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The first Mathematics and Data Science Workshop hosted for students by the Department of Mathematics was a resounding success. ...

A virtual guide that tells the story of what it was like to live in New Testament times has been launched by the Centre for Biblical Studies. Led by Prof Peter Oakes, this vivid new resource transports readers to Pompeii, where the city’s rich evi...

Students of Drama and Electronic Engineering lent their talents to an event at the heart of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest chapter of The University of Manchester’s fruitful partnership with MIF. Shining a light on these pla...

The University of Manchester hosted the Turing Institute Workshop on 'Robotics and AI for Health and Social Care' on 28-29 October. This was chaired by Angelo Cangelosi and Chris Todd, from MICRA, and Heather Draper from Warwick University. Thi...

A University of Manchester Drama alumna has been recognised for harnessing her creative talents to benefit the community at the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, took home the Young Creative of the Year award at the eve...

A pioneering new way to learn about music has been launched for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season. The Notes app encourages concert-goers to break convention and leave their smartphones on during performances, sending subscribers timely notifi...

We’re launching a new online portal which will allow Postgraduate students and staff to pay their Library fines more easily online. At present, only Undergraduate students are able to conveniently pay Library fines online. However, from the week o...

Following months of improvement works, our newly refurbished Special Collections Reading Room has now reopened. The renovated Reading Room, on the fourth floor of The John Rylands Library, features a fully redesigned workspace, improved securi...

Creatives will be joining the discussion on issues affecting the burgeoning city of Manchester as part of a special weekend-long event. Contemporary theatre company Quarantine (Wallflower; Summer.), is bringing people together from all sides of th...

Last month (17 October), the 2019 outing for the Manson Memorial Lecture brought lively discussions on religion and sociology thanks to an engaging talk by Prof Andréas Dettwiler of the University of Geneva. The professor of Theology gave a paper ...

First published in The Conversation on 31 October 2019. Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to infrastructure development plans from the African Development Bank and the Initi...

Dr Christian Goeschel, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, was invited to discuss his book Mussolini and Hitler in a live radio interview. Dr Goeschel spoke about the...

Applicants have been invited to register their interest in the cultural discovery being carried out by the Melbourne and Manchester Graduate Research Group. The Group is an international research training group, comprised of researchers and jointl...

Reshma Ruia, the Manchester-based novelist, has published her first poetry collection A Dinner Party in the Home Counties to great acclaim. Ruia, who attained her PhD in Creative Writing and Critical Thinking at The University of Manchester, is be...

Develop your digital communications skills and explore the online world with Digital Society, the UCIL course unit run by the Library. Studying entirely online, you’ll learn invaluable practical skills to shape your digital identity. Digital Socie...

The Library’s online student survey is live from today, Monday, 4 November and runs until Friday, 8 December 2019. It’s a chance for you to have your say and tell us about your experience of the Library. Your feedback is important as it helps us i...

The 2019 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Public Lecture featured guest speaker Dr Vicky Neale. ...

Thomas Savage has been highly praised for his role in a project between The University of Manchester and Imperial College London. ...

The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) is celebrating the success of the 2019 Manchester Literature Festival, which has drawn to a close after over two weeks of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature. Th...

Tomorrow's Engineers Week, now in its seventh year, takes place 4 to 8 November 2019. ...

Hongyang Bai, Sanja Karilanova and Joshua Walton each won prizes in the AI coding competition. ...

The Syriac Galen Palimpsest, a unique, ancient and globally important medical manuscript, will be publicly exhibited in the UK for the first time in Seeing the Invisible, the new exhibition at The John Rylands Library. The exhibition, which runs betw...

Need resources for your studies or your research that the Library doesn’t hold? Use our Order a Book and Order an Article services, and we’ll get them for you. Order a Book is free; Order an Article incurs a £2 administration charge. Both servi...

Since its inception, The John Rylands Library has been intended as a gift to the people of Manchester. It is with some sense of pride, therefore, that we were chosen as part of people’s artist Mancsy’s “finders keepers” project. We received a scre...

The John Rylands Library has loaned four items from its Special Collections to a Princeton University exhibition about early European printing. The exhibition examines the first two decades of European printing after Gutenberg’s invention of typog...

A University of Manchester drama alumna has been shortlisted in the Young Creative of the Year category of the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, is one of five people up for the award, which recognises young people aged...

The University of Manchester’s extensive Peterloo Collection is the first to be launched on the innovative new digital platform, giving users all over the world access to the unique documents within the collection. Built in collaboration w...

Professor Lin Li has been presented with both the Arthur L. Schawlow Award and the Donald Julius Groen Prize. ...

HCRI are inviting applications for a lectureship in responses to the climate crisis for the first time in the Institute’s history. The lectureship is part of an expansion in the Institute designed to build upon existing strengths around the inters...

Professor Anna Scaife has been awarded a five-year Turing AI Fellowship. ...