Research beacons features
Get an in-depth insight into how we are tackling some of the biggest questions facing the planet.
Research stories marked with this icon link to one of our Faculty websites.
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Medical aid register
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Direct cash transfers
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Social Justice
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Energy poverty
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Reframing gender, arts policy and writer development in contemporary society
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Improving development policy to deliver inclusive growth and reduce poverty
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Getting gender on the devolution agenda in Greater Manchester
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Shaping strategies to prevent domestic abuse
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Combatting energy injustices
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Promoting inclusive labour markets
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Gender equality in global value chains
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History for humanitarians
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Diversifying the history curriculum
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Sustainability through group farming
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Supporting, developing and promoting artists from conflict zones
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Tackling cardiovascular disease
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Reviewing the role of nuclear in a net zero future
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Driving change in womb cancer detection
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Using graphene to tackle cancer
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Delivering new drug discoveries
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Team science: transforming the cancer research environment
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Using nanotechnology for targeted delivery
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Bringing research beacons together to advance early detection of cancers
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New strategies to treat ovarian cancer
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Biomedical Research Centre: a local approach to world-leading cancer research
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Striving for risk stratification in cancer treatment
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An immunology revolution
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World's oceans could hold fuels of the future
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Blowing in the right direction
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Opinion: Climate targets: when is net zero really net zero?
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Reducing the impact of childhood leukaemia in India
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Filtering the colour from whisky
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Using graphene membranes to control waterflow
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The nano petri-dish
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The Manchester Cancer Research Centre partnership
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Benefits of partnership: The Christie perspective
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Bringing tomorrow’s medicines to patients today
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Reducing cancer mortality rates in children in India.
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Personalisation: Genetic signatures for radiotherapy
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Building a clinical trials infrastructure
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Pioneering precision radiotherapy treatment
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Tackling cancer through academic and industry collaboration
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Developing blood tests to capture cancer cells
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Influencing NHS policy on lung cancer screening
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A multidisciplinary approach driving innovation in personalised medicine
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Using big data to answer big research questions
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Home-focused research bringing global benefits
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The indisputable case for prevention and early detection
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Martian technology can monitor treatments
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Rising powers and global production standards
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Paving the way for better prostate cancer treatment
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Aligning research to improve prostate cancer patient outcomes
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Inequality and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Childhood urban inequalities in Latin America
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Leaving no one behind by 2030
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Manchester Migration Lab
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Gender equality in the cocoa-chocolate value chain
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Bringing human rights and business closer together
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How can we reduce poverty in Greater Manchester?
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Addressing global inequalities for 200 years
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The first Human Development Report for Greater Manchester
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How perforated industrial relations worsen inequalities in the UK
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Retirement marks a widening stress gap
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What history can teach us about humanitarianism
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The shifting geography of global inequality
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Taking on Inequalities event
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Making states more effective and development inclusive
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The role of climate change in inequality
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Advancing women’s rights in an unequal world
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Is the living wage the answer to the UK productivity puzzle?
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How should universities work with business to meet society’s call on innovation?
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The UK-Med response to Ebola in Sierra Leone
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Making aero engines perform better
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Bringing clean water to the world
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A flight into the future
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Opinion: A materials renaissance to spark disruption
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Cleaner water, bluer skies: materials for a new age
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The 2D revolution
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Turning science into big business
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Feed, fuel and heal the world
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Grown for home: household biotechnology
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Enabling early diagnosis of life-changing diseases
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Mother of the sea: Dr Kathleen Drew-Baker
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Helping to conserve our natural environment
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Yeast transformer may accelerate medicine development
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How the weekly shop is saving lives
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Cancer medicine – the personal approach
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Saving children’s lives across the globe
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Helping more women to survive breast cancer
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A cross-disciplinary approach to cancer
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Helping to reduce mortality rates among children in India
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Pioneering ground-breaking proton beam research
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Bringing oncology and immunology together
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60 years of the HV lab
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Opinion: Expecting more from our infrastructure
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Getting graphic: bioenergy for the future
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Opinion: Climate change - a global cause, an individual’s duty?
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Opinion: A nuclear future
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Robots doing the dirty work
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Understanding the macro emissions of microwaves
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Environment, energy and equality
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Opinion: The vision behind the second dash for gas
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Sustaining our future