It can be messy. It’s often unglamorous. But that’s where lasting change happens.
The Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub shows how co-design, shared leadership and trust with teachers can transform science and engineering education.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OW...
Congrats University Challenge Winners!!
WINNERS 🏆💜
We couldn’t be prouder of our incredible team for winning University Challenge!
This win marks a special milestone. With five victories, we’re the most successful university in the history of the competition, joint with Imperial College London.
Well done team 👏🏆
In response to growing UK wildfire risk, researchers at The University of Manchester brought together ecologists, hydrologists, remote-sensing experts, modellers, fire services and land managers to co-produce new tools to assess fire behaviour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYTu...
#ShapedTogether
Community-led research shows traditional charity grants often fall short. One World Together uses a trust-based approach by pooling small monthly donations into long-term, adaptable funding to boost community agency.
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/research/imp...
For Professor Rob Bristow and partners in Kenya, impact began with listening, not importing a UK model. Together, they co‑created a mobile screening approach for oesophageal cancer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4X...
C3 Biotech’s story shows how collaboration between researchers and industry can drive commercially viable and environmentally sustainable innovation at scale.
Find out more: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/imp...
How do you turn cutting-edge research into something industry can actually use?
By integrating research and business perspectives in tight-knit collaboration from day one.
#ShapedTogether
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6A6...
Careloop is a digital platform grounded in evidence, trust and partnership – helping to shift care from crisis response to prevention, with national NHS (@england.nhs.uk) and international pilots now underway.
Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/imp...
Severe mental illness care can’t wait for a crisis.
CareLoop delivers preventative, human-centred care, designed with people who have lived experience and backed by clinical psychology, psychiatry, data science and NHS partnerships.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=So6M...
#ResearchImpact #ShapedTogether
Super proud that to finally be able to share this. We really wanted to spotlight the relationships, teamwork and effort that often underpin #researchimpact and talk about it in ways that reflect that mutual benefit and shared learning ❤️ Thanks to all who helped to make this happen!
I think 12, with others hovering, is the most that have managed to cram themselves onto ours at once. Love them.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’.
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
This article is now free to access.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
They’re one of the main HE sector news publications and very much real.
If you want to know more about the Co-Production Futures Inquiry (the people and motivations behind it), we’ve put this film together: youtu.be/AFbuelvzkAU
Watch and share evidence and ideas for how we can address barriers to participation in the Higher Education sector. @coprofutures.bsky.social
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🚀 Exciting News! The first SALIENT Funding Call is now LIVE! 🚀
Apply now: universityofmanchester.flexigrant.com
📅Key Dates:
· Call opens 09 Dec. 2024
· Call closes 07 Feb. 2025 @ 4pm GMT
· Announcement of Results: April 2025
That ear. Hope you had lots of cosy cuddles when you got home.
If you’re interested in how we can better support co-production/participatory research across the HE sector, follow the inquiry here & LinkedIn and sign up for the launch. There’s an amazing team behind it and a real opportunity to create meaningful change. Excited to be a small part of it!
Echoing this. We’ve been shortlisting large amounts of applications for some posts lately and this makes life so much easier. Especially if you address the criteria in order/group things clearly. Seeing some very experienced candidates failing to demonstrate how they meet criteria and it’s tough.
A second piece out today in The Big Issue by @hannahjtw.bsky.social ft yours truly, continuing to push the government & DWP about austerity + winter fuel cuts.
✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...
@ryangwilkinson.bsky.social - the Auntie Pat test!
