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Our research mission for takling inequalities
Discover what drives us to create a more equal society and improve opportunities throughout the course of people's lives, moulding a society where prejudice has no place.
About our research mission
The lives people lead — their opportunity to be happy, healthy and fulfilled, and to make the most of their potential — are constrained by often-overlooked social factors.
Deprivation. Social exclusion. Mental health problems. Illness. Disability. Poor educational outcomes. All have a damaging effect, and often in combination.
The Covid-19 pandemic further exposed the impact of these inequalities and the need for radical reform in:
- health and social care, pivoting from curing disease towards preventing it
- the education system, becoming genuinely inclusive and enabling all children and young people to thrive
- the criminal justice system, tackling deep-rooted problems with a focus on social justice
Through our world-leading research, we aim to make this change possible.
We also ensure that the people we research with can shape our research agenda, whether that’s in psychology, social science, criminology or education.
Our research strengths include:
- understanding how health and social care needs intersect and what is needed to serve a diverse, ageing and increasingly frail population
- examining reform of welfare systems and public services, and opportunities to address inequalities and support new understandings of social justice
- transforming national policy and practice within the criminal justice system, helping to tackle reoffending and improve life chances
- creating interventions to improve the lives of people with long-term conditions like diabetes and dementia
- providing insights into health and care workforces to enable system-wide innovations that will benefit society
- revealing the importance of place, and how it affects the aspirations of individuals, families, communities, workforces and charities
Our usual ways of doing research can exclude people in marginalised communities, leading us to ask the wrong questions and come up with ways forward that don’t help. At Manchester Met, we work with people in marginalised communities to define our research so that it delivers real impact.
Our usual ways of doing research can exclude people in marginalised communities, leading us to ask the wrong questions and come up with ways forward that don’t help. At Manchester Met, we work with people in marginalised communities to define our research so that it delivers real impact.
Featured research projects
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Manchester Voices
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Co-production in AI research
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COVID-19's impact on youth justice
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Making and managing Ljubljana's urban squats
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Using virtual reality to help pulmonary patients
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Championing change for BAME leadership
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Fertility journeys and the workplace
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Using digital technology to improve learning
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Early Years Learning at the Science Museum
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Gamifying CLIL
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How do families experience our museums?
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Inclusive Mathematics Teaching
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Loneliness and Young People
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Manchester Art Gallery
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Partispace and PartiBridges
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Realistic Mathematics Education
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RE Teachers and Values Education
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Teaching ethical global issues
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The odd project
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Whole-school special educational needs review
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Embedding a Democratic Culture in Teacher Education
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School funding, pupil performance and crime
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Supporting autistic adults’ intimate lives
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COVID-19 and people with learning disabilities
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Using co-design to improve social care
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Linking cognition and gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease
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Mental health act reform
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Medications and my mental health
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In Search of Flourishing Lives
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Spinning Plates
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British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19 (BRIC-19)
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SAFEDI
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The Good Employment Charter
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Investigating, understanding and challenging unequal social relations is central to creating a just society. At Manchester Met, it’s our engagement with policy-makers, those with lived experience and practitioners which enables us to contribute to a better future through our research.
Investigating, understanding and challenging unequal social relations is central to creating a just society. At Manchester Met, it’s our engagement with policy-makers, those with lived experience and practitioners which enables us to contribute to a better future through our research.
Research groups
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Learning disabilities and autism
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Education and global futures
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Sylvia Pankhurst Gender and Diversity Research Centre
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Work and working lives
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Work, Management and Leadership Capabilities
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Mathematics education
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Teacher Education
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Communication disability
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Mental health
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Community, Culture and Heritage
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