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Tine Buffel, Christopher Phillipson and colleagues from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) have won the Outstanding benefit to society through research – Emerging impact category of this year’s Making a Difference Awards.Their work hi...

The University of Manchester made one of the largest and broadest REF submissions in the UK, entering 2,249 eligible researchers across 31 subject areas.Out of 56 departments in the country, Politics at Manchester ranked in eighth place nationally, i...

Q: How would you describe the British Pop Archive?HB: The British Pop Archive (BPA) at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library is the first specifically designated popular culture archive in the UK. The BPA celebrates popular culture, youth c...

New Research could revolutionise peatland restoration thanks to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by UKRI through Innovate UK and additional funding secured from Vp plc say Yorkshire Peat Partnership and University of Manchester.Funding f...

Entitled Gathering Downstream, the exhibition launches a programme of activity, called Unintended Consequences that will encourage visitors to consider what everyone can do to create a more sustainable future. The programme will launch with a special...

After many Covid 19-related delays Catherine Walker finally embarked on a three month research visit down under at SGEAS at University of Melbourne. The members of the Young People at a Crossroads team met in person for the first time this month, as ...

The Global Development Institute is delighted that both the quality and impact of its research has been confirmed in the Research Excellence Framework 2021. In an impressive assessment across the board, GDI was the only Development Studies department...

The University of Manchester is an endorsing body for the Start-up Visa, endorsing recent graduates in their entrepreneurial pursuits at the end of their Tier 4 visa....

This cross-platform event between the Digital Futures, Creative & Heritage and Data Science & AI themes and the Creative Manchester platform will highlight and map out expertise, strengths and possible directions at the intersection of AI/data scienc...

This year’s Sexuality Summer School (SSS) at the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture will focus on ‘The Desire for Identity’ as a central theme. The SSS is an annual five-day series of workshops and seminars for postgraduates engaged in the...

Professor Camden Reeves’s new album, Blue Sounds for Piano, will be released on the Metier label on 13 May 2022. The record was recorded by pianist Tom Hicks, (alumni of the University of Manchester), after around 10 years of collaboration on three s...

NOVARS PhD candidate and EPSRC scholarship awardee Tasos Asonitis was awarded the Best Paper Award in the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022 (part of Evostar). Asonitis' paper, tit...

A lost early version of Jean Sibelius’s tone poem, The Swan of Tuonela, has been reconstructed by Dr Sarah Moynihan. It was performed for the first time by MUMS Chamber Orchestra at the Martin Harris Centre on Wednesday 23rd March 2022, conducted by ...

Second Year PhD Student, Cameron Biles-Liddell, has been awarded the 2022 Paul Mealor Bursary for Student Composers by the Welsh Music Guild. This prize is the opportunity to compose a work for the baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams, and piano which will ...

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The winners of the 2022 Venture Further business start-up competition have been announced during this year's  awards ceremony....

Legal charity The Defendant and education project The Law in 60 Seconds are coming together to host the UK’s first-ever public legal education conference from  10am – 4pm on Saturday, 14 May 2022 at The University of Manchester. This event is also av...

Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcases a vibrant programme of 80 events in libraries across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.Creative Manchester – the University’s creativity-championing research...

Entrepreneurial students and recent graduates from across The University of Manchester took part in the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre’s annual business start-up competition and applied to win a slice of the Venture Further 2022 £75,000 prize fund to...

Professor Maria Sobolewska and Professor Robert Ford were awarded the WJM Mackenzie Prize for their book Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics. The judges said:“The endorsement on the front cover describes Brexitland a...

Dr Annika Lonkila works at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and researches the politics of sustainable food system transitions from different perspectives. She will be joining us from 2 May until 13 May and is working with Jo Mylan.She studie...

To further support students in their entrepreneurial journey we are proud to announce three 50% scholarships to students for the fully online, part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship. This course provides another way to bring your busi...

Environmental Politics’ new book "Trajectories in Environmental Politics" is out now.This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects...

To celebrate the launch of the British Pop Archive, Creative Manchester is hosting a roundtable discussion with David Olusoga OBE and broadcasting vanguards to explore the past, present, and future landscape of British television.The John Rylands Lib...

The Russian theorist Alexander Arkhangelsky wrote of him then as “a man of action while being at the same time the brightest intellectual”. In Berkeley Michael Burawoy described him as “thunder and lightning”. All this was exemplified in a remarkable...

The AMBS Original Thinking Lecture will be hosted by Michael Hodson, Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), at the Innovation, Management and Policy (IMP) division, Alliance Manchester Business Sch...

Jacques Burgess, Jesy Luyengi and Aneesa Riaz are among the 120 student finalists....

Due to COVID-19 Mat Paterson was finally awarded the ESS 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Nashville in March 2022.This award recognizes outstanding scholars whose long history of excellent...

The blog post investigates if we should be spending more time talking about methods. Human Geographers are playing a key role in developing creative, collaborative methodologies that enable researchers to attend to a range of social, political, and e...

The School of Social Sciences is delighted that Sir Tom Shakespeare CBE, will present the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture in Manchester, on the 3rd May 2022, with a talk on disability rights.Tom will offer an overview of the disability movement, in Brita...