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'The long and short of longevity risk' was hosted by FTAdviser and was sponsored by Legal and General. The webinar focused on managing longevity risk for financial advisers. Professor Debbie Price (former MICRA Director) joined a panel of industry...

Professor George aims to inspire new audiences with science, technology, engineering and maths. ...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute’s (HCRI) Emeritus Professor and Founder of UK-Med, Professor Tony Redmond OBE, has recently been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), Faculty of R...

These findings came in a report co-authored by Jonathan Ritson, a Research Associate at the University. With a UK target to reach net-zero by 2050, peatland restoration offers the potential to help as peatlands are capable of absorbing and storing...

Students from SALC have received some 35 Stellify awards this year recognising their outstanding achievements outside of their studies.  The Stellify Award at The University of Manchester is the most prestigious extra-curricular award available fo...

The BIRAX UK-Israel Healthy Ageing Webinar is a cross-disciplinary conference aiming to balance molecular advances with translational and clinical research, incorporating social, economic, environmental, and ethical aspects that are critical for the ...

Hayley James co-authored the paper with Tine Buffel and former MICRA Director, Debbie Price. They investigate how people anticipate the future when they make decisions about workplace pensions, considering whether they think about later life at all; ...

In an interview with HCRI, Catherine Arthur talks about her three-month field research in Timor-Leste, the importance of street art in peacebuilding, and the role of symbols in contexts of peace and conflict. To learn more about the history of Tim...

The Library is here to support your learning throughout your University experience, even if it’s not what you expected it would be this semester. We provide students with access to resources like books, journals and databases, training to help you...

The MIB has been recognised as a UK centre of excellence that is making a global impact. ...

Incoming third-year International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response student Marcell has been spending his summer establishing Revolution West Midlands, an initiative aimed at empowering, educating and mobilising everybody in the UK agains...

Professor Henry Yi Li was speaking at this year's Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium Webinar. ...

The event was chaired by MICRA Co-Director Tarani Chandola. Presenting, Dr Sheena Johnson was joined by Emily Andrews, Senior Evidence Manager at the Centre for Ageing Better, and Mat Ainsworth, Assistant Director – Employment (Policy, Strategy & Del...

Students from The University of Manchester’s Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology are exploring intriguing discussion points about ancient societies and history in a podcast series that is going from strength to strengt...

Kunal Sen is Professor of development economics at the Global Development Institute and served as Joint Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development research centre. He is also currently based at UNU-WIDER where he is their dir...

A start-up company based at The University of Manchester - AEH Innovative Hydrogel - has begun trials of a graphene-enhanced growth material that could revolutionise food production in the UK and overseas, reducing food miles and contributing to sust...

The project is being led by University academics Dr Helen Hawley-Hague and Dr Sarah Tyson.  Dr Helen Hawley-Hague is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research Fellow within the School of Health Sciences at the UoM, MICRA affiliate an...

The 2017 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care modelled nine potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia. These consist of: less education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inact...

A new graphene-based contactless payment system, developed in collaboration with the University of Manchester, has begun a restaurant pilot that could pave the way for the end of chip-and-PIN, cutting customer wait-time and reducing the risk of infec...

Following the shocking murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 and the worldwide protests that it provoked, we have taken time to reflect on the implications for us and the steps that we need to take at The University of Manchester Library ...

Dr Jenna Littlejohn is a Research Associate here at the University of Manchester. The article follows the case of a 76-year-old male with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease who volunteered for a research study. The piece concludes that heari...

The UN recognises World Humanitarian Day as a celebration of frontline humanitarians, risking their lives to give aid to the most vulnerable people in the world. It is also a day to acknowledge the importance of not only fieldwork but also of those p...

Funded by the UK Climate Resilience Programme “Living with Climate Uncertainty” the project is one of three funded UK projects exploring how societies have understood and adapted to climate change in the past and how we can learn from them to become ...

Every year, HCRI honour the students with the highest dissertation mark for International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) and intercalated Global Health (GH) respectively. This year the winners of the Outstanding Dissertation Aw...

We held a PGR offer-holder webinar for new postgraduate researchers joining the Faculty of Science and Engineering in Autumn 2020. ...

Léa-Catherine Szacka is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies at Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). This project is a historical and critical study of The Language of Postmodern Architecture, arguably one of the most important boo...

Robots have been trialled in an active deployment at the Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd facility. ...

In the latest edition of the series, we heard from creative sector researchers and practitioners from The University and its cultural partners. They explored how their field of work has been impacted by and adapted to the crisis. Dr Abi Gilmore, S...

Researchers at Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica in Belgium and The University of Manchester have carried out a study aimed at measuring the size of the nucleus in neutron-rich copper isotopes. ...

HCRI student Ben is in the final year of his PhD, which examines the ways aid organisations are operating in insecure environments, focusing particularly on remote forms of humanitarianism in Syria. He took some time out in Autumn 2019 to intern with...