The University of Manchester

AEGIS addresses an urgent compliance and trust problem for UK-facing social media, dating, gaming, creator platforms and adult-content services: robust age assurance is now a regulatory requirement, not a product choice. Ofcom's Online Safety regime requires services that allow pornography to implement "highly effective age assurance" so that children are...

As Great Britain aims for Net Zero, Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) are vital for network operations, but their power electronics (PEs) present challenges for grid resilience and capacity utilisation due to unpredictable degradation. This causes operators to under-utilise thermal capacity, leading to inefficiencies and premature replacements. Traditional ...

This new project offers an innovative solution to energy wastage by using surplus renewable energy from wind turbines to power horticultural greenhouses. This approach powers lighting systems that enable the growth of food year-round, simultaneously helping to balance the national energy grid and reducing high energy costs for UK growers. This method prov...

Alpha phase will expand on learnings from Discovery which reviewed the need of outages to maintain the reliable and resilient networks. Outages cause operational issues and constraints costs which can be lessened by usage of Live Line Working (LLW) enabling better asset health/management​. Reliability and economic impacts of LLW including different down-s...

Imagine a design system where a designer makes a small change to a component, and instantly the effect of this change propagates through the entire design system, initiating automated analyses to determine the effect of the change on the whole lifecycle attributes of the full product. Project Nene aims to reduce the length of a design iteration for a whol...

The transition to clean energy and sustainable battery technologies is essential for achieving net-zero goals and securing the UK's position as a leader in next-generation energy storage solutions. A significant challenge in lithium-ion battery production is the reliance on toxic solvents such as NMP, which pose environmental, health, and economic concern...

This project addresses the technical challenges associated with accurately measuring hydrogen permeation in rubber materials used in key industries such as energy and automotive. As the UK government advances ambitious hydrogen production goals and global hydrogen demand continues to rise, the establishment of reliable, standardised testing methodologies ...

The Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) aims to accelerate the commercial exploitation of productivity-enhancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital trust technologies in Greater Manchester (GM). The extended Innovation Accelerator project will continue to fund innovation activities with regional businesses and R&D stakeholders, as part of the Alan Turi...

The pilot Centre of Expertise for Advanced Materials and Sustainability (CEAMS) (formerly Sustainable Materials Translational Research Centre (SMTRC)) is a collaboration funded by the Innovation Accelerator (IA) programme (2023-2025) via Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Innovate UK (IUK). It is led by major regional and national stakeholde...

The DEVOTE programme is helping to bring cutting-edge genetic testing into everyday healthcare in Greater Manchester. By combining expertise from universities, hospitals, and businesses, it has already started improving patient care by making genetic testing a routine part of diagnosis and treatment. The next phase of DEVOTE will continue working with ind...

The understanding of disease mechanisms is advancing rapidly, leading to innovations which enable earlier and more accurate detection, diagnosis and prognostication, including ruling-out disease in those who can be safely reassured. This gives opportunities for better population health and targeted care pathways bespoke to individuals. However, there rema...

The Future Homes Project (FHP) is an industry-academic partnership for the delivery of new and existing net zero homes - a significant challenge for the UK and globally. Regulatory change is driving developers and asset owners to seek new solutions to ensure homes meet the needs of net zero performance, as well as future climate and occupant satisfaction....