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  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Research
  • Impact
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Research
  • Impact
    • Combining monetary and macroprudential policies to promote macroeconomic and financial stability
    • Ethical policies and practices of internationalisation and with international students
    • New-generation Children’s Zones
    • Promoting equity in undergraduate admissions
    • Recognising wellbeing across education – supporting good practice and enrichment.
    • Sleeping on it: using history to address today’s ‘sleep crisis’
    • The everyday impacts of austerity in the UK
    • The Impact of the ‘Achievement for All’ National Evaluation Projects
    • Transforming school support for children and young people’s wellbeing
    • Supporting children’s emotional wellbeing over primary-secondary school transitions

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Our research is making positive change in societies across the world.

Drawing together expertise from the full spectrum of humanities and social sciences, we’re taking on some of the biggest challenges facing the global community.

To explore the work in some of our key research areas, use the filters below.

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  • Lit gas ring on cooker

    Combatting energy injustices

    We're tackling energy poverty across Europe.

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  • Women pushing a plough

    Creating sustainable livelihoods through group farming

    Our research shows how group farming initiatives can provide a sustainable livelihood.

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  • People singing on stage

    Creative Manchester

    Our platform for research, partnerships, and funding within the creative industries and beyond.

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  • Light grid overlaid on the Earth at night

    Digital Futures

    An interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of our digital research.

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  • Woman with head in hands sat at a table.

    Addressing workplace bullying: systems for formal intervention

    We have developed a methodology to resolve workplace bullying allegations.

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  • Person with hard hat on at the side of water.

    Changing how international policy organisations understand and manage environmental problems

    We have helped shaped global approaches to energy, decarbonisation and biodiversity loss.

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  • Electric car charging

    Changing how international policy organisations manage environmental problems

    We're focusing on sustainability transitions in energy, food, and mobility systems.

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  • Picture of Central Bank of Brazil

    Combining monetary and macroprudential policies to promote macroeconomic and financial stability

    Our research into monetary and macroprudential policies and the development of theoretical and quantitative macroeconomic models.

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  • Children round a table with a teacher

    Diversifying the history curriculum

    We're supporting schools to teach diverse histories with new resources.

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  • A hand holding a pen

    Ethical policies and practices of internationalisation and with international students

    Our research improves ethical practices with international students in higher education.

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  • Woman with fruit in a market

    Gender equality in global value chains

    We're helping organisations realise and implement gender-equitable strategies to benefit their female workforce.

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  • Women in an office

    Getting gender on the devolution agenda in Greater Manchester

    Our research has highlighted the importance and need for gender equality and diversity within policymaking in Greater Manchester.

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  • Choir and conductor

    Giving a voice to singers and cultures across the world

    Our research is supporting the professional development of natural voice singers and inspring choirs and singing networks worldwide.

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  • Blurred image of people walking in street

    Global Inequalities

    We're addressing all aspects of inequality, from poverty to social justice, and living conditions to workplace equality.

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  • Panoramic view of Providencia and Las Condes districts with Costanera Center skyscraper, Titanium Tower and Los Andes Mountain Range, Santiago de Chile

    Helping public bodies procure innovative solutions

    Our research has helped to design sustainable public procurement policies to boost productivity and address social problems.

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  • Helmet with a red cross on

    History for humanitarians

    Our research has led to changes in strategy and training in some of the largest humanitarian organisations.

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  • Two people in a filed with spades and pots

    How do we mobilise community action for nature restoration?

    We're building and maintaining strong community and stakeholder engagement in restoring post-industrial landscapes.

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  • Flooded field with gate

    How can we protect UK rural communities at risk of flooding?

    We're demonstrating that landscape restoration offers a low-cost way to reduce flood risk.

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  • Mother and child watering a plant

    How do we reduce household water demand in a water-scarce future?

    We're helping the UK government and water sector create new approaches for understanding water demand.

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  • Flooded road with road closed sign

    How can we make climate adaptation more socially just?

    We're highlighting how we can support socially vulnerable and climate-disadvantaged communities.

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  • Men looking at high tech machine.

    Improved software and service systems that deliver sales and efficiency

    Systems that enable companies to collaborate on complex manufacturing activities are vital.

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  • Street traffic blurred in motion at evening

    Improving development policy to deliver inclusive growth and reduce poverty

    Our research into the politics of development encouraged the UK government to launch inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction programmes that have impacted the lives of more than one million people.

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  • People getting medical care.

    Improving extended access to primary care in Greater Manchester

    Our researchers evaluated two NHS schemes that provided 7-day access to GP services.

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  • Multinational people of near a shipping container.

    Influencing employment policies to promote inclusive labour markets

    We have undertaken extensive comparative analyses of interventions that promote inclusive labour.

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  • People sat round a table.

    Improving public policies on health and wellbeing in an ageing workforce

    Our research has had a major impact at policy level nationally.

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  • Man spray painting a car

    Influencing innovation in small and medium sized enterprises in Manchester

    Research by our academics has significantly benefitted two SMEs.

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  • Volunteers litter picking.

    Mobilising and managing spontaneous volunteers during national and international emergencies, including COVID-19

    Our research has informed and improved responses to UK and international emergencies.

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  • Tall buildings in a cityscape

    Mobilising Urban Living Labs to create sustainable infrastructure

    We've transformed sustainable infrastructure provision at a local and global level.

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  • Group Of Elementary School Pupils Running In Playground

    New-generation Children’s Zones

    Supporting schools and their partners to implement long-term sustainable change in disadvantaged areas.

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  • Student sat at a desk, writing in a notebook

    Promoting Equity in Undergraduate Admissions

    Changing how young people apply for higher education courses.

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  • Woman with fruit in a market

    Promoting inclusive labour markets

    We're providing an evidence base to inform employment debates and policies.

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  • An image of children seated in a green space.

    Recognising wellbeing across education – supporting good practice and enrichment.

    Improve access to outdoor and green spaces that inspire physical activity, support wellbeing and a connection with nature.

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  • Festival flags

    Reducing the environmental impact of festivalgoers

    We're helping Glastonbury Festival reduce waste via education and behavioural change initiatives.

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  • Portrait of woman with dreadlocks hair

    Reframing gender, arts policy and writer development in contemporary society

    The University's Centre for New Writing is developing new writers, informing arts policy and enriching national conversations about identity.

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  • Peatlands with sky

    Restoring peatlands for carbon storage

    We're showing how the UK's upland peatlands can be restored to assist the fight against climate change.

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  • People in an office

    Shaping strategies to prevent domestic abuse

    Our research has been used to shape interventions for male offenders who use violenceagainst partners and has also contributed to domestic abuse policy reform in the UK.

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  • Harvesting season. Lavender bouquets. Lavender bouquets are drying.

    Sleeping on it: using history to address today’s ‘sleep crisis’

    We're working with the National Trust to encourage healthy sleep.

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  • Building with a tower.

    Stimulating innovation through the public procurement of innovation

    We have helped influence international policy and produced a unique framework towards innovation.

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  • Elderly lady checking a bill

    Spotlighting energy poverty in the private rented sector

    We're bringing to light essential data that will help inform future energy policies across Europe.

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  • Manchester logo

    Supporting children’s emotional wellbeing over primary-secondary school transitions

    The project will develop the first robust, sensitive, and standardised scale to assess children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of primary-secondary school transitions.

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  • Climate Just logo on a map

    Supporting planners to understand social and spatial vulnerability to climate change

    We've developed a tool to illustrate the impacts of climate change on different communities.

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  • Close up of a bee on a purple flower

    Sustainable Futures

    We're producing integrated and truly sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.

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  • Fitness watch on a wrist

    Tackling cardiovascular disease

    We're helping to extend life expectancy and improve public health.

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  • Deserted Highstreet

    The everyday impacts of austerity in the UK

    Researchers worked with families and communities to learn about the impacts of austerity policies on real people and their social relationships.

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  • Buildings in Wales with a wrecked boat in front.

    The foundational economy

    We helped refocus Welsh government policy around essential services and sectors.

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  • An image of a classroom

    The Impact of the ‘Achievement for All’ National Evaluation Projects

    Aiming to improve academic and social outcomes of pupils.

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  • Two young children in a learning environment.

    Transforming school support for children and young people’s wellbeing

    We're transforming the way that schools identify, monitor, and provide support for their pupils' mental health.

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  • Manor house in the countryside

    Using historical research to increase visitor engagement at the National Trust

    Our research into the Industrial Revolution inspired a major reinterpretation project at the National Trust site Quarry Bank, centred on bringing the experiences of its former workers to life.

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Policy insight

Humanities experts share their policy ambitions in a series of blogs. 

Visit the Policy@Manchester blog The policy blog

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