Increase your global influence
Partnerships enable us to have a greater impact on global challenges
The Faculty works with a small number of handpicked institutions to collaborate and achieve shared goals. We aim to make the most of each partner’s unique strengths to create impact.
Discover how working with our Faculty can create opportunities to enhance research and teaching for both institutions.
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Research partnerships
A global leader in both discovery science and translating this into healthcare to benefit society
We work with comprehensive biological, medical and healthcare institutions across the globe that share our research interests, approach and commitment.
In return, our partners benefit from collaboration and access to our world-leading research facilities and expertise.
Our strategic partner universities are:
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Heidelberg Universitat
- KTH
- Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital
- Peking University Health Science Centre
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Stockholm University
- Universite de Bordeaux
- University of Ghana
- University of Melbourne
- University of Nairobi
- University of Tokyo
- University of Toronto
International PhD students
Our research partnerships can extend to include PhD programmes. Typically, we seek to establish split-site studentships to enable co-supervision of students with academics from our partner universities, or establish mobility programmes to allow movement of PhD students, postdoctoral scientists and early career research fellows.
Teaching partnerships
A thriving international community
The University is home to students from 160 different countries. 40% of our students come from outside the UK.
Our vision is to inspire and prepare the next generation of leaders, educators, innovators and researchers within basic biology and healthcare.
We work with our international partners to provide opportunities for our students to train internationally across our subject areas and to support academic staff development, both at our partner and at Manchester.
There are several ways we can work together, including:
- offering summer schools;
- establishing a progression, articulation or intercalation agreement;
- developing a joint or dual degree;
- licensing our programmes.
Our teaching partners
We are proud to work with leading educational organisations across the world, including:
- Airlangga University
- Alexandria University
- China Pharmaceutical University
- China University of Hong Kong
- Dalian University of Technology
- Frederick University
- IMU University
- Jilin University
- Mansoura University
- Mildmay Institute of Health Sciences
- Nanjing Medical University
- University of Hong Kong
Joint award courses
The following courses confer joint award degrees from the partner institution and The University of Manchester.
Alexandria University:
China Pharmaceutical University:
Health professional education consultancy
We offer a range of health professional education consultancy services. We work with you in a partnership approach to improve your health professional education, giving you the opportunity to tailor how best to apply our expertise to your individual requirements.
We understand how to develop and deliver world-class education. Using our expertise and years of experience of innovating, we can help you develop your curriculum and staff to provide an outstanding learning environment.
Find out more about health professional education consultancy and partnerships
Meet the team
Find out more about our team members
Professor Keith Brennan
Vice Dean for Internationalisation
Email: keith.brennan@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 1517
Associate Deans
Professor Qing-Jun Meng
Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Research and Innovation
Email: qing-jun.meng@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 8912
View Qing-Jun's research profile
Professor Lucie Byrne-Davis
Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Teaching and Learning
Email: lucie.byrne-davis@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 1856
Dr Ingo Schiessl
Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Staff and Student Mobility
Email: I.Schiessl@manchester.ac.uk
Contact us
Getting in touch
If you are interested in research partnerships, teaching partnerships or international visits and study, or require more information on how we can help, please contact us.