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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...

To address this gap, Professor Dan Brockington of the University of Sheffield and Dr Nicola Banks of The University of Manchester set out to map and understand the UK’s development sector. Their research produced new insights that show a sector th...

An international team of geographers has found indications that the climate we have in Europe today began 5000 years ago, hidden in the shells of mussel shrimps. ...

Partners across the city-region have signed a multi-million-pound European contract for a project which looks to develop innovative ways of financing natural solutions to deliver resilience to increasingly extreme climate hazards. The project, the...

Professor Noel Castree, Director of Research for the School of Environment, Education and Development and a Professor of Geography, has been named as one of two recipients of the Taylor and Francis Lifetime Achievement Award by Routledge and CRC Pres...

A new project has repaired, photographed and shared online forgotten maps of Manchester’s slums, which had been overlooked for the last 130 years. ...

A Manchester academic is to receive an award for his significant contributions to scientific literature. Professor Noel Castree, Director of Research for the School of Environment, Education and Development and a Professor of Geography, has been n...

A selection of Manchester Urban Institute papers, talks and external engagement from February and March 2019. Awards Tanja Bastia has taken up a Leverhulme Fellowship as of 1 February 2019 for 16 months to research ageing and migration in Boliv...

A first call for papers for the Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures International Conference has been made by the Urbanisation, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network (GenUrb) research project at York University, Toronto....

A team including researchers from The University of Manchester has created the world’s first ever rating system for working conditions in the digital economy. ...

  At the heart of the current US trade war with China is tariffs on imports like steel, sorghum and silicon chips. But, with the growing role of data and digital technology in the world economy, a new arena of digital trade conflict is on the card...

One of the largest meat processors in the UK, supplying supermarkets across the country with beef, pork, and lamb, has launched a plant-based meat alternative. ABP is the first UK meat producer to do so and its decision marks a significant shift for ...

A paper by Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) colleagues has been included in Oxford University Press's list of its most cited articles from the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Mythic Manchester: Devo Manc, the Northern Powerhouse...

Work has started on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKRIC) Manchester Urban Observatory following a workshop in September 2018. Urban observatories enable...

Bangladesh has been a development success story in recent years. The country made remarkable progress in poverty alleviation prior to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015 and has over performed on multiple social indicators, such as...

The UK needs to demonstrate its added value to the United Nations and adopt a principled and values-driven foreign policy if it is to maintain its current influence after it leaves the EU, according to a report released by the United Nations Associat...

This week NERC announced awards for eight two-year research projects with two based in MUI. Two colleagues from the Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) have each been awarded over £320,000 funding for two-year research projects placing human-environm...

Urban platforms and the future city: Transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge, and everyday life Digital platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Google are transforming how we shop, connect, and organise information. But we are also w...

Many people aspire to improve their lives through gaining promotion at work, new qualifications or starting a new career. However, research by academics from The University of Manchester and the University of Bath has found that broad regional accent...

Kevin Ward and Ian Mell have both been awarded funding from the new UoM-UofT joint research fund. The University of Manchester and the University of Toronto are contributing matching funds to support collaborative research initiatives through a jo...

Henrik joined The University of Manchester in 2018, as Lecturer in Geography having previously held positions at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. This 'spotlight on...' piece was recently published by the Faculty of Humanit...

Here is a selection of papers, talks and external engagement from the weeks before and since the festive break. Awards Ian Mell has been awarded funding from the University of Manchester and University of Toronto research fund on 'Co-producin...

A restoration scheme on the hills of the Peak District has the potential to reduce the level of flood risk to the towns and villages below, according to researchers. ...

Could your research interests inform the decarbonisation of Greater Manchester? Join us for lunch and explore opportunities to collaborate with UoM colleagues and GMCA. The decarbonisation of the energy system remains a national priority. While mu...