Research
Our Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics is using its global research status to advance innovative STEM training and infrastructure development for research communities across Africa.
This includes the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy and Big Data programmes, supporting self-sustaining research communities and investment in new research infrastructure in Africa.
Our Digital Futures network of 1,500 researchers across 30 disciplines is working with citizens, businesses and government to help understand and drive digital innovation.
We’re part of Health Innovation Manchester – an integrated ecosystem to discover, develop and deploy new solutions to improve the health and wellbeing of Greater Manchester’s 2.8 million citizens.
Our Henry Royce Institute is a UK national institute for advanced materials research and innovation. Our National Graphene Institute and Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre provide an innovation ecosystem to research and develop graphene and other 2D material applications in areas such as energy storage, nanomedicine and water purification.
Learning and students
We have been placed top in the UK for our knowledge transfer partnerships.
Through our structure and funding support, we place graduates to support businesses in addressing key innovation challenges.
Our students are able to undertake an Enterprise Challenge, which combines enterprise units with a community-based enterprise project with not-for-profit organisations.
Public engagement
Our Manchester Innovation Labs provide a robust, effective means of co-developing research projects with companies to address a business need.
The Great Science Share for Schools aims to raise the profile of science in schools and communities, and inspire young people into science and engineering.
The campaign has formed industry partnerships with Siemens, The Royal Society, The Ogden Trust, BASF and many more. It engaged 317,655 young people with a central theme of SDG 13 and science learning related to real-world issues in 2022.
Operations
Our Manchester Innovation Factory helps protect and commercialise our innovations and intellectual property by creating 15-20 new spin-out companies each year based on our novel ideas.
We’re working with leading innovators from business, science, academia and local government in developing Innovation GM.
This is a new partnership to form the basis of a collaboration deal with government to create as many as 100,000 new jobs and boost the economy by £7 billion.