Funding for the studentships will be varied with fully funded and fees only places and are only available to Home and EU candidates. Holders will register for a Research Masters/MPhil/PhD degree.

For fully funded studentships, the University will provide the home tuition fees for these awards (approx £3,500 p.a. for 2010/2011), and a subsistence bursary (£12,000 p.a.) with the exception of full-time fees-only studentships.

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An effective and well motivated workforce is instrumental in overcoming the challenges and driving the transformation of public services.

This conference will bring together practitioners, industry experts and academics to explore and identify the current challenges in leading change within the public sector.

Date: Wednesday 24th March 2010

Time: 9am - 4.30pm

Venue: MacDonald Hotel, Central Manchester

Confirmed Key Note Speakers include:

• Roger Ellis, Chief Executive Officer, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council - “Enterprising Leadership”
• Professor Jackie Ford, Professor of Leadership & Organisation Studies, Bradford University School of Management - “Beyond Distributive Leadership – Implications for Public Sector Organisations”
• Damian Hughes, Founder, The Liquid Thinker Company - “The Survival Guide to Change”

Workshops include:

• “Leading a Regional Team through a National Flu Pandemic” - Marie Burnham, Regional Director of Flu and NHS Resilience, NHS North West (Secondment) and Chief Executive Officer, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• “Leadership for Collaboration” - Dr Paul Williams, Reader in Public Management and Collaboration, Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales Institute
• “Resources for Optimism – Leadership Reflective Practice” - Dr Shirley Jenner, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
• “Leadership - Going Through the Motions” - John O’Hare, Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police
• TBC - Steve Hare, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Applied Learning, Northern Ireland Civil Service

For more information and to book a place at the conference, please visit the conference website at www.business.mmu.ac.uk/leadership, e-mail bdc@mmu.ac.uk or call 0161 247 3854.

Time: 9.30am start - Full day

Next steps: Download the event details and book your place using the online booking form.

Time: 10.00am - 12.00PM

Next steps: Download the event details and book your place using the online booking form.

Find out more about the programme and book your place via the online booking system.

Find out more about current projects and how you can get involved!

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The £1.2 million “Beacons of Public Engagement” project has been awarded to a partnership that includes MMU, Manchester: Knowledge Capital, the Museum of Science and Industry and the Universities of Manchester and Salford.

About the Beacons for Public Engagement

The funding is to boost universities capacity for public engagement by recognising and rewarding the contribution of staff that work in this area. The overall vision of the programme is to bring about a cultural change to making public engagement a central part of academic life.

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Third Stream Professor Maureen Neal said:

“What makes this initiative so exciting for MMU is that this contract is both recognition for the excellent public engagement work that we already do and a big opportunity for us to play our part in shaping this important agenda on behalf of the rest of the Higher Education sector. The public engagement mission is even more important in a city like Manchester where, despite the economic boom, our inner cities are challenged with areas of major social and economic deprivation and poor educational achievement. The Manchester Beacon will bridge the interests of Universities and local people and build trust that will allow our University to become part of, and not separate from our local community. I am delighted that we have been successful in this bid and look forward to all the innovative work that is going to come out of this project”

You can find out more on the Research Council website.

For more information contact Sarah O’Donnell or the Corporate Development Team in the RED Office on 0161 247 3386.

About the Manchester Science Festival

The Manchester Science Festival aims to enthuse and inspire everyone about science, technology and engineering. The first Manchester Science Festival had over 100 events happening over the course of the week, many of which MMU were involved with.

MMU at the Manchester Science Festival

The Corporate Development Team within the RED Office helped to coordinate MMU’s involvement with the Festival and worked closely with MMU’s academics to arrange a number of exciting events.

You can find out more information about MMU’s involvement with the Manchester Science Festival here, or alternatively contact Marcus Lord on m.lord@mmu.ac.uk or call 0161 247 2197.

Visit the official Manchester Science Festival website

MMU Business School is establishing a facility to assist students who have recently graduated from all MMU faculties to develop their business ideas to help create sustainable new businesses in the heart of Manchester.

The 900 square metres of space has been completely renovated within MMU’s listed Minshull Building on Chorlton Street in Central Manchester will open in September 2007. The Incubator will provide a range of resources for nascent entrepreneurs including:

• Workspace for 100 entrepreneurs based on ‘hot-desking’
• A creative, stimulating and supportive working environment
• Business support from a range of sources including MMUBS staff, business advisers, professionals from the financial and legal communities as well as successful entrepreneurs from business and social enterprise backgrounds
• Access to IT facilities, libraries, start-up resources and book able meeting space
• A central Manchester postal address including free phone and printing facilities

Interested graduates and entrepreneurs will be eligible for a place in the incubator for a period of 12 months based on the following criteria:

• Participants must have a reasonably well-thought-out business idea
• They have a strong commitment to become an entrepreneur and to networking have graduated from a North West University

This project has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and MMU’s Business School. It is managed by the Centre for Enterprise.