Goal 3: Learning and students
The University’s learning and student activities play a key role in our approach to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Here’s a wider showcase of our work addressing Goal 3.
Our integrated master’s student, Haady Brendan Hajar, has recently been accepted to the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Scholars Programme for 2022. The BNA scholars programme strives to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion in neuroscience through supporting students from under-represented ethnic groups.
Each year we hold the Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) which engages school children with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2022, 25 primary schools across Greater Manchester worked to investigate air quality in their local area in the ‘Great Science Share Clean Air Challenge,’ thanks to a partnership between The University of Manchester and the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. The GSSfS theme for 2023-2024 is ‘Sustainable Science,’ which encourages students to think about global sustainability issues and climate action.
The annual student led ‘DentMan conference’ seeks to encourage students in dentistry to explore our pioneering humanising dentistry concept and give them freedom and space to engage with the community and the wider global society through outreach and volunteering programmes. It also provides a platform for dental students to demonstrate and recognise how they have made a difference to dental health inequalities across Greater Manchester and beyond. In recent years, the conference has reached a global audience, with over 200 staff, students, and oral healthcare professionals from both the University of Manchester and University of Ghana in attendance.