Your Manchester 2015

The Magazine for Alumni and Friends September 2015

manchester Manchester inspires me Lemn Sissay is our new Chancellor

e bio revolution A remarkable man rough your eyes only

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University news

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Global challenges, Manchester solutions

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Manchester inspires me

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The constant challenge

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Proud of this city

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The bio revolution

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Searching for the sweet spot

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Arts about Manchester

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Through your eyes only

Welcome Working on the 2015 edition of Your Manchester has been a real treat, especially being able to re-visit some of the notable moments in the past year in order to share them with you.

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lumni and friends have been involving themselves in the life of the University more and more: as volunteers working with current students to increase their employability; as active members of University committees and the Alumni Association Advisory Board; and as donors supporting the University and its objective to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.

We consider ourselves lucky to be working with so many enthusiastic former students and you can read all about their impact on pages 35-46. if you feel inspired to get involved, please do get in touch.

This year, the University launched its five research beacons – Addressing Global inequalities, Advanced Materials, Cancer, Energy and industrial Biotechnology. These are all areas of investigation where we are world-class and distinctive. Go to pages 24-25 to see how our researchers are responding to a wide range of global challenges. not only are Manchester academics unafraid to confront difficult issues, so are fellow alumni. This year’s Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture was delivered by the Chief Medical officer for England and alumna Professor Dame Sally Davies, sharing her opinion that ‘The drugs don’t work’. She delivered a hard-hitting presentation about a not-toodistant future where antimicrobial resistance could render our current antibiotic treatments ineffectual, unless we take radical and decisive action now. Read more about her predictions and what we can do to help on pages 21-23.

These are just a few highlights, but there’s so much more – the election of a new Chancellor, a Foundation Day Lecture that received a standing ovation, the single biggest philanthropic gift the University has ever received, the re-opening of the Whitworth Art Gallery, and the biggest turn-out in a Students’ Union election in our history. Read on, it’s all here.

Claire Kilner Deputy Director and Head of Alumni & Donor Communications & Engagement your.manchester.ac.uk Update your email details Email: alumni@manchester.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 306 3066

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A remarkable man

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50 years of original thinking

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Polls, pundits and politics

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Making a difference

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The drugs don’t work

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Summer Graduation 2015

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ConTACT US Your Manchester is published by the Division of Development and Alumni Relations in conjunction with the Division of Communications and Marketing, The University of Manchester.

For further information concerning any of the articles in this issue: Tel: +44 (0) 161 306 3066 Email: alumni@manchester.ac.uk The articles printed here, to the best of our knowledge, were correct at the time of going to press. We cannot guarantee that all articles submitted will be printed and we reserve the right to edit material where necessary. Furthermore, the views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester Alumni Association or the Editor.

Thanks to Kate Horton, Simon Harvey and Karen Daniel.

Cover: Lemn Sissay, The University of Manchester’s new Chancellor (see page 8).

Photo credit: Aida Muluneh © 2013 Addis Ababa

A strong and growing reputation Reputation, which generally means how we are perceived by others, is extremely important to all organisations. For universities, reputation can influence the recruitment of excellent staff and students, various funding streams, collaborations and very much more.

Reputation is quite hard to define precisely and even more difficult to measure. it depends on excellence in our core activities. Without this, no amount of marketing and branding will yield a high global standing.

Yet excellence also needs to be recognised and hence communicated effectively to our many diverse audiences and stakeholders.

We have much to celebrate and communicate that will enhance our global reputation and it is reassuring that, as i travel around various parts of the world, the reputation of The University of Manchester is strong and growing.

We have put significant effort into communicating our strengths and achievements through the media, promotional materials, our website and social media. Several recent accolades suggest that this is paying off.

As our valued alumni, our friends around the world, you are the global ambassadors and advocates for The University of Manchester, and are therefore able to play an important part in enhancing our reputation and communicating our strengths. in progressing towards our Manchester 2020 strategic plan, our ambition to be among the leading universities in the world is paramount. But we know that to achieve that goal we will require further investment and a commitment to quality in research, education and social responsibility. And we don’t underestimate the scale of the

challenge ahead in the face of rising costs, declining public funding and increased global competition.

But there is undoubtedly so much to look forward to and celebrate at a time of fascinating and unprecedented developments and opportunities. no doubt you’ll have seen or read about the planned devolved nHS healthcare budget for Greater Manchester, and the joining up of health and social care delivery. i think there will be much that we, as a University, can contribute to and benefit from in the devolution of powers and budget to our region as part of the northern Powerhouse. next year, as European City of Science, Manchester will host Europe’s greatest scientific gathering. The EuroScience open Forum (ESoF) is a pan-European event dedicated to scientific research and innovation. ESoF will help us to look to the future and the ways in which breakthroughs

in research can revolutionise the economy and make a real impact on the challenges facing our society. it promises to be a great event. of course, ultimately our reputation must always depend on the quality of our achievements and the distinctiveness that makes this University so unique. if you share the pride i have in The University of Manchester then, please, feel free to shout it from the rooftops.

Thank you for your continuing support for and interest in the University.

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor

AT A glANCE The University of Manchester is ranked 41st in the world by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of Universities (5th in the UK, 8th in Europe) We have the largest campus-based student community in the UK We have regular contact with over 300,000 alumni from over 200 countries and territories More than 94% of our graduates go straight into employment or further study (HESA 2013/14) We have 25 nobel Prize winners among current and former staff and students The Research Excellence Framework 2014 judged 83% of our research activity to be 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' We attracted more than £297 million in research funding in 2013/14 www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/facts-figures

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

Research Excellence Framework 2014 The national centre for graphene research

The University of Manchester's place as one of the UK's top research universities was confirmed in the results of the national 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) – the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

recognised our excellent research environment and how our research is having a genuine influence on the real lives of people, as evidenced by a series of impact case studies, from new drugs and inventions to public policy.

The scale and diversity of our submission confirms Manchester’s status as a genuine research powerhouse. Eighty-three per cent of our research activity was judged to be 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent', and we were ranked in fifth place in terms of research power. The REF exercise also

Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, said, "These results confirm Manchester as one of only a handful of the UK's leading research universities across a wide range of subjects, but also as a university with a commitment to making a real difference to society and the world we live in.”

visit www.manchester.ac.uk/research/ref-2014 to see the University’s full set of results and a selection of impact case studies. See pages 24-25 for an overview of our five research beacons, and pages 12-13 for an in-depth look at industrial biotechnology.

Our tenth anniversary

Falklands War veteran Simon Weston, author Professor Jeanette Winterson and Professor Dame Julia King received honorary degrees as part of the University’s Foundation Day celebrations: Professor Winterson delivered the Foundation Day address (see pages 9-11)

Foundation Day celebrations on 22 october 2014 marked ten years since the formal creation of The University of Manchester.

The presentation of a new Royal Charter by HM The Queen brought together the victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester institute of Science and Technology (UMiST). one of the ways we marked this special occasion was to

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launch a new video, The University of Manchester: in our own words, which records the reflections of our staff, students and stakeholders on the University today.

To watch The University of Manchester: in our own words, visit www.youtube.com/ watch?v= R8BNl74oJj0

Professor Sir Kostya novoselov and Chancellor George osborne at the opening of the nGi

Chancellor of the Exchequer George osborne officially opened the national Graphene institute (nGi) and toured its cleanrooms and laboratories with nobel laureate Professor Sir Kostya novoselov. More than 35 companies from across the world have already chosen to partner with the University working on graphene-related projects.

Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, said, “The nGi is an incredible asset, not only to this University and to Manchester but also to the UK. it is fundamental to continuing the world-class graphene research which was started in Manchester.”

The nGi is a significant first step in the vision to create a Graphene City® in Manchester. Set to open in 2017, the Graphene Engineering innovation Centre will complement the nGi and initiate further industry-led development in graphene applications with academic collaboration. visit www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk for the latest news from graphene@Manchester

Double celebration at Jodrell Bank The University’s Jodrell Bank observatory site will host the international headquarters of the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This exciting and ambitious project involves 11 ‘member countries’ and over 100 institutions and companies across the world. SKA is made up of thousands of dishes spread out in remote areas of South Africa and Australia.

The observatory has also received Heritage Lottery Fund support for a £12 million bid for the First Light project, which aims to conserve and restore the heritage of the Jodrell Bank site.

Physicist and broadcaster Professor Brian Cox oBE (BSc Physics 1995, PhD Physics 1998) welcomed the announcement, saying,

Jodrell Bank hosted the BBC’s Stargazing Live: (left-right) Professor Brian Cox oBE, Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, Dara o’Briain and BBC Director General Tony Hall experienced the solar eclipse on 20 March 2015. Brian has been appointed the Royal Society’s first Professor for Public Engagement in Science.

“The rich scientific history of the UK is a key part of our culture and Jodrell Bank is the stand-out icon of UK science and engineering. When i was young, visiting Jodrell Bank was one of the things that inspired me to become a scientist. This new project will inspire many more young people to carry on our great tradition of science and engineering.”

World leader in research and innovation Chancellor of the Exchequer George osborne announced in his Autumn Statement 2014 that the University will be home to a new national research and innovation centre in advanced materials. The Sir Henry Royce institute for Materials Research and innovation will allow the UK to grow its world-leading research base in advanced-materials science, which is fundamental to all industrial sectors and the national economy.

Campus Masterplan update The first phase of the Campus Masterplan is now well underway with planned completion by 2019. The University is investing over £300 million to create a bespoke engineering campus in the centre of the city, on the north end of the existing oxford Road campus.

The Manchester Engineering Campus will be the largest single development ever constructed on the University’s site. Works also include new centres for the School of Law and the Alliance Manchester Business School, a major refurbishment of the University Library, and a bigger and better Students’ Union.

Keep up to date with the latest developments in this exciting building programme at www.manchester.ac.uk/masterplan

The £235 million institute will encompass 14 key areas of materials research, grouped into the four themes of Energy, Engineering, Functional and Soft Materials – critical areas to underpin the government’s industrial strategy. it will be supported by satellite centres at the founding partners, comprising the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge and oxford, and imperial College London. visit www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ explore/graphene-city/ sir-henry-royce-institute

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

Jack Dee (left) with the University's Alison Gregory and James Thompson

National award for School Governor Initiative The School Governor initiative aims to contribute to the leadership and improvement of state schools by engaging our staff and alumni. The University received the Times Higher Education Award for outstanding Contribution to the Local Community 2014 (the second year in a row we have won this award) for the initiative, which saw 241 staff and alumni use their skills as school governors in 2012/13.

Become a Dementia Friend Staff and students at the University have responded enthusiastically to the Dementia Friends initiative, which is run by the Alzheimer’s Society. We have designated it one of our Social Responsibility flagship programmes.

We recognise the project’s national importance and our ability to positively contribute towards raising awareness of and improving support for people living with dementia.

Research on dementia is a priority area for the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences; it also features strongly in various strands of activity within the cross-Faculty Manchester institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing.

Alistair Burns CBE, Professor for old Age Psychiatry, is the UK’s Dementia Tsar, with responsibility for providing clinical advice on dementia and related issues to nHS England. visit www.dementiafriends.org.uk if you are interested in becoming a Dementia Friend in your own area.

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This scheme, which is part of the University’s overall aim of making a positive difference to communities, encourages staff and alumni to bring their skills in areas such as finance, law and human resources to the role of school governors. Sir Deian Hopkin, one of the award’s judges, said, “By including alumni, Manchester now ranks highest of all UK employers involved in the Governors for Schools scheme, with governors

volunteering almost 3,000 days and impacting on 85,000 learners. This intervention has had a measurable effect on local school performance and reinforced the University’s strategic ambition to make a positive contribution to its community.” visit www.manchester.ac.uk/ connect/teachers/school-governors for further information about becoming a school governor.

Welcome to two new Deans The University has appointed two new vice-Presidents and Deans. Professor Martin Schröder, an expert in material chemistry applied to energy research, has joined the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences from the University of nottingham. Professor ian Greer, a clinician scientist and previously at the University of Liverpool, now leads the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, commented, “There are

Professor ian Greer

fantastic opportunities for us to build on the work already done in key areas such as graphene and energy and Martin’s expertise will enable us to capitalise fully on the talent and potential that The University of Manchester has at its disposal. ian is highly experienced in bringing success to a large and prominent Faculty, and he has a strong track record in partnership working between the nHS and universities in the north of England.”

Professor Martin Schröder

visit www.eps.manchester.ac.uk and www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk

European City of Science 2016 As European City of Science, Manchester will host a year-long celebration of science and innovation in 2016. The highlight will be the EuroScience open Forum (ESoF) 2016, Europe’s largest multi-disciplinary science meeting (23-27 July). The University was instrumental in securing ESoF for the city with Professor Dame nancy Rothwell and Professor Luke Georghiou as the main champions of the bid.

Ernest Rutherford in Basement Room 1 of the Coupland Building

visit www.esof.eu for details of the EuroScience open Forum’s programme.

A pioneer of sonar Manchester scientist Ernest Rutherford – famed for ‘splitting the atom’ – helped to pioneer a system we now know as sonar as part of a top secret World War i defence project. He produced a secret report in 1915 – ‘on methods of collection of sound from water and the determination of the direction of sound’ – which was to form the basis of research to develop an acoustic system to detect German U-boats, then

terrorising British merchant shipping and Royal navy battleships. Dr Christine Twigg, of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, explained, “This is the first mention of the system that would one day become modern sonar. This momentous report was the foundation of subsequent anti-submarine warfare and would safeguard thousands of Allied lives in both world wars.”

visit www.ww1.manchester.ac.uk for details of the University’s contribution and activities during World War i.

Launch of the John Rylands Research Institute The John Rylands Research institute is the focus of explorations of the University’s Special Collections. This close collaboration between Library staff and academic colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities will reveal the riches of the Rylands, which is home to many of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world.

Experienced curators and conservators look after this national treasure, which has rich, untapped potential for research and discovery. visit www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk

Lord Mayor Susan Cooley commented, “Manchester has a long and proud association with scientific achievement from the work of John Dalton on atomic theory to the first programmable computer and the recent discovery of the advanced material, graphene. And with Manchester making significant progress across numerous exciting areas of discovery including artificial intelligence, smart textiles and acoustics technology, there has never been a better time for the city to be recognised in this way.”

NEWS in BRiEF The University won a Guardian University Award for its Massive open online Course (MooC), introduction to Physical Chemistry. visit www.manchester.ac.uk/ study/online-distancelearning/moocs for our full programme of MooCs. June 2015 was a momentous month for cancer research as we celebrated the opening of our new Manchester Cancer Research Centre building, and a £5 million grant has created one of the first Cancer Research UK Major Centres. visit www.mcrc.manchester.ac.uk Manchester has been recognised by the national Apprenticeship Service as the first university in England to commit to directly recruiting apprentices to its workforce on a sizeable scale.

The Estate of Dame Kathleen ollerenshaw has established a £1.75 million fund to support visionary and pioneering pure mathematics at the University. Professor Peter Duck, Head of the School of Mathematics, said, “This charity will create a wonderful programme of mathematical discovery and excitement in Dame Kathleen’s honour, which is most appropriate as she was a great friend of the mathematics community in Manchester.”

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NEW CHANCELLOR

Manchester inspires me Poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE has been elected as the Chancellor of e University of Manchester.

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emn took up his new role on 1 August and an installation ceremony will take place at the University in october. The electorate – comprising University staff, registered alumni and members of the General Assembly – chose the award-winning writer from a shortlist of three nominees, which also included Hallé Music Director Sir Mark Elder and former Cabinet minister and Labour peer Lord [Peter] Mandelson.

The election of a new ceremonial figurehead for the University followed the completion of the seven-year tenure of Tom Bloxham MBE, the founder of Manchester-based property development company Urban Splash.

Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, said, “The Chancellor of the University, while a ceremonial office, brings with it significant ambassadorial responsibilities in helping to promote the University’s achievements worldwide, which Tom has done with enthusiasm and dedication throughout his time in office.”

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Lemn said, “A friend once told me: 'Reach for the top of the tree and you will get to the first branch, but reach for the stars and you’ll reach the top of the tree.'

The University of Manchester reaches with confidence for stars. As Chancellor of this prestigious university, i reach for them too.

“in my seven years as Chancellor, i want to see our University become one of the top 25 research institutions in the world. i wish to experience the mercurial writers and artists who change our world and the Manchester scientists who have expanded our knowledge and continue to do so.

“Thank you. i am grateful and humbled by the honour; it's my hope that i will inspire while being inspired by the remarkable people that make up this amazing community.

“if there is a northern Powerhouse, then The University of Manchester is its engine, just as this great city was the engine behind the industrial Revolution. The next

ELECTION RESULTS The report of voting for the election is as follows: Number of eligible voters:

143,915

Votes cast by post:

111

Votes cast online:

17,772

Total number of votes cast:

17,883

Lemn Sissay MBE

7,131 Elected

Sir Mark Elder CBE

5,483

The Rt Hon the Lord Mandelson

5,269

Follow Lemn on Twitter @lemnsissay We look forward to reporting on his first year as Chancellor in the next issue of Your Manchester.

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revolution is just beginning: graphene promises to be a wonder material that will change our lives. We will reach the stars quicker through the application of graphene. i want to be a part of that great journey, and other revolutions that this great institution will start.”

Let there be peace Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards , So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken thing s.

Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to me calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals.

Let the aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addi s before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms becom e frames For his dreams.

Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, clean se themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water .

Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver dartin g fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a

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one of Lemn Sissay’s poems, Let There Be Peace, is on display in University Place.

Photo by Aida Muluneh © 2013 Addis Ababa

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I am proud to be Chancellor of this fantastic University.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Proud of this city “

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Manchester is bolshie, noisy, opinionated, tough and no respecter of persons unless those persons are worthy of respect.

Professor Jeanette Winterson at the launch of the University’s Centre for new Writing

In her Foundation Day address, author and screenwriter Jeanette Winterson OBE (Hon LittD 2014), Professor of Creative Writing at the University, pulled no punches.

She declared she was proud to have been born in the city and proud to be back.

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n a passionate, rousing and typically forthright and funny oration, Jeanette championed a city where things happened first. Manchester, she said, was on the “cusp of a new identity” and “could be the new solution for Britain … because there is a new future here and one which could invigorate the whole nation.”

She delivered “a time travel round Manchester to see where we were, think about where we are and imagine where we might be.”

Weaving in some of the University’s and the city’s great names, innovations and inventions, nobel Prize winners and pioneers, captains of commerce and visionary philanthropists, she delved deep into the city’s DnA to reveal an optimism in Manchester’s new role in a resurgent Britain.

Highlighting the founders of Manchester Grammar School to owens College, the birth and growth of the University, the education of women, the Chartists, Peterloo, the Manchester Guardian, the anti-slavery movement and the Free Trade Hall – “the only civic building in the country named after a principle” – she said we must dive into the city’s radical past to discover its future.

“Christabel Pankhurst took a law degree here. When she was arrested for heckling Sir Edward Grey and Winston Churchill at the Free Trade Hall in 1905 over votes for women, she entered Strangeways to serve her sentence wearing her University gown.

What a woman, what a Manchester.

‘provincial ambition’ … the Times newspaper was against the debate and joined with the Saturday Review in concluding that ‘anyone educated in Manchester would certainly be dull, and probably vicious!’”

She loved the fact that Professors Andre Geim and Kostya novoselov had claimed that their discovery of how to extract graphene from graphite was proof that you could win a nobel Prize for “mucking about in a lab”. “Play has a number of octaves but it is the serious, consuming, concentrated, life-delighting, for-its-own-sake capacity that we’re born with. if you can’t play you can’t imagine, and if you can’t imagine you can’t create. Creativity in different doses and dilutions belongs to us all.”

“When owens College sought university status Manchester was accused of having

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She said the industrial Revolution in Manchester had transformed the world and had also made people miserable by taking away their humanity. But she said the city had always been a place “where things happened first”, from splitting the atom to the world’s first programmable computer, and she said that it was now on the cusp of a new identity.

Jeanette Winterson Born in Manchester and adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, Jeanette Winterson wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, when she was 23. Since then she has published more than a dozen books including, most recently, the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and The Daylight Gate. Her latest novel is The Gap of Time – a cover version of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. She has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations and received an oBE in 2006 for services to literature. She was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester in September 2012.

Watch Professor Winterson’s Foundation Day address, Manchester: from Gradgrind to Graphene, at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hPlJDcPQ20I

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“Graphene, the world’s first two-dimensional material … will alter the fortunes of this restless, changing city once again. innovation is here, the money is pouring in, £50 million for graphene and a generous £15 million gift from the Alliance family.

“So what could this mean for Manchester, 200 years after its first industrial revolution, 100 years after King Cotton started to decline, 70 years after the war and some of the disasters of the post-war rebuild, 25 years after Cool Britannia, waterside living, footballers’ wives and bling?”

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The granting of Manchester’s first charter in 1301, she said, encouraged anyone to come and do business in the city: “This social and psychological flexibility, ‘small island, big town’, proved crucial to Manchester’s astonishing growth and growing power, even before the industrial Revolution made it Britain’s pre-eminent town and then city.

“Manchester’s first charter was good news for women too. Women could trade, run businesses and be members of their guild, represent their husbands in court and had the right to take part in the governing of their town – and this is the 1300s! it would take 600 years more before women anywhere in Britain achieved anything better and where did the force behind that movement happen – here. The Pankhursts, Manchester – reclaiming history and making history all at the same time.”

“History,” she continued, “was optimistic.

The Chartists and the anti-Corn Law protesters, the anti-slavery supporters and the men and women who saved to buy books for the first library, they all believed that they could change things. And they did.

Manchester’s always been about values, about vision, about quality of life and social justice.

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“Education has been such a part of Manchester’s radicalism. i don’t know how you ended up here but i ended up here because i had a free education.”

Bringing her address up to date she said this was not a time to give up on politics: “Especially not here, in Manchester, with our history. Manchester is a fighting town.

Manchester is a wealth-creating town. The industrial Revolution didn’t make life better for the masses. it took politics to do that, politics based around social justice.

“Graphene is going to make a lot of money for the British economy but where is that money going to go and who will it benefit?

And how much will it benefit the north of England, pulling wealth away from the south, away from the city state that is London?

“Geographical inequalities are doing as much damage to the social fabric of Britain as economic inequalities. Even if you move south for the work, few people can afford to live there with space or comfort.

“Manchester is affordable. if the jobs come here, if the opportunities return, Manchester can be the new solution for Britain and that’s exciting, especially for young people who, above all, need hope.

The bee has strong links with Manchester as a symbol of hard work. it appears on the coats of arms of the city and the University.

“our students are nervous. They leave with large debts in a shrinking labour market and less chance of owning their own home than the generation before them.

Education, we’re told, must fit the market place. But what right has the free market to turn human beings into servants of itself?

Are human beings for the economy or is the economy for human beings?”

She added it was not unreasonable for people to want the town in which they live to be a pleasant, safe place to live or to want decent schools, housing or a job. “neo-liberalism won’t deliver any of this. it hasn’t delivered and we have to ask for better.

“Universities are places of enquiry.

Universities do much more than supply the labour market with graduates. Universities even do more than win nobel Prizes.

Universities are in the business of creating futures, all kinds of possible futures through innovation and human capital.

“Universities need to be vocal in this debate for Britain, the kind of Britain we want to live in, that we want our children to inherit, the kind of Britain we want to be proud of.

“Politics is too important to be left for politicians. Rather than an increasingly apathetic Britain, where we feel that nothing can change, i think there’s a chance of an active Britain where everything could change. “i wanted to talk today of this extraordinary city that is Manchester, this extraordinary university that is this university, because there is a new future here and one that could invigorate the whole nation.

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“But don’t let it just be about money, let it be about values. Manchester’s always been about values, about vision, about more than GDP and growth, about quality of life and social justice.”

If you can’t play you can’t imagine, and if you can’t imagine you can’t create.

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visit www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ centrefornewwriting for the latest news from the Centre for new Writing.

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RESEARCH

PhD student Ashley Philips lines up a nano-electrospray tip to ion mobility mass spectrometer

PhD student Robin Hoeven performs a DnA transformation

The bio revolution e University has identified five research beacons where we have a unique concentration of high-quality research activity and are at the forefront of the search for solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. Here, we throw the spotlight on one of these beacons – how the University is leading a new industrial revolution in biotechnology. hether you’re at home or work you will inevitably be surrounded by an environment manufactured using energy-giving fossil fuels. From your tablet or laptop to the pharmaceuticals in your bathroom and the coffee in your take-away paper cup, it’s a world built on a dependency that cannot continue.

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We need a new way of thinking and industrial biotechnology (iB) potentially has the answers.

Put very simply, iB is the use of biological resources, such as plants, algae, fungi, marine life and micro-organisms to create sustainable chemicals, materials and energy. it will cut pollution, conserve resources and ultimately reduce costs. The potential impact on everyday life is huge. iB could spare 33 million tonnes of Co2 emissions a year – the equivalent of the energy use of 2.5 million homes. it could produce detergents that save households 30 per cent of electricity by being able to wash laundry at 30°C. it has also been estimated that half of all our medicines will come from biotechnology this year alone.

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The bio revolution is already with us and, just as Manchester was at the heart of the first industrial Revolution, so it is now leading the way, both nationally and across Europe, towards a new era. “it’s not hype, it’s the next major manufacturing revolution and it’s going to be massive,” said Professor nigel Scrutton, Director of the Manchester institute of Biotechnology (MiB), the leading industryinterfaced research institute, which is driving bio-based chemicals synthesis in the UK.

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“Everything we manufacture globally is ultimately based on the petro-chemical industry and that’s a problem. various models predict different crisis points but we know it’s not so far away.

“We have to get very serious about how we source starting products for making those reagents so that we have sustainable and renewable ways of making compounds. For instance, our scientists are one step closer to the commercial production of renewable propane, which is a vital development as fossil fuels continue to dwindle.

“The challenge is one that embraces fundamental biology, sustainable chemistry, engineering and mathematics. MiB has brought together this rather disparate community of scientists to work on very high-level, grand challenge areas like the bio economy.

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Industrial biotechnology is the next major manufacturing revolution and it’s going to be massive.

Research Associate Dr Hanan Messiha investigates enzyme mechanisms inside an anaerobic glovebox

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“As well as transitioning our manufacturing economy to a more bio-based, green, renewable economy there are also new opportunities for making completely novel compounds which we currently don’t have access to using conventional chemistry. it’s about getting biology to do chemistry.”

MiB is a hub for EU and industry-funded programmes and has a strong track record in forging industry and stakeholder collaborations in the fine chemicals sectors, with partners including GlaxoSmithKline, Shell and Pfizer.

Through these partnerships scientific discovery is becoming commercial reality.

MiB has so far specialised in the area of fine and specialty chemicals, which feed into pharmaceuticals and other types of manufacturing where small amounts are needed.

new discoveries in biotechnology also hold the key to developing treatments for some of society’s most debilitating conditions. impressive results have already been achieved at the University, such as the enzyme catalyst that has been redesigned to enable it to convert the natural product compactin into the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin.

“The new Synthetic Biology Centre in MiB is going to make a huge range of new biological molecules,” nigel commented, “some of which have commercial value. For example, we’re already working on the production of flavours and fragrances for the food industry and domestic product market.”

“of course, it’s not as easy as it all sounds and we face some major challenges,” nigel warned. “We are asking biology to make a lot of molecules which aren’t naturally found in biology and that’s a real challenge – how do you get a bacterium to make compound X in a way that it’s never done before. it might be four or five years before some of our products are commercially viable. others, with more complex molecules, may require longer.

“The really exciting thing is that we may discover things we hadn’t set out to discover, molecules that have properties that we haven’t previously investigated before.” visit www.mib.manchester.ac.uk for details of the research undertaken by the Manchester institute of Biotechnology.

See pages 24-25 for an overview of the five research beacons.

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ARTHUR LEWIS

A remarkable man e University celebrated the centenary of the birth of Nobel laureate Professor Sir W Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) earlier this year.

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ew people outside his subject area could tell you much about this man who was an academic at the victoria University of Manchester in the post-war years – and the first black professor in the UK. And yet his reputation among those in the know is as one of the foremost intellectuals, economists and political activists of his time. What is particularly remarkable is that he was only 33 when he was appointed as the Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy, a post he held at the University from 1948 until 1957.

Sir Arthur was among the first to find systematic answers to the questions of world poverty and of how the poorest countries could escape the poverty trap.

During his Manchester years, he developed some of his most important concepts about the patterns of capital and wages in developing countries. He particularly became known for his contributions to development economics, and in 1954 published what was to be his most influential development economics article, ‘Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour’. it was for his work in

development economics that he was awarded the nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979, jointly with Theodore Schultz.

But Sir Arthur was also remarkable as a champion of community rights. While in Manchester, he helped establish two innovative social and educational centres in Moss Side and Hulme to improve the socio-economic status of the large Afro-Caribbean population. one of these survives to this day as the West indian Sports and Social Centre.

During the centenary year of his birth, the University has highlighted his achievements. But precious few photographs exist of Sir Arthur and relatively little is known of his time in the city. Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice, researched his history for the centenary celebrations. “What struck me was how very little anyone at the University knew about him,” he explained, “yet it was here that he did the formative work for which he later became known as ‘the father of development studies’.

He was born in St Lucia and was quickly identified as a gifted student. He later graduated with a first-class honours degree from the London School of Economics.

Manchester welcomed him as its first black academic and all the evidence suggests he felt happy and supported here.”

Sir Arthur is now recognised as a Heritage Hero by the University. The home of the School of Social Sciences is named the Arthur Lewis Building, and a large mural decorates one of the exterior walls to inform everyone walking past about his life and contributions. Lord [Jim] o’neill, Honorary Professor in Economics, delivered the inaugural Arthur Lewis Centenary Lecture.

Aneez concluded, “it’s taken us a few years to recognise Arthur Lewis but i’m delighted that we now have. People can now appreciate the man and his achievements.”

Professor Sir Arthur lewis KEy DATES

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William Arthur Lewis born 23 January, Castries, British West indies (now Saint Lucia)

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graduated Bachelor of Commerce from the London School of Economics; PhD 1940

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appointed the LSE’s first black academic

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appointed the Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy at Manchester – and the UK’s first black professor

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became economic adviser to the new government of Ghana

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appointed vice-Chancellor of the University of the West indies

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knighted for his contributions to economics and moved to Princeton University, USA, where he was the first black full professor

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became the founding president of the Caribbean Development Bank

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returned to Princeton, as the James Madison Professor of Political Economy

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awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred nobel

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died 15 June, Bridgetown, Barbados

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The unveiling of the Arthur Lewis mural

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Discover more at www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/ history-heritage/history/heroes/arthur-lewis

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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

50 years of original When it opened its doors half-a-century ago it was a pioneer of innovative business and management education. Manchester Business School’s original and unique approach earned it a global reputation, which has endured and grown. Now, MBS stands poised to celebrate its special anniversary and prepare for the next 50 years, bolstered by a visionary new building and a transformational donation. n September 2015, the School became the Alliance Manchester Business School, or Alliance MBS, in recognition of the £15 million gift and the long-standing relationship the University and the School has with Lord Alliance of Manchester and his fellow Trustees of the Alliance Family Foundation.

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Lord Alliance, one of the north West’s most successful businessmen, founded the international textile group Coats viyella plc (now Coats plc), and his donation will support the School’s research agenda as well as providing students and staff with fantastic new facilities.

Today, Alliance MBS is the largest campus-based business school in the UK, and has MBS international Centres in Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Sao Paulo. it is a permanent fixture on lists of the highest ranking business schools in the world. Distinguished alumni include Sir Donald Cruickshank, a former Director General of the UK office of Telecommunications and Chairman at the London Stock Exchange; Sir Terry Leahy, former CEo of Tesco and a celebrated and award-winning business leader; and Lisa Ronson, Commercial Director for high-end property development firm Ronson Capital Partners.

The School’s origins came out of the 1963 government-commissioned Franks Report, stressing the urgent need for better education and training for managers. The result was the creation of two UK business schools in London and Manchester – but with very different remits.“London concentrated on finance and Manchester focused on the practice of management, organisational and individual behaviour. it was – and continues to be – our mission to teach people about what it is to be a practising manager,” explained Professor Elaine Ferneley, Global and MBA Director. “in 1965, we launched a fundamentally different and distinctive programme. Even the shape of the School was designed in

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Our MBAs are critical, reflective thinkers who challenge the status quo and work effectively in a complex and rapidly changing world.

part so that people were forced to mix with their peers to communicate and collaborate. it was radical at the time and we invented what became known as the Manchester Method – it was interdisciplinary and integrated, encouraged selfdevelopment, and included a strong emphasis on analytical and problem-solving skills – ‘learning by doing’ through live company projects.

“We rarely call it the Manchester Method anymore because it has evolved, but it is fundamental to the ethos of the School, an enforced mixing of different mind-sets and different beliefs to tackle current problems. it was a very innovative approach to teaching and learning and way ahead of its time.

“Today, this practical approach produces highly employable MBAs who are critical, reflective thinkers who challenge the status quo and work effectively in a complex and rapidly changing world.”

There is also a symmetry in the origins of the University and what Alliance MBS does so well today.

Elaine continued, “The victoria University of Manchester developed out of owens College, which was founded in 1851, and from 1872 incorporated the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had been formed in 1824 as a medical school owned by doctors. This began life as a networking college, a place which gave medical practitioners somewhere to bring cases from their consulting rooms into a forum

The School embarks on its next 50 years bolstered by a visionary new building, which Lord Alliance of Manchester and his fellow Trustees of the Alliance Family Foundation are helping to make possible

with peers to debate and discuss. What our MBA programmes do is give people a similar base where they can talk about new practices, new ideas and innovative ways of solving business problems through, in the case of the Full-time MBA, 600 hours of client-facing project practice.

“John owen’s generous philanthropic gift fundamentally changed the beginnings of the University and we now have Lord Alliance’s gift which presents us with an opportunity to fundamentally change what we’re doing as a business school, taking us to the next stage of our growth and development.” visit mbs.ac.uk/50years for an interactive exploration of the Alliance Manchester Business School’s history.

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An artist’s impression of the new Alliance Manchester Business School, which is due to open in 2018. it will see the co-location of Alliance MBS staff and students on one side of oxford Road in a single building

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ELECTIONS 2015

Shortly before ITV began its live coverage of the General Election results on 7 May 2015, the University’s Professor Jane Green, one of the programme’s political analysts, was handed news of the exit poll which correctly assessed the dramatic outcome. at’s when she knew things were about to get interesting …

Professor Jane Green

Polls, pundits and t meant there was a lot buzzing around our heads even before the programme started. We had to try and make sense of the result, to work out why the country had rejected Labour so decisively but also why were we so wrong in our predictions,” said Jane.

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“it was a privilege to be involved in the unfolding politics, digesting the implications with politicians like vince Cable, Theresa May, Peter Mandelson, Peter Hain and many others. i was live in the iTn studio the following day as Ed Miliband and nick Clegg resigned, and nigel Farage initially resigned.

“i think everyone expected discussions on the night to be about who was going to form a government, how that process would unfold and how long it would take. But the real excitement was the dawning reality of the accuracy of the exit poll, and the very shocking declarations in Scotland and for many Lib Dems.”

“Politicians’ lives were changing overnight. i really got that sense of the personal implications of what was going on and that added a sense of gravity to what is otherwise a very intellectual exercise.

As Co-Director of the 2015 British Election Study (BES), which is led by The University of Manchester, Jane spent three months in rehearsal and research for the programme: “The shock and surprise of the result added to the drama on the night and meant that we had this incredible story to tell. i did feel as if i was a very small part of history unfolding. i wrote a note to my co-analyst Professor Colin Rallings at one stage, saying: ‘i’m just so excited’.

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“it was intense but enjoyable because the British Election Study was playing a key role in making sense of the night, and it was also an opportunity for Manchester to be at the forefront of such an important night in our field of study. “it gave me a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the campaign, and exposed me to lots of ideas and thoughts because i was surrounded by people who live, eat and breathe the political process. it was great to learn from them as well.”

Almost as soon as the results were in, Jane and the BES team began the long task of analysing the data.

“The unexpected results arose from the difficulties of ensuring accurate assessments of the British public in terms of opinion polls. But through our BES data, we’ll be able to uniquely understand why that was. Was it a late swing? Did people underestimate their likelihood to vote on the day, or were the sampling frames problematic because the electoral registers were being brought up to date?”

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politics As well as many other research outputs, Jane is now working with BES colleagues on a deeper analysis, with two academic pieces of work in production – a book of her own looking at trends of how the public evaluate political parties on competence, and a second BES publication on the General Election, the result and what it means in terms of a longer-term perspective.

Jane explained, “The BES book will be a major piece of academic work examining the process and the explanations for a gradual fragmentation of the party system and the splitting of votes towards a great array of political parties. We’ll also look at how that evolved into the result we had in May 2015.”

Find out more about the work of the British Election Study at www.britishelectionstudy.com

OUR AlUMNI: MPS 2015 Rt Hon Dame Margaret Beckett (HnD Metallurgy 1964) Derby South (Labour) Rt Hon nicholas Brown (BA Arts 1971) newcastle East (Labour) Mrs Fiona Bruce (LLB Law 1978) Congleton (Conservative) Rt Hon Liam Byrne (BA Politics and Modern History 1992) Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Labour) Mr James Cartlidge (BA (Econ) 1996) South Suffolk (Conservative) Mrs Margaret Ann Coffey (Dip Psychiatric Social Work 1977) Stockport (Labour) Mr Mark Hendrick (MSc Computer Science 1985) Preston (Labour) Mr John Mann (BA Economics 1982) Bassetlaw (Labour) Ms Chinyelu onwurah (MBA 2002) newcastle upon Tyne Central (Labour) Dr John Pugh (PhD Philosophy 1996) Southport (Liberal Democrats) Mr Jonathan Reynolds (BA Politics and Modern History 2001) Stalybridge and Hyde (Labour) Ms Joanna Stevens (LLB Law 1988) Cardiff Central (Labour) Miss Margaret Throup (BSc Biology 1978) Erewash, Derbyshire (Conservative) Mr Chuka Umunna (LLB English Law with French Law 2001) Streatham (Labour) Mr Chris White (MEng Engineering Manufacturing and Management 1991) Warwick and Leamington (Conservative) Mr William Wragg (BA History 2010) Hazel Grove (Conservative)

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Campaigning for 100,000 votes took place across the campus

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huge push to get students into voting mode paid off this year as the Students’ Union’s (SU) elections broke national records with 13,264 turning out. it was the highest SU figure in the country, and overturned what had been described as a “crisis of apathy” last year when the turnout was less than half.

Each year students vote for eight, full-time leaders to be elected on to the Executive team to represent the student voice on all issues. Most Exec members either take time out from their studies or have finished their degrees.

Conor McGurran (BA History 2014), Campaigns and Citizenship officer in 2014/15, said, “i think the Union result is an indication that students do want to be part of the decision-making process, and it shows the direction the Union is going here in terms of reforming some of our democratic processes.

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“There was a buzz around voting generally because it was a General Election year – and the permanent staff team at the Union worked together to encourage as many students to vote as possible in both the SU elections in March and then the UK election in May. Buoyed by national Union of Students’ suggestions that students had the power to transform 200 General Election seats, the SU mounted a concerted campaign, called 100,000 votes (the number of students in the city).

The aim was to get students to register themselves for the General Election and then turn out to vote and make their voices heard on issues such as housing, crime and tuition fees. A special Manchester Says vote day featured a helter-skelter, funfair, barbecue, rodeo bull, sumo suit wrestling and a gladiator joust.

Conor feared the change to individual electoral registration would have a negative impact in a constituency like Manchester Central, which had recorded one of the lowest General Election turnouts anywhere in the UK in 2010. He commented, “We did a traditional hustings where we gave General Election candidates a very hard time but we also had a politics funfair with life-size cutouts of the party leaders and political bunting, and students asking people if they had registered to vote yet. We wanted to draw our students in with something fun in order to talk about the serious issues.

“Students do care about the issues and about politics but they may not care about, or trust, the old-fashioned party politics and parties, or the way that people traditionally engage with them.” visit manchesterstudentsunion.com/elections for the results of the Exec Elections 2015.

DRUG RESISTANCE

Professor Dame Sally Davies

e title pulled no punches so the audience knew that the Chief Medical Officer for England was going to lay it on the line. Professor Dame Sally Davies (MBChB Medicine 1972, Hon DSc 2012) used her Cockcro Rutherford Lecture to spell out a stark warning about the dangers of drug resistance among bacteria.

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he warned the packed lecture theatre of the dangers of failing to act locally and globally as the world stood “at the dawn of a post-antibiotic era without new drugs coming through development”. She continued, “We’ve all let this happen on our watch because we’ve disinvested in the underpinning science ... Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the government’s risk register along with terrorism, flu pandemics and climate change. it’s an equivalent threat and something needs to be done about it. We have to take action to protect our futures and our children’s.”

Dame Sally was appointed as the first female Chief Medical officer in 2010, a role which sees her act as the government’s principal medical adviser and the professional head of all directors of public health in local government. Since taking on the role she has led global action to fight the trend of infections becoming resistant to antibiotics, a trend which, it is estimated, will kill around ten million people a year by 2050.

AMR develops when micro-organisms – bacteria, parasites or viruses – no longer respond to a drug to which they were originally sensitive. Dame Sally said that, before we had antibiotics, around 43 per cent of deaths were due to infections.

Fleming’s discovery of the properties of penicillin kick-started a new medical era so that today only seven per cent of deaths are caused by infections. According to the World Health organization (WHo), antibiotics have given us an extra 20 years of life.

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But Dame Sally also delivered bleak statistics of the current effects of AMR. one child under five dies every five minutes in South East Asia because of resistant bacteria. This is a problem now because of the lack of new antibiotics, partly caused by their non-profitability of production. it also takes a new drug an average of 23 years to get through the development pipeline before becoming available. Prime Minister David Cameron has commissioned Lord o’neill (Honorary Professor of Economics at the University) to look at the reasons for market failure and propose ways that governments could stimulate research and development globally.

“There are no new antibiotics we use that weren’t designed before the 1990s,” added Dame Sally. “i worked in that golden era when the answer to a patient’s resistant bug was simply to open the cupboard and get the next antibiotic out.

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“Even now, we have about 25,000 deaths in the European Union from multi-resistant blood infections each year. Most are older people but there are children too and this is very worrying. We rely on antibiotics – 35 million courses are prescribed by GPs in England each year. So clearly we need to look after the ones we have got, which are often misused.”

However, she reflected that the UK has been at the forefront of action, working with other governments and global organisations including the WHo and the World organisation for Animal Health, to drive forward coordinated action at an international level.

The growth in use in animal feeds accounts for the vast majority of worldwide antibiotic use. Antibiotics not broken down in our bodies pass into the sea via our sewage, and antibiotics are also sprayed on crops and picked up by wildlife and our companion

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animals at home. The government has a five-year strategy on AMR to 2018, with the goal of slowing the growth of AMR by taking an integrated approach across human and animal health and the environment, at both national and international levels. in May 2015, 196 countries signed up to a Global Action Plan for AMR aimed at improving awareness and understanding, and strengthening the knowledge and evidence base. Greater awareness, Dame Sally said, was vital: “it is not only doctors who have to be educated about the problem, it is also the general public. We all have to educate ourselves, we all have to take that little bit of risk because if we do not, the grandchildren of all of you will have a much bigger risk of death because there will not be a treatment. Hygiene, sanitation and handwashing in the home are important to prevent infections and, coupled with careful antibiotic use, these measures will make a difference.”

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But, she concluded, “How many people can put their hands on their hearts and say their infection prevention and their hygiene is perfect, whether at home or work or in a healthcare setting. not many of us.

“How many people looking after animals, whether it be a pet or in agriculture, fully understand the damage that overuse can do. And how many people out there do not understand that there are no more antibiotics at the moment – what we have got is what we have got. The few in the pipeline will be a drop in the ocean and resistance to them will develop – it is only a question of ‘how long’.

“We are all in this together and we have all got to change. it is, sadly, a not-in-mybackyard issue … Please be aware and think about our future generations because if we do not get this right, and i believe we have a duty to, then they may not live the extra 20 years that we have had thanks to antibiotics.”

Watch Sally Davies’ Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at vimeo.com/130318446 The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture is an annual event for alumni and donors to The University of Manchester in honour of two of the University’s 25 nobel Prize winners, Sir John Cockcroft and Lord Ernest Rutherford.

Always passionate A s a houseman attending her first Manchester job interview, Dame Sally was dismayed to find that the consultants in front of her had copies of the Manchester Guardian. “Unfortunately, the photo on the front page,” she said, “was of me showing off my knickers as i was being dragged away from an antiapartheid demo by two policewomen.

They did not give me the job i had applied for but they did offer me an even better professorial job.”

For this daughter of academics, it was only ever a question of which university she would attend: “i visited a godfather for weekends in Manchester and i liked what i saw. i knew the city had a great university and a medical school and i was good at biology and wanted to do medicine.

“Manchester was dirty – i still remember the smogs and just being able to see the pavement as i walked to the Medical School, washing my hair later and seeing all the filth come off. i was sent to Sweden in my final year to do some surgery and i remember seeing pink lungs inside a chest that had been opened up. in Manchester they were grey and white and gritty.

“As for every young student, the experience generally was overwhelming. i was in owens Park down in Fallowfield so i made friends quite quickly. i joined the University orchestra and sailed for the men’s first team. i had fun and i got a really good education here and learned lots of things. “i was very left wing and on the Students’ Union Council. i was always passionate about what i saw as being right. i did a lot of anti-vietnam, anti-apartheid demonstrating.”

Dame Sally recently relived her Manchester experiences when she attended an alumni reunion with contemporaries: “i recognised everyone, we all had the same personas, sadly i learnt some had died, some had already retired, which surprised me as i am still going strong, but i was very glad i made the effort and came.”

view the full interview at www.manchester.ac.uk/ discover/news/article/?id=14680

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RESEARCH BEACONS

Our five research beacons showcase concentrations and combinations of high-quality research activity that are distinctive to e University of Manchester. ey demonstrate how our interdisciplinary approach is improving the lives of people around the world.

Global challenges, Manchester solutions

INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

We’re finding sustainable alternatives to the finite resources used to manufacture goods we use every day.

We’re developing advanced materials for the most extreme environments and the most familiar.

CHEM21, one of many EU science programmes in chemical synthesis based at Manchester, is worth €25m

We’re home to the global knowledge base in 2D materials, with 2 nobel Laureates and more than £170m of investment

The Manchester institute of Biotechnology is one of Europe’s leading industry-facing research facilities and almost a third of our research portfolio involves overseas partners

We have over £248m of research projects, and over 200 researchers work on graphene and 2D materials

The University leads four of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s networks in industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy

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The BP international Centre for Advanced Materials, the national Graphene institute and the Graphene Engineering innovation Centre are all on campus. The research centre of the Sir Henry Royce institute for Materials Research and innovation will be based at the University

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We’re helping to create a world in which more of us survive cancer.

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Through the Manchester Academic Heath Science Centre and various other partnerships we work with a wide range of nHS organisations

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£30m is invested in attracting internationally leading investigators to the Manchester Cancer Research Centre our research partners include: Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Cancer Research UK, Manchester-Belfast Prostate Cancer UK/Movember Centre of Excellence, Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, Teenage Cancer Trust, Myeloma UK, industry partners such as AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline

CANCER

We aim for Manchester to be among the five best integrated cancer systems in the world by 2020

ADDRESSING GLOBAL INEQUALITIES

ENERGY

£75 million

Our research is already transforming the systems that bring energy to our homes.

Our expertise is helping to tackle inequalities that people face across the globe.

our projects are worth £75m, covering energy generation, energy systems and energy use, and we have 150 academic staff and 500 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

over 335 academic staff and PhD students are working to address global inequalities

We’re home to leading energy research facilities including nuclear irradiation facilities at our Dalton Cumbrian Facility, a 1MW energy storage test bed, the largest water flume in the UK and the only 400kv-capable Hv lab of any UK university Strategic partnerships include: national nuclear Laboratory, EDF Energy, AmecFoster Wheeler, Rolls-Royce, national Grid, Siemens, Arup, Electricity north West and BP

We guide governments and policymakers towards new approaches to tackling poverty in countries such as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Tanzania We work with Age Concern UK and local governments to inform policy and service delivery for ageing societies our insight into humanitarian efforts and technologies has influenced Médecins Sans Frontières, Save the Children, Handicap international and the international Federation of the Red Cross

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HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

A passion for humanitarian work and expedition medicine prompted Dr Amy Hughes to veer away from the traditional medical career ladder. As much as she loves clinical work, she is also at home in environments with few, if any, resources with which to ply her trade.

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my is a Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response in the University’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response institute (HCRi); her post is generously funded by the Tuixen Foundation. For the last five years, she has been engaged in work in remote and austere parts of the world, helping to support the health needs of communities affected by disasters.

She joined the first wave of nHS volunteers who deployed through the UK international Emergency Medical Register (UK-Med) to Sierra Leone in 2014 to help fight the spread of Ebola. This resulted in her receiving an award from Prime Minister David Cameron and the plaudit of being one of a number of “brave and dedicated humanitarians”. She was obviously aware of the risks to her own health but said at the time, “in any work you do in a humanitarian context, there is going to be a risk. Part of my passion is to consider that risk, and to weigh it up, but that drive to help, that drive to go and be part of a team that’s delivering that healthcare almost overrides that personal fear.”

Having completed a number of years of hospital training in emergency medicine, Amy sought to widen her ‘out of hospital’ experiences. She completed secondments with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex; undertook a seven-month mission with Médecins Sans Frontières in post-conflict northern Sri Lanka; and spent six months with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia.

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The constant She explained, “The challenges of working in different environments and the privilege of engaging with different communities is the part i enjoy the most and learn enormously from. i think it makes you a much more rounded clinician. You strengthen clinical and non-clinical skills, both of which hugely impact on patient care and the delivery of care. You also gain a much greater understanding of healthcare and health-seeking behaviour globally and the multiple factors that impact on it.”

A large part of Amy’s role as Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response involves working with the UK-Med team based at HCRi. UK-Med hosts the international Emergency Trauma and Medical Registers, which are funded by the Department for international Development. UK healthcare volunteers apply to the registers to deploy as part of a government emergency medical team (UK-EMT) to respond to humanitarian emergencies. UK-Med manages their selection and appropriate training. This mechanism helps ensure a much more structured, governed, co-ordinated and accountable approach to the deployment of medical teams to disasters.

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“Previously, a number of foreign medical and surgical teams deploying into disaster situations were often unprepared, untrained and not self-sufficient for water, habitat and logistics,” said Amy. “Since 2010, a large amount of work has been undertaken by the World Health organization’s Foreign Medical Teams (FMT) initiative to improve the response. We’ve seen the development of a global registration system, an FMT co-ordination cell supporting the Ministry of Health in the affected country, and widening awareness of the need for trained, appropriately skilled and self-sufficient teams to deploy following an invitation for assistance.”

Recent deployments from UK-Med have included teams to support the health needs after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines; a specialist rehabilitation cell supporting post-conflict Gaza; 152 nHS clinicians tackling the west Africa Ebola outbreak; and an 18-strong team responding to the nepal earthquake in April 2015.

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challenge For now, Amy is concentrating on her academic and hospital-based clinical work so that she can complete her final fellowship medical exams, albeit four years later than planned. She is also completing a PhD at the University on ‘The Role of Foreign Medical Teams in Sudden onset Disasters’. She commented, “i’m sure George Clooney in ER influenced my decision to work in emergency medicine – the team work, dynamics, people, challenges and excitement make it a wonderful specialty to work in … treating anything from minor ankle injuries to gunshot wounds to the chest – you never know what’s coming through the door.”

Amy (left) with a colleague entering Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre, Sierra Leone, carrying oral rehydration for patients

Amy was presented with her Point of Light award by the Prime Minister at a special reception in Downing Street

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response institute conducts rigorous research on the impact and outcomes of contemporary and historical crises, and provides postgraduate training for undergraduates and professionals interested in the humanitarian sector.

Explore the work of the institute at www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Searching for

Today’s graduates are said to be entering the most attractive job market in a decade. e University of Manchester is regularly cited as the most targeted institution in the country for Britain’s top graduate employers. ut in the current economic climate there are still large numbers of talented students seeking a finite number of jobs in the traditional public and professional services – accounting, banking and finance, and the public sector. So, many Manchester students are discovering their inner entrepreneur and polishing their Dragons’ Den-style pitches to launch their own business or social enterprise venture.

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The fastest-growing student society these days is Manchester Entrepreneurs (ME), with more than 4,500 members, and the number of students studying enterprise at the University increases year on year.

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“The world of employment has changed beyond all recognition,” said Lynn Sheppard, Director of the Manchester Enterprise Centre (MEC). “Within the last 10 to 15 years, the rate of change has multiplied a thousand-fold. There are now so many good people leaving so many good universities with great degrees every year – but how many people can blue-chip companies actually employ? our students are now thinking creatively.”

MEC was set up in 2000 as part of a government-led Science Enterprise initiative, which sought to embed the spirit of enterprise in universities and embed it into the curriculum. The Centre is based in

the Alliance Manchester Business School and works closely with the Careers Service, UMi3 (the University’s innovation company) and ME. “We’re an integral part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem at the University,” added Lynn. “We’re a conduit through which opportunities can be highlighted and expert help and advice offered, including from our alumni. “i think our mission has come of age.

Enterprise and entrepreneurship is an important part of our students’ education. it can enhance your chance of getting the job you want or the confidence to develop an idea and start your own business.”

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Residential summer schools, accelerator boot camps and start-up competitions are all geared to help students develop and grow their ideas. one exciting opportunity now available is the Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award, which was established three years ago by alumnus Dr Eli Harari (BSc Physics 1969) and his wife Britt. The 2015 winner was PhD student Daryl McManus (MChem Chemistry 2013).

He will use the £50,000 prize to help found a new graphene start-up company to produce graphene inks. He said, “The Eli and Britt Harari Award gives us the opportunity to take our unique inks from the laboratory to the marketplace, where their properties can be exploited by both businesses and researchers to create a new generation of printed devices.”

The range of successful Manchester case studies is impressive. Former Credit Suisse equities saleswoman Anna Chan (BSc Management 2005) left the City to start her own fashion website Style Edit, selling affordable high-street shoes and bags.

Andrew Jervis, meanwhile, is now one of the nation’s top young entrepreneurs having completed MEC’s one-year Master of Enterprise (MEnt) programme in 2012. This combines taught elements with a year-long enterprise project. Andrew set up PieBoy Clothing while he was at the University, and is now developing his start-up business ClickMechanic, a software platform connecting consumers to UK mobile mechanics. The embryo of this business can be found in his 85,000-word MEnt thesis. on the social enterprise front, Dr Edwin Broni-Mensah (BSc Computer Science and Mathematics 2006, PhD Financial Mathematics 2010) started three different enterprises while he was at the University.

His ingenious GiveMeTap company encourages local businesses to offer free refills of water to anyone carrying a distinctive GiveMeTap bottle. The aim is to reduce the number of plastic bottles in landfill sites. He has just launched the business in the United States.

“The culture in Manchester has always been can-do and innovative. What we’re trying to do is to get students to have the confidence to think about what their motivations are, and not just fall into a subject or career,” commented Lynn. “if students feel they’ve discovered something they love doing, they’re quite good at it and someone will pay them to do it – that’s the sweet spot we want to help them to find.”

visit mec.portals.mbs.ac.uk for the latest news from the Manchester Enterprise Centre.

We welcome alumni who wish to volunteer on our mentoring programmes, giving our students the benefit of their experience and advice. if you would like to explore the possibilities of getting involved, please email enterprise@manchester.ac.uk

The annual venture out competition, sponsored by PZ Cussons, provides experiential learning opportunities for students and recent graduates. The 2015 winners included Christos Kounna, a Master of Enterprise student, who came top in the Business category with his Tool Exchange proposal. The PZ Cussons innovation Challenge was won by three MBA students – Shaun Teo, Dannu Danil and Prashant Chandrashekar – for their Power Cycle project. The team have developed a bicycle that produces energy from kinetic movement and stores it inside the attached power adaptor.

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A LANDMARK YEAR

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I think the really liberating and fantastic thing about Manchester in the past five years is that it’s not about competition with London any more. It’s just about being the best that Manchester can be and should be, which is qualitatively different to London.

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Dr Maria Balshaw Director, The Whitworth The Guardian, 9 February 2015

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Manchester’s substantial cultural provision is positioning the city as an international centre for culture and the arts – and 2015 is proving to be a landmark year.

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he University’s Whitworth Art Gallery has been awarded the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2015. This is the largest arts award in Britain and the biggest museum prize in the world. it is awarded to the museum or gallery in the UK that is judged to have best demonstrated excellence, innovation and imagination.

The gallery closed for redevelopment in the autumn of 2013 and reopened in February this year – transformed. Doubling the public space, the £15 million redesign by architects MUMA marries the Whitworth with its park setting, bringing light, air and fresh ideas into its expanded space. A pair of wings project out into Whitworth Park, framing a new sculpture garden. The new café is a glass box which seems to levitate among the trees. The quality and success of the project has also been recognised by the

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announcement that it was shortlisted for the RiBA Stirling Prize 2015 for best building of the year.

The opening evening saw the first cultural use of graphene. Artist Cornelia Parker’s Breath of a Physicist project had nobel laureate Professor Sir Kostya novoselov (Hon DSc 2011) breathe upon a graphene sensor he had made from a speck of graphite harvested from a drawing by William Blake from the gallery’s collections.

This triggered the firework display Blakean Abstract. This dramatic start to the Whitworth’s reopening was followed by Cornelia Parker’s major solo exhibition in the newly created exhibition spaces. The gallery welcomed over 18,000 visitors over the launch weekend, and visitor figures are exceeding all expectations.

The new promenade gallery at the Whitworth looks out on to the art gardens and Whitworth Park

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arewell Cornerhouse, hello HoME. For 30 years the much-loved Cornerhouse was an integral part of Manchester’s cultural – and student – life, situated on the corner of oxford Road and Whitworth Street. The whole enterprise has now moved down the road, to a distinctive new building on a site opposite the former Haçienda club. it has joined forces with the Library Theatre, formerly based at the Central Library, to create HoME, a £25 million multi-disciplinary centre for contemporary art, theatre and film, billed as the largest in England outside London.

HoME is located on Tony Wilson Place, First Street, just off Whitworth Street West

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major attraction at the Whitworth in July was the collaboration between Gerhard Richter and Arvo Pärt, two of the world’s most influential and important living artists. They made work inspired by and dedicated to each other, which was shown and performed together for the first time as part of the Manchester international Festival (MiF). Eight works from two new series by Richter, Birkenau (2015) and Doppelgrau (2014), were on show accompanied by choral groups performing a new composition by Pärt called Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima.

This is the fifth time that the MiF has delighted and intrigued audiences, attracting some 250,000 people to the city. it is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events – of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture – and takes place biennially. The University was a Gold Supporter this year. in December 2014 Chancellor of the Exchequer George osborne announced that a new £78 million theatre and arts venue is to be built on the former site of Granada Studios. This will be the permanent home of MiF.

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e transformation of the Whitworth has been one of the great museum achievements of recent years. It has changed the landscape: it truly feels like a museum of the future.

Stephen Deuchar Art Fund director and chair of judges

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ALUMNI MEMORIES

Langdale Hall, 1984: Mary Anderson Mills (Exchange Student (MAP) 1984)

Through Fascinating insights into the University’s past have been unearthed thanks to a fantastic response to our appeal for alumni memories and artefacts. c Textile and 2: Dr Royston Sang (BS Hiking in Derbyshire,196 Science 1967) e Fibr and r me Poly PHD Colour Chemistry 1964,

1920s University Gymnastics Club vest, formal gowns and ties, and a snapshot of the Scottish Dancing Society’s Rag performance in Piccadilly Gardens – this is just a tiny selection of the material alumni sent to Dr James Hopkins (PhD History 2011), University Historian and Heritage Manager, following our request for alumni memories in last year’s Your Manchester.

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James, whose own office in Waterloo Place was once a University bookshop, said, “We were amazed by the response. There was a flood of emails, letters and some objects too from all over the world spanning the decades in Manchester. it’s no exaggeration to say these are vitally important. in a Zoology lab , 1915-16: Jenn ie Cropper (BSc Botany 19 17, Teaching Di p 1918)

“our official University Archive contains historically important documents, which are interesting too but they’re not necessarily about the lived experience.

“So we’re interested in receiving more but we’re looking specifically for items about our alumni’s time in Manchester, which highlight the University’s place in their personal history, and perhaps reflect the social and cultural history of the city as British life changed through the decades.

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Civil Engineering field trip to Scarborough, April 1987: Russell Adams (BEng Civil Engineering 1989)

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There was a flood of emails, letters and some objects too from all over the world spanning the decades in Manchester.

“And that includes all our legacy institutions and their unique histories and strong identities. For instance, we’re doing a lot of work on the history of north Campus and UMiST and our heritage tours, which are becoming increasingly popular, have been expanded from the historic heart of the institution to include north Campus. “it’s possible to trace the course of British history through a large organisation such as ours and that’s been proved with the success of our World War i project, as seen through the eyes of soldiers writing back to their professors.

“Sometimes we don’t appreciate the importance or longevity of associations.

Although in the context of the lifespans of our alumni, their individual encounters with the University might be fleeting, the time spent here would have had a profound effect on the people they’ve become and their career trajectories. i think the University community is incredibly important to a lot of people.”

So what would we like from you?

• images of everyday University life • How the University changed your life (a lecturer, a hall of residence, a friendship, a favourite building on campus) • Memories/images of student days where you were able to express yourself politically, sexually or spiritually, or where you challenged the norm • involvement in clubs and societies

Email Dr James Hopkins at heritage@manchester.ac.uk if you have material to contribute to our search for alumni memories.

Explore the University’s history and heritage at www.manchester.ac.uk/heritage

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our heritage tours lead visitors around some of the University's oldest and finest buildings while telling the history of the University's origins in rapidly industrialising Manchester. The tour moves around the campus to explore how ideas and discoveries at the University shaped the modern world.

Booking is essential: university-of-manchesterheritage-tour.eventbrite.co.uk You can also find out more about the historic buildings on campus directly from your mobile device by using the Layar app, available at www.layar.com/layers/heritage3

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ALUMNI MEMORIES

introducing the Timeline at the volunteer Thank You Event 2015

Bringing our history to life Sharing your Manchester memories could not be easier with the introduction of a new and interactive history of the University.

The Timeline is only a few months old but already contains more than 100 submitted memories from our alumni, with many more being gradually uploaded. one memory from Dorothy Dean (BA English 1936) reads, “The Women's Union Common Room had the comfortable air of a gentlemen's club, with its blazing coal fire, its hide covered shabby brown velvet cushions, and the small service hatch where one could buy excellent coffee, with hot milk, for tuppence a cup.”

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A fellow English graduate of some 75 years later, Leah Clegg (BA English 2012), commented, “My course felt huge. i was used to classrooms of 20 and all of a sudden i was sat in a lecture theatre with around 150 other Linguistics and English Language students. i remember being quite unsure of it all at first but once i settled in i loved it.”

David Hargreaves, Assistant Alumni and Faculty officer, came up with the idea and explained, “once the Timeline went live, the response from alumni was fantastic. i think people have really enjoyed seeing their own memories sitting alongside some of the major milestones in the University’s history. it puts alumni eye-witness accounts on an equal footing with the historic landmarks, and enhances our understanding of the social and cultural history of the institution.”

How to get involved if you would like to appear on the Timeline and share your memories with our global Manchester community, simply contribute your memories via the link www.surveymonkey.com/ s/QP8TBCg or visit ddar.manchester.ac.uk/ memories/timeline and follow the link to the survey to begin the process.

For further information, email David Hargreaves at david.hargreaves@manchester.ac.uk

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Putting you in the picture Our alumni are playing an increasingly important role in the life of the University and our students, contributing to core activities, especially student recruitment, employability and social responsibility. e support and vision of our donors is also vital to the future development and ongoing success of the University.

8,254 2,500

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£19m £19 million philanthropic income (2013/14)

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alumni from over 200 countries and territories

693 693 students and researchers received donor-funded scholarships (2014/15)

20% 20% of alumni donors are aged under 30

99% 99% of students involved in key employability events involving alumni volunteers reported that they were motivated to take career action as a direct result (2014)

5,000 Over 5,000 alumni and friends donated to the University (2014/15) – over 2,500 signed up to Direct Debit

Our Meet the Professionals volunteering programme was recognised by the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards for higher education

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Celebration of Philanthropy 2015

Staff and students welcomed donors on to the campus on 26 March to celebrate the impact of their donations. e first Celebration of Philanthropy included behind-the-scenes tours of the Whitworth, the University Library and the National Graphene Institute – all of which have benefitted significantly from donor support.

A Philanthropy Showcase featured a range of donor-funded projects including the Manchester Museum Vivarium, the Brooks World Poverty Institute, Manchester Cancer Research Centre and Equity and Merit Scholarships.

In conversation with…

Professor Brian Cox Three of our donor-supported students – nick Dann (PhD student), Rebecca Hardman (English Literature student) and Bilal Chishti (oldham College sixth-form student and Manchester Access programme participant) – asked Brian a variety of questions about the importance of philanthropy within higher education.

As a supporter of undergraduate access scholarships for several years, Brian has first-hand experience of this issue. He said, “i’m a strong believer that university is a tremendously important investment. if people feel they don’t have money or support to come to university, that opportunity is denied to them. And that’s where i think philanthropy can make a difference. You can see that little push can make the difference between someone choosing to go to university or not.”

Watch Professor Brian Cox talk about why he gives at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3FhkKgWtzB8

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Professor Brian Cox with (left-right) nick Dann, Rebecca Hardman and Bilal Chishti

The generosity of our donors is so often the positive tipping point when outstanding potential students are making decisions about university. Those decisions affect the rest of their lives.

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Honour for major donor

Circles of Philanthropy

Dr Rory Brooks (BSc (T) Management Sciences 1975, Hon LittD 2010), Chair of the University’s Global Leadership Board and an inaugural member of the Langworthy Circle, received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015. The award was made in recognition of his ‘charitable services through the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation’, for which he and his wife Elizabeth have been the principal benefactors since 2005. He said, “Elizabeth and i have been fortunate to be able to support, in a small way, the important work on poverty research at the Brooks World Poverty institute and are proud to be associated with The University of Manchester."

Dr Rory Brooks and Elizabeth Brooks with the President and vice-Chancellor

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Ways to give We’re here to help you give the gift of knowledge.

During the last academic year, over 5,000 alumni and friends made financial gifts to the University, providing vital support for our students and researchers. it is easy to join this rapidly growing group of supporters by giving in a way that is convenient to you. over 2,500 donors have set up regular monthly, quarterly or annual gifts by Direct Debit. not only is this a convenient method for you to choose, but it also means that we can plan ahead for the number of scholarships we can provide every year.

You can also give by cheque or credit card. Please complete and return the form enclosed with this magazine or make a gift online at www.manchester.ac.uk/donate To contact a member of staff: Email: support@manchester.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 306 3066

Thank you

The day’s celebrations concluded with a ceremony held in Whitworth Hall to launch two new President’s Circles of Philanthropy. The Beyer and Langworthy Circles have been inaugurated in order to celebrate the contributions of individuals and organisations that have made significant and sustained contributions towards the University.

Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, told the audience, “The support of our donors as we now seek to establish ourselves as a genuinely world-leading institution is vital and enormously appreciated.” www.manchester.ac.uk/collaborate/ support/thank-you/celebratingyour-support

Members of the audience enjoy the conversation with Professor Brian Cox

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Outstanding Outstanding Alumni Awards outstanding Alumni Awards are presented to alumni who have achieved distinction: in their profession; through exemplary service to the University or the wider community; or through outstanding service of a personal or humanitarian nature.

Dr Jane Cocking OBE (BA History 1981, PhD Archaeology 1987) Outstanding Alumni Award (Faculty of Humanities) 2015 As oxfam GB’s Humanitarian Director, Dr Jane Cocking has particular responsibility for ensuring that the organisation’s work has the maximum impact on the health of populations affected by crises. She has given talks at the University’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response institute as part of their popular Speaker Series.

Roger Allam (BA Drama 1975) Outstanding Alumni Award (Faculty of Humanities) 2014 Award-winning actor Roger Allam has been in a wide range of theatre, Tv, radio and film productions including The Thick of It, Game of Thrones, Cabin Pressure and Endeavour.

He played Javert in the original London cast of Les Misérables, and Prospero and Falstaff at Shakespeare’s Globe to great acclaim.

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Lopa Patel MBE (BSc Biochemistry 1986) Outstanding Alumni Award (Faculty of life Sciences) 2015 Lopa Patel is a technology ambassador for STEMnET, which aims to encourage more girls to pursue careers in science. She has also mentored students on our Global Graduates scheme. She established the website redhotcurry.com, a celebration of Asian life in the UK, and is the first Asian woman to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.

Mark Crabtree OBE (MSc Digital Electronics 1974) Outstanding Alumni Award (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences) 2015 The founder and managing director of AMS neve, a leading manufacturer of audio technology equipment, Mark Crabtree is committed to his local community in Burnley. As chair of Burnley Bondholders, he encourages business and enterprise in the town.

Lisa Ronson (BSc Management Sciences 1990) Outstanding Alumni Award (Manchester Business School) 2015 Commercial Director of property development firm Ronson Capital Partners, Lisa Ronson is a member of the Alliance Manchester Business School’s Advisory Board, and has spoken to our students about the property and marketing sectors. She is a trustee of the Gerald Ronson Foundation, established by her father, which has been a generous supporter of the University.

and inspirational Volunteer of the Year Awards 2015 Many students, alumni and staff give their personal time and energy helping undertake public engagement work or volunteering with disadvantaged groups in the community locally, nationally and overseas. As part of its strategic vision, the University aims to encourage greater social responsibility. The volunteer of the Year Awards recognise and celebrate this activity. ‘Alumni of the Year’ is one of the award categories.

The judging panel is made up of representatives from University staff and alumni, the Students’ Union and community organisations. The overall winners in each category also receive the University Medal for Social Responsibility, part of the suite of President's Distinguished Achievement Awards. First, second and third places receive a donation to support the organisations where they volunteer.

Professor Dame nancy Rothwell, President and vice-Chancellor, with (left-right) Professor Jean Hartley, Julia Pugh and Trishna Bharadia

Alumni award winner

Alumni award 2nd place

Alumni award 3rd place

Julia Pugh (BNurs Nursing 2008) Julia Pugh started the Manchester Stop the Traffik charity in 2009 and works tirelessly to fight against the crime of human trafficking, alongside her job as a nurse. A recent project was Travel Safe Week, run in collaboration with the chaplaincy at Manchester Airport to raise awareness amongst staff and passengers.

Trishna Bharadia (BA European Studies and Modern languages 2003) Trishna Bharadia was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2008 and now helps others with the condition, with a focus on the Asian community. in 2013 she was named volunteer of the Year at the MS Society Awards. She took part in the BBC’s The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief, using the opportunity to raise awareness of MS.

Professor Jean Hartley (PhD Management Sciences 1978) A trustee of the Friends of ibba Girls School, Professor Jean Hartley is committed to fundraising for this charity, which is building and developing a residential school in ibba County, South Sudan. The aim is to make a practical difference to the education and life chances of girls in the country’s Western Equatoria State.

Volunteer of the Year Awards 2016 The awards are organised by the Careers and Employability Division, which is part of the Directorate for the Student Experience. For full details of the awards and eligibility criteria visit: www.volunteeroftheyear.manchester.ac.uk

We welcome your support if you have read anything in this magazine that has inspired you to make a financial gift to the University and to volunteer with us, please either fill out and return the enclosed donation form (on the reverse of your update form) using the envelope provided or visit: www.manchester.ac.uk/ connect/alumni or www.manchester.ac.uk/ collaborate/support

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An international perspective Stephanie Griffiths with colleagues in narosura, Kenya

Polyvios Charalambous with some of his patients from Batlagundu, Tamil nadu, india

Katherine Leopold (BA German and Linguistics 2001), of specialist recruitment and consulting agency GnB Partnership, hosted a group of our Global Graduates

An unforgettable opportunity The Global Graduates scheme, which is generously funded by a donor to the University, is going from strength to strength. This year, alumni based in Dubai, London, Hong Kong, new York, Paris, San Francisco and Singapore hosted students from Manchester. over the course of their week abroad they visited a range of organisations including Apple, the BBC, Google, the Hong Kong Government, HSBC, KPMG, nBC Universal PwC, Standard Chartered Bank and the United nations.

Selection for the programme is competitive, and 75 per cent of those who benefited were from a widening participation background. They took the opportunity to develop their professional networks and increase their understanding of their own employability. They also played an ambassadorial role for the University.

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one student commented, “i have gained a lot more insight into the kind of jobs available as well as the nature of work in Dubai, and i definitely feel in a much better position now if i was to seek an internship or a job there. The knowledge you gain from alumni is priceless. i also loved how friendly everyone was!”

Read more about our students’ experiences of Global Graduates at ddar.manchester.ac.uk/ blog/tag/global-graduates

Going that extra mile The Global impact Awards are funded by the Alumni Association to provide the financial backing for students who wish to undertake volunteering opportunities around the world.

The ethos of the awards is for the successful students to make a tangible difference to marginalised or neglected communities and so advance their own personal development.

Each participant receives £250, with an additional Gold Award given to the most outstanding candidate.

Stephanie Griffiths (BSc Biomedical Sciences, Genetics and Developmental Biology 2015) was one of our successful applicants in 2014.

She travelled to narosura, a small village in Kenya, to volunteer with Lasallian Developing World Projects. This charity works on smallscale, sustainable projects in rural areas where the opportunities for education are extremely limited. Stephanie spent two months teaching English and helping to build an extra classroom at a primary school in the village. Polyvios Charalambous (BDS Dentistry 2015) travelled to Batlagundu, a village in Tamil nadu, india, and spent two weeks educating the local community about oral hygiene. He also provided free dental treatment and care to adults and children.

Proud family members and friends take photos after a Graduation 2015 ceremony

Alumni Association update Dear fellow alumni if you are on social media, you can follow the University’s alumni team on Facebook, Twitter and other feeds: this gives you a regular taste of important events and developments, and you can join the conversations or send in pictures. Linkedin helps with professional connections, which are so vital for colleagues wanting to progress their careers.

Janine Watson

i do hope our annual magazine is entertaining you, prompting happy memories, informing you about interesting developments and maybe possibly tempting you to revisit your student haunts. But is this the only way you stay in touch with your university? Have you thought about getting more actively involved in some of our alumni activities?

The alumni team here is now winning national praise for the novel and effective ways it links up our communities all over the world, so let me encourage you to step up your involvement.

Firstly, there are a range of lectures every year, including the star-studded Cockcroft Rutherford evening. With renowned experts like Professor Dame Sally Davies and Professor Brian Cox, with subjects as compelling and wide-ranging as dementia, the application of graphene and humanitarian rescue, there is something to fascinate and inform everyone. We are proud of our world-class experts, so do watch out for the lectures and enjoy. And of course, you can catch up online when you can’t attend the events in person.

Many of you might have skills you could share with other alumni and be able to offer mentoring or advice? or you might be able to attend a Meet the Professionals night, talking directly to young people and boosting their confidence about a career in your specialist area? The University is also encouraging alumni to volunteer in their own communities, particularly as school governors but also by mentoring pupils studying at their former state schools. of course, there are also our giving programmes. Many alumni give a few pounds a month – the price of a coffee or a drink – to help others enjoy the same student experience that they remember.

You can read more about the impact of this type of giving and how you can get involved elsewhere in this magazine.

So let me encourage you to join in: however you choose to be involved, please be assured that the University has a top-class alumni team helping to create a worldwide community of Manchester alumni to the benefit of our students, our communities and, of course, our alumni themselves.

on the steps of the Samuel Alexander Building

A new era Recent changes to the Alumni Association constitution paved the way for three new elected members to join the Alumni Association Advisory Board. online elections held during the summer also included those for alumni representatives on the University’s General Assembly. Fifteen candidates stood for the three vacancies on the Advisory Board, and 27 candidates stood for the seven vacancies on the General Assembly. Congratulations to our new members.

Alumni Association Advisory Board: new members Dr William Hamilton Craig (BSc Civil Engineering 1968) Mrs Melinda McMahon (BA Economics 1977) Ms Helen Stevens (BSc Mathematics 1984) general Assembly: new members Miss Emefa Bonsu (LLB Law with Criminology 2013) Mr Christopher Boyes (BSc Mathematics and Management Sciences 1970) Dr William Hamilton Craig (BSc Civil Engineering 1968) Mr Mark Dunwell (BSocSc Politics and international Relations 2010) Professor Peter Eccles (PhD Mathematics 1972) Mr Tony Morris (LLB Law 1973) Dr Cornelia Wilson (PhD Cell Biology 2001)

Best regards Janine Watson (BA (Econ) 1981) Chair, The University of Manchester Alumni Association

For further details of how alumni are involved in our governance, visit your.manchester.ac.uk/governance

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Stories behind the giving

Levelling the playing field “i graduated from The University of Manchester in 1977, and thankfully i was supported by a grant at the time. Without that vital support, i don’t think i would have been able to do the course. i recently retired from my dental practice and decided to come back to Manchester to work with students here in the Dental Hospital clinics. it’s so rewarding to work with young people, and especially the students at Manchester, because they are so keen and willing to learn. i feel privileged to share my experience and knowledge with them, and my colleagues and i endeavour to prepare them the best we possibly can while they’re here.

“After having a successful 33 years in dentistry, i now choose to support Manchester as my main charity. i support student scholarships, and only recently discovered that many of the recipients were students in my clinics. This recent revelation only demonstrates that the University’s access to education programme is doing a great job, levelling the playing field and giving students the confidence to thrive in the academic and clinical environment.

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A grant in the 1970s changed my life, and I hope I’m doing the same for this generation of students.

Purple Pigs The Purple Pig Challenge is just one of the ways in which we highlight the impact of philanthropic gifts on life at the University. our little Purple Piggybanks have really caught the attention of our students! By taking away a Purple Pig and filling it with a small donation each month, students begin to recognise the many ways in which alumni give back to support them throughout their time here – and how, in turn, they can help others.

Having learnt about the range of causes supported by donations, this year’s Purple Pig donors voted that the funds raised be directed towards medical research.

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“i know that a grant in the 1970s changed my life, and i hope i’m doing the same for this generation of students. By supporting The University of Manchester, i am helping to ensure that there remains equality in access to education for the brightest students, regardless of their economic background.”

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The power of giving Engaging students Enactus Manchester, part of the national Enactus organisation, is an entrepreneurial society which works to empower minority groups, both nationally and internationally, through ethical business action. Demand for volunteering opportunities by our students is growing. Enactus is proving to be a popular choice and has already attracted over 100 volunteers. The group is running two international and four local projects. These include SPoT Finance, a mentoring outreach programme for local secondary schools, and Hope Givers Social Enterprise in Binaba, a town in northern Ghana. over the last decade, donations have supported many student-focused projects via the Learning Enrichment Fund (LEF), both on and off campus. This fund aims to improve the student experience and increase student engagement. A grant from the LEF has enabled Enactus to create a more professional website to demonstrate and showcase their projects and recruit new volunteers, as well as provide training opportunities for team leaders and volunteers. “volunteering really gives you confidence in yourself,” said Hye-Ji Kim, Enactus Manchester President. “You’re learning so much without even really realising it – teaching, communication and managerial skills. it really helps you grow as a well-rounded person.”

Through the Hope Givers project, a group of Enactus volunteers are helping a young, female social entrepreneur and her team of women in Ghana to develop skills needed to enable them to create the Shea Butter Social Enterprise

To find out more about Enactus Manchester’s work, visit www.enactusmanchester.wix.com/home

Tackling global inequalities Equity and Merit Scholarships give students from Africa and Asia the opportunity to come to Manchester to study an advanced postgraduate degree in fields relevant to their country’s development. Generous donor support makes these awards possible and gives students the chance to return to their home countries and have a positive impact on their local communities.

approaches to planning towns and cities: particularly in a context where population growth in Sub-Sahara Africa increases pressure on land, housing and associated services such as water, drainage and energy. i have returned to Uganda and established Studio Flame Limited, a building consultancy with a focus on engaging local residents in design.

As Andrew Amara (MSc Global Urban Development Planning 2013, Gilbert Memorial Scholar) explained, “The Equity and Merit Scholarship allowed me to join Manchester and learn new and inclusive

“i hope donors continue their generosity to open doors and lay the foundation for more bright professionals to establish careers that will cause transformation in Africa.” www.manchester.ac.uk/study/ masters/funding/international/ equity-merit-scholarships

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The Manchester connection Alumni based all over the world have been gathering to share memories, contacts and ideas with each other and the University. Here we highlight a few of the events that have taken place in the last year.

To keep informed about the latest alumni events in the UK or overseas, register for the exclusive alumni community website and make sure your details are updated regularly. visit your.manchester.ac.uk

The 60th Anniversary Dinner of the Lv Society, established by graduates of the Dental School in 1955, was held at Knutsford Golf Club. Members who attended included Professor nairn Wilson CBE (MSc Dental Surgery 1979), President of the British Dental Association, and Professor Paul Coulthard (BDS Dentistry 1981), the Dean of the Dental School.

Alumni events

Members of the University of Manchester Alumni Association (Hong Kong) organise a full calendar of events each year. Sam Chan (BA(Econ) 1970) (left) invited other alumni and friends to escape the crowds and join him on board his private yacht, the Ffree Fire, to watch the Dragon Boat Races.

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Alumni enjoyed the annual London Alumni Dinner, held at the House of Commons and hosted by Professor Dame nancy Rothwell and Dr John Pugh MP.

Alumni attended a cocktail reception at the vogue restaurant in istanbul, overlooking the Bosphorus strait.

We have launched a successful international Speaker Series, where we take advantage of the travel arrangements of our academics while they visit conferences and overseas universities on academic business. Their busy schedules now also include speaking engagements with our global alumni groups. Examples include lectures delivered in San Francisco to alumni living in the region. Speakers have included Phil Manning, Professor of natural History (pictured speaking on Working with Dinosaurs), and ian Cotton, Professor of High voltage Technology.

The Meet the Professionals speed networking events offer students the opportunity to find out more about the range of careers available to them – as shown here in a session organised for students from the Medical School. We organise a programme of these popular evenings throughout the year.

Alumni return to the campus as mentors, telling our students about their career paths and giving advice on how to succeed in the same fields.

We are delighted that alumni in india are working to establish an Alumni Association for Delhi and northern india. An initial meeting early in the year attracted an enthusiastic gathering to discuss the benefits of this move.

The Alumni Association of South Korea held their AGM and dinner at the Savoy Hotel, Myeoung Dong District, Seoul.

Civil Engineering graduates from 1975 held their 40th anniversary reunion back on campus.

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Tap into your alumni network ou may be a regular user of Linkedin, but have you explored its ‘alumni search’ facility? it’s a fantastic tool which allows you to search alumni profiles according to location, employer, business sector, subject studied and more. Find it from the home page by hovering over ‘Education’ on the menu bar and select ‘find alumni’ from the drop down.

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or here’s a quick link: bit.ly/li_UoM We encourage students, recent graduates and experienced alumni to use this search function to find fellow alumni and help each other out – through Q&As, mentoring, job opportunities and work experience or internships.

Career-starters can find step-by-step instructions on how to make contacts at your.manchester.ac.uk/ alumni-network. Mid-career alumni can opt-in, opt-out or say ‘check back soon’ simply by adding a short code to your profile (see box below).

LinkedIn codes Alumni can add these codes to their Linkedin profile: UMAN: gO = ‘Go ahead’ i’m available to be approached UMAN: NN = ‘not now’ i want to take part but now is not a good time, check back later UMAN: XX = ‘opt out’ i don’t wish to take part Use your alumni network and find someone who can help you answer your questions and give you an insight into a career or sector you’re interested in. if you’re an experienced graduate, then make yourself available and add ‘UMAn: Go’ to your Linkedin profile.

Alumni Facebook, Twitter and Instagram You can also stay connected with the University and our global community of graduates by following us on Facebook, Twitter and instagram. Your online contributions have already helped us lead the rankings table of Russell Group universities for social media alumni interaction, which means there’s always something going on.

From the latest University news and trips down memory lane to letting you know about the latest alumni-exclusive offers, events, networking and volunteering opportunities,

Innovation at the Library a digital archive of over 1,500 academic journals content hosted on the SAGE Journals, SAGE Research Methods and SAGE Knowledge platforms transform your approach to career interviews and applications with access to over 2,000 company reports

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our online community will help you maintain a lifelong connection with us and with each other.

Just search ‘AlumniUoM’ to find us. or you’ll always be able to follow where we are on social media from the Your Manchester homepage.

For full instructions on how to ‘use your alumni network’, visit your.manchester.ac.uk/ alumni-network

We are constantly expanding the range of publications available to our alumni through Your Manchester Online. Resources that registered users can currently access include:

a comprehensive database of UK companies, directors and shareholders and the links between them leading journals, transactions, letters and magazines in electrical engineering, computing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy

All you need to do is register with Your Manchester online. once we’ve verified your account, you can login and click through to the relevant search directories. This service is free of charge and is another excellent perk of being part of the Manchester alumni community.

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GRADUATION

Pictures of our latest graduates and their friends and family members were taken in the graduation photo booth

Summer Graduation 2015

Graduation is a significant milestone in every student’s career. it’s also a special time for family and friends. From the moment you graduate, you automatically become part of our worldwide alumni network – of over 300,000 people – and benefit from the influence and opportunities that come from being a University of Manchester graduate.

We hope that graduation is a transition to a new stage of a lifelong connection between our alumni and the University. We want you to get involved and realise all the benefits we continue to offer you.

Find out more by visiting your.manchester.ac.uk – a dedicated space for all University of Manchester alumni, where you can continue to share memories, experiences and advice.

Summer graduation 2015: in numbers

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outstanding Alumni Award winners (see page 38)

graduates had received scholarships funded by our donors

pots of strawberries and cream

from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

How we do it

honorary graduate: Michael Wood, Professor of Public History (Hon DLitt)

Ensuring that the ceremonies go smoothly involves staff from across the University (Estates, House Services, Schools and Faculties), supported by a team of 35 student helpers. And each graduand receives a fresh gown – they are dry cleaned between each use throughout the fortnight.

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