Articles tagged with 'awards-and-honours' | University of Manchester

Colleagues and alumni were recognised in the Community Engagement and Environmental Sustainability categories.The work of the Global Development Institutes researchers and alumni was recognised at The University of Manchester’s Making a Difference aw...

The University of Manchester has held its annual Making a Difference awards ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate the incredibly inspiring work of its staff, students and alumni....

Professor Tony Redmond has been honoured with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Pride of Manchester Awards, in recognition of a career spent providing crucial medical care to those most in need all over the world....

Three experts from Greater Manchester have each been named by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of their 2022 New Generation Thinkers, which recognises them as some of the UK’s most promising and exciting early ca...

The ACM Turing Award, which is often referred to as “The Nobel Prize of Computer Science,” and comes with a $1 million cash prize, funded by Google has been awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra for “pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and ...

A charity that supports individuals or communities affected by war, violence or oppression which began as a research project at The University of Manchester has won a major award....

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...

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. ...

A thought-provoking book exploring the world of bog bodies – human remains naturally mummified in peat and wetlands – by a Manchester expert has been named as 2022’s Book of the Year in the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards. ...

The University of Manchester has been recognised for its continued commitment to inclusion of lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer/questioning people in the workplace by being named 22nd in Stonewall’s 2022 list of the top 100 employers for LGBTQ+ peopl...

Congratulations to Banji Adewumi, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), who has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours....

Aerospace Systems Lecturer, Dr Ciara McGrath, has been named the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year. ...

The British Academy has awarded their 2021 President’s Medal to broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences. ...

The University of Manchester is celebrating three award winners in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the annual Institute of Physics awards. ...

The University of Manchester is celebrating winning three awards at the North West Regional Construction Awards. Competing against many regional nominees, Jodrell Bank and Manchester Museum were among the award winners at a ceremony in Liverpool. ...

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. ...

Three individuals and four teams from The University of Manchester have won prestigious prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today. ...

Professor Nigel Scrutton, who heads up the EPSRC-funded UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub and the BBSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre “SYNBIOCHEM”, has been appointed to the UKRI-BBSRC council for a term of three years. ...

Callum Kidd, Discipline Head of Education for Engineering and Project Management within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, has become the first person within the UK to receive a teaching excellence award from one of the world’s largest professio...

Four experts from The University of Manchester have received Future Leaders Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and will share part of a £109 million funding pot to help their research into tackling major challenges ranging from cardi...

Eleven scientists from The University of Manchester have been honoured with major awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry. ...

Our Chancellor Lemn Sissay has sent an invitation to our whole University community and beyond to our Making a Difference Awards for Social Responsibility 2020 ...

The first nine Stephen Hawking Fellows, announced today, will continue Professor Stephen Hawking’s legacy by furthering our understanding of the universe and communicating the wonders of science to the public. ...

Two students from The University of Manchester have won the highest award possible at this year’s prestigious Undergraduate Awards in Dublin, Ireland. ...

Entrepreneur and investor Sherry Coutu delivered The University of Manchester’s most prestigious annual Foundation Day lecture. She was then awarded an honorary doctorate, alongside Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, Vincent Kompany, and Lord Jim O’Ne...

The University of Manchester reaches its highest ever position in the latest global rankings.  ...

A University of Manchester School of Social Sciences graduate has been named an Outstanding Alumni Award winner for her humanitarian work. Rebecca Dykes, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in Social Anthropology, dedicated her life to improving t...

An alumna of The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures has been given an Outstanding Alumni Award for her disability advocacy work. The Outstanding Alumni Awards are presented annually to alumni of The University for th...

Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire has been named as the UK’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...

A first-year engineering student has finished ahead of thousands of others to be named as an undergraduate of the year in a national competition, winning a full summer internship with a major engineering firm. ...