Community mapping

Our School of Environment, Education and Development regularly conduct #Huckathon sessions to engage hundreds of volunteers to remotely map hidden villages, roads and dwellings to target health interventions.

Protecting Kenyan communities against COVID-19

Our School of Environment, Education and Development and Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health worked with partners in Kenya to undertake initial surveys and set up a campaign to engage more than 200,000 people to change behaviour and improve knowledge surrounding coronavirus and the use of face masks.

Antibiotic guardians

Our Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health has successfully established the Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance: One Student. One Campus. One World programme.

We’re now working to create a wider student-led network with other universities in the north-west and across Africa.

On Air Quality

We published a collection of essays and policy recommendations highlighting the impact of air quality on health.

Preventing cardiovascular disease through smart technologies

Our academics are part of a collaboration to improve cardiovascular care in Indonesia.

The team trained local health workers (kaders) on cardiovascular disease, risk factors and the technical use of an app called SMARThealth, benefiting 48,000 people.

Tackling groundwater arsenic and health inequalities in India

In northern India’s rural communities, increased exposure to high concentrations of arsenic and other chemicals found in groundwater has contributed to a rise in cancer and cardiovascular disease, adding to the public health inequalities and poor health outcomes of the region.

Our Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has shown the importance of rice as an exposure route for inorganic arsenic where microbes promote its release from materials such as sand and silt.

This research led to recommendations focusing on rice selection and preparation techniques, highlighting the dangers of groundwater irrigation.

Creating sustainable livelihoods through group farming

Our Global Development Institute has examined whether cultivating in groups – by voluntarily pooling land, labour, funds and skills and sharing costs and benefits – enables small farmers to create larger, more profitable enterprises in South Asia and beyond.

The research in Kerala, south India showed that carefully structured group farming created sustainable, food-secure livelihoods for vast numbers of poor women farmers.

Team Rwanda

Team Rwanda is a partnership between The University of Manchester, the University of Rwanda and Azizi Life.

Students volunteer their time assisting several schemes to alleviate poverty and aid community development.

Study programmes

Our Global Development Institute is the UK’s largest university-based postgraduate centre specialising in international development.

More than 5,000 students have completed master’s programmes in international development since 2012.

African Cities Research Consortium

Researchers from our Global Development Institute are leading a £32 million African Cities Research Consortium.

The project is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as part of UK Aid.

It will work with international partners to generate new evidence to catalyse integrated, sustainable, inclusive approaches to urban development.