Articles tagged with 'humanities' | University of Manchester

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 ...

Schools and youth organisations across Greater Manchester will take part today in the first ever #BeeWell Day, with a series of creative, active and online events celebrating young people’s wellbeing. ...

Greater Manchester humanitarian organisations benefited the lives of more than five million of the world’s most vulnerable people in 2020, it has been revealed. ...

A new report has found that men within couples have substantially more private pension wealth than women, which poses particular challenges when they divorce. ...

FeaturedManchester City of Literature celebrated Greater Manchester's 133 libraries with a Festival of Libraries from Wednesday 9 June to Sunday 13 June. Creative Manchester hosted a number of events at the festival, including the Research and Librar...

A professor from The University of Manchester is launching a new music composition on Saturday to mark the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the day passenger aircraft were hijacked in the USA and flown into targets including New York's Twin Towers. ...

Nine researchers from the University will attend the Blue Zone at COP26, the UN Climate Change summit, to observe the negotiations that will be fundamental to securing the future of our planet. ...

A report by an expert from The University of Manchester has found that low-income drivers are effectively being charged more than double (212%) per mile to subsidise more wealthy road users. ...

2021 marks 100 years since the Football Association banned women’s football in England - to mark the anniversary, an expert from The University of Manchester has published work which describes how women fought to earn the right to play before the ban...

Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments. ...

Students from The University of Manchester have been involved in a project to catalogue and preserve tributes left on the Marcus Rashford mural in Withington, after thousands of people had covered over offensive graffiti with positive messages. ...

A research project led by The University of Manchester is set to assess the potential of woodland restoration along England’s rivers and streams, as part of a £10.5 million programme to help trees and woodlands adapt to climate change and enable the ...

Older people in the poorest sector of the population were more than twice as likely to feel isolated and lonely during the first lockdown than the richest, according to a new study led by researchers from The University of Manchester and UCL. ...

A new report launched today by The University of Manchester’s Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has revealed the challenged faced during the coronavirus pandemic by people aged 50 and over, especially those living in deprived are...

A new collaborative artwork has been launched at Manchester Art Gallery, which aims to explore the futures of women in work in Greater Manchester after the coronavirus pandemic. ...

A new project has been launched which aims to help Greater Manchester’s authorities to combat the problem of modern slavery, human trafficking and exploitation. ...

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 new briefing paper on cultural activism, which challenges the government’s ‘punitive’ response to contesting statutes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, has been published by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) in partnershi...

A new guide has been launched to help science communicators to have conversations with individuals who buy into coronavirus conspiracy theories. ...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester recently staged an awards ceremony in China for this year’s International Photography Competition, which marked the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with the city of Wuhan. ...

New British Election Study research from experts based at The University of Manchester and Royal Holloway shows that while Boris Johnson’s scepticism about coronavirus lockdowns was out of step with the views of the wider British public, it was large...

The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In a series of livestreamed talks to mark the paper’s bicentenary, panels of special guests and experts have been invited ...

A new project to uncover previously unpublished material from the early nineteenth century’s ‘foremost man of science’ launched online on 29 June, and the organisers are seeking volunteers to help. ...

An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the nation’s leading female data science professionals, after being named as one of Women in Data UK’s ‘20 in 20’. ...

A pioneering partnership has been launched which seeks to boost regional innovation and jobs. It will work with local authorities to engage inventive companies in developing and deploying new services, with the shared goal of investing public procure...

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 nationwide coronavirus lockdowns and enhancement of police powers have disproportionately harmed communities of colour, according to a new briefing paper by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at The University of Manchester. ...

The University of Manchester has released a major new publication in which leading academics call for urgent actions to be taken to tackle the increasing digital divide in the UK. ...