A new accelerator programme is inviting SMEs to collaborate with Greater Manchester’s research and innovation institutions to support the development of innovative health and care products.The Research and Innovation(R&I)Health Accelerator is open to companies looking to accelerate commercialisation of their product or service into the health and care system.By leveraging Greater Manchester’s specialist translational research capacity and world-class health science assets,the accelerator aims to support the introduction of new health and care innovations,establish effective partnerships and support the growth of the region’s life sciences sector.The project is led by Health Innovation Manchester(HInM),the organisation responsible for accelerating innovation in Greater Manchester’s health and care system,in partnership with The University of Manchester(UoM),Manchester City Council,Bionow and The University of Manchester Innovation Factory.It is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund(ERDF).As part of the R&I Health Accelerator,SMEs will be able to access expertise and support to help progress their products and services towards adoption and commercialisation in the health and care system.Support could include information about navigating the health and care system,developing value propositions,ethics®ulatory advice and access to university-wide expertise.There will also be opportunities to build lasting research collaborations between SMEs,researchers,Greater Manchester universities,NHS organisations and the broader health innovation community.These collaborations will be used to share knowledge,address the barriers to adoption and co-develop proposals for research and development projects. 查看详细>>

An international coalition of leading climate research universities will issue its first declaration ahead of the G20 Summit on 21 and 22 November 2020.The International Universities Climate Alliance member universities span all populated continents,representing one-third of the 100 highest performing climate research universities and aquarter of the top 100 environmental research universities worldwide.The coalition will bring together 37 international member universities as signatories,including,The University of Manchester,along with nine other UK institutions.The University of Manchester is home to the renowned Tyndall Centre,Manchester,which undertakes world-class research to deliver agenda-setting insights on energy and climate change.Energy is one of The University of Manchester’s research beacons-examples of pioneering discoveries,interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-sector partnerships that are tackling some of the biggest questions facing the planet.The Declaration implores world leaders to use the post-COVID recovery to implement measures to counteract climate change,warning that failure to do so will lock in catastrophic consequences for generations to come.Regional media events will be held with apanel of speakers from Asia Pacific and UK university members.Professor Ian Jacobs,President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney in Australia,a founding member of the Alliance,said he and his colleagues recognised the need for experts with diverse voices to speak out about the climate crisis. 查看详细>>

A unique new specialist NHS service in Greater Manchester will allow university students to get the help they need to overcome significant mental illness,an event will be told today(18 November).The Greater Manchester university student mental health service pilot provides expert support for students who have complex health needs–giving them timely access to professional help for conditions including psychosis,depression,personality disorders and eating disorders.It is intended to meet the increasing mental health of university students and prevent them“falling between the cracks”of university and NHS services at atime when they are often away from the support they may get at home.Around 500 students ayear are expected to use the£1.6m service,which is the result of aunique partnership in England between Greater Manchester’s universities and the city region’s NHS.An event is to be held today to mark the launch of the service at the beginning of the academic year.Students will join the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham,university leaders and the team of mental health professionals,who provide the service,for the event at the Whitworth Art Gallery,which is part of The University of Manchester,on Manchester’s Oxford Road university corridor. 查看详细>>

A new multimillion pound research institute that will maximise Manchester’s academic strengths in digital health and advanced materials to discover innovative health and care solutions is being launched by aconsortium,led by The University of Manchester.The centre will be called The Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology.The name celebrates the connection between the University and Dame Christabel Pankhurst,a driving force behind one of the most significant social reforms of the 20th century.As well as honouring adistinguished alumna,the name also demonstrates the University‘s commitment to redress the under-representation of women and other groups in science and academic leadership though its equality,diversity and inclusion action plan.The Institute is being launched following a£5million award from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s(GMCA)Local Growth Fund and is part of an ambitious plan set out in the Greater Manchester(GM)Local Industrial Strategy to boost the city-region’s provision in this area.The consortium is made up of the University,Manchester Science Partnerships(MSP),Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust(MFT),and Health Innovation Manchester(HInM).The initiative will build on investments from the University,MSP,the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC),and The Alan Turing Institute,creating atotal budget of more than£25m.The aim of the collaboration is to capitalise on the University’s strengths in digital health and advanced materials and develop innovative products and services for the health care sector.In turn this will drive business growth and employment as well as boost the long-term health benefits of the city region as well as. 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>>

A new instrument to help astronomers understand how stars are born is bound for the Large Millimetre Telescope(LMT)in Mexico.The Collaborative Heterodyne Astronomical Receiver for Mexico(CHARM)instrument,which was developed by aworld leading team of experts in the UK including The University of Manchester,will be integrated onto the LMT,Mexico’s largest ever investment in science infrastructure.The CHARM instrument will be the first at the telescope to operate using wavelengths of light less than amillimetre in length.It will enhance the telescope’s ability to see the molecules that make up interstellar clouds of dust and the role they play through the lifecycle of stars.CHARM was developed by experts from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council’s RAL Space,in collaboration with astronomers at The University of Manchester and Mexico.For atelescope to remain at the forefront of discovery,its detector systems need to be continually improved.Currently,Mexico does not have the expertise to do this for the LMT.The CHARM project has provided the first steps in knowledge transfer and training to help Mexican students and staff develop the telescopes detectors.Professor Brian Ellison,who leads the RAL Space Millimetre Wave Technology group and is the CHARM Co-Investigator,said:“We are delighted to be working with colleagues in Mexico and Manchester to deliver the CHARM instrument.The LMT was one of the observatories involved in imaging the black hole earlier in the year so we’re all excited to be contributing to this amazing science facility and CHARM represents an important step in developing agreat international relationship,making new friends and new scientific discoveries!”The team at RAL Space are world leaders in high frequency(Terahertz),short wavelength,heterodyne receivers and their instruments are used on board weather satellites as well as at the ALMA observatory in Chile.Once the instrument arrives at the summit of the dormant volcano Sierra Negra,the RAL Space team will install it onto the telescope.At around the same size as asuitcase,CHARM is very compact and self-contained.Unlike the other LMT instruments,it operates at room temperature,meaning that installation is expected to be relatively straightforward.However,CHARM is apathfinder mission.It will detect signals at far smaller wavelengths than the other instruments at the telescope.In order to provide the greatest sensitivity,CHARM needs to be aligned perfectly.As well as searching the skies,the instrument will help to show whether the LMT’s optics and enormous 50m diameter primary dish can support instruments detecting at these sub millimetre wavelengths.If this is successful,an even more sensitive instrument could be developed for the LMT.Gary Fuller,CHARM Principal Investigator and Professor of Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics,School of Physics&Astronomy,The University of Manchester said:"CHARM will provide the LMT with abrand new capability,giving astronomers in Mexico and the UK exciting new opportunities to understand how giant clouds of gas and dust in galaxies collapse to make new generations of stars.CHARM‘s success will,in the future,also help LMT make more precise measurements of black holes at the centres of galaxies." 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>>

This is the second year of our pioneering Europe Teaching Ranking,which strives to uncover richer and deeper insights into global higher education,to be included in these rankings is asignificant achievement.Times Higher Education„Among the key issues examined were students’interactions with teaching staff,their opportunities to develop skills for post-study careers,and how likely students were to recommend their institution to friends and family.Other factors covered the gender balance of students and staff,the ratio of published academic papers to staff,and the reputation of an institution among academic peers.This new ranking follows the University being named the best HEI in Europe,and third globally,for social and environmental impact in the inaugural THE University Impact Rankings in April and reaching our highest ever position in this year’s QS World University Rankings last month. 查看详细>>