Metropolitan UniversityManchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) was awarded University status is 1992 and is part of the largest higher education campus in the UK and one of the most extensive education centres in Europe.
With a history dating back 150 years, the University has a combination of the traditional and the contemporary, setting it apart and giving it a unique character.
Receiving over 52,000 applications for 2011 courses, the University is the most popular university in the UK. With over 1,000 courses and qualifications, MMU is the university for world-class professionals.
Explore some of the University’s faculties and developments by clicking on the links below:
- Birley Fields Campus
- Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health
- Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Care
- The Business School
- MIRIAD
- Faculty of Art & Design
- The Holden Gallery
- The Special Collections
- Elizabeth Gaskell House
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Research & Development
MMU is committed to matching its high reputation for teaching with parallel excellence in research. The University sits within the top five per cent of UK universities for exercise and sport science and within the top 12 per cent for materials science. It is ranked fourth among research-active new universities in attracting support from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The University’s research activity is structured around eight research institutes that produce world-leading research in areas as diverse as materials science, health and computing science.
Nano-info-bio (NIB)
NIB is an emerging area in science where nanotechnology, biology and computing converge, and has the potential to fundamentally transform healthcare, agriculture and energy. NIB science is widely predicted to lie at the heart of the next technological revolution, and the University has been awarded nearly £0.5 million to look at new ways to drive it forward.
Among the first studies are:
- The use of nanoparticles in wound repair
- Gene nanotechnology in treatment of melanoma
- Design of novel nanodevices
- Water purification
- Prevention of pin tract infection
- Techniques for environmental sample analysis
- New computerised muscle analysis
- Image analysis of tooth plaque build-up
The University is a UK national facility for multi-function nano-scale analysis of materials and is the only UK university with a £1m Micro Raman SEM microscope which can work at the intersection of surfaces and biological entities. To find out more about the University’s ‘Bridging the Gaps’ programme you can visit their website, click here
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