News
Find out what's been happening in the School of Environment, Education and Development.
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Hope and optimism on the rise among young people
15 Mar 2024
Latest #BeeWell data presents a much-needed good news story for young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
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Transformational gift set to redefine global development research for the 21st century at University of Manchester
12 Mar 2024
The Global Development Institute (GDI) at The University of Manchester has received a further transformational donation of £2 million from the Rory ...
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The Engine Room opens in Southport, providing creatives a valuable resource
6 Mar 2024
Situated in a heritage shopping arcade, The Engine Room is a co-working and co-learning space designed to counter the trend of creatives leaving ...
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Women’s safety: housing and intersecting crises in Manchester
4 Mar 2024
In May 2023, members of the Manchester Urban Institute Feminist Collective hosted the event “Women’s Safety: Housing and intersecting crises in ...
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Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education
4 Mar 2024
Generative AI is an emerging interdisciplinary area which will have wide-ranging impacts on everyday life, especially education. To tackle global ...
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Inaugural lecture by Deljana Iossifova, Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies
4 Mar 2024
On Wednesday 28 February, the School of Environment, Education and Development and guests celebrated the appointment to professorship of Deljana ...
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Inaugural lecture by Steven Courtney, Professor of Sociology of Education Leadership
4 Mar 2024
On Wednesday 28 February, the School of Environment, Education and Development and guests celebrated the appointment to professorship of Steven ...
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Dr Vaidehi Tandel, Lecturer at the University of Manchester, was interviewed for a new documentary on the water mafia in Indian cities
28 Feb 2024
Dr Vaidehi Tandel features in a new documentary taking an inside look at India's vast black market for water. 'Water Mafia' produced by Vice Studios ...
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Henrik Ernstson and his co-authors have won the 2023 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research prize for Best Article
20 Feb 2024
Henrik Ernstson, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and co-authors, Ricardo Cardoso (National University of Singapore) and ...
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Trees can make farms more sustainable – here’s how to help farmers plant more
8 Feb 2024
Imagine making one change to a farm field so that as well as producing food, it also generated building materials, fuel and fodder. At the same time, ...
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Autism crisis sees thousands of children wait years for support, report finds
7 Feb 2024
A new report has revealed a crisis in children’s autism assessment, warning that thousands of autistic children and young people are waiting months ...
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Self-employment Week: Monday 19 - Thursday, 22 February 2024
5 Feb 2024
Join MEC, in collaboration with UoM Careers, for Self-employment Week.
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PitchIt! – A student societies’ entrepreneurship competition
5 Feb 2024
Applications are now open for the PitchIt! competition. Elevate your society's impact with up to £1250 in funding!
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In memoriam - Dr Wiesam Essa
26 Jan 2024
We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dr Wiesam Essa, of Al-Aqsa University in Palestine who was recently a Visiting Fellow of The University...
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University awarded £23.5m to lead delivery of educational psychology training
24 Jan 2024
The University of Manchester has been awarded over £23.5m by the government’s Department for Education (DfE) to lead a national consortium of eight...
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Celebrating the graduation of our 2023 Equity and Merit scholars
21 Dec 2023
This year’s Winter Graduation saw more of our Equity and Merit Scholarship students receive their awards and celebrate their academic ...
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Billions have been raised to restore forests with little success - here’s the missing ingredient
8 Dec 2023
Protecting and restoring forests is one of the cheapest and most effective options for mitigating the carbon emissions heating Earth.
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#BeeWell working to improve wellbeing as latest international life satisfaction scores are released
6 Dec 2023
17,000 year 10 students across Greater Manchester have completed the #BeeWell survey this autumn, in addition to 73,000 completed surveys since 2021. ...
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Venture Further Awards 2024 – Information Session 14th December
4 Dec 2023
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) are pleased to announce that the Venture Further Awards Competition is now open!
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PhD Researcher at the GDI Wins Prestigious Entrepreneurial Prize
27 Nov 2023
Mariana C. Hernández, a first-year PhD student at the Global Development Institute, has been awarded first place in the social category of the IDEAS...
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Global Entrepreneurship Week - a Resounding Success
20 Nov 2023
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) is thrilled to announce the resounding success of the most recent Global Entrepreneurship Week.
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TEPL Research and Scholarship Group updates on first year
17 Nov 2023
One year on, we are delighted that as a group we are making headway in achieving our aims: To bring together a wide array of researchers, scholars ...
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Report into Parliamentary Art Collections presented at Westminster
17 Nov 2023
Dr Saskia Warren, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, presented the findings of her report ‘Our Parliamentary Art Collection: New Directions for ...
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PhD graduate receives prestigious Peruvian Association of Architects award
16 Nov 2023
Dr. Jessica S. Pineda Zumaran, a PhD graduate from The University of Manchester, has been recognised with an award for Outstanding Contribution as a ...
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University of Manchester research informs European Commission Recommendation on energy poverty
14 Nov 2023
The European Commission has published a report drawing on evidence from The University of Manchester, which advises member states on how to take to ...
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Masood Entrepreneurship Centre presents Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023
10 Nov 2023
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) is hosting a series of events in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week - 13th -17th November.
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Cost of living crisis disproportionately impacting older ethnic minority people
10 Nov 2023
A new report from researchers at The University of Manchester, the Manchester BME Network and the Centre for Ageing Better says that the cost of ...
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African Cities Research Consortium starts new research pilot projects
9 Nov 2023
The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) based at The University of Manchester is commencing pilot action research projects in four African ...
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Call for COP28 discussions to address the destruction of non-forest regions
9 Nov 2023
An international team of over 40 researchers is calling for COP28 discussions to address the destruction of non-forest regions, as featured in Nature...
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Manchester researchers secure £2 million to establish how satellite and drone data can support socially just conservation
2 Nov 2023
Advances in Earth Observation (EO) are transforming how we understand and respond to the global biodiversity crisis but are also creating urgent ...
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University of Manchester academics named UKRI Policy Fellowships
30 Oct 2023
Four University of Manchester academics have received funding to work across several government departments as part of the UK Research and Innovation...
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Experts create model of Royal Albert Hall for their archive collection
24 Oct 2023
A model of the Royal Albert Hall produced by The University of Manchester’s modelmaking workshop B.15 has been added to the Hall’s new £1m ...
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Hidden histories: new exhibition seeks to unpack Manchester's colonial legacies
12 Oct 2023
The University of Manchester has launched a new exhibition exploring the social and environmental legacies of North West England’s cotton industry,...
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Children do better at school if their fathers read and play with them
20 Sep 2023
Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a new report ...
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#BeeWell survey of young people’s wellbeing returns for third year
20 Sep 2023
The #BeeWell survey - designed as a gold standard survey for the measurement of adolescent wellbeing across England - has returned to Greater ...
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Kick off your entrepreneurial journey with the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
15 Sep 2023
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre welcomes you to the 23/24 academic year.
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Exhibition to showcase Manchester Ship Canal's fascinating advertising archive
6 Sep 2023
A new exhibition at Manchester Central Library is set to showcase visually striking adverts created by commercial artists in the twentieth century to ...
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Walls along River Nile reveal ancient form of hydraulic engineering
13 Jun 2023
An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these massive ‘river ...
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Experts call for teacher training changes to create more inclusive curriculum
25 May 2023
A new briefing from The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Runnymede Trust has highlighted the need to ...
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Peace in Sudan depends on justice for the Darfur genocide
24 May 2023
I asked the pilot to deviate from our approved flight path and go low over Darfur. It was 2003 and I was the United Nations Humanitarian and Resident ...
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New funding to help communities address the root causes of climate change and ecological crisis
16 May 2023
With the world vastly off-track and heading towards runaway climate change, how do we work with others to make a difference in our homes, local ...
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Manchester School of Architecture ranked 5th in the world
23 Mar 2023
Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) has been named as one of the top five architecture schools in the QS World Subject Rankings 2023.
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Persistent inequalities in young people’s wellbeing revealed by #BeeWell survey
23 Mar 2023
The latest #BeeWell survey demonstrates that while the wellbeing of young people across Greater Manchester has remained stable over the past two ...
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Manchester student looks to provide relief in Malawi after cyclone hits country
16 Mar 2023
A student from The University of Manchester is looking to provide relief for people in Malawi, by raising money for two charities working to deliver ...
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To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but water firms won’t tell us
23 Feb 2023
UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They ...
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Low emission energy systems can create water conflict without smart design
26 Jan 2023
A new study published today in Nature Sustainability has found that using hydropower dams to generate low emission energy can cause problems for other...
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New resource to help educators teach young people about climate change
23 Jan 2023
A beautifully-illustrated new resource has been launched which seeks to help teachers to address climate change in their classrooms using real-world ...
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The UK needs a national energy advice service
17 Jan 2023
The UK government recently launched “It all adds up”, a campaign aimed at providing “simple, low or no-cost actions that households can take to ...
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Groundbreaking new analytical framework can provide economic benefits for Nile countries
9 Jan 2023
New research led by The University of Manchester has developed unique river basin modelling software which, for the first time, combines reservoir ...
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Antarctic glaciers formed 30 million years earlier than previously thought
5 Jan 2023
A new study has revealed that glaciers formed in the highest mountains of Antarctica at least 60 million years ago, which is 30 million years earlier ...
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