2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Doing it for Laura: celebrating Laura’s life by supporting neuroscience research
The parents of Laura Nuttall, an inspirational alumna who died of brain cancer in May 2023, have made a generous gift of £20,000 in memory of their incredibly special daughter. Mark and Nicola Nuttall have donated £20,000 in Laura’s name to the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre. This innovative partnership between The University of Manchester, Read More…
Inspiring Manchester People: Jean McFarlane
2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Inspiring Manchester People: Alan Turing
2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Meet our student fundraisers
It’s coming up to a very exciting time! Over the next few weeks, our amazing student fundraising team will be taking to the phones to chat to Manchester alumni across the UK and USA. This month, our amazing team of student fundraisers will be taking to the phones to chat to Manchester alumni just like Read More…
Inspiring Manchester People: Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Access and Student Success: Impact Report
Ensuring equality of opportunity for all students is a key part of the University’s Student Success Strategy. To show how we are working towards this goal, we are pleased to share our newest Access and Student Success Impact Report for 2022. The report, prepared by our Access and Student Success team, illustrates the range Read More…
Our campus: then and now
The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single site University, with a campus spanning 229 buildings all across the city! With over 200 years of history behind our institution, you can imagine that there have been many changes to the look and feel of our campus over the years. Many of the University’s historic Read More…
What ‘World First’ will you make possible?
The University of Manchester is known for ground-breaking firsts, from being England’s first civic university, to splitting the atom and the discovery of graphene. But every single first would not be possible without you, our students and the alumni that dedicate their time, talent, and vision to creating a better world. In 1874 Edward Langworthy Read More…
Around the city: my favourite places
Every year students from all over the UK and beyond, come to study at The University of Manchester. For most students, this will be their first real opportunity to explore the city and see what makes it such a fantastic place to live, work and study. This year over 350 undergraduate students have enrolled at Read More…