Articles tagged with 'environment-education-development' | University of Manchester

New research by experts from The University of Manchester has identified significant shortcomings in the UK’s green recovery in comparison with France and Germany, and has called for a clearer post-pandemic strategy from the Government. ...

A pioneering programme to address challenges facing young people in the post-Covid world will be offered to all secondary schools across Greater Manchester this autumn following a successful £1.2m fundraising effort by The University of Manchester. ...

New research by experts from The University of Manchester has found that the poor management of untreated wastewater and raw sewage by water companies is the main source of microplastic pollution in the UK’s rivers. ...

The report highlights a lack of transparency around public land deals and questions whether Manchester City Council is getting value for money when disposing of its land assets to private developers. The report estimates that Manchester may be paying...

This week, the UK government sought to put itself firmly in the global driver’s seat for cutting carbon. The Prime Minister announced an amazingly ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 78% from 1990 levels by 2035. This is world-le...

To mark UN Autism Awareness Day on Friday April 2, researchers are calling for the needs of autistic girls to be better supported during the transition back to secondary school after the coronavirus lockdown. ...

Experts from The University of Manchester are to lead a new project to develop motivational interviewing training for COVID-19 contact tracers, building on knowledge, expertise and best practice from the contact tracers themselves. ...

A Manchester student is set to study the impact of the arrival of high-speed broadband on one of the most remote islands in the world. ...

Two graduates from The University of Manchester who have been campaigning for nearly three years have been celebrating this week, as the Government announced it will ask the police to record crimes motivated by a person's sex or gender. ...

New research has revealed that women in India have suffered much more than men during the coronavirus pandemic, and in more ways than is usually recognised, due to pre-existing gender inequalities. ...

A new report has highlighted the barriers faced by many of the 40 percent of young people in England who miss the benchmark of grade 4 in GCSE English and Maths. It calls for system reforms which go beyond those in the Government’s recent ‘Skills for...

The 2020 award was granted to Dr Łukasz Stanek for his study Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War.The study investigates the collaboration between Eastern European architects, planners and...

On Thursday 7 January, MIE hosted an innovative online conference to discuss how teachers, schools, and colleges can take environmental action. ...

A group of experts from academic, governmental and international organisations have identified five large-scale ‘megatrends’ affecting forests and forest communities, published today in Nature Plants. These are likely to have major consequences - bot...

New research has found that the coronavirus lockdown led to dramatic changes in water consumption in England and Wales, and that some of these are likely to continue even after the pandemic. ...

Maintaining forest cover is an important natural climate solution, but new research shows that too often, communities lose out when local forest management is formalised. ...

A renowned community engagement expert from The University of Manchester is working with Natural England as they launch a national Nature Recovery Network, which it is hoped will help to deal with the challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change a...

University of Manchester graduate Robyn Skerratt has been named the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Young Planner of the Year for 2020. Robyn, who studied MPlan Town Planning and Urban Regeneration at the University in 2009/10, currently work...

The IDC will recruit PhD students at each university to start their studies in September 2021 and will focus on the absence and presence of different types of infrastructure in cities and the relationship between infrastructure and contemporary forms...

Researchers from Manchester are helping to limit the spread of coronavirus in Kenya, where the spread of the virus in informal settlements causes huge challenges for the authorities. ...

New research has found that young people who experience severe Crohn’s and Colitis symptoms are more likely to experience poor mental health, and need extra support as a result. ...

A new report has been published which calls for the Conservative government’s rhetoric around ‘levelling up’ the United Kingdom to be translated into a £375bn 25-year ‘New Deal’. ...

Researchers from the Global Development Institute have been awarded a new research contract of £32 million to establish the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as part of U...

In response to the challenges of teaching during the coronavirus pandemic, an expert from The University of Manchester has developed a new tool to help students to learn effectively online while their physical lectures and seminars are not taking pla...

These findings came in a report co-authored by Jonathan Ritson, a Research Associate at the University. With a UK target to reach net-zero by 2050, peatland restoration offers the potential to help as peatlands are capable of absorbing and storing...

An expert from The University of Manchester is leading a recovery strategy to help schools in Greater Manchester as they reopen after the coronavirus lockdown. Drawing on lessons from his previous research on educational improvement, it will address ...

A new study by The University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University has found that the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown has been an ‘emotional rollercoaster’ for teenagers, which has created many difficult and intense feelings, as well ...

We are delighted to hear that Manchester undergraduate and graduate alumni, Jamie Peck, has been named Corresponding Fellow of the @BritishAcademy_ for his outstanding contributions to the field of economic geography. Jamie was an undergraduate an...

The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st-century science buildings. In their new book, lead scientist Kostya Novoselov and architectural anthropologist Albena Yaneva demonstrate ...

Due to the mass school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been a challenging year for our PGCE Programmes with trainee placements being curtailed. However, rather than be discouraged, we’ve seen our trainee teachers step up to the challenge,...