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2025
24
January
2025
| 13:40 Europe/London
The 2024 general election was the first in the UKÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s history to be run under a system of voter ID. When heading to the polling station, people could only vote if they proved their identity first. This was the result of a law brought in in 2023 and
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24
January
2025
| 11:43 Europe/London
The University of Manchester and Garden Court North Chambers are set to host a lecture by award-winning Guardian journalist David Conn on the Hillsborough disaster, and the subsequent legal failings that led to a decades-long fight for justice.
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20
January
2025
| 13:55 Europe/London
As Donald TrumpÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s begins his second term as President of the United States, a groundbreaking study led by The University of Manchester has revealed that a majority of Ukrainians hold a cautiously optimistic view of his presidency - even amid
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17
January
2025
| 16:53 Europe/London
The Premier League is currently vulnerable to new investors and team owners who could have sourced their wealth from illicit activities.
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06
January
2025
| 10:04 Europe/London
The University of ManchesterÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s Professor Gary Younge has been named as the recipient of a prestigious Robert B. Silvers Award in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the field of journalism. 
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02
January
2025
| 11:08 Europe/London
The Horizon scandal, which led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters, has severely dented the publicÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s perception of the Post Office as an institution. Against this backdrop, branch closures are planned across the Post Office
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2024
10
December
2024
| 13:39 Europe/London
The University of Manchester's Professor Claire Alexander has been announced as this yearÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s winner of the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award.
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2023
22
August
2023
| 10:59 Europe/London
The University of Manchester Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ the first-ever Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics in the UK and the wider English-speaking world, in a move that demonstrates the leading role of the University when it comes to the study of
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2022
18
October
2022
| 18:00 Europe/London
A new report by experts from The University of Manchester and barrister Keir Monteith KC has raised urgent questions about racial attitudes and practices in the justice system in England and Wales.  
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2021
16
December
2021
| 15:03 Europe/London
With projects on preventing cuckooing, disrupting domestic abuse, recording honour based violence, and identifying victims of coercive control, all four projects have the potential to reduce harm to some of the most vulnerable people in the
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14
December
2021
| 14:49 Europe/London
DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) is a programme initiated by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).Data has been fundamental to the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the UK moves out of the critical phase and into
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2019
10
May
2019
| 09:59 Europe/London
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ six senior academic Fellows from universities across the UK to focus on five key areas: Rural Land Use, Food, Air Quality, Marine, and Resources and Waste. Prof Boons is
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22
March
2019
| 14:20 Europe/London
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has moved from its two buildings in Waterloo Place to the Alliance Manchester Business School. As of mid-March 2019, staff and students have been busy settling into newly refurbished offices on the
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27
February
2019
| 10:34 Europe/London
School students across the UK (and the world) went on strike on 15 February 2019 to protest the lack of effective action on climate change. School strikes may be a novel tactic, but mass environmental activism isn’t. Marc Hudson asks,
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25
February
2019
| 11:32 Europe/London
Professor Frank Boons takes up the role. Congratulations to Professor Frank Boons who has been appointed Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). Frank is Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at Alliance
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