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2023
15
September
2023
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14:42
Europe/London
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre welcomes you to the 23/24 academic year.
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12
September
2023
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11:09
Europe/London
New data from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at The University of Manchester has revealed disturbing ethnic inequalities in rates of financial hardship in the UK.
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07
September
2023
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14:52
Europe/London
“Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover” read the UK prime minister’s tweet in July 2023. Earlier that day in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Rishi Sunak had declared that the Conservative Party he leads are “on the si...
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24
August
2023
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15:47
Europe/London
The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, the anniversary of the coup, millions of Iranians as...
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22
August
2023
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10:59
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has appointed the first-ever Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics in the UK and the wider English-speaking world, in a move that demonstrates the leading role of the University when it comes to the study of con...
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01
August
2023
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10:37
Europe/London
One of the students of the BA Criminology short dissertation pathway has received one of the three UK Data Service Dissertation Awards 2023. These awards celebrate undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the UK...
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13
July
2023
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13:35
Europe/London
Six students from the University of Manchester have pioneered the Samosa Media Community Production Internship, aimed at improving the employability of students from under-represented backgrounds by gaining professional experience in the creative sec...
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30
June
2023
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12:01
Europe/London
Every year, the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester honour exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to the institution through the Distinguished Achievements Awards.In the latest ceremony held on June ...
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29
June
2023
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14:37
Europe/London
A project involving experts from The University of Manchester which created a live ‘early alarm’ system of major displacement, human rights abuses, humanitarian needs and civilian resistance in Ukraine has been recognised by the OECD’s Observatory of...
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29
June
2023
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09:51
Europe/London
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has won The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023.
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16
June
2023
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12:04
Europe/London
This 8th July 2023, GM4Women2028 are hosting their Dialogue Deeds Determination event in collaboration with GMCA Women & Girls Equality Panel and funded by the School of Social Sciences Community Partnership Fund.GM4Women is a charity focused on prom...
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06
June
2023
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11:14
Europe/London
Maybe you have one bin or many boxes. You might even have a compost caddy. Whatever your recycling setup, chances are that at some point you’ve been left wondering what should go where and if a particular item is indeed recyclable or if it should jus...
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26
May
2023
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12:16
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is to launch a groundbreaking new course on Ukrainian politics in the Autumn, strengthening its place as a key institution in the UK for students studying Ukrainian politics and society....
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25
May
2023
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12:09
Europe/London
A new briefing from The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Runnymede Trust has highlighted the need to use teacher training and Initial Teaching Education (ITE) to develop a more diverse and inclusive curric...
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22
May
2023
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10:49
Europe/London
An inspirational student who graduated from her degree at The University of Manchester despite having incurable brain cancer has sadly passed away.
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19
May
2023
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15:41
Europe/London
Gary Younge, award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the...
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04
May
2023
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12:00
Europe/London
New research led by experts from The University of Manchester, the University of St Andrews, the University of Essex and the University of Nottingham suggests that people from ethnic and religious minority groups are more likely to be interested in p...
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25
April
2023
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12:09
Europe/London
Poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE launched the Lemn Sissay Law Bursaries in 2017 intending to widen access by removing barriers to Law School undergraduate courses. The bursaries seek to address the under-representation of students of African and...
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25
April
2023
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11:38
Europe/London
Each year, the Department of Criminology of The University of Manchester recognises two Teaching Assistants as TA of the Year Awards. The Department rewards the ‘TA of the Year Award’ to a TA with an excellent performance during the last academic yea...
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19
April
2023
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11:00
Europe/London
More than a third of people from ethnic and religious minority groups in Britain have experienced some form of racist assault, according to new research led by experts from The University of Manchester, the University of St Andrews and King’s College...
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17
April
2023
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15:21
Europe/London
Dr Leah Gilman was awarded last week the Sociology SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence for her paper ‘The Selfish Element: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate’. The prize is awarded to the paper ...
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14
April
2023
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11:56
Europe/London
The amount of time parents spend with their children contributes much less to their progress in school than the family’s social class, new research has shown.
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04
April
2023
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16:08
Europe/London
Broadcaster Kylie Pentelow has teamed up with the University's Manchester Innocence Project to host their second series of true crime podcasts which aim to raise awareness about miscarriages of justice in the UK, including the recent Post Office scan...
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03
April
2023
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12:03
Europe/London
An innovative new student education programme led by The University of Manchester is one of five new projects aimed at reducing recreational drug use to have been awarded money from a £5 million government innovation fund....
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31
March
2023
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12:05
Europe/London
The UK’s recycling system requires a dramatic overhaul to effectively tackle the issue of plastic waste, according to a new report published by The University of Manchester’s One Bin to Rule Them All project team....
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24
March
2023
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16:30
Europe/London
Meropi Tzanetakis is Lecturer in Digital Criminology and has been awarded the prestigious Elise Richter Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Meropi was selected from a competitive pool of applicants to undertake a four-year research project on t...
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10
March
2023
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14:07
Europe/London
An academic from The University of Manchester has won an award at the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards, which celebrate the tech industry’s most exceptional talent in order to inspire the next generation from the UK and beyond. ...
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07
March
2023
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15:12
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is the new home of CrimRxiv, a repository and hub for open access (free) criminology and criminal justice publications. This strengthens UoM’s reputation as a global leader in criminology and in open research. Since its l...
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07
March
2023
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11:56
Europe/London
New research has found that the support given to older people who may lack the mental capacity to manage their money varies greatly, which is concerning given the rising number of people with dementia and the increasing sophistication of financial sc...
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06
March
2023
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07:00
Europe/London
In the most comprehensive analysis of ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes to date, a major new global study has found that ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of severe illness and death during the pandemic because of their gr...
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