The 2025 Magazine is out now! Featuring: - @duncanivison.bsky.social on Manchester’s bold future - Simon Johnson on the journey to his Nobel Prize - Dr Leo Geyer revives music composed more than 80 years ago in Auschwitz Read it now! 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

Developed in partnership with leading clean energy firm Enviromena, the project is one of the largest ever renewable energy initiatives in the UK and represents our long-term commitment to sustainability and energy resilience. Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

She commissioned the library, curated its collections, and oversaw its neo-Gothic design. 27,000 visitors came in its first year - a testament to her vision of accessible culture. Read the full story: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

In 2025, the John Rylands Library celebrates 125 years. But did you know it was founded by Enriqueta Rylands - not John? A visionary philanthropist, she shaped Manchester’s cultural soul.

The UK has used less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed, according to a new report published by @tyndallcentre.bsky.social. Paper features @aliceclimate.bsky.social and Dr Gaurav Gharde. doi.org/10.71535/483...

🎙️ What does it take to build a lifelong learning city? In this episode of the EduTrends podcast, Professors Ang Davies and Simon Thomson share how Manchester is leading the way - with flexible, inclusive education that offers students control over their learning. Listen now 👇 @digisim.bsky.social

Dr Leo Geyer’s journey took him from music undergraduate at Manchester to leading The Lost Music of Auschwitz - a decade-long project to recover, reconstruct & perform music written in Nazi camps. His story 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

2/2 Are you interested in researching artificial intelligence (AI) from a cultural, social, political, or environmental perspective? This event will include walkthroughs, a group workshop, and discussions on creative AI methods, uses and applicability - all run by Dr Sam Hind.

Take a look at my blog with Prof Jackie Carter, out today. The blog discusses the benefits that students get from attending #ukdataservice data skills training events.

💓 Data from the British Regional Heart Study (BRHS) is now available via the UK Data Service. The BRHS is a landmark cohort study of 7,735 men recruited from 24 British towns in 1978–80, with almost 50 years of follow-up: beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogu...

⏰ Only one week to go until our next computational social science drop-in! This is a free UK Data Service data drop-in where everyone can get or give help on computational social science projects. 📅 16 September 2025 ⏰ 13:00-14:00 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/compu...

✨ Join us on 22 September for our Working with Reddit data workshop! This free workshop will introduce natural language processing and sentiment analysis using Reddit as a case study. 📅 22 September 2025 ⏰ 13:00-15:00 📍 Online 🧷 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/worki...

Many of the keynote speeches at #RSS2025 have been very insightful to over 900 attendees, from over 50 countries. Claire Miller, from @uofglasgow.bsky.social talked about working with @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social to transform Glasgow into a climate resilient city. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📢Professor Liz Richardson, Head of @uompols.bsky.social has played a vital role in a major government review suggesting public design could help public services achieve their goals. Read about the landmark Public Design Evidence Review (PDER)🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk... #SoSSResearch #SoSSImpact

🚨 £1.3bn lost to NHS fraud each year. Project SCAN led by @northumbriauni.bsky.social, with contributions from two @criminologyuom.bsky.social academics, @profnicklord.bsky.social .social and Dr Katie Benson, aims to change that. 🔗 Read more at the link below: #SoSSResearch #UoMImpact #NHS

Curating trauma. Archiving protest. Interpreting dangerous texts. What are the risks & responsibilities of engaging with difficult histories? Join @criminologyuom.bsky.social for Dangerous Writings, a symposium for curators, archivists & researchers Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dangerous-...

A new study led by Dr Andrea Aparicio-Castro and Professor Arkadiusz Wiśniowski (@socialstats.bsky.social) at @manchester.ac.uk has uncovered how people moved between South America and Europe from 1985 to 2018, and how those patterns could change by 2050. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/h...

This week we were very happy to announce the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. From the hidden world of manufacturing to botanists under siege during the Second World War find out more about the six superb books: #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

📊🌍 From local to global: Understanding demographic change is vital for shaping sustainable futures. Prof. Arkadiusz Wisniowski (Head of @socialstats.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social) shared insights on falling birth rates in two key media appearances last week. ⬇️

👏 Huge congrats to Prof Natalie Shlomo @socialstats.bsky.social for winning the 2025 ESRA Outstanding Service Award! 🏆 She champions high-quality survey data to reduce bias in the digital & AI era. A true leader in social statistics! 📊 🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

📉 Youth mental health in England is in alarming decline Report from @uomseed.bsky.social finds that worsening mental health in 14–24-year-olds is widespread & driven by social & economic pressures. The first-of-its-kind study calls for urgent, systemic change. ⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“My disappointment is the closure of churches. What they’ve forgotten is there was a social aspect to churches. It’s an anchor.” – Doris, 86 years old @lucilang.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social on the impact of lockdown on older people's faith-based routines. #OpenAccess buff.ly/wCcSnD1

New article from @amit-singh.bsky.social on how young working-class people balance potential risk and reward in decisions on whether to go to university 👇🏾

🎧Dharmi Kapadia contributes to this episode of #AntiSocial on racism & prejudice. Dharmi discusses our research on the many complex, overlapping & accumulating impacts of racism. (Dharmi's section starts around 22:40mins) @uomsoss.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Breaking: Trump says he ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, accusing the labor statistics commissioner of manipulating jobs data.

🚨Check out our new article in International Migration Review led by Andrea Aparicio Castro with Arkadiusz Wiśniowski & Michaela Potančoková @iiasa.ac.at Estimating and Conditional Forecasting Bilateral Migration Flows Between South America and Europe, 1985–2050 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for urgent action to tackle what it calls a global crisis of loneliness and social disconnection, in a new report informed by the research of Professor Pamela Qualter, the UK's leading scientific expert on child and adolescent loneliness. @who.int

👋 Hello from the Researcher Development Team @manchester.ac.uk – we’re here to support researchers at every stage of their journey. Expect tips, updates, opportunities, and the occasional meme about writing your thesis at 2am. #ResearcherDevelopment #UoMResearch

✍ Some texts don’t just tell stories - they challenge systems, expose injustice, and demand accountability. @criminologyuom.bsky.social invites you to a symposium exploring what it means to work with writing that unsettles and resists. Find out more and register here ⤵️

Learn more about this and other Suffragette collections in this blog post: rylandscollections.com/2025/03/08/v...

#OTD in 1928 the Equal Franchise Act was passed finally giving women the same voting rights as men. This mechanical card (c1912) shows a Suffragette and policeman with facial expressions that change as the wheel is turned. The Suffragettes campaigned for votes for women.

Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer. bsky.app/profile/manc... bsky.app/profile/uom-...

📢 We're hiring a new Research Associate! 📅16 July 2025 Join our team and contribute to Creative Manchester's strategy through research and activities that have a demonstrable positive impact on society through creative research and practice. 🔗 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Mitchell Centre M Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences here at Manchester in September 2025. Register until 14 July here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen.... We have introductory, R-based, and statistical network analysis courses. #sna #NetworkAnalysis #socsky

Booking is open for the @mitchellsna.bsky.social Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences! 📅15–26 Sept 2025 @manchester.ac.uk 3 hands-on courses, no prior experience needed 👉 Book by 30th June: estore.manchester.ac.uk/short-course... @socialstats.bsky.social @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Mitchell Centre Summer School on social network analysis: registration deadline extended until 14 July 2025. We have both basic and advanced courses. #sna #polisky #NetworkAnalysis #SummerSchool #netsci @socialstats.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social

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And discover more about the work of the @manchester.ac.uk's Christabel Pankhurst Institute for health technology research and innovation. www.pankhurst.manchester.ac.uk

This time last week we were delighted to support the @austerityalters.bsky.social Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a brilliant lunch meeting for communities, practitioners & @manchester.ac.uk peeps to explore how to act together on vital anti-poverty ambitions #fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom

New article by @roaa-ali.bsky.social and me - coming out of @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research on how agendas of inclusivity and diversity played out in a museum setting. We make the case that a focus on anti-racism would have produced more critical change.

We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England. Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿 #PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/

✨ Yan Wang (@ywangsoc.bsky.social), @socialstats.bsky.social Improving Information Extraction in Online Discussions Using Effective NLP Pipelines research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/y... 2/5

✨ Carl Death, @uompols.bsky.social African Climate Futures: Reading policy strategies and climate fiction as ecopolitical imaginaries research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/c... 7/7

✨ Valentina Zagaria, Social Anthropology “Flouka in the sky” - subverting migration narratives through collaborative research and performance research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/v... 6/7

✨ Dr Jessica Mancuso, @uomsociology.bsky.social Manchester Village Stories Project: Evaluating Online Place-Based Memory Mapping www.linkedin.com/in/jrmancuso/ 5/7

✨ Andrew Balmer, @uomsociology.bsky.social Painting with Data: Bringing Vitality to Qualitative Transcripts research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a... 3/7

✨ Dr Lisa Williams, @criminologyuom.bsky.social Stitching for Change: A public engagement approach inspiring conversations about drugs and drug policy research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/l... 2/7

✨Simon Rudkin, @socialstats.bsky.social A Social Data Space research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/s... 5/5

💡 We’re celebrating quantitative methodological innovations that are shaping the future of social sciences. Let's take a closer look at the second panel ‘New Frontiers in Quantitative Social Science’ #SoSSResearch #QuantivativeInnovation #CreativeMethods 1/5