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Develop a powerful entrepreneurial mind-set and critical business implementation skills which will lead you to a successful future. This online Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship allows you to study part-time alongside your working life and...

From Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 October, Manchester Oxford Road will be adorned with a plethora of brand new visual arts commissions, installations, and live entertainment.The 3-day event is an opportunity to discover and celebrate the new ideas, inn...

In 2020, Dr. Lee Kai Hung generously donated £100,000 to match other charitable gifts, creating a fund to support University of Manchester students and staff who wish to fly to the Chinese speaking world to conduct research about Greater China.Covid-...

What’s the exhibition about?The Qing 清 (1636-1912), China’s last dynasty, existed for nearly three centuries. Qing emperors ruled a vast realm that was a blend of different religions and cultures. Qing books reflect the diversity of the empire and re...

The exhibition explores the role of physical models in architecture through their history, craft and changing technologies that support their continued use in new digital ways.The workshop made a significant unique contribution to the project that ha...

Dr Tina Hannemann has an MSc degree in demography and attended the training program of the European Doctoral School of Demography at the French National Institute for Demographic Research (Paris, France) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic R...

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE will present the 2021 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Public Lecture ...

On 10 November, researchers from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Creative Manchester will host a hybrid workshop exploring research and knowledge exchange with the creative and cultural industries.Focused on the creative and cultural i...

Global Political Economy Seminars (GPE)CGP Cluster Seminars: Semester 1Democracy and Elections Cluster Seminar Series – Semester 1 2021-22Mancept Seminars – Semester 1JMCE Events Academic Year 2021-2022...

Over the course of the next year, Cameron Biles-Liddell, a Music PhD student at the University of Manchester, will collaborate with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to produce two new orchestral works. His first piece for the RSNO is for chamber...

A Lecturer from the Department of Criminology was recognised on 13 October at Research Capability 2021, an event held by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), recognising outstanding, innovative research carried out using ONS secure data or data ...

Non-religious people reported experiences of unfair treatment and discrimination due to their identities.The research was published in the Journal of Contemporary Religion by three academics including the University's Kingsley Purdam.Read more about ...

A number of staff were nominated by Social Statistics students including Dr Tina Hannemann, Professor Wendy Olsen, Dr Kingsley Purdam and Dr Nick Shryane.Dr Mark Brown has been awarded for his Outstanding Teaching, Professor Jackie Carter has been re...

The exhibition allows viewers to take a virtual journey through Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) using maps and travel guides from the Japanese maps collection.Curated by Dr. Sonia Favi, who recently completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship at John Ryl...

Dr Termeh Shafie and Dr David Schoch from the department of Social Statistics have published the new research which can be read about here....

Predicting the length of hospital stays can be useful when managing bed capacity and ensuring adequate care is provided for all patients. .View the full research here....

Manchester researchers have discovered a non-destructive method for removing radioactivity from nuclear graphite waste. ...

Over five digital episodes, Ellah P Wakatama (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for New Writing) will be in conversation with debut authors about their craft and the journey to shaping their first, published full body of work. These works will span acro...

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for AI, has announced over 400 fellowships for 2021-22 across the 12 University partners. The University of Manchester is home to 33 of those Turing Fellows, across all three University Faculties...

A new report, The COVID-19 Pandemic, published today by the Longevity Science Panel (LSP) (with contributions by MICRA's Professor Debbie Price), highlights that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, link...

Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe’s Selected Poems was published on 1 October by Gallery Press​​​​​. Selected Poems shows for the first time the range of ‘one of the most gifted and versatile poets of his generation’ (Poetry Book Society). The same ...

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad awarded to Dr Jingzhen Du, in recognition of his record of outstanding achievements. ...

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To recall items that are currently on loan to another Library user, log in to your Library account on Library Search and then search for the item.Click on the 'Request' button, and fill in the details on the short form this generates.Once you’ve conf...

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library will be closed to the public and researchers on Friday, 8 October 2021.This means you won’t be able to book a ticket to visit the Rylands, or an appointment to access material in the Special Collections...

The 16th BBC National Short Story Award announced its shortlisted candidates on 10 September 2021, with lockdown-influenced themes of kindness, memory, loss and longing at the forefront of the chosen five stories.Dublin-born novelist, playwright and ...

In September 2021, Dr Jennifer Buckley and Professor Debora Price, in partnership with the Pensions Policy Institute, published the report Pensions and Divorce: Exploratory Analysis of Quantitative Data and also launched a short animation on the them...

The outgoing co-chairs of the MICRA PhD Network formally handed over the reins at an online event on 28 September.Francisca Ortiz and Louise Mitchell celebrated a wonderful run from 2019-2021 as MICRA PhD Network co-chairs. In that time, they hosted ...

This conversation series brings together international speakers to discuss topical issues relating to researching ageing in urban environments. Each conversation focuses on a cross-cutting theme with one or two speakers talking on the topic and being...

Congratulations to Dr Jen O’Brien, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), who has been awarded first place in the category for the most innovative approach to developing employability skills in the HE Innovate Awards.Jen won this ca...