How I identified and mapped 1000+ trees in the Fallowfield Campus
Blog by Athena Lam, final-year undergraduate student in Biology If you look closely at a satellite image of the Fallowfield Campus, you may spot a small rectangular plot, sandwiched between Richmond Park and Uttley House. This is the Firs Botanical Grounds, home to...
Are you a PI or wet lab user in FBMH? LEAF accreditation required by July 2025
The Faculty has committed to ensuring that all wet laboratories in our Faculty buildings achieve a minimum of Bronze LEAF accreditation by July 2025.The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) is an innovative scheme designed to drive improvements in...
Accelerating Action for Women’s Health and Equality
Written by Dr Omolade Allen, Lecturer in Global Health Research, for our International Women’s Day issue of the Faculty Newsletter. As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we embrace this year’s theme: ‘Accelerate Action’. This is a call to push forward in...
Tree Musketeers student society support conservation efforts across Manchester
Blog written by Freddy Crisp, undergraduate student in the School of Biological Sciences My name is Freddy, and I am the vice-chair of the Tree Musketeers, the University’s conservation society. Our society’s mission is to help restore green spaces across Greater...
International Women’s Day 2025: ‘Going Slow to Accelerate: Making Space for Everyone in Science’
For this year's International Women's Day (IWD), the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) will host leading physicist and inclusion advocate Dr Claire Malone. The talk will explore how marginalised groups face systemic challenges in academia due to the rigid...
February 2025 update from the Michael Smith Quad Garden
Hidden in the heart of the Michael Smith Building, the Quad Garden is an urban oasis of biodiversity on campus. Home to various plant and animal species, the Quad is also a hub for community engagement and education. In this blog, Quad Manager Bred Beckett offers a...
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Forum January 2025 update
The Faculty’s Social Responsibility (SR) and Civic Engagement (CE) plan outlines our commitment to driving positive environmental and social change for our local and global communities through our world-leading teaching, learning and research. To support this, the...
Inclusive research is not only about recruitment
Blog written by Dr Binish Khatoon, Tree of Life research team member Hello! I’m Binish, a data science methodologist here at the University of Manchester, and this is my first time writing a blog. I’m excited to share some insights from the project about breast health...
Tree of Life: Meet the Research Team
Tree of Life is a new public engagement installation showcasing how creative arts can be used to communicate research. It will be held in the Manchester Museum's South Asia Gallery to coincide with World Cancer Day 2025. The installation has been co-created by...
Tree of Life: How exploring diversity can create unity
A new public engagement installation which showcases how creative arts can be used to communicate research, is set to launch within the Manchester Museum’s South Asia Gallery to coincide with World Cancer Day 2025.The installation has been co-created by academics...