Our impact

We're tackling energy poverty across Europe.

Our research shows how group farming initiatives can provide a sustainable livelihood.

Our platform for research, partnerships, and funding within the creative industries and beyond.

An interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of our digital research.

We have developed a methodology to resolve workplace bullying allegations.

We have helped shaped global approaches to energy, decarbonisation and biodiversity loss.

We're focusing on sustainability transitions in energy, food, and mobility systems.

Our research into monetary and macroprudential policies and the development of theoretical and quantitative macroeconomic models.

We're supporting schools to teach diverse histories with new resources.

Our research improves ethical practices with international students in higher education.

We're helping organisations realise and implement gender-equitable strategies to benefit their female workforce.

Our research has highlighted the importance and need for gender equality and diversity within policymaking in Greater Manchester.

Our research is supporting the professional development of natural voice singers and inspring choirs and singing networks worldwide.

We're addressing all aspects of inequality, from poverty to social justice, and living conditions to workplace equality.

Our research has helped to design sustainable public procurement policies to boost productivity and address social problems.

Our research has led to changes in strategy and training in some of the largest humanitarian organisations.

We're building and maintaining strong community and stakeholder engagement in restoring post-industrial landscapes.

We're demonstrating that landscape restoration offers a low-cost way to reduce flood risk.

We're helping the UK government and water sector create new approaches for understanding water demand.

We're highlighting how we can support socially vulnerable and climate-disadvantaged communities.

Systems that enable companies to collaborate on complex manufacturing activities are vital.

Our research into the politics of development encouraged the UK government to launch inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction programmes that have impacted the lives of more than one million people.

Our researchers evaluated two NHS schemes that provided 7-day access to GP services.

We have undertaken extensive comparative analyses of interventions that promote inclusive labour.

Our research has had a major impact at policy level nationally.

Research by our academics has significantly benefitted two SMEs.

Our research has informed and improved responses to UK and international emergencies.

We've transformed sustainable infrastructure provision at a local and global level.

Supporting schools and their partners to implement long-term sustainable change in disadvantaged areas.

Changing how young people apply for higher education courses.

We're providing an evidence base to inform employment debates and policies.

Improve access to outdoor and green spaces that inspire physical activity, support wellbeing and a connection with nature.

We're helping Glastonbury Festival reduce waste via education and behavioural change initiatives.

The University's Centre for New Writing is developing new writers, informing arts policy and enriching national conversations about identity.

We're showing how the UK's upland peatlands can be restored to assist the fight against climate change.

Our research has been used to shape interventions for male offenders who use violenceagainst partners and has also contributed to domestic abuse policy reform in the UK.

We're working with the National Trust to encourage healthy sleep.

We have helped influence international policy and produced a unique framework towards innovation.

We're bringing to light essential data that will help inform future energy policies across Europe.

The project will develop the first robust, sensitive, and standardised scale to assess children’s emotional wellbeing in the context of primary-secondary school transitions.

We've developed a tool to illustrate the impacts of climate change on different communities.

We're producing integrated and truly sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.

We're helping to extend life expectancy and improve public health.

Researchers worked with families and communities to learn about the impacts of austerity policies on real people and their social relationships.

We helped refocus Welsh government policy around essential services and sectors.

Aiming to improve academic and social outcomes of pupils.

We're transforming the way that schools identify, monitor, and provide support for their pupils' mental health.

Our research into the Industrial Revolution inspired a major reinterpretation project at the National Trust site Quarry Bank, centred on bringing the experiences of its former workers to life.