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Humans of the pandemic
Hear from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School student, Matthew Thompson, and view his photography project to document the NHS workers labouring during the pandemic.
December 2020 payroll date 
Due to the upcoming holiday break, staff will be able to view pay slips by Wednesday afternoon and the revised pay date is Thursday 17 December. The Unitemps pay date is Friday 18 December.
Building access during the Christmas holidays
Most buildings on campus will be closed from 19 December until 5 January. You are encouraged to take a break over the Christmas period, but if you need to work on campus please agree this with your Head of Department and see details about building access.
We’re Dreaming of a Green Christmas
It can be a season of waste, with mountains of packaging and left-over food, as well as excessive energy use. Read the top 10 tips on how to be sustainable over the holidays.
Get a taste of the world-class research taking place on campus in six online, ten-minute Christmas lectures by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ physicists. Featuring mindboggling and explosive experiments.
How to make Christmas 2020 really different
Make Christmas 2020 an alternative Christmas for all the right reasons. See a few ideas from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ academics to help you enjoy something different – deliberately – this Christmas.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre's Government funding
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre has been awarded a £1.9m Capital Kickstart grant as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.
When Donald Trump met Jim Crow - Gary Younge webinar
Watch Gary Younge, Professor in Politics at The University of Manchester and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ honorary graduate, deliver his recent webinar.
Media coverage of student mental health at UK universities
We have been advised that the BBC will feature an item in news bulletins from this evening (9 December) on student mental health. This will feature a student from WBS who sadly died shortly before the start of this term.  Read a message to staff and students on this topic and on support available to you.