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Event to examine how British Muslims are involved in environmental issues
24 Sep 2021
A free online event is being held which will bring together academics, policymakers and community activists and organisations to draw attention to how...
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‘I don’t think I can cope financially’ – the people putting off parenthood because of austerity
23 Sep 2021
Britain’s birth rates are plunging. The number of babies being born has been in steep decline since 2017. Now, researchers are investigating early ...
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Covax misses its 2021 delivery target – what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?
23 Sep 2021
The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in ...
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Greater Manchester celebrates young people’s wellbeing on #BeeWell Day
23 Sep 2021
Schools and youth organisations across Greater Manchester will take part today in the first ever #BeeWell Day, with a series of creative, active and ...
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Manchester revealed as a ‘Northern Humanitarian Powerhouse’
17 Sep 2021
Greater Manchester humanitarian organisations benefited the lives of more than five million of the world’s most vulnerable people in 2020, it has ...
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Pension inequality a major issue when couples divorce, research finds
15 Sep 2021
A new report has found that men within couples have substantially more private pension wealth than women, which poses particular challenges when they ...
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SALC: Connect, Engage, Inspire
14 Sep 2021
Featured Manchester City of Literature celebrated Greater Manchester's 133 libraries with a Festival of Libraries from Wednesday 9 June to Sunday ...
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Remembering 9/11 - Manchester professor launches new work to mark 20th anniversary
9 Sep 2021
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 ...
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Manchester researchers to attend COP26 negotiations
31 Aug 2021
Nine researchers from the University will attend the Blue Zone at COP26, the UN Climate Change summit, to observe the negotiations that will be ...
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Remembering 9/11: A composer's journey
31 Aug 2021
When Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone joined the University of Manchester's music department in 1999, he could ...
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Poetry Competition's winning micropoems featured in exhibition at the Geological Society
31 Aug 2021
This year's Micropoetry competition was themed around the 2021 'Year of Space', and presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with ...
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Low-income drivers being punished by tax rules, study finds
25 Aug 2021
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 ...
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“Quite unsuitable for females” – 100 years since women’s football ban
23 Aug 2021
2021 marks 100 years since the Football Association banned women’s football in England - to mark the anniversary, an expert from The University of ...
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Archaeologists reveal origins of famous Stone Age monument
10 Aug 2021
Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone ...
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Manchester students help to preserve Marcus Rashford mural tributes
9 Aug 2021
Students from The University of Manchester have been involved in a project to catalogue and preserve tributes left on the Marcus Rashford mural in ...
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Research to assess woodland restoration alongside rivers to combat climate change
7 Aug 2021
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...
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Poorest twice as likely to feel lonely in lockdown compared to richest
28 Jul 2021
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 ...
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New research reveals challenges faced by older people during pandemic
12 Jul 2021
A new report launched today by The University of Manchester’s Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has revealed the challenged ...
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New artwork explores the 'uncertain futures' of women over 50 post-Covid
10 Jul 2021
A new collaborative artwork has been launched at Manchester Art Gallery, which aims to explore the futures of women in work in Greater Manchester ...
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Project launches to combat modern slavery and human trafficking in Greater Manchester
10 Jul 2021
A new project has been launched which aims to help Greater Manchester’s authorities to combat the problem of modern slavery, human trafficking and ...
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The UK’s green recovery falls well short of its European counterparts
5 Jul 2021
New research by experts from The University of Manchester has identified significant shortcomings in the UK’s green recovery in comparison with ...
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Virtual celebrations for the class of 2021
2 Jul 2021
This summer, The University of Manchester will be holding virtual celebrations for its graduating students, to celebrate the successful completion of...
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Call for ‘critical conversation’ about statues in the context of Black Lives Matter
2 Jul 2021
A new briefing paper on cultural activism, which challenges the government’s ‘punitive’ response to contesting statutes in the wake of the Black...
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Simon Industrial Fellowship awarded to Duncan Craig, OBE
25 Jun 2021
Since 2009, the charity Survivors Manchester has worked in five prisons in the North West to break the silence of the sexual abuse, rape and sexual ...
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New guide launched to help challenge Covid conspiracy theories
18 Jun 2021
A new guide has been launched to help science communicators to have conversations with individuals who buy into coronavirus conspiracy theories.
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Winners of international photography competition announced in China
11 Jun 2021
Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester recently staged an awards ceremony in China for this year’s International Photography ...
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Boris Johnson lockdown scepticism was out of step with wider public - but not Tory voters
10 Jun 2021
New British Election Study research from experts based at The University of Manchester and Royal Holloway shows that while Boris Johnson’s ...
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Events taking place to mark 200 years of The Guardian newspaper
8 Jun 2021
The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In a series of ...
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Volunteers sought for Humphry Davy notebook project
8 Jun 2021
A new project to uncover previously unpublished material from the early nineteenth century’s ‘foremost man of science’ launched online on ...
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Manchester academic recognised as one of UK’s leading female data science professionals
20 May 2021
An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the nation’s leading female data science professionals, after being ...
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Pioneering partnership launched to boost regional innovation
20 May 2021
A pioneering partnership has been launched which seeks to boost regional innovation and jobs. It will work with local authorities ...
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Greater Manchester-wide #BeeWell to launch in autumn after £1.2m funding raised
13 May 2021
A pioneering programme to address challenges facing young people in the post-Covid world will be offered to all secondary schools across Greater ...
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Water companies are main cause of microplastic pollution in UK’s rivers
13 May 2021
New research by experts from The University of Manchester has found that the poor management of untreated wastewater and raw sewage by water companies...
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COVID lockdowns exacerbated racist policing in the UK, say experts
11 May 2021
The nationwide coronavirus lockdowns and enhancement of police powers have disproportionately harmed communities of colour, according to a new ...
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Researchers question Council land sales in Manchester
11 May 2021
The report highlights a lack of transparency around public land deals and questions whether Manchester City Council is getting value for money when ...
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Experts call for action to be taken to tackle the UK’s digital divide
11 May 2021
The University of Manchester has released a major new publication in which leading academics call for urgent actions to be taken to tackle the ...
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Vulnerable older people at greater risk of depression and anxiety during pandemic
5 May 2021
Older people who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 are at greater risk of deterioration in health and social well-being during the pandemic, ...
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Greater Manchester Police teams up with university for interactive workshops about sexual assault
30 Apr 2021
The University of Manchester has teamed up with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to fund a series of thought-provoking interactive theatre performances...
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The UK and the UN SDGs: Make or Break Time
23 Apr 2021
This week, the UK government sought to put itself firmly in the global driver’s seat for cutting carbon. The Prime Minister announced an amazingly ...
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Call for autistic girls to be supported in post-covid return to school
1 Apr 2021
To mark UN Autism Awareness Day on Friday April 2, researchers are calling for the needs of autistic girls to be better supported during the ...
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Commission sets out recommendations to tackle inequality in Greater Manchester
29 Mar 2021
An independent commission involving two experts from The University of Manchester has set out a range of measures for tackling inequality and ...
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Call for Government to close ethnicity data gap exacerbated by Covid-19
26 Mar 2021
The Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) is calling on the Government to urgently tackle the ethnicity data gap amid spiralling inequalities ...
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Manchester experts lead new project to develop training for COVID-19 contact tracers
25 Mar 2021
Experts from The University of Manchester are to lead a new project to develop motivational interviewing training for COVID-19 contact tracers, ...
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Manchester experts conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
24 Mar 2021
Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field, after they were conferred the award of Fellow ...
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Bridging the Informational Divide: High-Speed Broadband Comes to St Helena
24 Mar 2021
A Manchester student is set to study the impact of the arrival of high-speed broadband on one of the most remote islands in the world.
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Manchester graduate campaign leads to hate crime recording changes
22 Mar 2021
Two graduates from The University of Manchester who have been campaigning for nearly three years have been celebrating this week, as the Government ...
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Airbnb is funding deregulation campaigns in cities around the world
22 Mar 2021
New research has found that online home rental marketplace Airbnb is funding deregulation campaigns in hundreds of cities around the world, as it ...
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Greater Manchester Young Persons Wellbeing Programme - announcement of initial coalition of partners
10 Mar 2021
The Greater Manchester Young Persons Wellbeing Programme (GMYPWP) is delighted to announce the first thirty members of its coalition of partners.
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Royal ‘love letters’ revealed as evidence of an unwelcome pursuit
8 Mar 2021
A series of newly transcribed letters between the then-future George IV and his family’s sub-governess Mary Hamilton have shed fresh light on their ...
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Participating in engagement schemes significantly improves young people’s wellbeing
23 Feb 2021
New research by an expert from The University of Manchester has shown that taking part in youth engagement schemes like National Citizen Service can ...
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