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2025
11
September
2025
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15:13
Europe/London
A new study by experts from The University of Manchester has revealed a major shift in Britain鈥檚 social life, as the number of bars and pubs has dropped sharply in recent years while restaurants have expanded.
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05
September
2025
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10:33
Europe/London
Registration now open! Join us to celebrate 80 Years of Occupational Health Research at the University of Manchester.The Thomas Ashton Institute and the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health are delighted to invite you to a landmark event …
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04
April
2025
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12:34
Europe/London
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - the UK鈥檚 largest funder of economic, social, behavioural and human data science - has appointed The University of Manchester鈥檚 Professor Cecilia Wong as a member of its Council.
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2024
18
July
2024
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16:45
Europe/London
Researchers at the Manchester Urban Institute and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, funded by Policy@Manchester, have released a report titled Innovation Districts as Drivers of Sustainable Urban Development: An impacts and monitoring …
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06
March
2024
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09:30
Europe/London
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 Southport for employment and opportunities. The venue officially opens its doors with a launch event at …
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20
February
2024
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15:43
Europe/London
Henrik Ernstson, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and co-authors, Ricardo Cardoso (National University of Singapore) and Jia-Ching Chen (University of California) have won the 2023 Best Article prize awarded by the …
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2021
13
September
2021
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11:31
Europe/London
Through our partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, the Institute of Data Science and AI, which delivers activity for the Data Science and AI Digital Futures theme, is hosting three ‘sandpit’ events in Autumn/Winter 2021/22.These …
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11
May
2021
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15:39
Europe/London
The report highlights a lack of transparency around public land deals and questions whether Manchester City Council is getting value for money when disposing of its land assets to private developers. The report estimates that Manchester may be …
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2020
10
November
2020
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17:04
Europe/London
Professor Stefan Bouzarovski from the Department of Geography has been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council’s Grant Assessment Panel A – covering human geography, statistics, psychology, demography and environmental …
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26
October
2020
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15:46
Europe/London
The IDC will recruit PhD students at each university to start their studies in September 2021 and will focus on the absence and presence of different types of infrastructure in cities and the relationship between infrastructure and contemporary …
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01
October
2020
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08:54
Europe/London
Researchers from the Global Development Institute have been awarded a new research contract of 拢32 million to establish the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), funded by the UK鈥檚 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as part of …
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03
August
2020
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09:55
Europe/London
The piece was co-authored by Kevin Ward, MUI Director, and Mark Davidson, Associate Professor of Urban Geography, Clark University.
The article highlights the issues faced by local governments as US cities are fast running out of cash. Likewise, …
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29
July
2020
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11:40
Europe/London
We are delighted to hear that Manchester undergraduate and graduate alumni, Jamie Peck, has been named Corresponding Fellow of the @BritishAcademy_ for his outstanding contributions to the field of economic geography.
Jamie was an undergraduate …
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10
July
2020
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12:44
Europe/London
Brian Robson OBE, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Founder of Centre for Urban Policy Studies (now the Spatial Policy Analysis Lab) at the University of Manchester, died on 5th June 2020.
We remember him in this obituary and Noel …
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03
July
2020
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13:55
Europe/London
The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st-century science buildings. In their new book, lead scientist Kostya Novoselov and architectural anthropologist Albena Yaneva …
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26
May
2020
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11:51
Europe/London
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has been awarded a grant by the Economic and Social Research Council to investigate how digital platforms are rapidly reconfiguring urban services and disrupting the way mobility systems are currently …
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11
May
2020
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12:21
Europe/London
A new initiative designed by Professor Diana Mitlin of The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute, alongside long-term collaborators SDI Kenya, is helping to address the enormous challenges of dealing with Covid-19 in informal …
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28
February
2020
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14:05
Europe/London
An independent inquiry into the UK’s severe regional inequality has said that Government must learn the lessons of the past and “think big” if it is serious about levelling up the UK economy.
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27
February
2020
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15:35
Europe/London
Awards and appointments
Stefan Bouzarovski was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the ‘UiO:Energy’ strategic priority area at the University of Oslo.
Jo Deakin has been appointed Special Advisor to a new …
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05
February
2020
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16:09
Europe/London
Read the latest coronavirus information from The University of Manchester.
The international community has come a long way in coordinating its response to new infectious disease outbreaks since SARS and MeRS, but as the current outbreak …
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2019
10
December
2019
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14:57
Europe/London
The University of Manchester alumnus and Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) Advisory Group member Jamie Peck is awarded the 2020 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Distinguished Scholarship Award.
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19
November
2019
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15:20
Europe/London
Don’t take toilets for granted. Their connection to a managed sewage disposal system protects you from diseases and infections that can stunt your growth, harm your nutrition and even kill you.
For some 670 million people, …
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05
November
2019
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09:58
Europe/London
Melbourne and Manchester Graduate Research Group invite applicants to join dual cultural PhD project
Applicants have been invited to register their interest in the cultural discovery being carried out by the Melbourne and Manchester Graduate Research Group.
The Group is an international research training group, comprised of researchers and …
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16
October
2019
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10:38
Europe/London
A new collection of nine case studies has just been published from the Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South project.
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30
September
2019
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14:24
Europe/London
Manchester was one of the ‘lighthouse cities’ under the spotlight at the Triangulum International Conference in Stavanger, Norway, last week (23-25 September 2019).
Under the banner ‘Energising Cities: Innovations, Challenges …
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18
September
2019
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16:36
Europe/London
Air quality research in Manchester has received a significant boost with the announcement of funding from two programmes, totalling nearly £2m.
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09
September
2019
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10:30
Europe/London
Professor of Geography Stefan Bouzarovski has been recognised by the European Union for his work tackling energy poverty. Stefan is one of only four UK ‘ordinary heroes’ acknowledged by the EU's 'Together We …
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16
August
2019
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15:20
Europe/London
Early-career urban scholars are invited to contact us with expressions of interest in a joint application to join MUI on one of the latest Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.
These opportunities provide …
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25
July
2019
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10:28
Europe/London
The LOOPER project is implementing interventions designed in partnership with the community to test perceptual traffic calming and aesthetic uplift along Brunswick Street in Ardwick.
These include the use of a mural and banners showcasing …
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10
June
2019
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10:55
Europe/London
Four new fellowships for MUI researchers have been announced.
Helen Zheng, Constance Smith and Tom Gillespie have all been awarded fellowships to conduct urban-related research here in Manchester, while Alexia Yates will take up a 12-month …
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