News
As you'd expect in such a large and engaging Faculty, we have lots of great, news-worthy activity.
The news feed below features news from across Humanities, with Faculty and School stories.
If you prefer you can see news specific to each of our Schools on their sites:
- Alliance Manchester Business School
- School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
- School of Law
- School of Environment, Education and Development
- School of Social Sciences
Humanities headlines
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International students - universities must lead fight against intolerance of migrants
13 Dec 2018
What happens when the president of the world’s leading superpower makes inflammatory comments about immigrants and wins an election based ...
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Multiple successes for Manchester undergrads at world’s most prestigious student awards
5 Dec 2018
Two University of Manchester students have won the highest award possible at this year’s prestigious Undergraduate Awards.
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Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’, study finds
4 Dec 2018
Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’ to cope with the stresses of constant darkness, isolation and ...
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Event discusses how to ensure Greater Manchester’s economy thrives
3 Dec 2018
Almost a year on since the UK Government published its Industrial Strategy, academics, representatives from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority ...
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New global survey highlights bribery and corruption in businesses
3 Dec 2018
While progress has been made, improvements to companies’ anti-bribery and corruption strategies are still needed, according to the 2018 Global ...
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Manchester hosts first conference for justice campaign
30 Nov 2018
The first-ever conference for the Innovation of Justice campaign, which campaigns in defence of people who have been victims of miscarriages of ...
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Theresa May could win a slice of British ethnic minority vote with tough Brexit immigration line – what my research reveals
23 Nov 2018
Theresa May has faced widespread criticism following comments to the Confederation of British Industry that EU nationals have jumped “the ...
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Manchester professor hosts dialogue between Chinese & US diplomats
19 Nov 2018
A group of Chinese and American diplomats have met in Washington, DC to discuss US-China relations, security challenges, overseas development and a ...
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University celebrates 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
19 Nov 2018
It is exactly 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in December 1948, and to kick off a month of ...
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Geras is essential reading for politics students – not a subversive threat
16 Nov 2018
Politics students at the University of Reading were reportedly told to “take care” when reading an essay by the late political theorist, ...
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Ethiopian ambassador visits university and meets scholarship students
15 Nov 2018
The Ethiopian ambassador to the United Kingdom, H.E. Dr Hailemichael Aberra Afework, has spent the day at The University of Manchester, exploring the ...
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Student tuition scheme for disadvantaged pupils is a success
8 Nov 2018
A scheme which trains students and recent graduates to give extra tuition to disadvantaged school pupils is highly effective at improving their ...
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Transformation of Greater Manchester can inspire China’s cities as they develop
6 Nov 2018
Planning experts from across the world have heard that Greater Manchester’s transformation over the last twenty years can inspire cities in ...
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Regeneration may cause isolation for older people, study finds
2 Nov 2018
A study by an academic from The University of Manchester has found that urban regeneration in poor neighbourhoods can actually backfire, and lead to ...
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People would change their consumption habits to help the climate, study finds
1 Nov 2018
A new study has found that people would change their consumption habits to help the climate - even if this would have implications for their personal ...
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Conversations are a walk in the park – communication is better outdoors, research finds
31 Oct 2018
New research has found that conversations are better in natural environments such as parks and gardens than indoors.
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Manchester expert joins national commission for countering extremism
30 Oct 2018
Professor of Sociology Hilary Pilkington has joined the expert group of the independent national Commission for Countering Extremism, which advises ...
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Equality frees women to follow traditional gender choices – or does it?
23 Oct 2018
If you want gender equality, get rich. Research shows that men and women tend to be more equal in more developed countries. You might expect that the ...
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Do some people really want to get HIV?
18 Oct 2018
Why would anybody want to get infected with HIV? That is what most people ask when they first hear about “bug chasing”. In fact, a number ...
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Olympic athlete Tommie Smith speaks, 50 years after his ‘fist of defiance’ protest
16 Oct 2018
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith stood on the medal podium alongside fellow athlete John Carlos, with their fists raised in an act of ...
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Experts call for better language provision to help non-English speakers into work
15 Oct 2018
Experts from The University of Manchester have called for better language provisions to help non-English speakers into the workplace, after their ...
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Greater Manchester universities to offer more mental health support to students
10 Oct 2018
Greater Manchester will be the first place in the country to establish a dedicated centre to help support higher education students with mental ...
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Manchester academic wins award for communicating research to the public
9 Oct 2018
Dr Joanne Catherine Jordan has won a leading award which recognises how she has successfully communicated the purpose, meaning and impact of her ...
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Independent inquiry into UK’s regional inequalities is launched
9 Oct 2018
The University of Manchester is part of a new research partnership supporting UK 2070, an independent Commission into the UK’s regional ...
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Manchester welcomes two new Fulbright US-UK exchange programme recipients
8 Oct 2018
The University of Manchester has welcomed a scholar and a student from the USA, who have come to the UK as the recipients of Fulbright Programme ...
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University’s new Creative Manchester project is officially launched
4 Oct 2018
The University of Manchester has officially launched its new Creative Manchester project, which is investing £3.3m to support its ambitious ...
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Who really identified the Skripal poisoner, and why it matters
4 Oct 2018
Where exactly does our news come from? And are those who unearth it getting fair credit? As media consumers, these are questions we should be asking ...
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Young people are the loneliest age group, according to new survey
1 Oct 2018
A nationwide survey led by The University of Manchester and BBC Radio 4 has found that 16-24 year olds experience loneliness more often and more ...
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Academic calls for more BAME representation in Northern Powerhouse
27 Sep 2018
An academic from The University of Manchester attended the Labour conference to call for BAME women to have greater representation in the Northern ...
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Diplomats reveal concerns over UK’s waning influence on UN Security Council
26 Sep 2018
At the UN General Assembly in 2017 Theresa May described the “special responsibilities” that the UK holds within the United Nations. She ...
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Egypt is building a new capital city from scratch – here’s how to avoid inequality and segregation
25 Sep 2018
Egypt is the latest country to build a new capital city from scratch, with ambitions to move parliament away from Cairo as early as summer 2019. With ...
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A relationship breakdown also damages friendships, new research finds
25 Sep 2018
A relationship breakdown can also cause the unexpected and traumatic loss of friends, new research has shown.
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Pact of Steel - book examines the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini for the first time
24 Sep 2018
A new book by a historian from The University of Manchester has examined the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini in detail for the first time, ...
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Legislation on increasing flexible working has failed, new research says
13 Sep 2018
Legislation giving employees the right to request flexible working has failed to increase take-up, new research shows.
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New generation of working parents demand a better deal on shared parental leave
12 Sep 2018
Despite widespread belief that men should be as involved as women in all aspects of childcare, they are both still largely playing traditional gender ...
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Idris Elba: isn’t it time for a black James Bond?
21 Aug 2018
A black Bond? It’s an apparently unproblematic and straightforward question, right? Well, not quite. When suggested quite quizzically by a ...
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The too hard basket: a short history of Australia’s aborted climate policies
20 Aug 2018
Less than three years ago, after Malcolm Turnbull had wrested the prime ministership from Tony Abbott, I wrote an article entitled “Carbon ...
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Golden Dawn: how the Greek far right wrote the playbook others now use to go mainstream
17 Aug 2018
Around the world it seems far-right groups can infiltrate the mainstream regardless of a given country’s political present or past. The question...
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New partnership secures funding to train 225 arts & humanities researchers
16 Aug 2018
The North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), led by The University of Manchester, is one of 10 consortia who will share more than...
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You may call me a BAME author, but this misleading term hides more than it reveals
14 Aug 2018
Apparently, I am BAME. This places me as a contender for The Guardian’s BAME awards or the Jhalak prize, both aimed at BAME writers like myself....
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Trevor Noah is right. People can be both French and African
10 Aug 2018
The afterglow of France winning the 2018 World Cup tournament on July 15 should be gone by now. But the arguments over France’s 23-man squad, ...
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UK wildfires: prevention is more than a fire service issue
10 Aug 2018
The huge moorland fires at Saddleworth and Winter Hill in northwest England have shown just how serious a problem wildfires can be in the UK. Now the ...
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Naomi hops, skips and jumps into European finals
9 Aug 2018
A student from The University of Manchester is bidding for success on one of the biggest stages in world athletics.
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Violent extremism: how communities can help counter it
1 Aug 2018
Local communities are being called upon to help prevent radicalisation. In a bid to counter violent extremism, UK home secretary Sajid Javid recently ...
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Manchester research reveals the benefits of energy efficiency investment
1 Aug 2018
Several projects at The University of Manchester’s Urban Institute are showing how improvements in the efficiency of household energy use ...
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Greater Manchester extremism commission publishes its findings
31 Jul 2018
The Greater Manchester Tackling Hateful Extremism and Promoting Social Cohesion Commission, which was set up by Mayor Andy Burnham following the ...
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University start-up company to expand its peat and heathland wildfire research efforts
26 Jul 2018
The founder of EnviroSAR, whose expertise was used as two wildfires devastated moorland areas this summer in the northwest of England, is aiming to ...
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Manchester Arena archive awarded National Lottery support
26 Jul 2018
Thousands of tributes left by the public to remember those killed or injured in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack will be preserved for the ...
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Is the ‘Zero Hour’ youth climate march a turning point, or more of the same?
20 Jul 2018
This weekend, young climate activists will march through Washington DC’s National Mall. The rally, part of the Zero Hour movement, is another ...
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Leading Manchester academic joins new Facebook commission
5 Jul 2018
Professor of Political Science Rachel Gibson has been appointed to a new commission into the influence of social media on the democratic process.
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