Sustainable Futures
@sustainableuom.bsky.social
Sustainable Futures of @official-uom.bsky.social has a network of 500+ researchers to deliver sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.
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🌍⚡ Discover the projects powering Greater Manchester’s energy transition!
From community-owned renewables to geothermal innovation, Co-Created Futures will showcase pioneering interdisciplinary research work.
📅 Join us 3 Dec @ Sister, Manchester
🎟️ Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
From community-owned renewables to geothermal innovation, Co-Created Futures will showcase pioneering interdisciplinary research work.
📅 Join us 3 Dec @ Sister, Manchester
🎟️ Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌍⚡ Discover the projects powering Greater Manchester’s energy transition!
From community-owned renewables to geothermal innovation, Co-Created Futures will showcase pioneering interdisciplinary research work.
📅 Join us 3 Dec @ Sister, Manchester
🎟️ Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
From community-owned renewables to geothermal innovation, Co-Created Futures will showcase pioneering interdisciplinary research work.
📅 Join us 3 Dec @ Sister, Manchester
🎟️ Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
🎉 1 Month to Go! 🎉We’re counting down to Co-created Futures—our annual conference on 3 Dec at Sister, Manchester!
🌍 Theme: Co-produced research
🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature
🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov!
🎟️ Grab your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
#ResearchImpact
🌍 Theme: Co-produced research
🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature
🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov!
🎟️ Grab your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
#ResearchImpact
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎉 1 Month to Go! 🎉We’re counting down to Co-created Futures—our annual conference on 3 Dec at Sister, Manchester!
🌍 Theme: Co-produced research
🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature
🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov!
🎟️ Grab your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
#ResearchImpact
🌍 Theme: Co-produced research
🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature
🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov!
🎟️ Grab your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc
#ResearchImpact
Last week, Hannah Ritchie's new book, Clearing the Air, was showcased as part of the #MCRLITFEST. Yours truly attended. As with her first book, she discusses climate change issues but, crucially, she advances optimism and hope in order to empower readers to take meaningful, impactful action.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last week, Hannah Ritchie's new book, Clearing the Air, was showcased as part of the #MCRLITFEST. Yours truly attended. As with her first book, she discusses climate change issues but, crucially, she advances optimism and hope in order to empower readers to take meaningful, impactful action.
🎨 Following the success of Embedded exhibition, the Henry Royce Institute invites you to Sculpted Forms: A Response to Embedded — an evening of poetry, art, and conversation led by acclaimed writer and curator Inua Ellams.
🗓️ Monday 3rd November
🕠 17:30–19:30
🎟️ Reserve your spot: lnkd.in/e_-y-ddV
🗓️ Monday 3rd November
🕠 17:30–19:30
🎟️ Reserve your spot: lnkd.in/e_-y-ddV
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎨 Following the success of Embedded exhibition, the Henry Royce Institute invites you to Sculpted Forms: A Response to Embedded — an evening of poetry, art, and conversation led by acclaimed writer and curator Inua Ellams.
🗓️ Monday 3rd November
🕠 17:30–19:30
🎟️ Reserve your spot: lnkd.in/e_-y-ddV
🗓️ Monday 3rd November
🕠 17:30–19:30
🎟️ Reserve your spot: lnkd.in/e_-y-ddV
🎧 New podcasts alert!
If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to:
Rethink: how can flying be less polluting?
lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d
Rethink: should we stop flying?
lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5
If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to:
Rethink: how can flying be less polluting?
lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d
Rethink: should we stop flying?
lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎧 New podcasts alert!
If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to:
Rethink: how can flying be less polluting?
lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d
Rethink: should we stop flying?
lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5
If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to:
Rethink: how can flying be less polluting?
lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d
Rethink: should we stop flying?
lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5
🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
Great news for changemakers and innovators: the deadline to apply for the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab has been extended to 22 October! 🌍✨
🔗 Learn more and apply now: www.sustainablefutures.manchester.ac.uk/events/susta...
Great news for changemakers and innovators: the deadline to apply for the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab has been extended to 22 October! 🌍✨
🔗 Learn more and apply now: www.sustainablefutures.manchester.ac.uk/events/susta...
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
Great news for changemakers and innovators: the deadline to apply for the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab has been extended to 22 October! 🌍✨
🔗 Learn more and apply now: www.sustainablefutures.manchester.ac.uk/events/susta...
Great news for changemakers and innovators: the deadline to apply for the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab has been extended to 22 October! 🌍✨
🔗 Learn more and apply now: www.sustainablefutures.manchester.ac.uk/events/susta...
🌍 Join the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab
📅 10 Dec 25 🕛12:00–17:30
📍 University of Manchester
🔍 We’re seeking non-academic partners (corporates, SMEs, public sector, VCSE) ready to collaborate with top researchers to tackle real sustainability challenges.
📥 Apply by 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/35ne8pbe
📅 10 Dec 25 🕛12:00–17:30
📍 University of Manchester
🔍 We’re seeking non-academic partners (corporates, SMEs, public sector, VCSE) ready to collaborate with top researchers to tackle real sustainability challenges.
📥 Apply by 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/35ne8pbe
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌍 Join the Sustainable Futures Innovation Lab
📅 10 Dec 25 🕛12:00–17:30
📍 University of Manchester
🔍 We’re seeking non-academic partners (corporates, SMEs, public sector, VCSE) ready to collaborate with top researchers to tackle real sustainability challenges.
📥 Apply by 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/35ne8pbe
📅 10 Dec 25 🕛12:00–17:30
📍 University of Manchester
🔍 We’re seeking non-academic partners (corporates, SMEs, public sector, VCSE) ready to collaborate with top researchers to tackle real sustainability challenges.
📥 Apply by 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/35ne8pbe
📢 Leadership update
Dr Helen Holmes & Prof Alice Larkin are the new Co-Directors of Sustainable Futures 🌍
Exciting times ahead as they drive the platform forward under the new #M2035 strategy ⚡
#Sustainability #Research #ClimateAction #UoM
Dr Helen Holmes & Prof Alice Larkin are the new Co-Directors of Sustainable Futures 🌍
Exciting times ahead as they drive the platform forward under the new #M2035 strategy ⚡
#Sustainability #Research #ClimateAction #UoM
September 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Leadership update
Dr Helen Holmes & Prof Alice Larkin are the new Co-Directors of Sustainable Futures 🌍
Exciting times ahead as they drive the platform forward under the new #M2035 strategy ⚡
#Sustainability #Research #ClimateAction #UoM
Dr Helen Holmes & Prof Alice Larkin are the new Co-Directors of Sustainable Futures 🌍
Exciting times ahead as they drive the platform forward under the new #M2035 strategy ⚡
#Sustainability #Research #ClimateAction #UoM
🚣 #WorldLakeDay 🚣
Lakes store most of our surface freshwater, support biodiversity, and sustain livelihoods but they’re shrinking fast due to climate change, pollution, and poor sanitation.
Let’s protect these vital ecosystems. Sign the petition to safeguard Windermere: tinyurl.com/5n8ynruk 💧
Lakes store most of our surface freshwater, support biodiversity, and sustain livelihoods but they’re shrinking fast due to climate change, pollution, and poor sanitation.
Let’s protect these vital ecosystems. Sign the petition to safeguard Windermere: tinyurl.com/5n8ynruk 💧
August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚣 #WorldLakeDay 🚣
Lakes store most of our surface freshwater, support biodiversity, and sustain livelihoods but they’re shrinking fast due to climate change, pollution, and poor sanitation.
Let’s protect these vital ecosystems. Sign the petition to safeguard Windermere: tinyurl.com/5n8ynruk 💧
Lakes store most of our surface freshwater, support biodiversity, and sustain livelihoods but they’re shrinking fast due to climate change, pollution, and poor sanitation.
Let’s protect these vital ecosystems. Sign the petition to safeguard Windermere: tinyurl.com/5n8ynruk 💧
🚣Happy #WorldLakeDay! 🚣
Let’s protect our lakes and freshwater ecosystems together. Dive into powerful data at SDG661.app to see how science drives restoration.
Like, repost, and follow for updates from us and @UNEP.
#GenerationRestoration #UNEP
Let’s protect our lakes and freshwater ecosystems together. Dive into powerful data at SDG661.app to see how science drives restoration.
Like, repost, and follow for updates from us and @UNEP.
#GenerationRestoration #UNEP
August 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚣Happy #WorldLakeDay! 🚣
Let’s protect our lakes and freshwater ecosystems together. Dive into powerful data at SDG661.app to see how science drives restoration.
Like, repost, and follow for updates from us and @UNEP.
#GenerationRestoration #UNEP
Let’s protect our lakes and freshwater ecosystems together. Dive into powerful data at SDG661.app to see how science drives restoration.
Like, repost, and follow for updates from us and @UNEP.
#GenerationRestoration #UNEP
🌱 Mangrove World
A conservation game from @OfficialUoM where you restore coastlines and capture carbon.
Beautiful, immersive, and educational.
🔗 keepithuman.itch.io/mangroveworld
A conservation game from @OfficialUoM where you restore coastlines and capture carbon.
Beautiful, immersive, and educational.
🔗 keepithuman.itch.io/mangroveworld
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌱 Mangrove World
A conservation game from @OfficialUoM where you restore coastlines and capture carbon.
Beautiful, immersive, and educational.
🔗 keepithuman.itch.io/mangroveworld
A conservation game from @OfficialUoM where you restore coastlines and capture carbon.
Beautiful, immersive, and educational.
🔗 keepithuman.itch.io/mangroveworld
📱 Seek by iNaturalist
Like Pokémon Go, but for real-life plants and animals. Snap a photo, get an ID, and log your sightings.
🔗 lnkd.in/e2eYuCj
Like Pokémon Go, but for real-life plants and animals. Snap a photo, get an ID, and log your sightings.
🔗 lnkd.in/e2eYuCj
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📱 Seek by iNaturalist
Like Pokémon Go, but for real-life plants and animals. Snap a photo, get an ID, and log your sightings.
🔗 lnkd.in/e2eYuCj
Like Pokémon Go, but for real-life plants and animals. Snap a photo, get an ID, and log your sightings.
🔗 lnkd.in/e2eYuCj
🦋 The Big Butterfly Count
Just 15 minutes outdoors can help track butterfly populations. Your kids will be hooked!
🔗 lnkd.in/eDPGh_n
Just 15 minutes outdoors can help track butterfly populations. Your kids will be hooked!
🔗 lnkd.in/eDPGh_n
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🦋 The Big Butterfly Count
Just 15 minutes outdoors can help track butterfly populations. Your kids will be hooked!
🔗 lnkd.in/eDPGh_n
Just 15 minutes outdoors can help track butterfly populations. Your kids will be hooked!
🔗 lnkd.in/eDPGh_n
🌱 Sustainable Threads – a fantastic initiative weaving purpose into fashion.
Deserving of recognition and support 👏
🎥 Watch the video to learn more about the project:
🔗 lnkd.in/eRkJ8vqB
#SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #Innovation #EcoThreads #ClimateAction
Deserving of recognition and support 👏
🎥 Watch the video to learn more about the project:
🔗 lnkd.in/eRkJ8vqB
#SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #Innovation #EcoThreads #ClimateAction
July 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌱 Sustainable Threads – a fantastic initiative weaving purpose into fashion.
Deserving of recognition and support 👏
🎥 Watch the video to learn more about the project:
🔗 lnkd.in/eRkJ8vqB
#SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #Innovation #EcoThreads #ClimateAction
Deserving of recognition and support 👏
🎥 Watch the video to learn more about the project:
🔗 lnkd.in/eRkJ8vqB
#SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #Innovation #EcoThreads #ClimateAction
🌍 Celebrating our UMRI awarded projects exemplifying how interdisciplinary collaboration can unlock real-world solutions:
- Community-led Energy Renewables by Jaise Kuriakose
- Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport by Andrew Welfle
- Pan Africa Mining Study by Gareth Clay
- Community-led Energy Renewables by Jaise Kuriakose
- Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport by Andrew Welfle
- Pan Africa Mining Study by Gareth Clay
July 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌍 Celebrating our UMRI awarded projects exemplifying how interdisciplinary collaboration can unlock real-world solutions:
- Community-led Energy Renewables by Jaise Kuriakose
- Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport by Andrew Welfle
- Pan Africa Mining Study by Gareth Clay
- Community-led Energy Renewables by Jaise Kuriakose
- Route 66: Visions for Rapid Decarbonisation of Transport by Andrew Welfle
- Pan Africa Mining Study by Gareth Clay
🌍 UoM joins EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships, a £97M initiative uniting academia + industry to tackle real-world challenges.
CHaMP—led by Prof Michael Shaver with Bupa + Unit M—aims to reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint by rethinking plastics, waste, and reuse in clinics and hospitals.
#EPSRC
CHaMP—led by Prof Michael Shaver with Bupa + Unit M—aims to reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint by rethinking plastics, waste, and reuse in clinics and hospitals.
#EPSRC
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🌍 UoM joins EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships, a £97M initiative uniting academia + industry to tackle real-world challenges.
CHaMP—led by Prof Michael Shaver with Bupa + Unit M—aims to reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint by rethinking plastics, waste, and reuse in clinics and hospitals.
#EPSRC
CHaMP—led by Prof Michael Shaver with Bupa + Unit M—aims to reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint by rethinking plastics, waste, and reuse in clinics and hospitals.
#EPSRC
🌆 Can cities beat the heat by turning up the shine?
#UoM research shows that boosting how much sunlight city surfaces reflect can cool things down in a meaningful way. The breakthrough?A model that lets reflectivity shift over time, mimicking real-world changes like white roofs or ageing materials.
#UoM research shows that boosting how much sunlight city surfaces reflect can cool things down in a meaningful way. The breakthrough?A model that lets reflectivity shift over time, mimicking real-world changes like white roofs or ageing materials.
July 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🌆 Can cities beat the heat by turning up the shine?
#UoM research shows that boosting how much sunlight city surfaces reflect can cool things down in a meaningful way. The breakthrough?A model that lets reflectivity shift over time, mimicking real-world changes like white roofs or ageing materials.
#UoM research shows that boosting how much sunlight city surfaces reflect can cool things down in a meaningful way. The breakthrough?A model that lets reflectivity shift over time, mimicking real-world changes like white roofs or ageing materials.
Meet our young artists!
June 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Meet our young artists!
Meet the artists!
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Meet the artists!
Join us on Bridgeford Street and unleash your inner street artist at the #ManchesterUniversallyFestival!
@digitaluom.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
@digitaluom.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Join us on Bridgeford Street and unleash your inner street artist at the #ManchesterUniversallyFestival!
@digitaluom.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
@digitaluom.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
Our team volunteered at Platt Fields Market Garden with Manchester Urban Diggers, swapping laptops for trowels. It was a day of teamwork and learning, supporting MUD's sustainable growing. Read more about MUD here: www.wearemud.org/about #Volunteering #Sustainability #CommunityEngagement #GivingBack
June 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our team volunteered at Platt Fields Market Garden with Manchester Urban Diggers, swapping laptops for trowels. It was a day of teamwork and learning, supporting MUD's sustainable growing. Read more about MUD here: www.wearemud.org/about #Volunteering #Sustainability #CommunityEngagement #GivingBack
🌍 Still buzzing from last week’s Threads of Change: Tackling the Textile Waste Crisis workshop, brilliantly led by @Libby Allen! This session brought together passionate individuals from industry to share real-world challenges and successes and explore how to scale sustainable practices.
June 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌍 Still buzzing from last week’s Threads of Change: Tackling the Textile Waste Crisis workshop, brilliantly led by @Libby Allen! This session brought together passionate individuals from industry to share real-world challenges and successes and explore how to scale sustainable practices.
From oceans to rivers, bins to bottles — the projects mentioned below show how research can drive real-world change. We all have a role in protecting our planet.
Let’s work together to #BeatPlasticPollution 💚
#WorldEnvironmentDay
Let’s work together to #BeatPlasticPollution 💚
#WorldEnvironmentDay
June 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
From oceans to rivers, bins to bottles — the projects mentioned below show how research can drive real-world change. We all have a role in protecting our planet.
Let’s work together to #BeatPlasticPollution 💚
#WorldEnvironmentDay
Let’s work together to #BeatPlasticPollution 💚
#WorldEnvironmentDay
🗑️ “One Bin to Rule Them All” proposes a unified plastic recycling system across the UK.
By simplifying recycling, we can boost infrastructure, cut confusion, and push towards a circular economy.
🔗 tinyurl.com/25surrsz
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution
By simplifying recycling, we can boost infrastructure, cut confusion, and push towards a circular economy.
🔗 tinyurl.com/25surrsz
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution
June 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🗑️ “One Bin to Rule Them All” proposes a unified plastic recycling system across the UK.
By simplifying recycling, we can boost infrastructure, cut confusion, and push towards a circular economy.
🔗 tinyurl.com/25surrsz
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution
By simplifying recycling, we can boost infrastructure, cut confusion, and push towards a circular economy.
🔗 tinyurl.com/25surrsz
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution