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A major three-year project which investigated young people’s responses to conflict with authority has now published its findings in four bitesize online publications. ...

Male dominated workforces, such as in the haulage and logistics sectors, could be hardest hit by the effects of poor mental health, according to experts from The University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS). Statis...

As part of the nationwide Age of Creativity 2019 festival, Dancing with your Brain took place at Z-arts in Manchester on 29 May. The event was organised by the Body, Eyes and Movement (BEAM) lab, The University of Manchester, in collaboration ...

The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed six senior academic Fellows from universities across the UK to focus on five key areas: Rural Land Use, Food, Air Quality, Marine, and Resources and Waste. Prof Boons is he...

Three Manchester researchers have been selected among the very best researchers and innovators promising to deliver global impact. ...

Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has attended an event to mark the end of a major project which has researched the experiences of marginalised young people in ten countries across the EU. ...

A shocking report has found that the majority of ethnic minority workers have experienced racial harassment at work in the last five years, and have been subjected to unfair treatment by their employer because of their race. ...

An academic from The University of Manchester has won a 2019 Guardian University Award - which recognise the inspiring and groundbreaking projects that UK universities have worked on in the past year - for her website exploring the untold stories of ...

Over the past two years, Manchester has been leading an EU wide programme to investigate aspects of concurrent hearing, vision and cognitive impairment in older people. On 5 April we hosted an extremely successful engagement event on this topic for p...

Those researching dementia now recognize that our best chance of beating this condition is to identify it early and intervene before significant brain damage occurs. One way to achieve this is to identify people who may be at risk of developing Alzhe...

The House of Commons has voted to hold a series of indicative votes on Brexit. But what does that mean and will it solve the problem? What are indicative votes? Indicative votes are votes in which MPs are able to give their opinion on an issue ...

A consortium led by The University of Manchester has been awarded £1.36 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to establish a new digital security network. ...

The School of Social Sciences welcomes five academics recognised as Fellows of the Academy of Social Scienes (ACSS) The Academy of Social Sciences announce that it has conferred the award of Fellow on 73 leading social scientists. The Fellows a...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has moved from its two buildings in Waterloo Place to the Alliance Manchester Business School. As of mid-March 2019, staff and students have been busy settling into newly refurbished offices on the ninth...

The nomination recognises her website which explores the untold history of migration to Britain The School of Social Sciences academic, Claire Alexander has been nominated for a Guardian HE award. The award recognises the inspiring and groundbreak...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has signed up to the Greater Manchester Plastics Free Pledge (PlasticFreeGM). With the establishment of PlasticFreeGM, Greater Manchester is the first city-region to ask businesses, organisations and ind...

Professor Frank Boons takes up the role. Congratulations to Professor Frank Boons who has been appointed Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). Frank is Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at Alliance Manchester Busines...

A project co-led by the University of Manchester’s Dr Jess Gifkins, Lecturer in International Relations, has found that once the UK exits the European Union, it must work to ensure the United Nations’ confidence in the country’s influence and values ...

An evaluation of the ageing population will be up for discussion at a special event hosted by the Centre for Ageing Better in Leeds next month. The meeting will give researchers the opportunity to help shape the commissioning process and hear abou...

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...

With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change discourse and asks how can children move us beyond our current political impasse? Fifteen-year-old climate acti...

There is mounting concern that these changes will make vulnerable migrants’ access to these services more difficult, but no research had documented their real-life experiences until now. ...

MICRA collaborates with the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives A workshop bringing together early career researchers and staff from the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives with members of Manchester Institute for Collaborative...

The ESRC/NIHR neighbourhoods and dementia study was co-ordinated by The University of Manchester and aimed to explore how people living with dementia understood and interacted with the people, spaces and places in their everyday lives. The study w...

Precarious employment and pension planning studentship offered by MICRA and NEST. Studentship: 3 year, full time, fully funded PhD studentship Award: £20,009 pa tax free stipend, plus full fees (EU/Home rates) and a training grant of £750 pa ...

Case studies from 11 cities working to make their environments better places in which to grow older have been included in a major new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which looks back over a decade of action on age-friendly cities and...

SCI’s Mike Hodson and Andy McMeekin have recently been awarded an AMBS PhD Studentship that addresses the question: how are digital platform innovations reconfiguring urban mobility systems? The PhD will undertake research at the interface of inno...

A study of the differences between healthy brains and those with Alzheimer’s Disease has produced largest dataset of its type ever. ...

A project co-developed between The University of Manchester and GMMH foundation trust, is looking at how technology can be used in early identification of cognitive decline in Dementia and Mild Cognitive impairment (MCI). They are running a half day ...

The World Health Organisation report aims to provide a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade towards becoming more age-friendly and features case studies which were prepared by a team led by Tine B...