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Joy Milne is a ‘super smeller’, she has a rare condition called hyperosmia that gives her an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Throughout her life she has experienced the world differently from those with a regular nose, so much so that when she be...

In May, Prof Kevin Malone worked with the distinguished and multi-Emmy award-winning television, film and concert composer John Wineglass, whose African ancestry underpins his latest compositional work about American slave ownership.  As a Professor ...

Dr Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Manchester in 2021 with his doctoral research focusing on how the informal rule of guanxi affects political representation in Taiwan. After completing his Ph.D. in the 2021-2022 academic y...

The new Data Analytics and Social Statistics master’s degree will begin in September 2023 and promises to be a pioneering course that prioritises data veracity and analysis.Dr Alexandru Cernat, Course Director, Senior Lecturer in the Department of So...

Our new concert series starts with two virtuoso performers from Cyprus and Iran playing original music by Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), a Moldavian prince, statesman, a prolific writer, a philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, eth...

Please join us on 8th November from 6-7.30pm in the John Rylands Library for Helen Holmes and Nick Crossley’s (Sociology) event on Rave Renaissance with DJ Graeme Park.Tickets are available here.Manchester is renowned not just for its rich musical hi...

British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed and three-times Grammy winner Puerto Rican percussionist Carlos Maldonado have received a Simon Industrial and Professional Fellowship. Working together with Dr Alexander Gagatsis at the Department of Music at th...

He spoke alongside Emelia Quist (Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)), Asif Rehmanwala (Ecotricity), Adam Scorer (National Energy Action (NEA)) and Labour MP Alan Whitehead (Shadow Energy Minister) about whether renewables can help alleviate the cos...

A major AHRC-funded project to digitise, transcribe and analyse the letters, diaries and manuscript volumes of courtier, diarist and Bluestocking Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) has now published a digital scholarly edition on Manchester Digital Collection...

Sociology staff have been recognised for their research and teaching in recent University of Manchester awards.Research Staff ExcellenceOur researchers won in all three Humanities categories of the Research Staff Excellence Awards.Sophie Yarker – Res...

You can now microwave your own food and prepare hot drinks in the Library Lounge at the Main Library.The Library Lounge is one of several dedicated ‘Bring and Ping’ spaces across campus with microwaves, free hot water and charging points. Facilities ...

Professor Jovica Milanovic has recently been awarded a position at the Nikola Tesla Electrical Engineering Institute in Belgrade, as well as receiving a prestigious award....

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, our President and Vice-Chancellor, already expressed The University’s profound condolences to the Royal Family on the death of the late Queen and with them thanksgiving for her life of dedicated public service.  Staff a...

The new research projects started in September 2022 and the deadline for applications is end of day, 3rd October 2022.Contemporary crises and net zero transitions: Ukraine, COVID, and energyMat Paterson’s project ‘Contemporary crises and net zero tra...

On Thursday, 22 September 2022, Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn MP will speak at the launch of a new campaign to expose clothing poverty during the current cost of living crisis and ensure adequate clothing for all.The Right to Clothing Campaign i...

A new Head of Department for Social Statistics at the University of Manchester has been appointed. Arkadiusz Wiśniowski joined the Social Statistics Department in 2015 and is now a Senior Lecturer. He also leads a Statistical Modelling Research Group...

SCI PhD researcher Zarina Ahmad was honoured with a 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball Award for innovative achievements in feminism and inequality research.Zarina is a feminist activist against climate change and for equal rights for ethnic minorities. In h...

The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development is a new interdisciplinary research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester.The lab will promote cutting-edge research on economic growth and development, ...

Dr Jennifer O’Brien, SEED,  Academic Lead for Sustainability Teaching and Learning, and Sustainable Futures Challenge Lead for Inspired and Informed Futures, has been awarded a Higher Education and the SDGs Challenge Grant by the Association of Commo...

The Linguistic Diversity Collective and Creative Manchester present a free event taking place on 19 October at 5.30pm in the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School penthouse event space.‘Supporting Manchester’s language commun...

The Kantorowich Library in Humanities Bridgford Street has closed and the space is being redeveloped to create one of nine Student Support Hubs. Student Support Hubs will consolidate the current 100+ student touchpoints, making it easier and simpler ...

With the imminent threat of our climate crisis, IGOLO seeks to shift public shopping habits when renovating and designing their home....

With the public holiday falling at the start of Welcome Week there are Library buildings to which you’ll need access, so the following will be available and open:Main LibraryAlan Gilbert Learning CommonsAll other Library sites will be closed and will...

The Library is here to support your learning throughout your University experience.We provide students with access to resources like books, journals and databases, training to help you succeed in your studies, and spaces to study when you’re on campu...

Mike Hodson, Andy McMeekin and Andy Lockhart have presented their new conference paper "Platformisation and the Reconfiguration of Urban Public Transport Systems in England: Who’s in control?" at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of Briti...

Centre for New Writing PhD candidate Charlotte Wetton has had a collection of surreal poetry acquired by The Emma Press, an independent publishing house based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.Charlotte’s Accessioning examines what it is we consider ...

Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios (MANTIS) at The University of Manchester Prof David Berezan has scooped two international industry prizes for a recent composition.Tongue Drum, an electr...

Compiled by Professor Jackie Carter, from Social Statistics at the University of Manchester, new case studies from Social Science alumni highlight how their degrees from the University of Manchester - Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhDs - gave them the skil...

The University of Manchester Law School are delighted to launch revised versions of their four undergraduate LLB Law programmesLLB LawLLB Law with International StudyLLB Law with CriminologyLLB Law with PoliticsThese new programmes offer a distinctiv...

His book chapter “Stockfree's Short Shadow: Shifting Food Systems Towards Sustainability by Re-Thinking Veganism as a Performative Practice of Production” makes a contribution to food system organizing with a practice approach.He argues that academic...