Category: Health Sciences

Growing Minds: Cultivating positive Mental Health and Green Living Workshop

Growing Minds: Cultivating positive Mental Health and Green Living Workshop

Are you passionate about environmental sustainability and mental health? If so, we invite you to join us during "The Great Big Green Week" as we delve into the fascinating intersection of these crucial topics. Interested? Register here Nature and Mental Well-being:...

Public Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) Champions Network

Public Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) Champions Network

We are a group of academics, researchers and support staff who believe that working closely with members of the public is essential for creating research and teaching that has real impact and meaning for the wider community. Our vision is to create a culture at the...

Showcasing STUDENT VOICE – International Women’s Day 2024

Showcasing STUDENT VOICE – International Women’s Day 2024

Here you can watch the video of digital projections showcasing STUDENT VOICE  Wan-Chuen Hi, I'm Wan-Chuen, currently a visiting PhD student in the Division of Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. I'm from Taiwan and have a background as a PhD candidate at the...

Trans Homelessness

Trans Homelessness

As part of the celebrations of the LGBTQ+ history month, which this year was centred on medicine (#UnderTheScope), the Jean McFarlane Student Hub hosted an exhibition called “Illustrating significance in transitory times: object elicitation in trans homelessness". The...

Breastfeeding and work: the juggles and struggles – SR EDI Seminar February 2024

Breastfeeding and work: the juggles and struggles – SR EDI Seminar February 2024

Dr Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi I have been a post-doctoral researcher now for 12 years and in that time I have also had two children, both of which I breastfed. I took the full period allowed for maternity leave and so when I returned to work my children were both over a year...

Staff Diversity Data – SR & EDI Seminar January 2024

Staff Diversity Data – SR & EDI Seminar January 2024

Our January SR-EDI lunchtime webinar was focused on ‘staff diversity data’. We were joined by guest speakers, Sami Karamalla-Gaiballa and Lauren Stella, from the University’s EDI (equality, diversity and inclusivity) data analyst team. This forms a key part of the...

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) – SR&EDI seminar October 2023

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) – SR&EDI seminar October 2023

Dr Ellen Poliakoff gave a first talk in our School of Health Sciences (SHS) seminar series, which serves as a platform to promote integration of our social responsibility, equality, diversity and inclusion in our research and teaching endeavors. During her session,...

Seminar Series 2023-24 with focus on Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Seminar Series 2023-24 with focus on Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Join us for online SHS SR & EDI Seminar Series every last day of the month 1-2pm. Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/6771886797   31st October 2023 Ellen Poliakoff Parkinson’s from inside out: emerging and unexpected benefits of a long-term partnership 30th November 2023...

Carer Support Grant – 2023/24 update

Carer Support Grant – 2023/24 update

We are pleased to announce that grants of up to £500 are now available to academic, research, PS and technical support staff to help support extra-carer costs associated with attendance at conferences, training events and similar career and professional development...