The University of Manchester has signed aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU)with Greater Manchester-based organisation KultraLab Limited,which will formalise and strengthen the partnership through new research,development and knowledge exchange activities.The MoU will create aframework to build on an already fruitful relationship,and will develop collaboration roadmaps to expand the breadth and depth of the partnership in areas including Behavioural AI,Organisational Psychology and High Performance Culture and Behaviours.KultraLab is abehavioural science and technology organisation,and they have developed abehaviour change coaching platform to enable organisations to create high-performing teams through AI coaching.“The partnership between The University of Manchester and KultraLab started in 2020,and has organically grown and expanded into multiple collaborations across the Faculty of Humanities and Science and Engineering,”said Caroline Stanton,Head of SME Partnership in the University’s Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Team.“The signing of this MoU represents an exciting milestone in the partnership and will provide astrategic framework to strengthen and diversify collaborative opportunities,continue to foster aculture of knowledge exchange and enrich both organisations with valuable benefits.” 查看详细>>

The ongoing collaboration between The University of Manchester’s graphene scientists and Northern England-based outdoor sports brand inov-8 has been awarded as an‘outstanding’example of innovation and wealth creation in the UK by Innovate UK.The partnership,which has seen the launch of and subsequent development of the high-performance graphene-enhanced footwear,is now in the spotlight for its success in taking fundamental research to asuccessful global hit product.Officially launched in 2018,the collaborative partners announced that they had been able to develop agraphene-enhanced rubber through aresearch project which began behind the scenes in 2016.They developed G-GRIP rubber outsoles for running,hiking and fitness shoes that in testing outlasted 1,000 miles,are scientifically proven to be 50%harder wearing,and deliver the world’s toughest grip.Subsequently,graphene was infused into the midsole foam as well,to provide superior and long-lasting energy return that supercharges feet.The G-FLY foam midsole was launched in 2021.Aravind Vijayaraghavan,Professor of Nanomaterials at The University of Manchester,said:“This partnership is an excellent example of how auniversity research group and aSME can collaborate closely to take cutting edge technology from lab to market at arapid pace.It demonstrates the significant benefits that graphene can bring to everyday products and impact our daily lives.”Now Innovate UK has honoured the recently completed Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the two organisations with the highest possible grade of‘Outstanding’.The project has set the bar high,resulting in not only aworld-leading product range,but also ahighly effective partnership that is boosting the University’s commercial reputation–and that of afellow northern brand. 查看详细>>

The University of Manchester has teamed up with Greater Manchester Police(GMP)to fund aseries of thought-provoking interactive theatre performances and workshops led by Manchester-based charity,Odd Arts,which engage with students to challenge and explore issues of consent and sexual assaults.The workshops aim to encourage students to consider when and how they can intervene when they experience incidents of sexual misconduct within their own lives and educate them on issues of consent,by having actors perform aseries of hard-hitting and sometimes uncomfortable scenarios and giving the audience the chance to stop the performance to discuss how they would react in the situation.The initiative is part of an ongoing commitment to tackle incidents of sexual assaults and rape,by increasing confidence in reporting and providing victims‘appropriate support from specially trained police officers,as well as raising awareness of what constitutes rape and sexual assault. 查看详细>>

First Graphene Ltd has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with The University of Manchester to develop graphene-hybrid materials for use in supercapacitors.The licencing agreement is for patented technology for the manufacture of metal oxide decorated graphene materials,using aproprietary electrochemical process.The graphene-hybrid materials will have the potential to create anew generation of supercapacitors,for use in applications ranging from electric vehicles to elevators and cranes.Supercapacitors offer high power-density energy storage,with the possibility of multiple charge/discharge cycles and short charging times.The market for supercapacitor devices is forecast to grow at 20%per year to approximately$2.1 billion by 2022.However,growth maybe limited by the availability of suitable materials.Supercapacitors typically use microporous carbon nanomaterials,which have agravimetric capacitance between 50 and 150 Farads/g.Research carried out by The University of Manchester shows that high capacitance materials incorporating graphene are capable of reaching up to 500 Farads/g.This will significantly increase the operational performance of supercapacitors in awide range of applications,as well as increasing the available supply of materials. 查看详细>>

More than 170 organisations and news outlets from around the world have now signed up for Covering Climate Now.For aweek this September,dozens of global media organisations will join forces to devote their front pages and airwaves to acritical but under-covered story:the global climate emergency.This unique media collaboration,timed to coincide with landmark UN Climate Action Summit in New York,is the first initiative of Covering Climate Now,a project co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review(CJR),in partnership with The Guardian,which aims to kick-start aconversation among journalists about how news outlets can improve their coverage of the climate crisis.All outlets have committed to proactively increasing climate coverage in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept.23.At that meeting,the world’s governments will submit plans to meet the Paris Agreement’s pledge to keep global temperature rise“well below”2 degrees Celsius.The University will aim to showcase some of the diverse research and thought leadership from across the institution from,climate change,sustainability,energy,to social responsibility and more. 查看详细>>

LINK Dec 2017 C19 November 2018 14:38 Europe/London University and its construction partners give back to local community.Local initiatives ranging from aneighbourhood summer fête to bat box building for local children and ascheme tackling social isolation have benefitted from this year’s University of Manchester Community Construction Fund.The University of Manchester and its main construction partners–Balfour Beatty,Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine... 查看详细>>