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Search these pages to explore a selection of our directory of activities. You can use the keyword search and filter buttons to discover how we are addressing each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the five priorities in our Social Responsibility and Civic Engagement Plan. You can also filter activities by location and function.
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With half a billion people worldwide having poor water supplies and two billion with poor sanitation facilities, our two free MOOCs open up access for citizens and leaders around the world to explore what can be done to solve this complex global issue.
We deliver cutting-edge teaching on clean water and sanitation. For example, Civil Engineering students take a course unit on water engineering, which covers water and wastewater treatment and resource management.
Master’s students in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Reconstruction are offered a unit on water movement that looks at solutions to groundwater contamination.
We have a range of initiatives that empower women and girls to enter predominantly male fields such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Our academics have set up ScienceGrrl – a grassroots network to address the under-representation of women in science and engineering.
A Women in Environmental Science group has been established to create space for environmental discussion among women from diverse backgrounds.
We also host Girls Night Out – a twice-yearly event at our Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre to celebrate and encourage females to pursue careers in STEM.
In partnership with the Manchester United Foundation, our Girls in STEM Day programme invites 12- and 13-year-old girls to campus to celebrate National Engineering Day.
We work in collaboration with Association des Guides du Rwanda (AGR) to provide volunteer opportunities for students to help girls and young women in Rwanda acquire skills for their development and become agents of positive change.
Our students started a Misogyny Is Hate campaign, leading to the government directing police to record crimes motivated by a person’s sex or gender for the first time.
Our Students’ Union also runs Reclaim the Night, resulting in around 2,000 women marching in the streets each year to raise awareness of sexual harassment and gender-based violence.
Gender equality is embedded across our whole curriculum, and a wide range of our degrees offer course units on gender and sexuality.
For examples, Religion and Theology students assess the impact of changing gender roles on religious traditions, while our MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture brings together scholars from many different fields to explore feminist and queer theory, sexual identities and gender history.
Our Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health partners with Manchester Metropolitan University and Keele University on Imagine Me Stories.
This is a school library diversity initiative designed to tackle under-representation in UK school libraries by curating diverse resources and promoting better representation in literature for all students.
Our Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub undertakes a range of public engagement campaigns.
These include the Great Science Share for Schools and the Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge, which enhances the University’s work in broadening the pipeline of young people with an interest in STEM subjects.
We partner with the IntoUniversity Manchester North educational charity to support and engage some of the most disadvantaged young people in Manchester.
IntoUniversity helps young people to attain a university place or another chosen aspiration. 71% of its students progress to university, compared with 43% of students from similar backgrounds nationally.
During the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns of 2020, our partnership with the Tutor Trust charity provided online sessions to ensure disadvantaged students didn’t suffer the risk of falling behind in their education without regular teaching in the classroom.
Students from The University of Manchester make up more than half of those who work as Tutor Trust tutors in Manchester.
We offer expert-led, free MOOCs and paid continued professional development courses in a wide range of subject areas, including civil engineering, business and management, healthcare ethics and law.
This includes a free Prometheus programme to support executive-level learning and development for UK third-sector professionals.
Alongside our conventional course units, we offer a range of interdisciplinary units open to all students that ensure inclusive, sustainable and equitable education.
These include Creating a Sustainable World: 21st Century Challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Your Role in Shaping a Fairer World.
#BeeWell is an initiative established in Greater Manchester in 2019 by our University, Anna Freud, The Gregson Family Foundation, and Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The programme aims to explore young people’s opinions on wellbeing and the ways in which it can be improved. The findings inform activity across Greater Manchester, with schools, voluntary sector organisations and children’s services working closely with young people to interpret and act on the results.
Our Humanising Healthcare initiative embeds community service and engagement within dentistry, pharmacy and optometry programmes.
It supports students to deliver essential healthcare and education to communities as part of the curriculum.
It also encourages global volunteering and the development of civic values and skills in the future health workforce.
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.
We have the UK’s largest medical school and are the biggest provider of graduate healthcare professionals to the NHS in England’s north-west.
We also offer pioneering professional programmes in areas including global health, humanitarianism and international healthcare leadership.
Since its inception in 2013, the UK’s first student-led and campus-based foodbank, Manchester Central Foodbank, has helped thousands of local citizens with food insecurity.
This included developing an online store and delivery system for vulnerable and isolated people, and providing 70,000 meals during the pandemic in 2020.
Our BA Geography students undertake a Food and Farming unit covering hunger, ethical consumerism, environmental sustainability, animal rights and social equity.
Biosciences undergraduates take a Plants for the Future unit exploring how plant biology can address social and environmental challenges.
Through a Green Biotechnology unit, students engage with the latest developments in sustainable food production, energy generation and pharmaceutical production.
Our student community work on a range of projects to tackle extreme poverty and inequality.
Love for the Streets was established by two Manchester students to use youth events, content and social media marketing to tackle homelessness in partnership with local charities.
Once a Month fights period poverty through public campaigns and providing sanitary products to vulnerable women across Manchester.
The Homeless Healthcare Society helps improve the healthcare of Manchester’s homeless population by raising awareness of the medical inequalities and stigmas faced by homeless patients when accessing healthcare.
The aim is to ultimately improve the care provided by tomorrow’s healthcare professionals.
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.
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.
