University of Manchester - Archive (geography)
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2018
03
October
2018
Researchers from The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University have launched a fascinating new book which uses maps and plans to outline the history of one the world's most iconic cities.
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26
September
2018
A group of researchers have discovered the retreat of an ancient ice sheet from the western coast of Canada occurred earlier than previously thought.
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25
September
2018
Egypt is the latest country to build a new capital city from scratch, with ambitions to move parliament away from Cairo as early as summer 2019. With nearly 24m people living in Greater Metropolitan Cairo, the current Egyptian capital suffers from se...
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18
July
2018
The first major restoration project of the Carbon Landscape - a £3.2 million programme to restore former industrial landscapes in the North West - has been officially opened near Warrington.
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15
March
2018
The social injustices experienced by women in the creative industries have been brought to the world’s attention by the high profile #MeToo and Time’s Up campaigns. While issues of race have also been highlighted in the discussion of labour inequalit...
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12
March
2018
Researchers from The University of Manchester are calling for tighter regulations on waste flowing into urban waterways, after the first study of its kind found that microplastics from urban river channels are a major contributor to the pollution pro...
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29
January
2018
An innovative new project which aims to examine energy poverty in Europe, and measures to combat it, has been launched at a major event in Brussels.
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2017
06
December
2017
A Geography lecturer from The University of Manchester has won the inaugural Jo Cox Prize for Public Service and Active Citizenship, to recognise the positive impacts of her research.
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02
November
2017
An innovative £1.2m project led The University of Manchester aims to demonstrate that landscape restoration could be a low-cost way to reduce the risk of flash flooding in rural communities near steep upland streams and rivers.
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03
October
2017
New international research led by The University of Manchester has highlighted that learning from previous periods of climate change is essential if we are to understand the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to global warming.
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29
September
2017
A multi-million pound project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund has been launched to restore areas in the North West transformed by heavy industries like coal mining, peat extraction and iron & steel production.
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17
July
2017
Work to protect the iconic moorland of the Peak District and South Pennines is having a positive and statistically significant effect on the environment, research recently launched by The University of Manchester and the Moors for the Future Partners...
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10
March
2017
Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett has visited The University of Manchester, to speak at a launch event for the Manchester Urban Institute.
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2015
02
September
2015
Research presented to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference today looks at the argument for backing larger city regions in the north.
In seeking to develop a credible intellectual and political case for a Gr...
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17
August
2015
Geographer maps repeated attempts to bring cross-city monorail and tube travel to Manchester
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29
July
2015
Dr Jonathan Darling is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and is an expert on migration, asylum and immigration at The University of Manchester and is available for interview about the Calais migrant crisis.
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13
July
2015
A student who overcame a debilitating illness has not only recovered to graduate but has done so well that his dissertation has formed the basis of a scientific study and has been published in an academic journal.
Ben Gibson, from Ilkley, Yorkshir...
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16
June
2015
Researchers have updated a map of the UK that pinpoints tornado hotspots for the first time in two decades.
Although most people think of twisters striking ‘Tornado Alley’ in the US, the UK actually has more tornadoes per area than any other count...
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2014
24
December
2014
Researchers at The University of Manchester have identified Doncaster as being the most positive city in the UK about Christmas, whilst Oxford is the most negative.
Marco Smolla and Jamie Soul, from the Faculty of Life Sciences, captured and analy...
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03
December
2014
A unique 17th century map of Lancashire recently found in The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library has been placed on public display for the first time.
This cartographic treasure, hand drawn by the Elizabethan Herald William Smith, is ...
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03
December
2014
New online profiler from Manchester's Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity measures education, employment, health and housing inequalities between ethnic minorities and White British residents in every area of England and Wales
The lives of ethnic mino...
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12
November
2014
Research on the 2011 Census, carried out by the Centre on Dynamics and Ethnicity at Manchester, found that 47% of mixed ethnicity groups in Wales claimed a Welsh only identity, compared to 37% of Scots counterparts.
New research on the 2011 Census...
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2013
05
December
2013
Whereas ‘pants’-wearing Northerners enjoy a ‘bap’, ‘bun’ or ‘barm’ for their ’tea’, Southerners in ‘trousers’ are more likely to tuck into a ‘roll’ for their ‘dinner’, find language researchers at The University of Manchester.
A survey of 1400 Eng...
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01
October
2013
Eight reports spanning 40 years of what planners wanted and often failed to do in Manchester have been made available to the public, in the first project of its kind in the UK.
The plans, which can be viewed at www.mappingmanchester.org/plans, cov...
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14
August
2013
Manchester is the UK’s language capital, according to researchers at The University of Manchester.
The team based at the University’s Multilingual Manchester project say there could be up to 200 languages spoken by long-term residents in the Great...
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2012
14
December
2012
Over 300 historical maps spanning 200 years of Mancunian history have been digitised and published online by The University of Manchester Library.
The collection of maps and plans of the city from the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century...
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13
March
2012
A mysterious space underneath Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre has been identified as the initial stages of a long forgotten underground railway through the city centre.
According to Dr Martin Dodge from The University of Manchester and Richar...
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2010
12
May
2010
Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island.
Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has...
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27
January
2010
A team of geographers from The University of Manchester have discovered a group of glaciers in one of Europe's most inhospitable places.
Drs Philip Hughes, Jeff Blackford and PhD student Rose Wilkinson, from the University’s Quaternary Environment...
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2009
26
August
2009
A map showing the route that Soviet tanks would have taken during an invasion of Manchester forms part of a display at an international conference this week.
The map - one of 80 in an exhibition at The University of Manchester's John Rylands Libra...
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