Articles tagged with 'humanities' | University of Manchester

A medical aid charity based at The University of Manchester has been awarded special status by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and will now be part of a global ‘on-call’ system for responding to the increasing number of large disasters and war z...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute has announced the winners, runners up and commended entries of their ‘Words For Your World’ School Writing Competition, in partnership with UK-Med and Save the Children UK.The competition asked seconda...

Energy sector academics, experts, practitioners, decision-makers, advocates and business sector representatives from all across the world are attending the 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, hosted by The University of ...

Around 2 million people aged 65 and older live in poverty in the UK, and many are struggling with the growing cost of living crisis....

An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the most promising science and research leaders in the country by being awarded a coveted Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)....

The RBOC N+, Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities is a new network of researchers, institutions and industry partners working on forecasting how cities and their systems will deal in 2051 with resilience to security threats. The network brings tog...

Students from The University of Manchester have been able to pose questions directly to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a live question and answer session....

A new partnership between the University of Salford, the University of Manchester and IntoUniversity - the UK’s largest university-access charity - has been announced which will see The Beacon Centre in Salford become a learning centre for students a...

Liverpool against Real Madrid in the Champions League final is a fixture for football fans to savour – two giants battling it out for one of the most prized trophies in the game. And regardless of the result, some will also see this match as a win fo...

Researchers based at The University of Manchester are set to begin a study that will examine the effects of a school-based life skills programme after being awarded with £800k of funding by Norway’s Kavli Trust. ...

Colleagues and alumni were recognised in the Community Engagement and Environmental Sustainability categories.The work of the Global Development Institutes researchers and alumni was recognised at The University of Manchester’s Making a Difference aw...

A new study measuring the impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing and mental health of adolescents has found that the pandemic has made them more depressed and less satisfied with their lives....

The deadline to enter the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute’s “Words For Your World” school writing competition is now closed and winners will be notified by the 27th May. The competition received over 100 entries, from across the country,...

The Nuffield Foundation, on Wednesday, 4 May, released an independent evaluation of the Q-Step Programme. Currently Q-Step operates in 17 universities across the UK, including the University of Manchester, and was established in 2013 as a strategic r...

A member of staff from The University of Manchester has completed a marathon cycling challenge, raising over £3000 for UK-Med’s Ukraine Appeal in the process....

Professor Tony Redmond has been honoured with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Pride of Manchester Awards, in recognition of a career spent providing crucial medical care to those most in need all over the world....

On 18 May 2022, to celebrate the launch of the British Pop Archive, Creative Manchester will be hosting a roundtable discussion with David Olusoga OBE and broadcasting vanguards to explore the past, present, and future landscape of British TV....

Broadcaster Kylie Pentelow and producer Lucy McDaid have partnered with the University's Manchester Innocence Project to launch a new true crime podcast that explores wrongful convictions....

Researchers from The University of Manchester and University of Navarra have examined the value of politically connected firm directors to the Chinese elite, in terms of getting preferential access to resources....

Experts from universities in the UK and the USA have repurposed their research activities to quickly create a system which provides a running account of atrocities taking place in Ukraine, constructed from social media accounts located in the country...

The British Pop Archive (BPA), a national collection dedicated to the preservation and research of popular culture, is set to open at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library....

The University of Manchester has provided free places on its Masters in Educational Leadership in Practice programme to a group of 15 Afghani refugee women, supporting them in their ambition to set up schools, colleges and nurseries for Afghani refug...

A Festival of Latin American Anti-Racist and Decolonial Art will be hosted by Contact Theatre in Manchester later this month (23 April 2022) launching a major new online exhibition. The festival will feature visual art, performance art and talks by L...

Older people who were shielding throughout the pandemic were nearly twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to those who were not, even after accounting for loneliness and having fewer social contacts, according to researchers from...

Three experts from Greater Manchester have each been named by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of their 2022 New Generation Thinkers, which recognises them as some of the UK’s most promising and exciting early ca...

A member of staff from The University of Manchester is set to cycle around the entire circumference of The Netherlands – 1400km in total – to raise funds for UK-Med’s Ukraine Appeal....

The Government needs to decentralise the UK’s decision-making structures and invest in skills if it is to achieve its ‘levelling up’ ambitions, according to a new publication from The University of Manchester....

The University of Manchester is part of a new £1.25M project working to develop a more diverse energy research community, ensuring energy research draws upon the expertise of academics from all backgrounds....

A charity that supports individuals or communities affected by war, violence or oppression which began as a research project at The University of Manchester has won a major award....

Tanya Seghatchian could be taking home a coveted statuette for Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, bringing Oscar gold tantalisingly close to the unique MA Screenwriting course she co-established at The University of Manchester. Seghatchian is o...