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1 8th most innovative Contents Credentials university in Europe*** 6th in the UK, 8th in Europe, £3.3m investment for 33rd in the world** Creative Manchester, 2 23 equipping graduates for Five research beacons the creative industries Find yourself Getting the student at Manchester home you want Best UK city to live in* 6 24 University of the year for Heritage heroes Seven Manchester must-dos Community graduate employment**** 40,000 students from £135k raised for charities 9/10 of our recent graduates go straight 10 26 more than 160 countries by students each year into employment or further study Stellify stars Flavours of Manchester £ The first UK university to provide peer support 14 28 for every first-year undergraduate student More than just a degree More to explore 400+ societies formed by students reach out to our local and global communities 287 students from 16 30 developing countries supported through Make yourself at home An international perspective the Equity and Merit 25 Nobel Prize winners have programme worked or studied here 1,600+ Manchester students, staff and alumni 22 33 took part in the 2019 Great Manchester Run Where do you belong? Getting connected UK’s largest students’ union Cover image: Illustration credits: If you’d like to be removed from our Abstract from the staircase of our P6 and 7: Heritage heroes print marketing mailing list: grade II listed Rutherford Building. @janes_drawing. If you do not wish to receive further print Ernest Rutherford walked these P26 and 27: Food illustrations by marketing communications from the Student *The Economist’s Global Liveability Index 2019 corridors and it’s where the first artificial Hawwa Alam, BA (Hons) History student Communications and Marketing Team, **Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 nuclear reaction took place, sometimes at The University of Manchester. please email [email protected] ***Reuters Top 100: Europe’s Most described as ‘splitting the atom’. @hawwaetc with your name and University of Manchester Innovative Universities 2019 ID number. ****The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 2 3 “ I BELONG IN A PLACE WHERE THEY ARE WISE... Find yourself at Manchester Inclusivity and ambition lie at the heart fulfilment. And we want to help you of our success at The University of to articulate and achieve your highest Manchester. It’s what attracts world- aspirations, your wildest dreams. leading minds, global industrial partners and international graduate employers to Choose Manchester and tackle life’s HERE, WHERE our historic doors. biggest challenges across multiple disciplines. Learn from, work alongside We thrive best and achieve the most and contribute to multiple local and when we welcome diverse people and global communities. Participate in a perspectives, embracing and combining wealth of transformative activities and differing talents, expertise and opportunities that can set you on your THE EDUCATED experiences, and watching as creative personal path to success. ideas develop. Find yourself at Manchester – and find We know that each and every one of you where you belong. has an individual path to tread, a unique calling to personal and professional LEARN TO RISE.” 4 5 INSPIRE Open the dawn in the open sky. The laboratory. Open the book, open the challenge, with open eyes. AND BE Open. Out. Look. Open all minds, open all dreams. Research, question. Open all doors, INSPIRED open all senses, open all defenses. Ask: What were these closed for? In the possibilities of light, the nature of trust, the strength of unassailable us. How strong the night lies as light aeriates the dark and atomic dreams multiply from a graphene heart. We who have walked the world in the name of here and where we came from stand in this great city and say: I belong here, I belong. I bring my past, I bring my future. I bring my rights and I bring my song. I stand atop The University of Manchester. We belong here. We belong. With characteristic elegance of expression, Manchester poet and University Chancellor Lemn Sissay reveals how The University of Manchester welcomes people from all walks of life, inspiring us as individuals while uniting us as one community. 6 7 HERITAGE HEROES For nearly 200 years Manchester has led the way in shaping the modern world through our discoveries, ideas and knowledge, aiming to improve people’s lives through our research and teaching. Meet some of our pioneers in their fields – and dare to dream of your own story of success. Christabel Pankhurst Arthur Lewis Manchester Law graduate Christabel Pankhurst Originally from the West Indies, Arthur Lewis became couldn’t practise law in 1906 because she was a woman. Britain’s first black professor when appointed at Instead she became a driving force in the suffragette Manchester. Considered a global expert in his field movement, helping to break down the barriers of of economics, he gained a Nobel Prize in 1979 for his gender inequality and secure women the right to vote. work undertaken here. Alan Turing Catherine Chisholm Mathematician, computer scientist and World War II Manchester’s first female graduate of medicine, code-breaker Alan Turing came to Manchester in Catherine Chisholm, became a paediatrician and 1948 to carry out pioneering work on the world’s worked hard with local women and civic leaders to earliest computers. His revolutionary work on found the Manchester Babies Hospital in 1914 – computational theory and artificial intelligence now the Duchess of York Hospital for Babies. She is remains at the heart of computer science today. considered the founder of modern neonatology. uom.link/my-heritageheroes 8 9 DEVELOPING Support for success TOMORROW’S Your personal academic contact offers tailored, informed advice on your studies as well as on practical HEROES and pastoral issues. Today, our continued investment in Should you prefer to talk to a fellow, more experienced, student, world-changing research and learning you’ll find several successful peer means you’ll be taught by, and even work support programmes. alongside, some of the finest minds across For financial, academic and the globe, enjoying exceptional resources, wellbeing support, use our Student Support and Advice website, or facilities and support services. speak to the ResLife team if you live in University accommodation. For personal advice and support, our University Counselling Service and Students’ Union Advice Service can help, while Nightline offers a sympathetic ear throughout the night. uom.link/my-studentsupport Groundbreaking research Always open, always on Discover innovative projects, Experience flexible services designed technologies and policies that will to meet your needs, giving you access to shape the future. knowledge, advice and resources around the clock via various channels. Take multidisciplinary courses based on cutting-edge research from inspiring Enjoy 24/7 access to modern, flexible Manchester academics via our University study spaces at our Alan Gilbert College of Interdisciplinary Learning. Learning Commons, designed for and by our students. Discover inspiring perspectives and discussions on topics of global Access exceptional library resources importance, plus excellent networking both in person and online, including opportunities, at our public lectures one of the world’s finest collections and international conferences. of rare books and manuscripts. Be one of the first to try out new Learn at your leisure with downloadable and emerging technologies at our podcasts of your lectures. free Digilab events. 10 11 Callum - STELLIFY Learning without boundaries Originally from Moston, in Manchester, STARS Callum Mogridge was never encouraged to aim for university until he went to college. After completing the Manchester Access Programme (the University’s Social responsibility is a core goal of flagship widening participation scheme), he received a donor-funded scholarship the University. That’s why we provide to study psychology at the University. He decided to use his Stellify experience everyone with opportunities to make to volunteer with school children, a difference to the world and to helping the next generation to realise choose their own way of doing so. their potential. Be inspired by what you could achieve “I volunteered for a year in a high school in Moston and worked with children with by three of our Stellify trailblazers. behavioural issues and learning disorders on a 1-2-1 basis, running through the lesson with them to give them the support and attention they needed.” “It was great to see them develop! You’re giving something to young people who wouldn’t get that perspective otherwise and they could be the person that comes up with a cure for cancer, so it’s giving them that equal opportunity and raising “The bond we formed their aspirations.” is something I will “I also started a voluntary role working with the LGBT foundation doing HR work. This is helping me put my organisational always cherish.” psychology into practice, get more experience and develop skills while working for a good cause.” “I love the idea of learning without Aya - boundaries. You can get a lot out of your degree but you can get a lot outside of it as Understanding the issues that matter well. Stellify has that framework to encourage people to do more with a degree.” While studying for the BSc in International Stellify, is an example of one of these “I also took up a role as a PASS Development, Aya Wietzorrek took opportunities that I was looking for.” (Peer-assisted Study Sessions) leader, part in the University’s Ethical Grand assisting first-year students in their Challenges, a set of activities open to “My most memorable moment as part of Introduction to Mathematics module. all students, to explore three of the 21st the Stellify experience was volunteering While it was challenging at times, it was “Stellify has that century’s biggest issues: sustainability, during my first year at the International great to help students with something social justice and workplace ethics.