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Creating social value since 1824
Professor Ken McPhailAssociate Dean
for Social ResponsibilityFaculty of Humanities
Universities Exist to Provide Public Value
“to advance education, knowledge and wisdom by research, scholarship, learning and teaching, for the
benefit of individuals and society at large".
Social responsibility
World-class research
• Aim: every Manchester UG student to be confronted with key ethical challenges facing 21st century societies
• • Progress: pilots in 2014/15 and
2015/16– Sustainability (Y1)– Social justice (Y2)– Workplace ethics (Y3)
Ethical Grand Challenges
• Aim: support local unemployed people into work by leading a unique initiative in UK higher education - The Works
• Progress:– 2,390 people supported into work 2011-
2015– £38M of economic value – Times Higher & Guardian Sustainable
Business Award Winner• Plans:
– Engaging more employers to use Works for recruiting
– Linking to our £1B capital programme and apprentices
Engaging Our communities: The Works
• c£1 billion capital programme over next decade
• Construction Partnering Framework with Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine
• Social responsibility plan agreed to:– Jobs: Create up to 1,000 jobs – more
ambitious than any other construction plan in the region
– Supply-chain: Local firms and SMEs – Schools and Community development:
create cash grants for local communities and STEM engagement with schools
– Sustainability: decrease carbon, increase biodiversity and active travel
Capital programme
Building Impact
• Creativity• Culture and society• Economy• Commerce• Environment • Health and welfare • Practitioners and
professional services • Public policy• Law and services• Organisational
performance
• As a university, how do we measure the return on the public money we receive?
• Information Management Systems
• How do we use this internally?