This piece explains how our 2035 strategy aims to make Manchester the best place in the UK to do ambitious, inclusive research with faster impact.
Category: Faculty of Humanities
Melissa Westwood: Impactful research and – importantly – how we get there
What first comes to mind when you hear the words research culture? For me, it’s behaviours. How we talk to one another, encourage and support each other. How we treat people. I’d like to start a conversation about our research culture – what it means to us all, how we already support it here at Manchester and how we’re going to develop it further.
Andy Westwood: The Skills for Jobs white paper is what happens when policy is made in a vacuum
Originally posted on WONKHE on Monday, 25 January 2021We’ve been here before. But in skills policy we’ve been everywhere before. Putting employers at the heart of the system and committing to high quality education and training are not new. These have been objectives...
Andy Westwood: Imagining a higher education system beyond Covid-19
Andy Westwood sets out the not-insignificant challenges that the government now faces in deciding what it wants from universities after the pandemic.
Sir Cary Cooper: Staying positive in a lockdown – the seven rules
We have lost a lot of freedoms in the past few weeks. But remember, we still have some control over our lives.
Lisa Murtagh: Home Educating during the COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Tears and Treats’
All of a sudden, many of us have found ourselves in the novel position of being a home-educator. From a personal perspective, the past few weeks have been fraught with tears (mine and my son’s) and the reward of lots of treats (movies and sweets). I am currently the Head of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Manchester and have been involved in education for over 25 years. On that basis, you may assume that I have got this home education lark ‘nailed’. I haven’t!
Sir Cary Cooper: The seven rules of home working
Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, shares his top tips for working from home.
Andy Westwood: The government has massive choices to make on Budget day
“To govern is to choose” said Nigel Lawson, the former Conservative Chancellor. And this Budget is where the government of Boris Johnson really begins and where he must make choices about his real priorities as Prime Minister
Keith Brown: University employment contracts
I would like to spend some time on one particular issue that appears to have gained traction within the sector over the last year or so. That is the issue of so-called precarious employment within universities.
Peter Gries: Pathogens and Prejudice. Will the coronavirus infect our community?
The Year of the Rat has not started well. In China, over 10,000 people have been infected by the Coronavirus, and hundreds have died. Things don’t look great in the UK either. In London, East Asians report feeling stereotyped as agents of disease, creating a hostile environment for them. In Sheffield, a Chinese student walking towards the University was verbally abused about wearing a mask. Anxiety is high.
