell Price

“We were incredibly proud to win the award and it was wonderful to be able to invite our hard-working partners to the celebration event. Being able to say “award-wining project” certainly helped the publicity of the next phase of the work, which helps ensure quality partnerships for years to come.” Amy McDowall, Award winner

This is a ground-breaking engagement project between museum curators, learning experts, and Manchester educators to develope a whole-school activity around an ancient Egyptian shabtis displayed in schools.

Watch the film: Shabtis in schools

Highly Commended

Race Relations road show: Catherine Millan

This project has been designed to help schools diversify the curriculum through literature by creating and giving free books and workshops to children and young people in schools across Manchester.

Winner

Diversity Champions: Catherine Millan

The Diversity Champions project is a hate crime prevention project that uses Holocaust education as a foundation to teach young people about equality and human rights to reduce hate crime across schools and communities in Manchester.

Watch the film: Diversity Champions

Highly Commended

An Afternoon with The Family Gorgeous: Peter Fallon, Michelle Scott & Deborah Ward

This collaboration between Manchester Museum and Manchester drag collective Family Gorgeous, brings queer storytelling to museum objects in an afternoon of tours and cabaret.

Diverse Voices: Angelia Wilson

Angelia has established the Diverse Voices Chair’s Commission and Doctoral Scholarship Fund alongside a broad range of programmes that engender equality and widen participation of a diversity of students in politics and in the political science profession.

Educate Africa: Saralees Nadarjah & Martin Wiegand

The Educate Africa initiative has been created to provide higher education to African students that are most in need. It provides free year round weekend lectures and weekly email support to students in 18 African countries, boosting student career prospects.

Winner

#Let’sTalk Lynch: Craig Whittall

“The Making A Difference Award gave the entire team a feeling of recognition for the work that had gone into the #LetsTalkLynch campaign. The award also demonstrated the University’s confidence in the project, which was useful when approaching new individuals and organisations to get them involved. The national policy change which the campaign was designed to call for is now well underway, and will soon be saving lives that could otherwise have been lost to bowel cancer. Our Making A Difference Award has been instrumental in getting the word out there that research here at The University of Manchester is capable of changing lives for the better.” Craig Whittall, Award winner.

Craig of Policy@Manchester ran a highly successful #LetsTalkLynch national media campaign on the genetic condition Lynch Syndrome, highlighting the need for women diagnosed with womb cancer to be systematically screened for this disorder, in order to inform their treatment and improve outcomes.

Highly Commended

Levelling the Playing Field: Andrew Whitmore, Caroline Everson, Janet Willis, Alex Jones, Meghan Yang and Marilyn King

Levelling the Playing Filedsets out to improve the employability outcomes of students from widening participation backgrounds through the provision of bespoke services and activities, such as work experience bursaries and internships.

Winner

SmartWorks: Holly Seager, Mariana Pinheiro, Alice Hope, Amy Rose & Ella Jo Moncrieffe

“It was wonderful to be recognised for our work. The recognition spurred me on to make this year’s efforts event bigger than last year’s.” Holly Seager, Award winner.

The Atrium Green Impact ran a campaign to collect clothes from staff to provide smart clothing for local women attending job interviews.

Watch the film: SmartWorks

Highly Commended

The Legal Advice Centre paperless initiative: Chloe McEvoy & Fintan Walker

The School of Law’s Legal Advice Centre has been providing free legal advice to the local community for ten years. In a bid to reduce their impact on the environment, in 2018 they went completely paperless.

International standard to reduce aircraft emissions: Paul Williams

Paul has been involved in an international collaboration to develop a measurement standard, which will reduce the emissions of soot from large aircraft engines.

Staff Winner

Pathways to Law: Saba Mirshafiei, Ruth Lamont, Nicky Butler, Javier Garcia Oliva & Laura Littlewood

“I was delighted that our programme won the Making a Difference award for Widening Participation! It was a real confidence boost to receive this recognition from colleagues and to know that we had so much support in the community and legal sector too as we also won the public vote. Being able to celebrate this award and publicise it to our supporters, colleagues and community has only served to strengthen and promote the programme further. I’m sure this recognition will serve well in our aspirations to continue supporting young people in the future too.” Saba Mirshafiei, Award winner.

The Pathways to Law programme inspires and supports academically-able state school students in years 12 and 13 from under-represented backgrounds who are interested in a career in law.

Watch the film: Pathways to Law

Staff Highly Commended

Supporting diverse trainee teachers: Lisa Murtagh, Andy Howes, Liz Bircinall, Rebecca Phillips, Conrad Chapman & Hannah Strickland

This highly effective use of resources supports the recruitment of diverse groups of teacher trainees accompanied by experienced coaches to support vulnerable groups throughout their PGCE year.

No Recourse!: Rubina Jasani & Jenna Murray de Lopez

The No Recourse! project is a research partnership with Manchester-based organisation Women Asylum Seekers Together. The project trains female asylum seekers to become community researchers.

Student Winner

FunFair : Andreea Avramescu, Raimi Mahtab, Pachara Leohreanu, Monica Voina, Patricia Perez-Palma, Isaac Campbell, Laura Walker & Tinale Li

FunFair is a student-led initiative aimed at primary school children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Together with more than 100 volunteers, FunFair team has welcomed more than 300 children and teachers to the Campus in the past 2 years, for a day full of activities.

Watch the film: FunFair

Student Highly Commended

Woman of science: Rhys Archer

Rhys has been a Widening Participation Fellow for 5 years and a Manchester Access Programme tutor for 4 years. She also founded a campaign to encourage more girls in science and engineering called Women of Science.

PEWS: Louise Egan & Carmen Ionita

Psychology Education and Wellbeing in Schools Project is a well-established and positively evaluated widening participation initiative which has been a collaboration with a local WP school for the last five years.

Winner

Dental service learning: Senathirajah Ariyaratnam and Team, Division of Dentistry

Dental health inequality is a major issue in the North West. Our dental students are providing essential treatment to low income and homeless patients as an integral part of their training. The aim is to improve the dental health of some of the most vulnerable members of our communities and to train graduates who are committed to socially responsible practice.

Watch the film: Dental service learning

Highly Commended

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn”: Professor Jackie Carter, School of Social Sciences

The Manchester Q-Step Centre is part of a national initiative to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training. This paid internship programme has placed 200 students in public, private and third-sector organisations to undertake social research that makes a difference locally, nationally and globally.

Aerospace designers for society: Mostafa Nabawy, Ben Parslew and Team, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

The Aerospace Group Design challenges students to design, build and fly a real aircraft that provides a positive service to society. It gives students the opportunity to apply their technical skills to tackle real-world problems and become socially responsible engineers.

Our Research Your Life: Dr Joanne Pennock and Team, School of Biological Sciences

A year-long series of events, training and assessment have been designed and delivered to embed patient representation and involvement in the Clinical Immunology MSc curriculum. These have significantly enhanced student experience and brought patient involvement into all aspects of student projects.

Winner

#Huckathon: Dr Jonathan Huck, School of Education, Environment and Development

#Huckathon is an easily accessible Geographical Information Systems tool that has been used by several hundred volunteers to physically find and map hidden homesteads and roads in previously war torn Northern Uganda. These co-produced maps are then being used by medical teams to deliver emergency care.

Watch the film: #Huckathon

Highly Commended

IMPACT: Professor Jonathan Green and Team, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder affecting at least 1% of the population. This novel early developmental intervention is the first to produce sustained improvement in autism symptoms in childhood by working with parents to help them recognise their autistic child’s altered communication.

Tackling fuel poverty: Seyedehsomayeh Taheri Moosavi, School of Education, Environment and Development

UrbanChain is a start-up company developed to reduce the cost of utility services for vulnerable households in the UK and worldwide. It is developing a blockchain platform for the energy market to enable peer-to-peer trading of electricity between energy producers and vulnerable households.

Winner (staff)

One Student, One Campus, One World: Dr Roger Harrison, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care

Roger founded the University’s engaging community programme to educate students and the public about antibiotic drug resistance. Part of the programme was a new initiative – ‘students as active citizens’. Students worked in interdisciplinary teams to design and deliver activities with the public; attend festivals and symposiums; and invent an interactive game-based app.

Watch the film: One Student, One Campus, One World

Highly Commended (staff)

Be//Longing: Caroline Boyd and Team, Global Development Institute & Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

Be//Longing was a 5-night theatre performance created from a workshop with researchers from the University’s Migration Lab, Take Back Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre. This immersive production used installations, music, art, video and scripted theatre to create an experience that boldly addressed perceptions of migration and exposed myths.

Winner (student)

Homeless Healthcare Student Society: Joshua Strange and Team

The Homeless Healthcare Society aims to improve the healthcare of Manchester’s homeless population by raising awareness of the medical inequalities and stigmas faced by homeless patients when accessing healthcare, and to ultimately improve the care provided by tomorrow’s healthcare professionals.

Watch the film: Homeless Healthcare Student Society

Highly Commended (student)

A STEAM hub in a pub: Craig Thomas and Team

The Old Abbey Taphouse is a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) focused hub in a pub on the Science Park. It brings together key stakeholders with local Hulme and Moss Side residents by providing a community-focused space for joint activities.

Winner

The Robot Orchestra Collective: Alison McMurray and Team, Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Robot Orchestra is where young people learn computer coding and recycle things to make robot instruments to play music. It is a collective of people from students to musicians and engineers who are passionate about making a difference and contributing their skills and enthusiasm to inspire the next generation of engineers.

Watch the film: The Robot Orchestra Collective

Highly Commended

Our Migration Story website: Professor Claire Alexander, School of Social Sciences

‘Our Migration Story’ brings together over 70 historians, museums and archives to create an accessible public education and teaching resource. It traces the history of migration to Britain across nearly 2,000 years, and challenges us all to think again about migration as part of our shared ‘island story’.

Winner

Team Uganda: Team Uganda, Student Development and Community Engagement Division

Team Uganda enables students from widening participation backgrounds to volunteer on educational projects that help vulnerable children living on the streets in Uganda. It has a transformational impact on the students and gives more children the chance to leave their difficult pasts behind them and move forward to a brighter future.

Watch the film: Team Uganda

Highly commended

Educational Tools for Disadvantaged Communities in Thailand: Dr Ben Parslew, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Ben developed educational tools for teaching robotics to young learners from disadvantaged backgrounds in Thailand. These were delivered in rural community schools and at a girls’ orphanage. He engaged both the learners and their teachers in providing sustainable tools for boosting engineering education.

Winner

The H@PPI Forum: Health eResearch Centre’s Patient and Public Involvement Team

The Health eResearch Centre’s patient public involvement forum was established in July 2014 to help the Centre embed the ethos of meaningful patient public involvement across all of its research projects. They work tirelessly, shaping HeRC’s engagement, advising on research and reaching out to the wider community.

Watch the film: The H@PPI Forum

Highly commended

Primary Care Research in Manchester Engagement Resource: Carole Bennett and PRIMER Team

Since 2008, the PRIMER Patient and Public Involvement Group has worked collaboratively with the Centre for Primary Care to translate patient insights and advice into more credible and effective research through: shaping research, suggesting topics for research and advising on best practice when involving the public in research.

Winner

Whitworth Outdoor Programme: Francine Hayfron, The Whitworth

In 2014 the Whitworth appointed the UK’s first-ever cultural park keeper. The aim was to develop and implement a new outdoor engagement programme to connect gallery visitors and members of the local community to Whitworth Park through culture and health and wellbeing activities.

Watch the film: Whitworth Outdoor Programme

Highly Commended

A sustainable Bluedot Festival: Keir Powell-Lewis and colleagues, Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

The Bluedot Festival returned to Jodrell Bank in July 2017 with a key purpose to highlight the fragility of ‘spaceship earth’ and the scientific and social challenges facing humanity. Festival goers were engaged with key environmental concerns, interwoven through both the festival content such as exhibitions and talks, as well as in how the event was organised.

Winner

Memories of Partition: Harriet Morgan-Shami and Team, Manchester Museum

Memories of Partition was a oral history project which recorded the legacy of the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Delivered in partnership with Manchester BME Network, Royal Exchange Theatre and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Centre, the project included an exhibition, new theatre pieces, public engagement and an oral history archive.

Watch the film: Memories of Partition

Highly commended

Tactile Collider: Dr Robert Appleby and the Tactile Collider Team, School of Physics and Astronomy

The Tactile Collider project makes some of the most exciting and high-profile physics research accessible to the visually impaired. Dr Appleby and his team work with visual impairment consultants to develop special resources and activities that communicate the physics behind CERN’s Large Hadron Collider through touch and sound.

Racism at Work Project: Dr Stephen Ashe and James Nazroo, Cathy Marsh Institute

The Racism at Work Project documents the nature of contemporary workplace racism in Britain by providing original analyses of the latest survey data in this area. The project also addresses the societal challenges presented by workplace racism and ethnic inequalities in employment by the co-production of creative resources that can be used by employers and practitioners.

Winner

The Great Science Share for Schools: Dr Lynne Bianchi and Team, Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub

The Great Science Share is a national campaign that involves school pupils sharing their science learning with new audiences. Through collaborations between STEM organisations and businesses, universities and schools it aims to inspire those from 5 years old to be a scientist and engineer.

Watch the film: The Great Science Share for Schools

Highly Commended

10k Purple Wave: James Marenghi and Team, Sport

Nearly 2,500 student, staff and alumni entered in the Manchester 10k on 28 May 2017, as the Purple Wave. The aim was to raise tens of thousands of pounds for charitable causes as well as supporting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our all involved, including many who were new to running.

Deryl Holt Charity work for Francis House Children’s Hospice: Deryl Holt, Hospitality and Events

Every year since 2010 Deryl has taken the initiative to collect toys to donate to Francis House Children’s Hospice and Manchester Children’s Hospital. Last year he collected 750 Easter eggs and over 200 Christmas presents from staff, students and customers in his catering outlet within the Schuster Building.

Winner (Institutional) and winner of the public vote

Give It Don’t Bin It: Alexander Clark and Kirsty Hutchinson, Directorate for the Student Experience

Give It Don’t Bin It is a multi-stakeholder, collaborative campaign started in 2009. It aims to encourage reuse/recycling across Manchester by motivating students to donate unwanted items. Set up in 2012 it is the first university partnership of its kind in the UK and to date the campaign has raised over £1.3million for the British Heart Foundation.

Highly Commended (Institutional)

Tyndall Manchester, Sustainable Travel in Academia

Tyndall have strongly encouraged researchers to endeavour to make use of lower CO2 alternatives to air travel, and engage in the testing and trailing of virtual forms of communication, for example using technology to attend virtual cocktail parties for networking opportunities and train travel to China.

Winner (Individual)

12 Green Days of Christmas: Humanaities Adminstration Greeen Impact Stewards, Humanities

The Humanities Administration Green Impact Stewards ran a campaign to help staff make green choices while celebrating the countdown to Christmas. It included 12 short videos and 12 shareable social media graphics for Twitter.

Highly Commended (Individual)

Green Impact Project Plus 2015-17: Centre for Primary Care (CPS) Green Impact Team, School of Health Sciences

The CPC Green Impact Team carried out an 18-month Project Plus to improve environmental impacts and promote the health benefits of engaging in environmental sustainability activities. They delivered themed monthly lunches and climbed the equivalent of Mount Everest; twice!

Winner (staff)

The Infinity Festival: Anne Knott, Dalton Nuclear Institute

Cumbria has a high child poverty and low higher education uptake which clashes with a strong need for scientists and engineers. Anne used an innovative way to address this by creating a collaborative STEM event for pupils called the Infinity Festival. It aimed to inspire the whole school community through exciting talks and workshops.

Watch the film: The Infinity Festival

Highly Commended (staff)

Malham Tarn Expedition: Natalie Gardiner & Suzanne Verstappen, School of Medical Sciences

This weekend field course to Malham Tarn enabled 50 students from underrepresented groups to explore and be inspired by biology, careers and university life co-delivered by a specialised team of staff and students.

Winner (student)

Widening Participation Fellow: Emily Cooksey, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Emily’s work as a Widening Participation Fellow and a Manchester Access Programme Tutor has enabled her to make a difference by engaging and interacting with a wide range of audiences. In particular, she has been an advocate of encouraging female students to engage with science and engineering.

Watch the film: Widening Participation Fellow

Highly Commended (student)

Women of Science: Rhys Archer, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Women of Science is a campaign that shares photo stories of women who work and study in science, technology engineering and maths to increase the visibility of relatable female role models. Rhys created Women of Science primarily to give female role models to young girls interested in science and engineering.

Student Inspire Network: Sadjo Siikou and Team

The Student Inspire Network aims to educate, motivate and inspire students from BAME backgrounds by providing the tools for them to start thinking about their career. By addressing the racial, social, and gender inequality present, it hopes to open the door for students to start thinking about careers.

Social Sciences Pre-University Courses

Dr Tom McCunnie, School of Social Sciences

Tom has designed, delivered and managed the University’s longest running widening participation initiative within the School of Social Sciences. First established in 2001, he has obtained teaching time for academics from every undergraduate discipline to deliver the courses each year reaching over 850 pupils.

Watch the film: Social Sciences Pre-University Courses

Winner

The Science League: Hamza Arsbi, MSc International Development, Global Development Institute

Watch the film: The Science League

Highly commended

Brighter World UK: Cheryl Latham, Alliance Manchester Business School

Levenshulme Market CIC: Helen Power, Alumni Officer. Team members: Paul Bower and Amanda Finch

Winner

Early parent-mediated social intervention for autism: Prof Jonathan Green, Division of Neuroscience & Experimental Psychology. Team members: Dr Shruti Garg; Dr Kathy Leadbitter; Dr Catherine Aldred; Dr Carol Taylor

Watch the film: Early parent-mediated social intervention for autism

Highly commended

Reaching out with Psychological First Aid to children and parents affected by war: Dr Aala El-Khani. Team members: Professor Rachel Calam and Dr Kim Cartwright

Producing urban asylum—shaping policies for the housing of asylum seekers in Britain: Dr Jonathan Darling, School of Environment, Education and Development

Emerging impact

PhD: Reframing water efficiency: towards interventions that reconfigure the shared and collective aspects of everyday water use: Dr Claire Hoolohan, MACE, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change

Staff—Joint winners

The Lived Experience of Climate Change: A Story of One Piece of Land in Dhaka: Dr Joanne Jordan, Lecturer in Climate Change and Development, Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development

Watch the film: The Lived Experience of Climate Change: A Story of One Piece of Land in Dhaka

Reaching out with Psychological First Aid to children and parents affected by war: Dr Aala El-Khani. Team members: Professor Rachel Calam and Dr Kim Cartwright

Watch the film: Reaching out with Psychological First Aid to children and parents affected by war

Highly commended

#BritainBreathing: #BritainBreathing team: Sheena Cruickshank; Andy Brass; Jennie Evans; Lamiece Hassan; Hannah Hope; Caroline Jay; Jon Kudlick; Natasha Little; Indira McClean; Markel Vigo (Infection, Immunity & Respiratory Medicine, FBMH and School of Computer Sciences, FSE)

Everyday Austerity Exhibition: Dr. Sarah Marie Hall, Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain at Manchester Day 2016: Professor Will Dixon, School of Biological Sciences. Team members: Louise Cook; Rebecca Barnard; Carolyn Gamble; Dr Jamie Sergeant; Dr John McBeth and David Schultz; Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Student—Winner

CATS (Cancer Awareness in Teenagers and young people Society): James Adams, MRes Public Health, School of Medicine

Watch the film: CATS

Cultural institution—Winner

Circuit: Whitworth Young Contemporaries (WYC) Engagement programme and Warp Festival: Andrew Vaughan, Learning Manager and Sally Thelwell, Youth Engagement Assistant, The Whitworth

Watch the film: Circuit and Warp Festival

Highly commended

Bluedot Festival: Professor Teresa Anderson and Professor Tim O’Brien, Director of Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre & Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

Language Baby: Amy Jones, Early Years Programme Coordinator, The Whitworth and Helen Allwood, Centre Manager, LuCiD (ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development)

Winner

Prefigurative architectures: Dr Leandro Minuchin, Architecture, School of Environment Education and Development

Watch the film: Prefigurative architectures

Highly commended

Teaching Measurement and Control to 400 Engineering Students using Mobile Robots and Quadcopters: Andy Weightman, School of Mechanical, Aerospace ACE. Team members: Eddie Whitehouse and Andrew Kennaugh

Criminology in Action: Dr Jo Deakin and Dr Claire Fox, Senior Lecturers, BA Criminology, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law

Education Partnership in Africa: Joseph Mutule, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Staff—Winner

Voice and communication groups for trans individuals: Dr Sean Pert, School of Health Science

Watch the film: Voice and communication groups for trans individuals

Highly commended

Creative methodology to explore the social problems of hearing loss in marginalised communities: Sheila Fidler, Senor Clinical Lecturer. Team members: Dr Jenna Ashton and Dr Tim Wilding. Students: Aftab.Mohy-ud-Din; Najmin Hoq; Rumannah Chothia

We Get It in Pharmacy: A Student Ambassador Project: Dr Sally Freeman and Professor Kaye Williams, Reader & Professor, Division of Pharmacy & Optometry

Student—Winner

Manchester Open Mind Network: Sakib Moghal: BA Geography. Team members: Saqib Mahmood; Usman Khan; Hana Jafar; Nomaan Zubair; Irum Islam; Laura Grant; Maria-Louisa Pelidis, Matea Balabanovska

Watch the film: Manchester Open Mind Network

Community partner—Winner

Dr Peter and Mrs Julie Mohr, Volunteers, Museum of Medicine and Health

Watch the film: Volunteering

Highly commended

Ashley Dean, National Trust ranger

Dr Matthew Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, MMU

The Health eResearch Centre’s Patient and Public Involvement (H@PPI) Forum, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science, School of Health Sciences, FBMH.

Staff—Winner

The Dementia Law Clinic: Neil Allen, School of Law

Watch the film: The Dementia Law Clinic

Highly commended

Voluntary work with the homeless and youth work for over 30 years: Lenox Green, School of Mathematics

Initial Teacher Education: Over 150 years of producing inspiring teachers for local communities: Dr David Spendlove, Manchester Institute of Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. Team members: Dr Lisa Muragh; Liz Birchnall; Rebecca Phillips; Lousia Dawes; Dr Andrew Howes; plus Tutors and School Liaison in Initial Teacher Education

Student—Winner

CAN/The Big Change: Chijioke Anosike (Cj): Development Studies and Politics, School of Social Science

Watch the film: CAN/The Big Change

Highly commended

Sexpression Manchester: Joanna Melville, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. Team members: Caitlin Astbury; Daisy Manning; Phillip Cowman; Kate Uprichard; Sally Robinson, FMBH

Advocating for all: Simren Singh, School of Law

Promoting Cultural Engagement in Local and Global Community: Wenling Ding, School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Winner

Future dentists—New emphasis on environmental sustainability and social responsibility: Dr Vitalia Kinakho, Lecturer, Division of Dentistry

Watch the film: Future dentists

Highly commended

Green Impact and Sustainability at The University of Manchester—a green Impact workshop for UoM flagship widening participation initiative—The Manchester Gateways Programme: Green Impact Team Rutherford Building: Louise Rowbotham; Roz Webster; Amy Barnett; Lisa Donnelly

Joint winner

The Inflatable Museum: Jack Ridley, Inflatable Museum Coordinator. Team members: Menaka Munro and Steve Walsh

Watch the film: The Inflatable Museum

The Great Science Share 2016: Dr Lynne Bianchi, Director of SEERIH, The Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub, Faculty of Science & Engineering

Watch the film: The Great Science Share 2016

Highly commended

Christmas Dinner: Hospitality and Events Team

eTekkatho Digital Library: Yin Tun, Project Manager and Catherine Walton, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Special Award

The Sustainability Challenge: Student Development & Community Engagement Division

Watch the film: The Sustainability Challenge

Dr Holly Shiels, Faculty of Life Sciences and Dr Rachel Webster, Manchester Museum
Learning Through Objects

Winner – staff

The CPR World Record Attempt Team: Patricia Conaghan (SNMSW), Christopher Cutts (Pharmacy), Lucy Hallam (Students’ Union), Sara Harris (NWAS), Janet Makin (University First Aid), Millie Loxton & Emma Richardson (Volunteering Team), Ellen Stephenson (Sports Volunteering), Katy Lenney & Ella Berrington (NursSoc) World Record Attempt: most people in a CPR relay

Winner – student

Ilyas Nagdee, student in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Ramaden Tent Project

Winner – staff

Collaboration between Faculty of Life Sciences and Manchester Museum
Dr. Lidija McKnight, Dr. Campbell Price, Dr. Stephanie Atherton-Woolham, Anna Bunney and Victoria Grant

Winner – student

Madagascar Medical Expedition Team: James Penney, Hannah Russell, Anthony Howe, Cortland Linder, Stephen Spencer—Manchester Medical School
Expedition to Madagascar

Winner – cultural institutions

Ed Watts, The Whitworth
Danger! Men at Work

Michelle Kipling, Alliance Manchester Business School
Business in the Community (BiTC) Business Class Partnership with Whalley Range and Levenshulme High School Education and Leadership Trust

Winner – staff

Careers Service Widening Participation Team
Widening particpation work

Winner – student

Ilyas Nagdee, student in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Sustained commitment to widening participation work over a period of time

Dr Nicola Banks, School of Environment, Education and Development
Motorbike taxi savings and employment scheme

Indira Mclean and Marianne Rushton, Bolton College
Teaching infection awareness via English lessons for non-native English speakers

Chad McGitchie, The Whitworth and Manchester Museum
Inclusion through recruitment

Wendy Gallagher, The Whitworth and Manchester Museum
Health and Culture Programme

Anna Gilchrist, School of Environment, Education and Development
The Tree Musketeers