A-Z of research activities
The University of Manchester has a global reputation for being at the forefront of innovative and enterprising research.
For details of current research activities taking place across the University, please select from the list below:
- Ageing
- Aerospace Engineering
- Allergy
- Analytical Science
- Anxiety Treatment and Affect
- Aphasia
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Art History and Visual Studies
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Audiology and Deafness
- Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Bioethics
- Biostatistics
- Biotechnology
- Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health
- Business
- Cancer - visit the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health and the Manchester Cancer Research Centre
- Cardiovascular Sciences
- Census and Survey Research
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Chinese Studies
- Civil Engineering
- Classics and Ancient History
- Clinical and Cognitive Neurosciences
- Comparative and International Business
- Computer Science
- Corrosion and Protection
- Criminology
- Decision Analysis, Support and Risk Management
- Dentistry (Basic and Health Sciences)
- Dermatology
- Developmental Disorders
- Developmental Science and Disorders
- Diabetes
- Drama
- Drug Development and Systems Pharmacology
- Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
- East Asian Studies
- Economics/Econometrics
- Education
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Endocrinology
- English, American Studies and Creative Writing
- Environment, Education and Development
- Environmental Research
- Epidemiology
- Face Recognition
- Finance
- French Studies
- Gastrointestinal Sciences
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- Gene Regulation
- Genetic Medicine
- Geography
- German Studies
- Global Health
- Health Care Ethics and Law
- Health Economics
- Health Informatics
- Health Psychology
- High Level Decision Making, Leadership and Business Strategy
- History
- History of Health and Social Care
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Human Development
- Human Memory and Amnesia
- Human Resource Management
- Imaging Sciences
- Immune Mechanisms
- Inflammation and Repair - visit the Institute of Inflammation and Repair and the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research
- Innovation
- Instrumentation
- Interdisciplinary Medicine and Engineering – visit MIMIT and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- International Development – see the School of Environment, Education and Development and the Global Development Institute
- Italian Studies
- Law
- Language Development and Disorders
- Language Science
- Learning Disability Studies
- Linguistics and English Language
- Long-Term Conditions and Self Care
- Major Projects and Programmes
- Marketing
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medicine and Health
- Mental Health – visit the Centre for Mental Health and Risk, the Centre for New Treatments and Understanding in Mental Health, and the Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Midwifery
- Music
- Musculoskeletal Research
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroscience
- Nuclear
- Nursing
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Optometry – Eurolens Research
- Oral Health Sciences
- Organisation and Society
- Paediatrics and Child Health
- Parenting and Families
- Perception and Action
- Personal Social Services
- Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Planning and Landscape
- Politics
- Population Health
- Primary Care
- Process Integration, Modelling, Design and Control
- Psychological Interventions
- Psychoses: Psychological Treatments
- Public Sector Policy and Management
- Radiotherapy Related Research
- Regenerative Medicine
- Religions and Theology
- Respiratory
- Russian and East European Studies
- Services Design and Management
- Social Anthropology
- Social Care and Population Help
- Social Research with Deaf People
- Social Statistics
- Socio-Legal Studies
- Sociology
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Suicide – visit the School of Psychological Sciences and the Centre for Mental Health and Risk
- Sustainable Behaviour
- Textiles and Paper
- Tissue Engineering
- Translation and Intercultural Studies
- Vascular and Stroke
- Women’s Health