Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and professional programmes

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.

#BeeWell: Greater Manchester Wellbeing

Experts from our Manchester Institute of Education are working with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and all of the city-region’s secondary schools on a pioneering #BeeWell project.

The first of its kind in the UK, this project will survey and create a dynamic online data dashboard on wellbeing, enabling teachers and leaders to use it as part of a continuous cycle of improvement.

This will provide evidence to inform local and national governmental policy for young people’s wellbeing.

Diversifying the school history curriculum

The collaborative History Lessons research project found that young people were keen to learn more inclusive histories, but teachers needed additional support and new resources for a more inclusive curriculum.

From this, we developed Our Migration Story with The Runnymede Trust and University of Cambridge, creating multiple award-winning web resources, lesson plans and classroom activities exploring the opportunities and challenges faced by Britain’s migrant communities.

Educating diverse communities about parasitic infections

Our researchers studying parasites have engaged diverse communities in the UK and Madagascar to share research findings and develop resources and toolkits to raise awareness, understanding and dialogue about parasitic worm infection.

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.

Study programmes

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.

On Air Quality

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

Take a Bite out of Climate Change

Our Take a Bite out of Climate Change partnership aims to share the scientific consensus about how food and agriculture contribute to climate change. It funds easily accessible information and fun activities for citizens such as Climate Food Flashcards, Farming for the Future workshops and the free e-book Food and Climate Change – Without the Hot Air.

Sustainable agriculture through electronic engineering

Our Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is examining how electronic engineering can improve food supply and sustainable energy production without increased pressures on our land.

E-Agri Manchester is using e-devices for reducing waste, increasing yields and making crops more resilient.

We also work on sustainable agriculture with the eight most research-intensive universities in the north of England through an N8 AgriFood programme.

Reproduction and austerity

Our academics are exploring the impact of austerity on reproduction.

The project uses a range of creative activities and interviews with women from areas in the north-east, where there are significant socio-economic barriers.

This project is providing new insights into contemporary austerity and how this may affect childbearing.

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.