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This year’s Winter Graduation saw more of our Equity and Merit Scholarship students receive their awards and celebrate their academic achievements.Now in its sixteenth year, the Equity and Merit Scholarship has been awarded to over 400 academically excellent students from six countries – currently Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda a...

The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) based at The University of Manchester is commencing pilot action research projects in four African cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Harare, Zimbabwe; Maiduguri, Nigeria and Mogadishu, Somalia.Aimed at reducing urban poverty and inequality, these interventions are the first in a portfolio of urban reform initi...

A new study published today in Nature Sustainability has found that using hydropower dams to generate low emission energy can cause problems for other economic sectors such as food production unless smart designs are employed.Access to sustainable electricity is required to deliver the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, but over 700 million p...

A beautifully-illustrated new resource has been launched which seeks to help teachers to address climate change in their classrooms using real-world stories in a creative, engaging and inclusive manner.Social scientist Dr Catherine Walker from the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester co-created ‘Young People at a C...

New research led by The University of Manchester has developed unique river basin modelling software which, for the first time, combines reservoir management, economy-wide performance, and artificial intelligence techniques to design adaptive plans for various climate change situations. Published in Nature Climate Change, it reveals solutions th...

As the world celebrates the historic COP27 deal that will see rich nations pay developing countries for loss and damage related to climate change, an expert from The University of Manchester has released a new book which argues that an ecological approach to mobility will make communities more resilient to severe weather.Dr. Stephanie Sodero fro...

A Geography expert from The University of Manchester has demonstrated the speed and scale of climate change in a new book, by outlining the immense changes to Norway’s largest glacier he has observed during his career.Honorary Senior Fellow Wilfred Theakstone began studying Austerdalsisen glacier - an outlet of the East Svartisen ice cap which...

Rich countries must end oil and gas production by 2034 to keep the world on track for 1.5°C and give poorer nations longer to replace their income from fossil fuel production, finds a new report from a leading climate scientist at The University of Manchester released today.It proposes different phase-out dates for oil and gas producing countri...