Progress with the Environmental Sustainability agenda in FBMH: November 2024 update
Welcome to the 5th edition of the FBMH Environmental Sustainability (ES) Good Newsletter. The University is progressing well with its ES agenda, and we are coordinating efforts across Faculties and the central ES team to maximise outreach and efforts to engage...
Insights into Air Travel Policy with Professor Holly Shiels
Air travel contributes approximately 4% to the rise in global temperatures and is projected to cause a 0.1 °C increase in global warming by 2050. With the consequences of the climate crisis intensifying across the world, it is crucial that institutions like...
The School of Health Sciences Promotes Environmental Sustainability at Welcome Week
Blog by Harriet Bickley, Research AssociateIn September, the School of Health Sciences Environmental Sustainability group held its fourth annual Welcome Week Stall. As per the University’s guidance on sustainable giveaways at events, we kept to our tried and tested...
Success for FBMH laboratory equipment rehoming initiative – LabGoods4Reuse
LEAF requires optimising the sharing and rehoming of resources. Earlier this year the FBMH Technical Operations team officially launched the Faculty’s LabGoods4Reuse (LG4R) scheme. This initiative was developed to improve sustainability within FBMH laboratories by...
Hear Me! Exhibition: An Insight into Lived Experiences of Hearing Loss
In the UK, 18 million adults are deaf or have hearing loss, many of whom face invisible challenges. Hear Me!, an exhibition at The University of Manchester, highlights the invisible impact of hearing loss, tinnitus, and dizziness by showcasing the lived experiences of...
MAHSE: Placing Patient Involvement at the Heart of Healthcare
Public Involvement describes the ways in which higher education and research is carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public rather than ‘on’ or ‘for’ them. In this blog category, you will find out about the different ways in which the Faculty of Biology, Medicine...
Manchester Conservationist Delivers 2024 Irene Manton Lecture
Amanda Bamford, Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Manchester, has delivered the tenth Irene Manton Lecture. The lecture, which celebrates the significant contributions made by women to the study of the Natural Sciences, was delivered in...
A Sustainability Star in FBMH: Harriet Bickley’s Outstanding Contribution to Social Responsibility
This year's Research Staff Excellence Awards saw a number of FBMH researchers commended for their impressive work in their respective fields. One award-winner, however, was nominated for their work in an entirely different subject area – Social...
Roots to Dental: Connecting with the Local Community Through Service Learning
Staff and students from the School of Dentistry celebrated the Roots to Dental programme, an initiative that offers Dentistry students important learning opportunities while also serving the Greater Manchester community. The programme has been delivered in...
LEAF: The Molecular Cellular Function division is chilling up…
Blog by Lydia Wunderley, LEAF and 6R champion, heading the Faculty’s recycling working group. Following on from the Manchester Institute for Cancer Research blog, nine principal investigators (PIs) from the Molecular Cellular Function division have turned their ULT...