This year brought many achievements for the Department of Criminology, including welcoming new faculty, reaching teaching milestones, securing research grants, and receiving prestigious awards. As we enter a new academic year, we celebrate these triu...
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The UK Data Service and Social Statistics staff co-led two data user conferences with the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Work and Pensions, NatCen and University College London. For more information see:Health Studies User Confere...
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The DVD collection remains in the Muriel Stott space in the Main Library. There are two designated spaces for viewing which have been created there. Students and staff can book these spaces via Resource Booker, choosing either Study Space 16 - Viewin...
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Opening at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on 20 September 2023, the ‘Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building of a University’ exhibition explores how profits from slave trading, ownership of enslaved people, and manufacturing ...
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Advanced Medical Biomaterials student Liam Johnson recently completed a fellowship with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, which culminated in a paper he authored being published in the House of Commons Library and distributed to the...
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The UK Data Service is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s UK Data Service Dissertation Award. The award celebrates undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the UK Data Service. The winners were:Ais...
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The Library is here to support your learning throughout your University experience. We provide students with access to resources like books, journals and databases, training to help you succeed in your studies, and spaces to study when you're on camp...
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Social Statistics staff led a session on children’s wellbeing for researchers and policy makers at the Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference. The event highlighted research on: School Readiness, Covid-19 and the impact on wellbeing and attainme...
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Social Statistics and UK Data Service staff recently presented new research at the World Statistics Congress. Professor Carter spoke about the importance of data literacy and the value of work placements. Dr. Vanessa Higgins discussed the UK Data Ser...
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To add to a growing list of recognition for the writer, performance artist and producer, Keisha has been awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Drama department at the University of Manchester.The fellowship recognises the outstanding contrib...
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This year, we received a record 33 entries from various Schools across the University covering a diverse range of topics.The entries were considered by Neil Humphrey, Associate Dean: Research in the Faculty of Humanities, together with a representati...
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Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful image analysis technique used in the field of materials science and engineering to study the mechanical behaviour and deformation of complex 3D structures. ...
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In a pioneering application of operando spectroscopy, researchers at The University of Manchester at Harwell (UoMaH), in collaboration colleagues at Diamond Light Source, University College London, University of Sheffield, and colleagues in the Depar...
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Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) 2023 will take place 7-22 October, featuring a programme of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature.The University of Manchester is proud to be the Festival’s official Higher Education Partne...
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Charlotte is bilingual in English and Mandarin, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. Her academic career started as a Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding at Nottingham Trent University. Charlotte later worked in various commercia...
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This article explores a backlash against the net zero greenhouse gas emissions target within the UK. It introduces the term “anti-net zero populism” to analyse ideological and opportunistic counter-movements working to undermine climate policy. It bu...
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This academic year will see SALC host a new research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: ‘Beyond Radical: Queer Theory and the UK’.A diverse body of scholarship that has developed over more than 30 years, ‘queer theory’ has pr...
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The University of Manchester's Law & Technology Initiative (MLaTI) has played a role in propelling legal innovation to new heights through its unique academic-industry platform since launch in 2018. In July we hosted the 2nd full-day conference bring...
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A team from the universities have been excavating at Arthur's Stone in Herefordshire, and continue to make exciting discoveries at the site, believed to date to 3700BC. Professor Julian Thomas, Director of Archaeology at the University of Manchester,...
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The Manchester City of Literature Schools Writing Trail took place 1-15 June 2023 in six Manchester City Centre venues - including The University of Manchester campus in the Samuel Alexander Building’s glass corridor exhibition space.The trail – over...
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The postdoc will work with Dr Cornelia Lawson and Professor Philip Shapira at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research on the project “Innovations in the Lab: Leveraging Transformations in Science”, sponsored by the UoM Faculty of Humanities Large...
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Written by Andrew Lockhart, Simon Marvin and Aidan WhileClimate/ecological breakdown and automation are two defining challenges of the current era, yet there is little research on their conjunctural intersection. Across experimental landscapes from a...
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The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) is pleased to be a partner on a four-year coordination and support action grant from the European Commission’ Horizon Europe programme for the Era-Learn project consortium. Titled 'Strengthening...
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Jingwen Zhang from Social Statistics at the University of Manchester recently presented her research at the British Gerontology Conference. The research examines ageing and internal migration in China. The research found that not only current migrati...
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In response to the cyber incident the University has carried out a controlled shutdown of MyManchester, and this has impacted the way you will submit your thesis. The eThesis and PGR teams are taking action to minimise the amount of disruption this c...
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Arcube and Etihad extend their partnership for new NFT collection and Staking-for-miles pilot for NFT holders.
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The “AI for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy” (AI4STIP) EU-SPRI Early Career Researcher Winter School is now inviting applications from current doctoral students and eligible postdocs (3 years from PhD award).AI4STIP will consider the impli...
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One of the students of the BA Criminology short dissertation pathway has received one of the three UK Data Service Dissertation Awards 2023. These awards celebrate undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the UK...
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All Reading List material has been removed and added to our collection at Main Library. If you have any books currently on loan, please return them to Main Library on or before their due date.The space formerly occupied by Braddick will now be used a...
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A panel of judges including former University Chancellor and poet Lemn Sissay, Creative Manchester Director and Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe and Manchester-based poet and critic Maryam Hessavi, gathered to judge this year’s Micropoetry Competit...
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