Articles tagged with 'humanities' | University of Manchester

Mental health has hit the headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic as the impact of lockdowns, strains on healthcare services and fear of the virus itself have created a toxic mix which has both exacerbated existing disorders, and provoked them in othe...

Poor water quality in English rivers is the result of chronic underinvestment and multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement, a report from the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has claimed....

Our fantastic Humanities colleagues have done great things once again this year, despite the ongoing coronavirus situation. Here are some of the most popular and interesting news releases from the faculty in 2021 - enjoy! ...

FeaturedCreative Manchester and the Centre for New Writing recently concluded the Novel Voices 2 series. Each of the five online events saw Senior Research Fellow Ellah P Wakatama in conversation with talented debut authors, exploring their craft and...

A group of student volunteers from The University of Manchester have planted over 100 trees in a bid to help fight the planet’s climate and biodiversity crises. ...

The Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, led by the universities of York and Leeds, is the first of its kind to study how vulnerabilities - such as exploitation by county lines drug networks, online child sexual exploitation, domestic ...

With projects on preventing cuckooing, disrupting domestic abuse, recording honour based violence, and identifying victims of coercive control, all four projects have the potential to reduce harm to some of the most vulnerable people in the UK.The N8...

DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) is a programme initiated by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).Data has been fundamental to the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the UK moves out of the critical phase and into recovery, ...

The University of Manchester has launched a national climate writing competition for young people in the aftermath of the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow. ...

The British Academy has awarded their 2021 President’s Medal to broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences. ...

Greater Manchester’s #BeeWell programme has now seen more than 20,000 wellbeing surveys completed by young people across the city region. ...

Dr Tanja Bastia, Global Development Institute, and colleagues Dr Erika Busse Cárdenas and Dr María Calderón Muñoz, recently ran a photography competition to document the voices and images of migrants living in Latin America through the Covid-19 pande...

A £7 million project led by experts at The University of Manchester is to develop a pioneering digital hub, which will provide easy access to an extensive range of the UK’s environmental data. ...

To coincide with the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, experts from Manchester have warned that the humanitarian aid sector is unprepared for the escalating crises caused by climate change – leaving them unable to provide support to the growing millio...

Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field, by being conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. ...

Black Professional Women in England face an almost impenetrable ‘concrete ceiling’ when it comes to career progression, according to from The University of Manchester and Lancaster University. ...

We are delighted to invite you to apply to the ARC Accelerator - a comprehensive entrepreneurial skills training programme. Launching on 1 February 2022, this unique opportunity is specifically designed to help turn your bright idea into a business o...

New research has discovered that there is a high risk that the emotional and psychological impact of the pandemic on nurses and other healthcare professionals will lead to an exodus of staff. ...

Research published by The University of Manchester and the Canal & River Trust has shown that the presence of canal water can cool urban areas by up to 1.6°C during heatwaves in a 100-metre-wide corridor along the waterway. ...

A new report from The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, UK-Med and Save the Children is calling for the climate emergency to be treated as a humanitarian crisis. ...

In a collaboration between the University's Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and The Runnymede Trust, a new briefing has highlighted how the pandemic has impacted the UK’s ethnically diverse high streets. ...

To mark International School Library Month, new research has been released which highlights that the diversity of the UK’s population is not currently reflected by school library books, which leaves BAME children feeling underrepresented and can affe...

The increase in the amount of hybrid working post-pandemic - where office-based employees work remotely for part of the week - needs to be more sustainable, according to a new study from experts based at The University of Manchester and Lancaster Uni...

A new report by The Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) has revealed the vital importance of working to reduce the UK’s overall energy demand in order to meet the UK’s net-zero target by 2050 – as well as the health, lifestyle an...

A new report published today by a panel including an expert from The University of Manchester has highlighted that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, linked to the excess mortality caused by the corona...

Dr Matthew Tyce has been awarded the prestigious Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for 2020. ...

David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, is chairing a special panel discussion on the debate around statues and public memorials in Manchester and Bristol as part of Black History Month. ...

A free online event is being held which will bring together academics, policymakers and community activists and organisations to draw attention to how faith in Islam influences the lifestyles of Muslims to care for the environment. ...

Britain’s birth rates are plunging. The number of babies being born has been in steep decline since 2017. Now, researchers are investigating early signs that the pandemic may have caused rates to drop even further. ...

The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will have distributed 1.425 billion vaccine doses ...