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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Lost Music of Auschwitz: The Notes That Survived
Dr Leo Geyer has been on a remarkable journey – taking him from music undergraduate at The University of Manchester to the driving force behind ...
2025: Celebrating Milestones
In 2025 several of our partner institutes and centres are celebrating important anniversaries. From understanding the cosmic universe, to mitigating climate change and nurturing tomorrow’s ...
A celebration of Manchester’s finest
July 2024 Issue Words by Emma Devany For 200 years, brilliant minds have been pioneering, innovating and discovering at Manchester, shaping the world as it ...
2024: A vintage year
July 2024 Issue Words by Dipika Mummery Our bicentenary isn’t the only anniversary we celebrate this year: we’re also marking the foundation of the medical ...
Manchester pioneers making their mark
July 2024 Issue Words by Chris Marsland, Tom Finlayson, Jacob Robinson Throughout history, our university has been home to many influential people. We’ve all heard ...
Reckoning with our past
July 2024 Issue Words by Hayley Cox Whether an individual or an institution, we all have a past, and as we move forward, we carry ...
Manchester. Always The University of Manchester
July 2024 Issue Words by Rose Brooke President and Vice-Chancellor of our University since 2010, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell’s (or ‘Nancy’ as she prefers) term ...
200 years of The University of Manchester
July 2024 Issue Words by Professor Michael Wood Anniversaries are often thought-provoking affairs, even at the level of birthdays, let alone bicentenaries. They make us ...
Made in Manchester
July 2023 Issue Words by Hayley Cox Images by Russell Hart and Pete Carr In October 2022 Nazir Afzal OBE officially began his tenure as Chancellor ...