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

The University of Manchester has been awarded a Platinum Watermark award by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), which recognises universities’ engagement with the public. Manchester is only the second university to be suc...

The University is the second UK university to be awarded a Silver Race Equality Charter award.

The University of Manchester’s Professor Jackie Carter has been named as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK, working to break the stigma around disability to create a more accessible and inclusive world for all. ​​​​​​​ ...

An Optometry team from The University of Manchester has been awarded the University’s first-ever Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence by Advance HE, alongside two academics who have received National Teaching Fellowships in recognition of thei...

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...

Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has won The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023. 

The University is the only institution in the world to rank in the top 10 in every year the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings have existed.

The career of Manchester alumna Meera Syal was recognised by BAFTA on Sunday night, as she was given their highest Fellowship award at their glittering ceremony in London.

Three outstanding University of Manchester academics have been honoured among eighty researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world who have been elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of scienc...

University of Manchester Professor, David Olusoga OBE will be presented with a BAFTA Special Award at the forthcoming BAFTA Television Awards for outstanding contribution to television.

Professor Rahul Nair has been appointed as the Carlsberg/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Membranes for Sustainable Separation Technology.

The University of Manchester has retained its position as the most targeted university by the UK’s top 100 recruiters, according to a report compiled by High Fliers Research.

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. ...

Dr Penny Trayner  has been named as one of 50 women innovators to be awarded the Women in Innovation Award 2023 from Innovate UK, the government’s innovation agency, on International Women’s Day....

The University of Manchester has been rated 30th of all employers in the country in the latest Stonewall Top 100 Employers list, which is compiled from the Workplace Equality Index – the UK’s leading benchmarking tool for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the work...

A new Knight and a Dame are among the University of Manchester people recognised in the New Year Honours, the first to be granted by King Charles III.

A team who led the research for a world-first genetic test that could save the hearing of hundreds of babies each year, has won the New Statesman Positive Impact in Healthcare Award 2022.

The University of Manchester has bagged a prestigious openness award for its pioneering work on communicating animal research to the public.

Professor David Gadd of The University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences is among the finalists for the prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ...

The University of Manchester’s partnership with National Grid is one of six exceptional industry-academic collaborations shortlisted by The Royal Academy of Engineering and WMG at the University of Warwick for the second annual Bhattacharyya Award.  ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Manchester has been selected by the Mather Institute as the Gold Award recipient of their 2022 Innovative Research on Aging Awards.

University of Manchester mathematics student, Jesy Luyengi was part of 22 students who were recognised at the fourth annual Student Social Mobility Awards for defying the odds to achieve outstanding success as they prepare for life after university....

Two University of Manchester engineers, Professors Caroline Jay and Aline Miller, have been honoured with inclusion in the Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) for their stellar contributions and impact in engineering....

An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the most promising science and research leaders in the country by being awarded a coveted Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)....

Three scientists from The University of Manchester have been awarded with prestigious prizes by The Royal Society of Chemistry for their research. Professors Sarah Haigh, Jason Micklefield and Chris Hardacre have all been honoured and will each recei...

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 ...