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Hallie Fletcher / Manchester - A university and a city of literature.

At Manchester the next revolution is never far away. Among the features in our summer 2018 issue, we meet the new Directors of the Whitworth and Manchester Museum, look at examples of creativity across the arts and sciences, celebrate 70 years of the NHS and hear how our legal and dental students are making a real difference to our communities.

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / Importance of reputation

Feature

Creative Manchester / Hive of creativity

A bee on a flower

Feature

Culture / The Manchester way

Esme Ward

Feature

Dental health/ Students making a difference

Illustration of smiling mouths

Feature

Fighting for justice / Legal students' success

Student volunteers at the University's Legal Advice Centre

Feature

Parental leave / Shaping the future

Parents and their two children standing in a garden

Picture

Christabel Pankhurst / Queen of the Mob

Illustration of Christabel Pankhurst

Opinion

Bina Agarwal / Everydayness of harassment

Illustration of Bina Agarwal

Feature

Reaching further / Widening participation

Photo of Ilyas Nagdee

Feature

Lung cancer / Scans during the weekly shop

Shopping list

Picture

HV Lab / 60 electrifying years

High voltage Tesla coil

Picture

Purple Wave / Staff runners make a splash

University staff running at the Great Manchester Run

Opinion

Anna Scaife / Football and data science

Illustration of Anna Scaife

Picture

NHS 70 / Our part in a proud story

Timeline of the University's role in the history of the NHS

Spring 2018

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / The value of universities to society

Feature

Power of learning / International success for our undergraduate

Farhana Choudhury

Feature

Change-makers / How students are helping our outreach work

Letitia Budu

Opinion

Joseph Lampel / Creating a culture for breakthrough innovations

Opinion

Alexander Baratta / Let’s talk about accent

Feature

Manchester, UNESCO City of Literature / A look at the University’s role

Tim Price

Feature

Driving force / How will future cars be powered?

Electric car at charging station

Feature

Making a Difference / a poem by Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay

Opinion

Vidyadhar Peesapati / Expecting more from electrical infrastructure

Vidyadhar Peesapati

Feature

Preventing stillbirth / Pioneering research giving parents hope

Picture of baby's hand

Feature

Alan Turing / 80 years since a heroic enigma joined us

Alan Turing

Autumn 2017

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / Our commitment to widening participation

Feature

A vast cosmic arena / Daleks, deep space and distant galaxies

Jodrell bank

Feature

Lighting the way / University initiatives helping to widen participation

Light bulbs

Opinion

Iain Buchan / Time to address the north-south health divide

Iain Buchan

Feature

A man of the city / When it comes to Manchester, it’s personal

Sir Howard Bernstein

Feature

Research / Propelling the aviation industry towards hypersonic speeds

Airplane flying across the sky above skyscrapers

Feature

A bright future in The Works / Previously homeless people tell their story

Frezghi Teklemichael

Opinion

Ajmal Hussain / Radicals with a cause? Young Muslims and the underbelly of the city

Ajmal Hussain

Feature

Be // Longing / Raising the curtain on Manchester Migration Lab

Dr Cathy Wilcock

Picture

Equity and Merit / Scholarship student becomes Rwanda’s youngest ever government minister

Jean de Dieu 'Jado' Uwihanganye

Picture

Heritage / Lost Turing letters give unique insight into his academic life prior to death

Alan Turing letters

Opinion

Andrew Hosty / A materials renaissance to spark disruption

Andrew Hosty

Picture

Rutherford / Splitting the atom and saving lives

Illustration of Ernest Rutherford

Summer 2017

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / Explaining our University's finances

Feature

Defending the bee / The emblem of Manchester

University beekeepers maintaining one of two urban beehives on top of the Rutherford Building on campus

Feature

Artist fellowship / Giving a voice to the oppressed

Silvanos Mudzvova

Opinion

Gunn Grande / Putting the spotlight on the invisible workforce of family carers

Gunn Grande

Feature

Social responsibility / Big numbers, real lives

Alvin Bell

Feature

Energy / Getting graphic: Bioenergy for the future

Page from bioenergy graphic novel

Feature

Research / Sustaining our future

Illustration of two different interpretations of a future city

Opinion

Tom Arnold / A ‘Metrolink Mayor’?

Tom Arnold

Feature

Research / Cleaner water, bluer skies

View of city from aeroplane in flight

Feature

God particle / The physicist, the rabbi and the quest to understand the universe

Dr Justin Evans

Opinion

Lynne Bianchi / Inspiring the engineers of the future

Lynne Bianch

Feature

Citizen science / Understanding allergies

Dandelion seed head

Picture

Manchester / #weloveManchester

we love MCR graphic

Spring 2017

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / An international city and university

Feature

Research / Wealth of experience

Co-researchers walking through Alexandra Park

Feature

Teaching / Sparks and explosions

Sparks

Feature

Innovation / Doing things differently

Manchester

Feature

Our inspiring scholars / A journey of discovery

Andrew Amara shows a local child how to build in Nabweru

Feature

Opinion / Impact of US politics

American flag / Donald Trump

Feature

Social responsibility / Real lives, inspiring women

Rhys Archer

Picture

Anthony Burgess / Slovos and warbles

An ashtray shaped as a cog with a single cigar smouldering on its edge

Feature

Advanced materials / Big business, global solutions

Dr Andrew Hosty

Winter 2016

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / A global reputation

Feature

Research / Making history in health care

Busy hospital corridor

Feature

Research / The man who is building a brain

Steve Furber standing in front of a wall of computers

Opinion

David Allison / Spreading the word, not the worry

David Allison

David Allison

Feature

Global inequalities / Born unequal

New born baby on scales

Feature

ESOF 2016 / Science as revolution

he Lovell Telescope during the bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory

Feature

Teaching / A Renaissance in learning

Massacre of the Innocents. Marcantonio Raimondi. ca. 1512–13

Feature

Research / Bring me sunshine

Will Dixon, Professor of Digital Epidemiology in the University’s School of Biological Sciences

Feature

Research / Grown for home

Row of houses and chemistry equipment

Opinion

Sarah Mander / The second 'dash for gas'

Jonathan Darling

Sarah Mander

Picture

Margaret Murray / The Grand Old Woman of Egyptology

The Grand Old Woman of Egyptology

Feature

Winnie Byanyima / We Belong

Winnie Byanyima standing in The University of Manchester's Whitworth Hall

Summer 2016

Foreword

Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell / The value of a university education

Feature

Research / Ahead of the curve

Feature

Cancer / The personal approach

Opinion

Hema Radhakrishnan / Let's make women count in science

Hema Radhakrishnan

Feature

Research / Manchester's mechanical opus

Feature

Michael Wood / A storyteller in China

Feature

Research / Robots doing the dirty work

Feature

Teaching / A tale of two continents

Feature

Research / The gifts of life and learning

Opinion

Jonathan Darling / Housing asylum seekers

Jonathan Darling

Feature

Social responsibility / Governing change in education

Feature

Widening participation / Mapping out futures

Opinion

Julia Segar / Health and social care devolution

Julia Segar

Picture

Desmond Paul Henry / The Picasso of the machine age

Spring 2016

Feature

Jodrell / A journey into the unknown

Foreword

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell / A chance to transform through science

Feature

Powerhouse / Honorary Professor Jim O'Neill

Feature

Research / An education in conservation

Feature

Campus masterplan / A vision of transformation

Feature

Industrial biotechnology / Feed, fuel and heal the world

Opinion

Chris Martin / Sharing can be better

Opinion

Rathaven Gunaratnarajah / Little things make a big difference

Feature

Student experience / Giant steps for student interns

Feature

HCRI / A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a humanitarian crisis

Picture

Beatrice Shilling /
A flaming pathfinder of women's lib

Feature

Outreach / A symphony of science and art

Opinion

Francis Livens / A nuclear future

Clarissa Gabriel

Feature

Student experience / What does it take to be a student of the year?

Winter 2015

Foreword

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell / The spirit of revolution

Feature

Research / Charting a shifting political landscape

Feature

Global inequality / One globe, a world of solutions

Opinion

Clarissa Giebel / How can we improve things for people affected by dementia?

Clarissa Gabriel

Feature

Chancellor Lemn Sissay / Inspire and be inspired

Picture

Mother of the Sea / Research has the power to make lives better – sometimes for an entire nation

Feature

Teaching / An inspiring adventure on campus

Feature

Teaching / Pioneering tomorrow's patient care

Opinion

Kevin Anderson / Climate change: a global cause, an individual's duty?

Feature

Advanced materials / The 2D revolution

Opinion

Tanja R Müller / What can history teach us about migration?