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On Tuesday, 10 May we were joined by staff, students, alumni and friends from around the world to celebrate the incredible and inspiring work of our University Community at the Making a Difference Awards 2022.The awards highlighted the extensive rang...

The Nuffield Foundation, on Wednesday, 4 May, released an independent evaluation of the Q-Step Programme. Currently Q-Step operates in 17 universities across the UK, including the University of Manchester, and was established in 2013 as a strategic r...

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...

Broadcaster Kylie Pentelow and producer Lucy McDaid have partnered with the University's Manchester Innocence Project to launch a new true crime podcast that explores wrongful convictions....

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...

On Tuesday, 26 April 2022, the School of Social Sciences and the Manchester China Institute celebrate the launch of ‘Pure and True: the everyday politics for China’s Hui Muslims’ the new book from Lecturer in Chinese Politics, David R. Stroup.In his ...

Experts from universities in the UK and the USA have repurposed their research activities to quickly create a system which provides a running account of atrocities taking place in Ukraine, constructed from social media accounts located in the country...

Care work, also known as “caregiving,” “domestic labour,” and “social reproduction” refers to the work of daily and generational renewal of life that is essential to sustaining societies. It is performed disproportionately by women and girls and its ...

Older people who were shielding throughout the pandemic were nearly twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to those who were not, even after accounting for loneliness and having fewer social contacts, according to researchers from...

Graeme has worked in the cultural and creative economy for nearly 40 years and is perhaps best known for being a regular DJ at Manchester’s famous Haçienda club in the late 1980s and 90s. With the club, once on Whitworth Street, long gone, the Haçien...

Member of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) at the University of Manchester, Dr Christian Schemmel, has authored a new book on Justice and Egalitarian Relations. The book has inspired a symposium on justice and equality at UCL, tak...

The University’s Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) has secured a £2.6 million follow-on award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council supplemented by £2.3 million from institutional contributio...

The pandemic has worsened pre-existing inequalities in the creative and cultural industries by causing job insecurity and financial instability among ethnically diverse people employed in the sector, according to a new report. This is particularly co...

Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field by being named Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. ...

Journalist and author of 'The Great Post Office Scandal’, Nick Wallis, joined us for the official launch of the Manchester Innocence Project with a talk detailing over ten years of his experiences following the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which s...

On Monday, 7 March 2022 the University will welcome David Wengrow FBA, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.The lecture, titled ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’ will draw on Professor Wengrow’s collaborati...

Researchers working to reduce the risk of social exclusion for older people in Greater Manchester, and to reduce the stigma of assisted reproduction in Iran have won the Sociology Public Engagement Prize.Winner - staff Chris Phillipson, with Luciana ...

Congratulations to Dr Lorenzo Ferrarini, School of Social Sciences, whose book Sonic Ethnography wins the John Collier Prize for Photography and the 2021 International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Best Book Prize.Dr Ferrarini has been widely ...

A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK....

An academic from The University of Manchester has joined the Local Government Association’s inquiry into how the Government’s levelling up agenda might better strengthen local communities. ...

On the 8th February 2022, the School of Social Sciences and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) celebrate the launch of ‘In Search of Climate Politics’ the new book from Professor of International Politics, Matthew Paterson.In his new publica...

The activities of the network will be driven by the needs and concerns of the members. It will provide focused research workshops on substantive questions within race and ethnicity, as well as career development sessions such as on recruitment interv...

Many anti-racist scholars have wrestled with the contradictions of working within a higher education system that often perpetuates social injustice. Anti-Racist Scholar Activism shows how students and academics can work within universities and other ...

Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field, by being conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. ...

In a collaboration between the University's Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and The Runnymede Trust, a new briefing has highlighted how the pandemic has impacted the UK’s ethnically diverse high streets. ...

The increase in the amount of hybrid working post-pandemic - where office-based employees work remotely for part of the week - needs to be more sustainable, according to a new study from experts based at The University of Manchester and Lancaster Uni...

A new report published today by a panel including an expert from The University of Manchester has highlighted that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, linked to the excess mortality caused by the corona...

David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, is chairing a special panel discussion on the debate around statues and public memorials in Manchester and Bristol as part of Black History Month. ...

A new report has found that men within couples have substantially more private pension wealth than women, which poses particular challenges when they divorce. ...

A new report raises concerns about the policing of the pandemic and shows that racially minoritised communities have been most harshly affected - being more likely to be stopped by the police, threatened or subject to police violence and falsely accu...