The 2025 Teaching Excellence Award - Early Career goes to Dr Nick Weise! Impacting thousands of students and educators worldwide, Nick has pioneered a student cohort programme, co-delivered Teaching for Researchers, re-designed the PGR training curriculum and more The University of Manchester.

📢Calling all staff and students! We want you to have your say in making Manchester an inclusive place to be for parents and carers. Come and find out more TOMORROW 10AM-12PM at the University Place Atrium over light refreshments.

Equality & Diversity

Incredibly honoured and humbled to be selected for this amazing finalist panel 🙏🏻

There is still A LOT of work to be done with #Postdoc wellbeing and career development but we are going in the right direction!

UK NationalPostdocAppreciation WTCCMR Division of Molecular and Cellular Function UoM

Minoritised communities are underrepresented in UK research – particularly those of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage.

We're launching £20mn in new funding to help address this ⤵️ [1/3]

Today marks the birth date of pioneering economist Sir William Arthur Lewis in 1915.
#UoM200 #OnThisDay

As part of our #100BWPN Annual Summit today we're releasing our 2023 Impact Report!

We reveal that 66 Black women professors are currently in post in the UK, and how we're all about accelerating this progress.

You can access the full report here: [INSERT LINK]

#ifnotnowwhen

This will be AMAZING.

We believe everyone should have access to sanitary protection during their period. But many are experiencing period poverty and can't access or afford them.
So, we’re launching a new scheme as part of our Cost of Living support package to help tackle period poverty across campus.

Join us on the 29 March to critically appraise the culture within FBMH, raise awareness of intersectionality and encourage colleague and student voice to inform meaningful change. Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-equity-… Equality & Diversity Oyebanji (Banji) Adewumi MBE Professor Dawn Edge Neil Pemberton Cinzia Greco (@cinziag.bsky.social)

We are delighted to have partnered with Cowrie Scholarship Foundation to offer scholarships to support the progression of Black Heritage UK applicants from socio-economically under-represented backgrounds.

Apply now before Friday, 21 April!

Amazing to be at the AdvanceHE conference listening to the keynote Laura Curran, Welfare and Liberation Officer, Uni of Durham speak about the power of students to progress EDI #EDIConf23 UoM UCIL

#IWD2023 The University of Manchester UoM StaffNet UoMWomen@Manchester Equality & Diversity #EmbraceEquity #OurPeopleOurValuesOurFuture - thank you nazir afzal #Chancellor Adele MacKinlay Rachel Cowen

How to train university staff to become anti-racist agents of change timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-tra… via Times Higher Education

We believe all students should have the chance to go to university. If that's your ambition, we'll help you get there.

Applications close Sunday, 11 December.

Thank you #KatharineW UoM Physics & Astronomy UoM Science and Engineering for the invitation - great sharing panel with #Mary Mary Slipper and #Alice Alice 🌤️ #GenderDiversity in #STEM The University of Manchester Rachel Cowen #Women @Manchester Adele MacKinlay Equality & Diversity

Absolute pleasure to have contributed a small piece to this. This guide is really valuable to anyone supporting students thinking about higher education

When you only have 15 minutes to present your research:
There's lots of things they could know.
Lots they should know.
But you challenge is to narrow it down to what they MUST know.
From: buff.ly/3ItCPJ1 #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc #academicchatter

Thanks to funding from Wellcome and Ladders4Action a group of Black & Minority Ethnic academics & PhD students are off to the Scottish Isles this morning to pilot and co-create a much larger 2023 retreat. Will keep you all posted. Very excited!!!

Super-excited to be partnering with the fabulous SICK! Festival to increase #menopause awareness Catch the #MenopuseBus #Choir UOM #SouthCampus 1-2pm Tuesday October 18th for a good old 'sing-along'!

This month we celebrate Black History Month in the UK, and the University is taking the opportunity to recognise and appreciate our Black history at numerous events.

studentnews.manchester.ac.uk/2022/10/03/bla…