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Platforms
Our research platforms provide leadership and resource to connect, drive and amplify interdisciplinary collaborations.
Across the University we build connections between academics, faculties and institutes, to bring together expertise which can offer the widest range of insight and innovation to tackle pressing challenges and embrace exciting opportunities. These connections lead to cutting edge collaborative research, inform teaching and learning, and spur innovation.
Beyond campus, we are working with people and organisations, be they business or civic, cultural institutions or sector professionals, policymakers or publics, to ensure that The University of Manchester’s work in each of our platform priority areas is driven, designed and produced with partnership and lasting impact at its core.
Creative Manchester
Creative Manchester offers academics and researchers the opportunity to partner with city-based and UK-wide arts and cultural organisations.
The platform also seeks to develop and sustain interdisciplinary research communities across the University and promote creativity as a practice in all research areas across the three Faculties.
Their work sits under three research themes:
- Creative Industries and Innovation
- Creativity, Health and Wellbeing
- Creative and Civic Futures
Digital Futures
Digital Futures is an interdisciplinary network that operates across the University’s digital research, bringing together more than 1700 researchers from all three Faculties.
The platform presents the University’s digital research activity to external stakeholders and facilitates collaboration between our communities to explore new research areas and support Greater Manchester’s ambition as a leading digital city.
The seven themes of the platform's work focus on societal challenges that have the potential to be transformed by digital technology.
Healthier Futures
Health inequalities span the globe, affecting individuals, communities, and populations. From gender to geography, economics to ethnicity, all these factors and more affect the opportunities people have to lead healthy lives.
Healthier Futures is bringing together academics, policymakers, campaign groups and businesses to act upon the causes and consequences of health inequalities around the world. The Platform is mobilising research from across disciplines at The University of Manchester, building capacity and communities, and developing solutions in partnership with practitioners, policymakers and publics.
Policy@Manchester
Policy@Manchester makes an impact on local, national and international politics by ensuring our research is used to inform legislation in the areas that matter.
As the sector-leading policy engagement institute, Policy@Manchester connects our world-leading researchers with policymakers, nurtures long-term policy engagement relationships, and enhances stakeholder understanding of pressing policy challenges.
Sustainable Futures
Sustainable Futures brings together the depth and breadth of our internationally leading research communities to create truly sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.
The platform works to align, connect, celebrate and grow our social, economic and environmental sustainability research across six challenges to explore opportunities, contestations, solutions and unintended consequences across key global issues including climate change, circular economy, food and water security, biodiversity, and future energy systems.