Celebrate with Manchester
Together, we’ll celebrate our newest graduates, and the alumni who continue to shape our community.
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Career Coaching Series – Shape Your Career Story: How to Manage Your Boss
Boost Your Influence: Manage Your Boss with Confidence
This 90-minute, highly interactive workshop is designed for professionals who deliver results but feel misunderstood, underutilised, or misaligned. Executive Coach Andrew Jones guides you through a psychologically grounded, practical approach to managing upwards in complex organisations—where performance alone isn’t enough.
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Masterclass: Take Charge of Your Growth: A Reflective Leadership Tool – 16 Apr 2026
Through a powerful diagnostic tool, you’ll uncover personalised insights across four key strategies to accelerate your leadership development in dynamic environments. Walk away with clearer direction, sharper focus, and practical ways to strengthen your leadership impact—no matter how turbulent the landscape.
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Professor Duncan Ivison: ‘Collaboration is our superpower and we need to lean into it’
A year into his Presidency and Vice-Chancellorship, Professor Duncan Ivison is firmly focused on the future. He tells us about his vision for Manchester’s next decade and the work being done to take us there.
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Judith Sear: The Life and Impact of the Sear Family
Manchester alumna Judith Sear established the Sear Family Cancer Research Fund after losing her son, Jason, to adrenal cancer. In this interview, Judith explains how Jason’s diagnosis was the driving force behind a $1.3 million (approximately £1 million) donation to our university, and her hopes for the difference the funding will make.
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Foreword: Dear Manchester
As a Londoner, I wanted to go to a big city for university – I needed somewhere vibrant, energetic and community-driven. Manchester ticked all the boxes. The University has this amazing ability to draw on the influences and culture of the city that surrounds it. It never felt like we were in an exclusive bubble – we were able to experience both the University and the city as one.
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Ed O’Brien Musician – Activist and Honorary Mancunian
Winners of four Ivor Novello Awards, three Grammys and the joint most-nominated act in Mercury Prize history, Radiohead remain among the most revered bands in the music industry. But according to Ed O’Brien (BA Econ 1990), the band’s guitarist and co-songwriter, these accolades mean little compared to the recognition he received from our university in 2024.
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Enriqueta Rylands: Illuminating a Hidden Philanthropist
Enriqueta Rylands, lover of literature and pioneer of accessible culture, was instrumental in the foundation and legacy of one of Manchester’s most iconic institutions. Here we find out more about the female philanthropist who broke boundaries without ever taking the spotlight.
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In Conversation: Innovation at Manchester
Innovation is everywhere and can mean different things to different people. We spoke to four of the University’s innovation leaders – John Holden, Lou Cordwell, Catherine Headley and Aline Miller – to get their take on what innovation means at Manchester and how it’s driving new ways of working, exciting initiatives and positive outcomes with tangible impact.
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Simon Johnson: A Nobel Mind
The 26th Nobel laureate to come out of The University of Manchester, Professor Simon Johnson, talks to us about his drive to better understand the world, a lifelong passion for history. and the powers of persistence and persuasion in making a difference.
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