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- Major funding boost for UK's open research agenda
Our University is one of 18 institutional members of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) receiving significant funding to drive uptake of open research practices across the sector, furthering the UK’s position at the forefront of rigorous and reproducible research. (28 Sep 2021) - Restructuring Professional Services Support for Researcher Development
A message from Dr Andrew Walsh, Director of Research and Business Engagement (28 Jul 2021) - Viewpoint: Melissa Westwood and Colette Fagan
Prosper: unlocking postdoc career potential (07 Jul 2021) - Researching with Impact
Postgraduate Researchers’ Conference focuses on impact with top tips for academic writing, a career opportunities discussion and interactive workshops (28 Jun 2021) - Important information on using R codes
Information on purchasing IT equipment and making expense claims using R codes (24 Jun 2021) - Postgraduate Researcher's Conference open for registration
The University of Manchester will be hosting the Postgraduate Researcher’s Conference on Thursday, 17 June (25 May 2021) - Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series
Announcing the next round of speakers for the upcoming Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series (30 Mar 2021) - Establishing a new Research Relationship Oversight Group
Message from Professor Nalin Thakkar and Dr Andrew Walsh (26 Mar 2021) - Update on the Research Lifecycle Programme
More information on the Research Lifecycle Programme (04 Mar 2021) - COP26: Annual UN climate summit
Deadline for Expressions of Interest process is approaching on Friday, 5 March (02 Mar 2021) - COP26: Annual UN climate summit
Expressions of Interest process launches – deadline Friday, 5 March (01 Feb 2021) - Senate Elections 2021
Academic and research staff encouraged to seek nomination as a number of Senate appointments will terminate on 31 August 2021 (01 Feb 2021) - Places available on the ‘Researcher to Innovator’ training programme
Opportunity for researchers to develop their innovative thinking and enhance their understanding of the commercialisation process (07 Dec 2020) - New export controls in China to be enforced from 1 December 2020
You need to be aware of this new legislation as it may affect your research activities if your collaborators are in China (10 Nov 2020) - New COVID-19 funding opportunities
Research and Business Engagement team bring together all the latest information on new webpage (20 Oct 2020) - Meet our UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellows
Colleagues from all three Faculties win Government funding for their research tackling major challenges (15 Oct 2020) - £32 million research boost to establish African Cities Research Consortium
Researchers from the Global Development Institute have been awarded a new research contract of £32 million to establish the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FDCO) as part of UK Aid (01 Oct 2020) - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics and Big Data: Academic/Research Workshop
In this workshop, colleagues will share examples of their research (27 Feb 2020) - Innovation Community Research Fund Competition
The Innovation Community (IC) from the Research Lifecycle Programme are holding an innovation competition to give researchers the opportunity to kick-start their research ideas (14 Feb 2020) - Invite: Digital Collections Launch
The official launch and celebration of the new University of Manchester Digital Collections Viewer will take place at the Whitworth Hall, 5pm, Tuesday 28 January 2020. (14 Jan 2020) - Get your business ideas off to a 'Flying Start' in 2020
A new year brings new inspiration and at the Masood Enterprise Centre (MEC), based within the Alliance Manchester Business School, you have the opportunity to get your innovative business ideas off to a Flying Start (10 Jan 2020) - Opportunity for entrepreneurial-minded postdocs
Places available on the Researcher to Innovator (R2I) Bootcamp (07 Jan 2020) - The Next Innovation Communities: October events
More innovation community events for staff to join coming up in October (27 Sep 2019) - Thinking Ahead - Developing Your Career - Research Staff Conference
The 2019 research staff conference is being held on 10 October (25 Sep 2019) - Last chance to win up to £2,000 to explore your idea for a new business
“We pledge to inject up to £2,000 each month into a new idea that we believe to be innovative” – Innovation Optimiser, UMIP (03 Jul 2019) - Applications now open for the May Ignition Award
Apply today for up to £2,000 to test your idea in a risk-free environment (02 May 2019) - Interested in commercialising your research?
Few places remaining for new funded 'Researcher to Innovator' programme (25 Apr 2019) - StartUp Spotlight: Consumer response and behaviour
This month's StartUp Spotlight hears from Dr Eleanor Trimble, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Nudge Insights (05 Apr 2019) - Second series of the ‘Researcher to Innovator’ programme to launch
Due to popular demand, the UMIP Innovation Optimiser are pleased to announce the launch of a second series of the Researcher to Innovator (R2I) programme in May (29 Mar 2019) - ‘Ignite Your Idea’ with up to £2,000 feasibility funding
Do you have an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, or believe you’ve discovered a solution to a problem? (22 Mar 2019) - Announcing our February Ignition Award winner
Dr Daniel White, Senior Scientific Officer from Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, has won February's Ignition Award through the UMIP Innovation Optimiser (12 Mar 2019) - March Ignition Awards now open for applications
Up to £2,000 funding is available through the Innovation Optimiser every month (08 Mar 2019) - The Staff Survey has arrived!
Complete the Staff Survey 2019 and make your thoughts count (04 Mar 2019) - Outcomes of Senate nomination and election process
Following the recent Senate nomination and election process, the staff listed will become Senate members from 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2022 (27 Feb 2019) - Double Innovation Lab success on Fintech and Healthy Ageing and Technology
Faculty Business Engagement team bring academics and businesses together. (22 Feb 2019) - The School of Law and School of Social Sciences to merge
Board of Governors approves recommendation (21 Feb 2019) - Spotlight on research – SPARK report
Here are the particular highlights featured in this issue: (21 Jan 2019) - Interested in research? Subscribe to the Research Lifecycle newsletter
The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support The University of Manchester in meeting its goal of being one of the top 25 research universities in the world (21 Jan 2019) - Researcher to Innovator programme available for Early Career Researchers
A new, fully-funded ‘Researcher to Innovator’ programme available for 30 Early Career Researchers at University of Manchester (18 Jan 2019) - Investing in Success explores US leading-edge technologies and implications
Philip Shapira, Professor of Innovation Management and Policy at Alliance Manchester Business School, has recently returned from a fieldwork visit to the San Francisco Bay Area. (11 Dec 2018) - Join the march to unveil Manchester’s new Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
University of Manchester staff and students are being encouraged to join a march to St Peter’s Square to take part in the unveiling of a statue of suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst. (11 Dec 2018) - WATCH – Open meeting with Patrick Hackett and the PSLT
Watch the live stream of both open meetings with Patrick Hackett and the PSLT on StaffNet (30 Nov 2018)