Articles tagged with 'social-science' | University of Manchester

We are delighted to announce that the School of Social Sciences has been the first school in the Faculty of Humanities to be re-accredited with an Athena Swan Bronze Award for the period of 2022-2027. This demonstrates our continued commitment to pro...

Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, Rachel Griffith, is one of six distinguished individuals set to receive an honorary degree from Keele University. Professor Griffith will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters in a ceremony t...

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)....

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....

Students at The University of Manchester will get a rare opportunity to engage in a discussion with the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an online Q&A session on Friday, 10 June 2022.The UoM Ukrainian Society, the MOBILISE research team (...

The high quality and impact of Social Statistics research has been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework. Researchers from the University of Manchester consistently make an important contribution to solving the world’s most urgent problems,...

On Tuesday, 10 May we were joined by staff, students, alumni and friends from around the world to celebrate the incredible and inspiring work of our University Community at the Making a Difference Awards 2022.The awards highlighted the extensive rang...

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...

Legal charity The Defendant and education project The Law in 60 Seconds are coming together to host the UK’s first-ever public legal education conference from  10am – 4pm on Saturday, 14 May 2022 at The University of Manchester. This event is also av...

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....

On Tuesday, 26 April 2022, the School of Social Sciences and the Manchester China Institute celebrate the launch of ‘Pure and True: the everyday politics for China’s Hui Muslims’ the new book from Lecturer in Chinese Politics, David R. Stroup.In his ...

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...

Care work, also known as “caregiving,” “domestic labour,” and “social reproduction” refers to the work of daily and generational renewal of life that is essential to sustaining societies. It is performed disproportionately by women and girls and its ...

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...

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....

Graeme has worked in the cultural and creative economy for nearly 40 years and is perhaps best known for being a regular DJ at Manchester’s famous Haçienda club in the late 1980s and 90s. With the club, once on Whitworth Street, long gone, the Haçien...

The University’s Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) has secured a £2.6 million follow-on award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council supplemented by £2.3 million from institutional contributio...

The pandemic has worsened pre-existing inequalities in the creative and cultural industries by causing job insecurity and financial instability among ethnically diverse people employed in the sector, according to a new report. This is particularly co...

Journalist and author of 'The Great Post Office Scandal’, Nick Wallis, joined us for the official launch of the Manchester Innocence Project with a talk detailing over ten years of his experiences following the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which s...

On Monday, 7 March 2022 the University will welcome David Wengrow FBA, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.The lecture, titled ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’ will draw on Professor Wengrow’s collaborati...

An academic from The University of Manchester has joined the Local Government Association’s inquiry into how the Government’s levelling up agenda might better strengthen local communities. ...

On the 8th February 2022, the School of Social Sciences and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) celebrate the launch of ‘In Search of Climate Politics’ the new book from Professor of International Politics, Matthew Paterson.In his new publica...

The activities of the network will be driven by the needs and concerns of the members. It will provide focused research workshops on substantive questions within race and ethnicity, as well as career development sessions such as on recruitment interv...

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, ...

This group entered the pandemic at a disadvantage due to pre-existing inequalities in housing, health, employment and income. Some older ethnic minority people were also particularly hard hit by lockdown and restrictions on social mixing.The ‘digital...

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. ...

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...