Current projects
The University of Manchester is committed to making a difference to the social and economic well-being of the world’s least advantaged groups through our teaching, research, public events and activities.
Addressing inequalities
A significant amount of research is generated through cross-disciplinary teams of researchers, involving working with academic colleagues from elsewhere in the world and also with non-academic stakeholders.
Austerity and Altered Life-Courses
Socio-Political Ruptures to Family, Employment and Housing Biographies Across Europe.
Autonomous Disruption
A research project to explore possible deployment strategies of Autonomous Vehicles and assess their socio-spatial and infrastructure investment implications.
The Carbon Landscape
A pioneering new project which aims to restore industrial landscapes.
Commute-flow
A brand new geodemographic classification of commuting flows for England and Wales.
Governing green infrastructure
A project investigating the roll-out of green infrastructure.
Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit
Helping to make poverty reduction central to processes of economic growth and devolution in Greater Manchester.
Infrastructural futures across cities of the global north
An international workshop funded by The University of Manchester, the University of Toronto and the Urban Studies Foundation
LOOPER
Building a participatory co-creation methodology and platform to demonstrate ‘learning loops’.
Manchester Urban Observatory
A collaboration between many of the UK's leading universities, supported by a £138m investment from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
Multilingual Manchester
At Multilingual Manchester, we promote awareness of language diversity in the city-region and beyond.
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