Our research community at
Manchester Metropolitan
At Manchester Met, our research is at the heart of how we transform lives. From our home in the centre of Manchester – a city renowned for innovation – we’re making an impact that reaches across the UK and around the world.
With research spanning four faculties and two flagship institutes – the Institute for Children’s Futures and the Institute of Sport – you’ll join a collaborative, diverse community where ideas thrive. Supported by world-class facilities and inspiring colleagues, you can push boundaries and turn ideas into real-world breakthroughs.
With robust finances, we’re continually investing in our people, spaces and research environment – giving you and your team the opportunity and freedom to make an impact and transform lives with us.
Find out about our research community
Welcome from Professor Steve Rothberg
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
We are proud to be an inclusive community of over 5,100 staff and 44,000 students, united by a shared ambition: to make a real difference – transforming lives and helping partners across public, private, and charity sectors build sustainable futures.
Excellence defines our community – in education and research. 90% of our research impact is world-leading or internationally excellent (REF2021), we hold the TEF Gold Award (2023–27), rank top 10 for student experience (NSS 2025), and no.1 for colleague experience (Inspire HE 2024/25). Through achievements like these, we are now Times and Sunday Times Modern University of the Year 2026.
Manchester Metropolitan is a place where great ideas are nurtured, collaborations flourish, and careers reach new heights.
We’re entering the third year of a five-year campaign to recruit 100 new professors. Together with our internal promotions, our new professors are already bringing senior leadership to advance education and research while upholding our values.
If you are passionate about education and research, with a track record of success and a commitment to support colleagues, perhaps in a team you lead, we want to hear from you.
Belong to a community of innovators
Transforming lives together through education and research
We’re Manchester Met proud - ambitious, innovative, and collaborative, using our world-class facilities and diverse expertise to be a force for good.
Our research community is growing stronger every year, with increased support and investment enabling our teams to tackle ambitious projects and make real-world impact.
Research funding has grown by 50% in just three years. And we’ve achieved a new ‘best’ with research awards of almost £30m last year, so we can keep making a difference. Recent highlights include:
- £3.8m from AHRC for the Robotics Living Lab
- £1m from the MRC for Parkinson’s research
- £1m from EPSRC for facial prosthetics
Through partnerships with communities, businesses, industry and other institutions, we’re tackling the grand challenges of our time.
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Our research is focused on five life-changing missions:
Tackling inequalities
Building cohesive communities and helping shape a more caring, just and inclusive society: locally, national and globally.
Championing creative excellence
Harnessing imagination to drive creativity, bringing architecture, art, design, fashion, media and performance together.
Leading sustainability
Driving innovative solutions for a greener and more sustainable future through advances in science and engineering practice and policy.
Transforming health
Enabling people to start well, live well and age well with innovative research and transformative healthcare.
Driving economic growth
Advancing skills, knowledge and digital technology to build inclusive and sustainable economic growth and innovation, shaped by industry.
Your career, our investment
Once you join, we invest in you. You’ll have autonomy in an environment designed to unlock your potential, with a competitive salary, outstanding benefits package, and options for part-time working.
Join us and discover a career with meaning—where your research can be forever bold, innovative and life-changing every day.
Explore our rewards and benefits
Our faculties
Arts and Humanities
Creative, diverse, and future-focused. Home to Manchester School of Art, Fashion Institute, and School of Architecture (ranked 5th in the world). Collaborate in world-class facilities and shape culture and society.
Business and Law
Globally connected, socially responsible, and entrepreneurial. A renowned triple-accredited Business School and a pioneering Law School. Influence workplaces, transform communities, and make a global impact.
Health and Education
Proud to be one of the region’s providers of nursing and allied health professionals. Train the next generation, tackle real-world challenges, and innovate in healthcare and education.
Science and Engineering
Research-led and globally impactful. Work in state-of-the-art facilities and pioneer solutions in engineering, energy, sport, cybersecurity, and advanced materials.
Join our research community
Bring your ideas to life in a place that gives you the freedom, support and world-class facilities to achieve your ambitions.
Be part of a fast-growing research environment where you can collaborate with other experts at the forefront of their fields and work with communities, business and industry to tackle the grand challenges of our time.
To find out more about the role that you can play in our exciting future, meet some of faculty leaders below who are available for informal discussions.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities – Professor Chris Fox, Faculty Director of Research
Faculty of Business & Law – Professor Dominic Medway, Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Faculty of Health & Education – Professor Mike Coldwell, Faculty Director of Research
Faculty of Science & Engineering – Professor Mark Sterling, Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor
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We’re halfway through our ambitious plans to recruit 100 international research professors – aligning global talent with our key research strengths and growth strategy. With a number of key appointments already in place from recent years, this is an exciting time to join our research community and become an integral part of our commitment to creating research with impact.
Interested?
Connect with us and let’s talk about working at Manchester Met, whether it’s just you or it’s your team, whether you’re ready to join us right now or in the future.
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