Fashion academics Dr Amy Benstead and Dr Victoria Stephens have won an award for their research on modern slavery in supply chains, focusing on the role of worker voice. Based in the Department of Materials, their work has now been acknowledged for two consecutive years at the annual Business and Modern Slavery Research Conference. Winning…
Imagine a world where the marginalised minds of STEM – those brilliant individuals that push the boundaries of what we know- are not confined by gender norms or societal expectations. A world where describing their lived experience isn’t the ways in which they’ve been discriminated, but the fascinating projects they’re working on, and the comfort…
Spring is a season marked by sustainability awareness, from Food Waste Action and Cultivation Street Week to Global Recycling Day and Earth Hour. Now, while these occasions are great for gaining momentum, climate change can often feel like a complex and overwhelming problem to tackle in silos! Doing so with the camaraderie that comes in…
You’d be forgiven for wondering what on earth a ‘Giant Foamboard Quadcopter’ is. Better yet, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s something out of a DC movie or Stan Lee comic strip. Superheroes and gadgets aside, picture this: it’s CASCADE Collaboration Workshop Week, and a group of 35 students and researchers from UK universities were…
Dr Giles Edwards MRSC The Recycling Organisation for Research Opportunities or RORO for short was founded as a registered charity in 2009. The main mission objective is to provide access to sophisticated scientific analytical instrumentation to academics in developing countries that cannot afford such capital assets that we often take for granted. It is also…
Discover the pioneering research into AI and robotics at The University of Manchester that’s breaking new ground and helping to solve real-world problems.
Fourth year environmental science student Ezri spent her summer in Canada undertaking a fully funded research project, was it worth doing?
After completing his studies, UoM geology graduate, Kamil Kosiorek has recently had his outstanding fourth year project featured in Geosciences, an internationally respected open access journal. We caught up with him to discuss his experience, and say congratulations!
This week’s blog comes from Alexandra Bonta and Devina Mohan, MSc students working with Professor Anna Scaife on Bayesian deep learning for classification of pulsars and radio galaxies, and follows on from our blog post for Ada Lovelace Day. Last week we celebrated Ada Lovelace Day and heard about the scientists who inspire our staff…
Dr Ingo Dierking from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Manchester was awarded the 2021 G.W. Gray Medal, the highest prize of the British Liquid Crystals Society (BLCS). The medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to research in the field of liquid crystal science and technology. It was first awarded 25…
