Our work on Goal 10

Reduce inequality within and among countries.

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

As one of the world’s leading research institutions and the UK’s first university to have social responsibility as a core goal, we’re tackling the SDGs in four inter-related ways: through our research, learning and students, public engagement activity and operations.

Here’s a selection of our work addressing Goal 10.

Research

Report uncovers ‘Institutional Racism’ in the Justice System

‘Racial Bias and The Bench’ is a report written by experts from our University and barrister Keir Monteith KC which has raised urgent questions about racial attitudes and practices in the justice system in England and Wales. The report is a response to the five-year strategy launched by Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett of Maldon to enhance equality and diversity in the judiciary and finds that it does not consider the issue of racism or even mention ‘racial bias’. Findings from the report conclude that 95% of respondents said racial bias plays some role in the processes or outcomes of the justice system, while 29% said it played a more ‘fundamental role.’

Project Helps Leaders Make Greater Manchester More Age-Friendly

To mark the UN’s International Day of Older Persons a lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography from our University has created a booklet which showcases the different ways older age is experienced in Greater Manchester, alongside an accompanying animation. This booklet offers a guide to a more immersive, flexible, creative and participatory approach for engaging with those within the category – enabling policy communities, academics, and others to gain a richer, localised and more personal understanding of what it means to be an older person. The project also responds to research and campaigns that have found representations of older age often fall back on medicalised, stereotypical accounts of what constitutes older lives.

 

Learning and students

Global University Social Responsibility MOOC

Our university has contributed to the Global University Social Responsibility Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), which allows users to learn about the general framework of university social responsibility as well as understand effective practices to design, plan, implement, and evaluate their own activities.

Author and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye joins The University of Manchester

Jeffrey Boakye has been appointed Senior Teaching Fellow in Manchester Institute of Education (MIE). He is a high-profile author, broadcaster and journalist whose book, I Heard What You Said (2022), explores how racism in the classroom can be dismantled. Within MIE, Jeffrey hosts guest lectures and seminars, and takes on learning support roles that provide bespoke mentoring for individual students and trainee teachers.

 

Public engagement

Black History Month Events at The University

Black history month is used as a time to give appreciation and recognition of the positive contributions that Black people have made to British Society and Internationally. It also provides an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments, share learning, and allows us time to reflect on the past, whilst being proud of our culture and identity. Each year we host a variety of events for staff and students to mark Black History Month. For example, our University’s Creative Manchester presented a lecture with award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster, Professor David Olusoga OBE, exploring what it means to be black and British and the role of black history today in celebration of Black History Month. David Olusoga is Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, specialising in the British Empire and how different communities experience its lasting effects in modern society

Staff Network Celebrates Black History Month

Each year staff at our University host many events during Black History Month. In previous years, the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Staff Network have hosted an afternoon with Dame Elizabeth Anionwu who is the author of ‘Dreams From My Mother’ and is a celebrated nurse and health care activist who co-founded the first ever Centre for Sickle Cell Anaemia sufferers in the UK. Other events include live performances from Testament and panels that discuss the effects of conspiracy and joint enterprise laws in racializing and criminalizing particular communities and cultures, with Professor David Olusoga OBE.

 

 

Operations

Policy@Manchester’s Health Inequalities Digital Collection

Policy@Manchester is our University’s policy engagement institute that connects researchers with policymakers and influencers, nurtures long-term policy engagement relationships and seeks to enhance stakeholder understanding of pressing policy challenges. One of the institutes online collections, Health Inequalities draws on research from across the University, and offers evidence-led insight and policy recommendations on the causes, effects, and solutions to heath inequalities.

University Donates Abandoned Bikes to Charity

Our University regularly donates abandoned bikes to local charities to support important community initiatives that aim to reduce the number of bikes that end up in landfills. The local charities refurbish and repair the bikes to sell at an affordable price, or give them away at no extra cost to those in need. By ensuring we manage abandoned bikes effectively, it not only frees up space in the shelter and Sheffield stands, but also enables us to support important community initiatives.