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...
Dentistry Students Go Global with International DiPS Project
A group of undergraduate students have taken the local Dentists in Primary Schools programme halfway across the world. Through International DiPS, students from the Manchester Pediatric Dentistry Student Society (MPDSS) have introduced healthy oral hygiene habits to...
Quad Team Gets Creative with Eco-Crafts Event
In December 2024, the Michael Smith Quad hosted their first Eco-Crafts Event in collaboration with the FBMH Social Responsibility team. With a focus on sustainable materials and foraged supplies, attendees created beautiful ornaments and crafts, just in time for the...
Creating a ‘culture shift’: Dr Isobel Taylor-Hearn’s impact on sustainability in FBMH
Effective sustainability initiatives require collective effort, but it often takes a committed individual to lead the way. Dr Isobel Taylor-Hearn has helped bring environmental sustainability to the forefront of lab work in FBMH through LEAF. LEAF (Laboratory...
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Forum November 2024 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...
The Faculty thanks long-serving museum volunteers
Thank you to Peter Mohr and Patience Julia (known to all as Julie) Mohr, who retire from their volunteering duties at the Museum of Medicine and Health. Peter and Julie’s contributions to Social Responsibility have continued for over 20 years, most recently winning...
Exhibition Highlights Stories of Trans Homelessness
As part of the celebrations of the LGBTQ+ history month, which this year was centred on medicine (#UnderTheScope), the Jean McFarlane Student Hub hosted an exhibition called “Illustrating significance in transitory times: object elicitation in trans homelessness”. The...
Public Involvement at the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience
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...
Progress with the Environmental Sustainability agenda in FBMH: November 2024 update
Blog by Dr Maggy Fostier, FBMH Associate Dean for Environmental Sustainability. 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...