PPIE Award Winner 2025: JointCare – Identifying research questions with children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and their parents
In this blog series, we will be featuring our award winners and highly commended recipients from the Faculty’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to PPIE’ awards. The awards showcase inspirational and outstanding commitment to PPIE that has made a positive difference to our...
Making Manchester into a Swift City
Blog written by Rachel Zanetti, final-year Environmental Sustainability Project student. The University has set a target that by 2028, we will have increased the number of bug, bat and bird boxes on campus by 20%. This is listed in the in the University’s ‘Valuing...
PPIE Award Winner 2025: Moira Lyons
In this blog series, we will be featuring our award winners and highly commended recipients from the Faculty’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to PPIE’ awards. The awards showcase inspirational and outstanding commitment to PPIE that has made a positive difference to our...
262 kg donated through the Reverse Advent Calendar Campaign 2025
Most of us are probably familiar with the concept of advent calendars, where we receive something each day during the countdown to Christmas. But what happens if we flip the idea around and use it to give back to the community instead? The ‘Reverse Advent...
Heart Health History – The Museum of Medicine and Health at British Science Week
Blog by Cara Kilpatrick, CHSTM Master’s studentWhat do glass lantern slides, wooden stethoscopes and letter tiles have in common? They were all elements of the Museum of Medicine and Health’s British Science Week stall: Heart Health History. British Science Week is an...
March Towards Zero Waste: Global Recycling Day and International Day of Zero Waste 2026
Waste is inevitable, and it arises from all parts of life – leftover food, broken electronics, packaging and containers, out-grown clothes, and the list goes on. As we enter the second half of March, two important days highlight the severity of this global...
New LEAF SharePoint Site: University-wide resource for contacts, resources and case studies
The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) has been an ongoing initiative at the University. It provides a set of standards to help laboratories embed more sustainable and efficient lab practices without compromising research quality. Over the years,...
World Wildlife Day 2026: Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
The United Nations World Wildlife Day (WWD), celebrated on 3rd March each year, recognises the importance of the world’s flora and fauna and highlights their unique contributions to both people and the planet. Read on to find out more about this year’s celebration...
PPIE Award Highly Commended 2025: Tree of Life – How Exploring Diversity Can Create Unity
In this blog series, we will be featuring our award winners and highly commended recipients from the Faculty’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to PPIE’ awards. The awards showcase inspirational and outstanding commitment to PPIE that has made a positive difference to our...
Energy-efficient thermomixers reduce carbon footprint of experimental evolution
The cost of studying evolution Experimental evolution is a powerful technique for understanding how organisms adapt to changing environments. By recreating specific conditions in the lab, such as shifts in temperature or acidity, scientists can observe evolutionary...