Rise is a flexible programme in which you are awarded points for engaging in all sorts of enrichment experiences.
When you have earned 300 points, you will be eligible to claim a recognition on your degree transcript and even additional credits for your efforts.
Intensives
Spend ten self-directed hours exploring an interdisciplinary topic
Projects
Respond to challenges posed by partners from the city region
Events
Attend one off events on a range of themes and topics
Activities
Participate in mobilities, collaborations and placements
Get Started Now
Before you do anything else, you need to complete our introductory intensive. It’ll take no longer than half an hour, and will help you to understand and better engage with our offer.
Once completed, you can start to access our other intensives, events and opportunities. You’ll also be awarded your first 10 Rise Points.
Rise Opportunities
Through Rise, you will gain points for completing various different parts of oru
Your Intensives:
Intensives are the building-blocks of the Rise programme. They are self-enrolled, flexible opportunities to expand your horizons. You can find out more, and sign up for intensives, through our main site.
Here are the intensive you’re currently engaged with:
How to be a Community Advocate
Do you want to know how you can be a Community Advocate and make positive, meaningful change in the communities where you live and/or work? 'How to be a Community Advocate' will give you the chance to learn from a number of community advocates who have worked with communities across the North to make positive change. This course aims to provide inspiration about the potential for community advocacy, to learn about the principles behind it and the steps that you can take in your communities, university and workplaces to change things for the better.
Behaviour Design
In this course, you’ll develop the tools of Behaviour Design. We will introduce Behaviour Design's uses, the frameworks used, explore how it adds to Design Thinking and work through the process of designing behaviour change.
Introduction to Physical Computing
Social Enterprise
Anti-Racism: Responding to Coronavirus
Pek-San Tan invites you to explore the association between the Coronavirus pandemic and racism.
Supporting Vulnerable Children
Dr Lalith Wijedoru invites you to respond to the question of how we make vulnerable children visible during lockdowns.
Using Rise to Support Faculty and Service Owned Activities
Future Role of Cities
Laoise Flanagan asks you to think about the role of our cities in a post-Covid world.
Carbon Literacy for Universities
This course will give you an introduction to the basics of climate change science and what we can do to tackle climate change. It is open to all staff at Manchester Met.
Welcome to Rise
Carbon Literacy for Staff
This course will give you an introduction to the basics of climate change science and what we can do to tackle climate change. It is open to all staff at Manchester Met.
Promote Sustainable Food
Jonny Sadler challenges you to engage the city in the theme of food-related carbon emissions.
Live Performance in a Digital Age
Jude Christian asks you to preserve the experience of live performance in a digital age
Reduce Agricultural Emissions
Ian Randall invites you to think creatively in reducing farming emissions.
Wellbeing for Dementia
Health practitioners Clare and Kate invite you to find ways to support those with Dementia.
Support Fellow Students
Helen Laville invites you to innovate in how we welcome new students
Amplify Underheard Voices
Rise Intensives: Author Toolkit
Understanding the Climate Challenge
This specialism will give you an introduction to the basics of climate change science and what we can do to tackle climate change.
Civic and Public Spaces
Consider how we can work in and with civic public space to address contemporary issues
0 / 300 POINTS
Complete more intensives, activities and events to earn 300 points and achieve eligibility to claim recognition and/or credits.
Your Portfolio
All participants are given up to five ‘pages’ on which to showcase project work and other responses. You can learn more here
Here are your current pages: