Research
Academics win award fighting for fashion workers’ rights
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 […]
Green Together: bringing science and sustainability to Manchester’s Central Library
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 […]
Mass Spectrometry Outreach in Nepal
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 […]
Research Project Abroad: Ezri’s experience
Fourth year environmental science student Ezri spent her summer in Canada undertaking a fully funded research project, was it worth doing?
From Project to Peer Reviewed Journal: Kamil’s experience
Research impact and institutes
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!
AI for Astronomy
Research impact and institutes
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 […]
Liquid Crystal Science with Gray Medal recipient Dr Ingo Dierking
Research impact and institutes
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 years ago, following the award of the Kyoto prize for Advanced Technology to George Gray (1926-2013), the discoverer of the first room temperature liquid crystal, which made Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) a reality.
To celebrate this achievement, we spoke to Ingo about the importance and continued relevance of liquid crystal research.
DARA Big Data; Supporting a new generation of African data scientists
Research impact and institutes
The DARA Big Data project was born in 2017 out of an identified need for high-level applied data science skills training across the African countries involved in building the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Telescope. The SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope when completed and will be hosted by South Africa, which leads a partnership of other African countries, including Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia, who will also participate in this world leading scientific facility.
Illuminating the mysteries of matter with DUNE: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Research impact and institutes
Particle physicists Professor Stefan Söldner-Rembold and Professor Justin Evans are responsible for building key components of the DUNE neutrino experiment. It will answer questions like: why is there more matter than anti-matter and how do star explosions work?
University commits to 100% renewable energy
We are delighted that the University, in partnership with our energy brokers, have been able to switch our commitment towards 100% renewable energy when our new contract comes into place in 2021.