Colleague Engagement Survey
Our Colleague Engagement Survey is an important way for all colleagues to share how engaged they feel in the work they do, what they value most about working here and where things could, and should, be better.
The survey, which runs annually, is your opportunity to be totally open and honest and tell us what’s working and what isn’t.
Your responses are invaluable and will help us deliver on our strategy ambitions to 2035, as well as a range of local actions, all contributing towards making our University a better place to work for all.
This year, the survey will launch on Tuesday 10 March and run until Tuesday 31 March.
We really want to hear what you think – what’s going well and what you feel isn’t working so we know what we need to do together to create the kind of supportive and empowering culture where we can all thrive and do our best work.
Why should I complete the survey?
By completing this survey, you’ll ensure we have a clear picture of what it’s like to work here.
We’ve used your feedback from the 2025 survey to shape our Manchester 2035 strategy and more than 400 local and University-wide actions are underway – you can find out more via our news feed.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be sharing short video clips under the key themes from 2025 to demonstrate the types of actions taking place across the University.
Everything you tell us in this survey is completely confidential. Your individual responses won’t be shared with us, but with an independent organisation called People Insight who are running the survey for us.
If you have any concerns about this either before, or after sharing your views, you can contact People Insight directly via this email address support@peopleinsight.co.uk
Research colleagues
This year, Research colleagues are also asked to complete some additional questions which will help us develop our action plan for the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
Thank you for taking part, we genuinely appreciate you taking time to share your views.
2025 Results
Survey results are available on our Previous Surveys section. Local leaders have been asked to share more details with their teams.
Read our latest news where we’ve taken action
We have been running Engagement Surveys (previously known as Staff Survey) for a number of years. Your feedback means that we can put together action plans to make a real difference and make positive changes. In addition to these surveys, we also have lots of other ways that colleagues can feedback or ask questions, and all of this is used to make positive change. You can read some of our latest news to see the sorts of things that have happened because of your feedback on the ‘Your Voice Matters’ hub.