News, information and events for your Manchester student life
Professor Duncan Ivison will formally take up his role as President & Vice-Chancellor on 1 August 2024. In this blog, he reflects on visiting Manchester in March 2024 and meeting our community. It has been an exciting time for me since the announcement of my appointment as the incoming President and Vice-Chancellor to succeed the…
Join us at a birthday celebration like no other as we mark our bicentenary with 150+ events! We’re excited to share the first, major line-up announcement for Universally Manchester Festival, celebrating 200 years of The University of Manchester. This free festival promises four incredible days of imaginative and immersive events taking place across campus, and…
As you head into the last leg of your final year, chances are you’ll have started to think about what comes next. If you’re unsure about a ‘career’ following graduation and aren’t excited by the prospect of a 9-5 just yet, then further study might be for you. But there’s a lot to consider when…
by Lucie Magniant It’s that time of the semester post-Easter and pre-summer when focusing on lectures can start to feel a bit trickier than usual. There have been many times when opening a tab to Pinterest just seems a bit more entertaining than the powerpoint. No average human being can maintain perfect focus for 2+…
Are you working towards your Stellify award and looking for a new volunteering opportunity in Manchester? Well look no further. In partnership with Manchester City Council and the Flexible Learning Programme, a new student volunteering opportunity is available to support digitally excluded people in Manchester. You’ll have the flexibility to either volunteer in-person or online and receive training to…
Talking energy and climate change: “We don’t have hundreds of years to sort this out” In the latest Talk 200 podcast episode, Andy Spinoza is joined by Professor Alice Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in The University of Manchester’s School of Engineering; Dr Aneeqa Khan of the University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, and…
In response to recent advances with AI, Jisc have added an additional question set and resources on ‘Digital skills in AI and generative AI’ to the Discovery tool to help you self-assess and develop your knowledge of AI. How do I access the Discovery tool? You can access the tool via the library’s My Learning Essentials. …
Summer graduation ceremonies will take place in Whitworth Hall from Monday, 8 July to Friday, 19 July 2024, and the schedule of ceremonies is now live on the Graduation website. If you are graduating this summer, you can now view the date and time of your ceremony to help you plan and start making arrangements.…
We are hosting an online open meeting in partnership with our Students’ Union to give you the opportunity to put questions about freedom of speech on campus to the elected SU Exec Officers and senior University leaders. The meeting will take place on Monday 8 April from 12pm-1pm via Microsoft Teams. Membership of the panel…
We recognise the unease and concern that some members of our University community have felt in recent weeks, following the affiliation of the Pro-Life Society at the Students’ Union. Our Students’ Union has a legal duty to approve a society if it is not breaking the law, as they have laid out in an extensive…
The University of Manchester and our Students’ Union are united in our position that we will not tolerate any forms of discrimination or harassment. We are deeply disturbed to see antisemitic graffiti appear within the Students’ Union toilets. It was removed immediately and has been reported to the Police. Anyone we can identify who has…
On Wednesday 28 February, Robbie Beale, Activities and Cultures Officer at the Students’ Union, hosted an open meeting to discuss the visa-check in process and put your questions to senior University leaders. You can watch the meeting in full below: It was announced in the meeting that the current visa check-in process will be scrapped…
Applications to be part of the bicentenary festival, Universally Manchester Festival are open until 22 March 2024. This flagship event of our 200th celebrations offers a unique platform to reach a diverse audience here in Manchester and beyond, whether that’s raising awareness of climate change research through dance, providing a sneak peek into the world…
Pictured above from left to right is Nazir Afzal OBE, Chancellor, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, and Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor. Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, launched The University of Manchester’s new Talk 200 series on 13 February with a lecture on health inequalities. Our…
You might know a bit about Manchester’s LGBTQ+ historical figures already, you would have definitely heard about Alan Turing and Emmeline Pankhurst, but you might not know about Henry Stokes and Allan Horsfall. If you’d like to know more about where you can find out about Manchester’s rich history, here are five places you can get…