University of Manchester

Multispecies Justice Through Interspecies Deliberation

In this paper, we argue that multispecies justice should be able to integrate diverse ontologies, especially relational ontologies that emphasize relationships between human and more-than-human beings. After reviewing three existing accounts, we develop an approach to interspecie...

Genetic literacy assessment among medical students using the Indonesian adaptation of the University of North Carolina Genomic Knowledge Scale

Abstract Background Implementation of personalized medicine requires greater genetic literacy among current and future healthcare workers. A standardized Indonesian-language genetic literacy questionnaire is essential for assessment. Objective To translate the University of North...

English East India Company cultural knowledge and governmental responses to South Asian religious diversity between 1601 and 1700

Abstract This article examines how encounters with South Asian religious diversity shaped the English East India Company’s systems of knowledge, governance, and authority between 1601 and 1700. Moving beyond interpretations that emphasise commerce or geopolitics, it argues that r...

Structure-Transport Relationships in Aqueous Fructose Solutions: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and NMR Diffusion Study

Abstract Fructose is widely used in the food industry and is proposed as a sustainable biomass feedstock for chemical manufacturing. Upon dissolution in water, it undergoes mutarotation into different tautomers, primarily β-d-fructopyranose (68%) and β-d-fructofuranose (22%), as...

EXPRESS: caADAMTS13 reduces neutrophil-mediated vascular inflammation without exacerbating bleeding in experimental intracerebral haemorrhage

Targeting thromboinflammation through the von Willebrand factor (VWF)/ADAMTS13 axis is a promising therapeutic target for acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Constitutively active ADAMTS13 (caADAMTS13) is a novel thrombolytic that improves outcomes in experimental AIS, with enhanced th...

mTeSS-X: Scaling Training Portal Federation for RIs through Multi-Tenanting and Exchange

The OSCARS project mTeSS-X enhances TeSS (Training e-Support system) by enabling metadata exchange and shared content across instances through “spaces”—self-managed community catalogues with metadata on training material and events within a central “TeSSHub”. This fosters collabo...

Mechanism of Isonitrilase, a Nonheme Iron Decarboxylase Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Isonitrile Group in Peptides: A Computational Study

Surprisingly, there are quite a few natural products that contain an isonitrile substituent as these groups enhance the activity and function of the natural product. Various enzymes in nature are involved in the biosynthesis of an isonitrile group in biomolecules. Thus, the mycob...

Exchange: What Can We Learn from Two Decades of Everyday Nationalism?

Abstract In their landmark article on nationalism in the everyday, Jon E. Fox and Cynthia Miller-Idriss (2008a, 537) set out an ambitious research agenda which endeavored to observe “the actual practices through which ordinary people engage and enact (and ignore and deflect) nati...

How is ‘culture’ made relevant in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients?: a conversation analysis

Abstract Background General Practitioners (GPs)—usually the first points of healthcare in the UK—are required to provide ‘whole person care,’ by considering patients’ cultural backgrounds. Previous research suggests that doctors’ interactional behaviour can contribute to ethnic h...

Hydration Asymmetry and Solvent-Mediated Charge Balancing in Microporous Carbons: An NMR Study of Aqueous and Organic Electrosorption

Abstract Aqueous electrolytes are attracting increasing interest in supercapacitor applications due to their high sustainability and ionic conductivity relative to conventional organic systems. However, the distinct solvation properties of water and their impact on (electro)sorpt...

The Rare dISease Evaluation (RISE) study: a survey-based investigation of medical student experience and knowledge of rare disease in the UK

Abstract Background Rare diseases are a significant public health concern, with over 6,000 diseases identified with an estimated collective point prevalence of 5.6–6.9%. People living with rare disease face numerous challenges within healthcare including prolonged time to diagnos...

Building place-based capacity in an asymmetric system: supporting England’s devolution periphery or fuelling political spatial inequality?

In many national contexts, asymmetric decentralisation creates political spatial inequalities, as some places are given more power and resources than others. This can exacerbate underlying place-based disadvantages. Capacity-building programmes could offer an important counterwei...

RSEs as trainers – the who, why and how of providing digital research skills training

RSEs often provide training for researchers and dRTPs at their local institution in the digital research skills used in their own work. These courses cover a diverse range of topics, from beginners' language courses, to software architecture and efficiency, to specialised tools a...

Diverse Histories and Common Origins of Nitrogen-enhanced JWST Galaxies

Abstract Early JWST spectra revealed galaxies with a strong nitrogen excess, challenging galactic chemical evolution models. Using public JWST surveys, we construct a sample of 76 N/O-enhanced galaxies (NOEGs) at 4 < z < 8.5, the largest at high redshift to date. The NOEG fractio...

Analysing geographical locality in research on gender and students’ socio-emotional relationships with school mathematics: a scoping review

Abstract This paper extends research on intersectionality in mathematics education by exploring how gender is related to, and complicated by, geographical locality. From a systematically identified body of 152 articles on gender and students’ socio-emotional relationships with ma...

‘To read a life, to clothe the bones, to tell a story’: negotiating death and loss through archaeology and creative practice (the Continuing Bonds: Creative Dissemination project)

While death is universal, experiences of dealing with the dead and dying differ vastly, and yet despite the universality of our mortality, death can remain, for many, a difficult and challenging topic of conversation. This paper presents the methods and results of a creative appr...

Time-Correlated Profile Variability in the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

Abstract Long-term pulse-profile variability has emerged as a potentially important source of uncertainty for high-precision pulsar timing, as changes in the integrated pulse shape can bias pulse times of arrival and affect the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to nanohertz gra...

A Community-Owned Database Mapping dRTP Roles, Skills, and Training

Poster presented at the 10th Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon26) in Sheffield, UK, 9-11 September, 2026. Abstract As is typical of all digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs), Research Software Engineer is a role that encompasses a wide variety of potenti...

The Cambridge handbook for the anthropology of race and ethnicity

In the attempt by academic publishers to synthesise human knowledge into weighty (and expensive) handbooks, companions and encyclopaedias, this book is a welcome addition. It strikes a very good ba...

A Community-Owned Database Mapping dRTP Roles, Skills, and Training

Poster presented at the 10th Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon26) in Sheffield, UK, 9-11 September, 2026. Abstract As is typical of all digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs), Research Software Engineer is a role that encompasses a wide variety of potenti...