Global inequalities
Dedicated researchers working across our three Faculties.
Interdisciplinary research institutes.
Academics researching in areas relating to Sustainable Development Goal 10, reducing inequalities.
A wellbeing measurement and improvement framework for secondary schools in Greater Manchester.
Tackling racial bias and the lack of diversity within the UK judiciary system.
Tackling complex problems in the continent’s rapidly changing cities through the African Cities Consortium.
Understanding the changing nature of forest cover and human development at an unprecedented scale and detail.
Exploring austerity and socio-political ruptures to family, employment and housing biographies across Europe.
Challenging the use and criminalisation of rap in the criminal justice system.
Investigating and analysing the impact of artistic responses to displacement and refugeedom.
Understanding how trade is changing in Africa and the impact this has on businesses, standards and working conditions.
Fighting inequalities and changing lives at home and abroad
Across the world, and in our own city of Manchester, inequalities exist across food, healthcare, infrastructure and resources. Our researchers are dedicated to exploring the roots of inequality and co-creating sustainable solutions across its many aspects, from poverty to social justice, living conditions and equality in the workplace.
We bring together the best minds in medicine, business, law, social sciences and the arts to listen, collaborate and help to change the lives of communities at home and worldwide. Our approach involves actively engaging with and listening to communities, working together to instigate positive transformations in the lives of people both locally and globally.
Our research covers
Exploring and understanding how a person’s identity from age, to gender, race, disability and LGBTQ+ status, can determine experiences of inequality. Through research we look to tackle these inequalities within and between groups.
Research addressing how environmental factors, including healthcare systems, access to resources, food insecurity, cost of living, education, history and memory, shape the inequalities people face.
Examining the factors that prevent people from participating in decisions that affect their lives and creating solutions through arts and culture, listening, collaborating and changing policy.
Conducting research that is rooted in experience and tied to practical solutions that make a real difference such as training, capacity building and support for policymakers and practitioners working to alleviate inequalities.
Key institutes
Global Development Institute
- Driving forward new ideas to promote sustainable development and social justice for all.
Work and Equalities Institute
- Identifying and promoting the conditions required for more inclusive and fair employment and work arrangements.
Manchester Urban Institute
Creating more inclusive and just cities that are environmentally and socially sustainable for current and future generations.
Sustainable Consumption Institute
- Responding to multiple sustainability challenges, from climate change and resource scarcity to social inequality and environmental injustice.
Events
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Monthly Team Research Reading Group
27 May - 29 July 2025,
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Teamwork and Collaboration Principles for Successful Research training workshop
10 July 2025, 9.45am-3.45pm
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