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

In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile, resource-rich states ...

Prof Khalid Nadvi has taken up the role of Managing Director of the Global Development Institute. Khalid follows on from Diana Mitlin who completed her term at the end of August. David Hulme, who was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list, cover...

The poet Michael Rosen has joined forces with the British Psychological Society (BPS) to make the case for stopping the erosion of school playtime. ...

Lukasz Stanek has received a research grant from the Canadian Centre for Architecture, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to work on the project Africanisation of Ghanaian Architecture. In 2018 the Canadian Centre for Architecture launched...

The University of Manchester alumnus and Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) Advisory Group member Jamie Peck is awarded the 2020 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Distinguished Scholarship Award.  ...

The first class of the Global Development Institute (GDI) Merit Scholars graduate as part of the winter 2019 graduating class. The students were chosen from over 2,700 applicants and joined the GDI in September 2018 from Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana.  ...

Stephen Walker’s project 'Putting the Body of Manchester on Display' has received funding from the JRRI Digital Humanities grant to run from September 2019 to July 2020. The project uses GIS mapping alongside the University of Manchester’s Map Col...

Dr Deljana Iossifova has been awarded funding under the Royal Society’s Challenge-led Grants Scheme to lead research on Sustainable Sanitation in India and Brazil (TOSSIB, £499,993 FEC). The project runs from 2019 to 2022. TOSSIB (Towards Susta...

MARG's Dr Deljana Iossifova has been awarded funding under the international scheme Towards a Sustainable Earth (UKRI, NSFC and JST) for the project ‘A Systems Approach to Sustainable Sanitation Challenges in Urbanising China’ (SASSI, £519,880 FEC). ...

A new study has shown that the UK is one of the main countries threatening biodiversity loss overseas through its demand for renewable energy. ...

Experts are calling for Greater Manchester’s leaders to commit to more ‘inclusive growth’ - economic prosperity that creates opportunities and benefits for all citizens - in a new report. ...

A festival of ideas at The University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute is set to lay down a marker for sustainability research in the next decade. ...

First published in The Conversation on 31 October 2019. Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to infrastructure development plans from the African Development Bank and the Initi...

Manchester was one of the ‘lighthouse cities’ under the spotlight at the Triangulum International Conference in Stavanger, Norway, last week (23-25 September 2019). Under the banner ‘Energising Cities: Innovations, Challenges and Solutions’, the E...

Labour have voted on plans to abolish private schools by removing their charitable status and redistributing their wealth to the state sector. At the party’s conference delegates approved a motion for this to be included in the party’s next general e...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and the University of Cape Town have embarked on a project to find out what happens to the people who rely on rubbish for their livelihoods when governments in developing countries strive to grow their ec...

A new guide for teachers about how to support children in developing their social and emotional skills has been released to every primary school in England, based on research by academics at The University of Manchester. ...

Professor of Geography Stefan Bouzarovski has been recognised by the European Union for his work tackling energy poverty. Stefan is one of only four UK ‘ordinary heroes’ acknowledged by the EU's 'Together We Protect' campaign, which highlights indivi...

Early-career urban scholars are invited to contact us with expressions of interest in a joint application to join MUI on one of the latest Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. These opportunities provide promising earl...

The Global Development Institute has three new Global Challenges Research fund (GCRF) Post-Doctoral Fellows who will be based at the Institute over the next year. The fellowships provide career development opportunities for those at a relatively earl...

GDI Merit Scholar Kwame Kwarteng has taken up his role as General Secretary of The University of Manchester Students’ Union. He was elected as General Secretary in March and took up the post in July. Kwame is the first international student to be ...

Summer is the time of music festivals - and a new study published in the scientific journal Geoforum has suggested that they offer an opportunity for people to try out more sustainable lifestyles. ...

The LOOPER project is implementing interventions designed in partnership with the community to test perceptual traffic calming and aesthetic uplift along Brunswick Street in Ardwick. These include the use of a mural and banners showcasing communit...

A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers. Meat substitutes in supermarkets lacked variety and quality. Plant-based burgers were few and far between in major fast food outlets – and meaty th...

What a difference a year makes. This time in 2018, the long hot summer was weeks away. Saddleworth Moor was not yet on fire. Greta Thunberg’s climate strike had not begun, let alone brought millions onto the streets. The IPCC’s 1.5 degree report had ...

Veganism is arguably the biggest food trend of the moment. This has led to a massive expansion of meat-free brands and own-label offerings. In fact, the UK is now the nation with the highest number of vegan food products launched. And with major news...

Four new fellowships for MUI researchers have been announced. Helen Zheng, Constance Smith and Tom Gillespie have all been awarded fellowships to conduct urban-related research here in Manchester, while Alexia Yates will take up a 12-month residen...

A selection of papers, talks and external engagement from recent weeks. Awards Stefan Bouzarovski has been appointed to the European selection jury of the social innovation partnership to tackle energy poverty. The partnership is run by Ashoka ...

Professor Cecilia Wong from the Manchester Urban Institute is part of a partnership that has been awarded £6.6m by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) to tackle unhealthy urban planning and development linked to non-communicable diseases (...

Since the news broke of his passing, Bob Hawke has been feted as the “environmental prime minister”. From saving the Franklin River, to protecting Antarctica from mining, conservationists have praised his environmental legacy in the same way economis...