A new Knight and aDame are among the University of Manchester people recognised in the New Year Honours,the first to be granted by King Charles III.Professor Robina Shah is the Director of the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience.She has been made aDame for services to Patient Care.Robina is aChartered Consultant Psychologist and Professor of Psycho-social Medicine and Medical Education in the Division of Medical Education at The University of Manchester Medical School.She is the lead academic on person-centred education,patient safety,patient,and public involvement in the Division of Medical Education.Robina is passionate about giving patients,carers and families avoice through active partnership.She is also apowerful advocate of psychosocial medicine and committed to patient and public involvement.Over two decades,Robina has shared her teaching expertise in this area to challenge the focus of medical education from abiomedical model of disease to one that accommodates the psychological,social,and behavioural dimensions of illness.Professor Louis Appleby has been knighted for his services to medicine and mental health.Louis is Professor of Psychiatry at the University and Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group.Louis leads the Centre for Mental Health and Safety,investigating suicide and self-harm,the largest research unit in this field internationally.Its findings have been the basis of Government policy on suicide prevention and are widely quoted by governments,professionals and charities.From 2000-2010 Louis was seconded as the Government‘s National Director for Mental Health to lead anational programme of reform in mental health care in England and from 2010-2014 he was National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice.From 2013-2019 he was anon-executive director of the Care Quality Commission,the NHS regulator.Louis was the author of England‘s first national suicide prevention strategy and continues to co-chair(with ahealth minister)the Government‘s advisory group on suicide prevention.He has written reports on suicide prevention after the Grenfell fire for the NHS and on doctors facing investigation for the GMC.Professor Richard Bardgett,Professor of Ecology,has been made aCBE for services to Soil Ecology and Climate Change Science.Over the last thirty years,Richard‘s research has led to advances in the area of plant-soil interactions,with aparticular focus on understanding impacts of plants on soil microbial communities and feedback consequences for plant growth and ecosystem processes,especially carbon and nitrogen cycling.Richard has published over 350 scientific papers,including many highly cited works in leading journals such as Nature and Science.He has also authored and co-authored several books,Richard has along-standing commitment to promoting awareness of soil biodiversity research.To this end,he was afounder member of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative(GSBI),established in 2011 to create aglobal platform for the translation of expert knowledge on soil biodiversity into policy,and he contributed to the UN‘s Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils report The Status of the World‘s Soil Resources(2015).Professor Chas Mangham,has an honorary chair at the University.He has been made MBE for services to Forensic Science.He is Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology,University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.Sir Michael Marmot has been made aCompanion of Honour for services to public health.Sir Michael holds an honorary chair with the University.He is aProfessor of Epidemiology and aworld-leading expert in health inequalities. 查看详细>>

The University of Manchester and Manchester Museum have been awarded university of sanctuary and museum of sanctuary status.The universities and museums of sanctuary initiatives celebrate the good practice of institutions that welcome asylum seekers and refugees into their communities and promote aculture of inclusion.To be awarded the status,organisations must demonstrate an existing commitment to welcoming and supporting‘sanctuary seekers’and then pledge to develop this even further over the next three years.Manchester is the first university of sanctuary in the north-west and one of only 10 across the country whilst Manchester Museum is just the second museum of sanctuary nationwide.The awards took place at the Manchester City of Sanctuary Big Conversation event and were presented by Kate Green MP who said:"I am delighted to present Manchester Museum and The University of Manchester with these awards and thank them for the welcome they offer to those seeking sanctuary."The Museum’s award was collected by Andrea Winn,Curator of Community Exhibitions at the Museum and the University’s award was collected by Gulwali Passarlay,a refugee from Afghanistan and alumnus of the University who completed its Manchester Access Programme whilst in sixth form.One of the ways in which the University is addressing the challenge faced by asylum seekers in accessing higher education is through the Article 26 Scholarships which provide five fully-funded places to study at the University. 查看详细>>

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE is to lead anew annual series of literature events,as part of anew 3-year artistic partnership between The University of Manchester and arts venue HOME.The Complete Works is the next phase of collaboration between HOME and University academics,which to date have spanned theatre,visual art and film,and will now explore international,experimental and political themes in conversations with some of the most exciting contemporary writers working today.Ellah has been appointed as Senior Research Fellow to facilitate knowledge exchange between the University’s Centre for New Writing and HOME,and to curate aseries of literature events over three years.She is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books,and was the founding Publishing Director of The Indigo Press.She is chair of the Caine Prize for African writing and she served on the judging panel of the 2017 Dublin International Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize.In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for services to the publishing industry,and earlier this month,she was appointed as an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 查看详细>>

A new collaborative scheme,launched today by Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of Manchester,aims to improve the digital skills,confidence and employment prospects of local graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds.The project,called Graduates for aGreater Manchester,will be funded by The Office for Students(OfS)and is part of awider,multimillion-pound Government-backed project to keep graduate talent in the city’s it comes from to reduce the regional brain drain to London.The OfS says current evidence shows that students who move away from home to study or work are more likely to find highly skilled employment compared to those who stay in their home region.To help redress this imbalance,the OfS awarded grants to fifteen institutions across the country.Manchester’s bid was the only joint application.The Manchester collaboration focuses on digital skills and is designed to address the skills gap in one of the city’s fastest growing sectors.Its specific aim is to help local graduates,from disadvantaged backgrounds,boost their confidence in these industries by harnessing,enhancing and using the digital skills they already have as‘digital natives.’ 查看详细>>