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title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, United Kingdom</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ees.manchester.ac.uk">ees<wbr />.manchester<wbr />.ac<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences</b> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester" title="University of Manchester">The University of Manchester</a> is one of the oldest <a href="/wiki/Earth_science" title="Earth science">earth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Environmental_science" title="Environmental science">environmental science</a> departments in the UK. The department takes roughly 100 new undergraduates and 140 postgraduates each year, and employs 90 members of academic staff which include 41 postdoctoral researchers, 27 technical staff, and 20 administrative staff.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victorian_origins">Victorian origins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Victorian origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The formal study and advanced teaching of Geology began at <a href="/wiki/Owens_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Owens College">Owens College</a>, the precursor of the university, in 1851. At that time, <a href="/wiki/William_Crawford_Williamson" title="William Crawford Williamson">W. C. Williamson</a> was appointed as Professor of Natural History (Botany, Zology, Geology).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Williamson had previously worked as Curator at the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Museum" title="Manchester Museum">Manchester Museum</a> from 1835 to 1838. The Manchester Museum was later incorporated into Owens College and relocated to the current Oxford Road museum site. In 1880 the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_University_of_Manchester" title="Victoria University of Manchester">Victoria University of Manchester</a> received its Royal Charter, and <a href="/wiki/William_Boyd_Dawkins" title="William Boyd Dawkins">William Boyd Dawkins</a> was at this time teaching geology and paleontology. Williamson held the post of Chair of Botany at the Victoria University of Manchester until 1892. During his service years, Zoology and Geology had been established as separate departments in 1879 and 1872 respectively. William Boyd Dawkins took the Chair of Geology in 1872, and in 1880 <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Milnes_Marshall" title="Arthur Milnes Marshall">Arthur Milnes Marshall</a> became the Chair of Zoology.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Honours School in Geology and Mineralogy was established in 1881, and in 1887, new laboratories (the Beyer Laboratories) were opened to provide facilities for the Departments of Botany, Geology and Zoology. At the same time, the new Manchester Museum opened its present site on Oxford Road.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twentieth_Century_Developments">Twentieth Century Developments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Twentieth Century Developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the beginning of the 20th Century, a paleobotanist, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Stopes" title="Marie Stopes">Marie Stopes</a>, became the first female member of academic staff at the University. The years spanning the First World War saw upheavals and many staff changes in order to ensure continued provision and research at the university. Similarly, the Second World War restricted the capabilities and resources of the university, despite continued research and teaching. Research groups were founded and developed primarily after the war years. </p><p>In 1960, Fred Broadhurst, leading a first year paleontology field course to Robin Hood's Bay, found ‘a complete skeleton of a fossil Plesiosaurus which was later excavated and brought back to Manchester and exhibited’. The fossil was affectionately named ‘Percy’. The finding and excavation of ‘Percy’ is mentioned several times in Geology at the University of Manchester.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Percy is still on display in the Manchester Museum. </p><p>Also In 1960, the Williamson building, designed by Harry M Fairhurst with artwork by sculptor Lynn Chadwick - the Manchester Sun mural, became the site for the departments of geology, botany and zoology.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The department's heritage information states that, ‘In the 1990s botany and zoology moved out to join the new School of Biological Sciences, allowing room for geology to expand and develop new facilities’.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2001, the Williamson Building features a mural, in room G16 by palaeoartist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Nicholls_(artist)" title="Robert Nicholls (artist)">Bob Nicholls</a>, and in 2016 a life size cast of the <a href="/wiki/Theropod" class="mw-redirect" title="Theropod">Theropod</a> dinosaur <a href="/wiki/Gorgosaurus" title="Gorgosaurus">Gorgosaurus</a> was mounted in the Department foyer. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg/220px-Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg/330px-Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg/440px-Gorgosaurus_sp..jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Gorgosaurus sp. on display in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The original theropod dinosaur fossil is held in the collections of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (USA).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Substantially more space for Geology followed from the UGC Earth Science Review recommendations in 1988. Space in the basement and at ground-floor level accommodated new laboratories for rock deformation, isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry, and mineral sciences. At first-floor level, laboratories for analysis of rock powders and solutions were established.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-merger_with_UMIST">Post-merger with UMIST</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post-merger with UMIST"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology" title="University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology">University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)</a> to form The University of Manchester, and the disciplines of geology, environmental science and atmospheric science were brought together. At this time, the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences was created. In 2017 the School was renamed to the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and incorporated several research staff from biological sciences. In 2019, the School became the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences within a much larger School of Natural Sciences after Faculty restructure.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New funding for the William Research Centre in 2001 contributed to geomicrobiological laboratories. Research in sedimentology and basin studies was developed with computer imaging hardware, and isotope research further enhanced with the centre established in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Research_groups">Research groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Research groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the first research groups to be established at the University of Manchester was in experimental petrology in the late 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> W. S. MacKenzie instigated the creation of the first UK petrology lab at The University of Manchester.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Research achievements historically have included: </p> <ul><li>Research group in Physics, of which <a href="/wiki/P.M.S._Blackett" class="mw-redirect" title="P.M.S. Blackett">P.M.S. Blackett</a> was a member, on rock magnetism and the nature and origin of Earth's magnetic field in the early 1950s, which contributed to later knowledge of plate tectonics.</li> <li>The acquisition of pioneering equipment used in microanalysis – 1950s onwards.</li> <li>Groundbreaking work in synchrotron radiation and geology at the Daresbury synchrotron facility - 1950s and 1960s.</li> <li>A successful bid for Apollo lunar samples for study after the 1969 Moon landings. The <a href="/wiki/Moon_rocks" class="mw-redirect" title="Moon rocks">Moon rocks</a> were also displayed to the public in the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Museum" title="Manchester Museum">Manchester Museum</a>.</li> <li>The Geoscience Research Institute at the University of Manchester (establishing interdisciplinary collaboration with industry and public sector institutions) in the early 1990s.</li></ul> <p>Research groups make use of state of the art research facilities. The department is associated with several research centres and institutes including: </p> <ul><li>The Williamson Research Centre</li> <li>The Centre for Atmospheric Science</li> <li>The Dalton Nuclear Institute</li> <li>The centre for research in radiochemistry.</li> <li>The University of Manchester Environment Centre (UMEC).</li> <li>The Williamson Research Centre for Molecular Environmental Science (WRC).</li> <li>The University of Manchester Cosmochemistry and Isotope Geochemistry Centre.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life (ICAL).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_Developments">Current Developments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Current Developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A spinout company, Salamander Group,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> works on developing technology to enable continuous <a href="/wiki/Environmental_monitoring" title="Environmental monitoring">environmental monitoring</a> in UK water and gas industries. </p><p>The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences currently conduct research encompassed by three particular themes: Life on Earth, Environment and Society and Earth and Planetary Science. Within the themes particular areas of expertise are situated: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Life_on_Earth">Life on Earth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Life on Earth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Conservation biology; evolutionary mechanisms and dynamics; geomicrobiology; the history of life on earth; plants, soils and ecosystems; microbial ecology. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment_and_Society">Environment and Society</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Environment and Society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Climate and weather impacts on society; energy, water and mineral resources; environment and health; molecular environmental science; nuclear environmental science; petroleum geoscience; plants, soils and ecosystems; pollution and environmental control. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earth_and_planetary_science">Earth and planetary science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Earth and planetary science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Petrology and volcanology; planetary science; <a href="/wiki/Structural_geology" title="Structural geology">structural geology</a> and rock physics; geomorphology; geophysics; geochemistry; climate and weather in the earth system; basins, stratigraphy and sedimentary processes; ancient life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funding">Funding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Funding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has been funded by NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), STFC (Science Technologies Facilities Council), EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), European Commission, European Research Council, as well as private industrial organisations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_faculty">Notable faculty</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notable faculty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Crawford_Williamson" title="William Crawford Williamson">William Crawford Williamson</a> – First Professor of Natural History (geology, zoology and botany) at Owens College (later Victoria University of Manchester)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Stopes" title="Marie Stopes">Marie Stopes</a> - Lecturer in Palaeobotany, first female academic at The University of Manchester</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Holland" title="Thomas Henry Holland">Thomas Henry Holland</a> - Berkeley fellowship at Owens College, Manchester, Professor of Geology at the Victoria University of Manchester</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Thomas_Jones" title="Owen Thomas Jones">Owen Thomas Jones</a> - Professor of Geology</li> <li>W. S. Mackenzie – Chair in Petrology, brought techniques of experimental petrology to the UK<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Fyfe_(geochemist)" title="William Fyfe (geochemist)">William Sefton Fyfe</a> – Professor of Geochemistry<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Mary_Drew-Baker" title="Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker">Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker</a> - Lecturer in Botany, known in Japan as Mother of the Sea</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gordon_Hewitt" title="Charles Gordon Hewitt">Charles Gordon Hewitt</a> - Lecturer in Zoology</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Earth_and_Environmental_Sciences,_University_of_Manchester&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ees.manchester.ac.uk/about/">"About - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - The University of Manchester"</a>. <i>www.ees.manchester.ac.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/Whitworth_Art_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitworth Art Gallery">Whitworth Art Gallery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #660099; color: white;;width:1%">Student life</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christie_Cup" title="Christie Cup">Christie Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuse_FM" title="Fuse FM">Fuse FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester_Students%27_Union" title="University of Manchester Students' Union">Students' Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mancunion" title="The Mancunion">The Mancunion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #660099; color: white;;width:1%">Halls of residence</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester#City_Campus" title="University of Manchester">City</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Denmark Road <small>(Private)</small></li> <li>George Kenyon Hall</li> <li>Horniman House</li> <li>Weston Hall <small>(Private)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitworth_Park_Halls_of_Residence" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitworth Park Halls of Residence">Whitworth Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester#Victoria_Park_Campus" title="University of Manchester">Victoria Park</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Brook Hall <small>(Private)</small></li> <li>Burkhardt House</li> <li>Canterbury Court</li> <li>Daisy Bank Hall <small>(Private)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalton-Ellis_Hall" title="Dalton-Ellis Hall">Dalton-Ellis Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greygarth_Hall" title="Greygarth Hall">Greygarth Hall</a> <small>(Private, Male)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulme_Hall,_Manchester" title="Hulme Hall, Manchester">Hulme Hall</a></li> <li>Rusholme Place <small>(Private)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Anselm_Hall" title="St Anselm Hall">St Anselm Hall</a> <small>(Male)</small></li> <li>Wilmslow Park <small>(Private)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fallowfield_Campus" title="Fallowfield Campus">Fallowfield</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashburne_Hall" title="Ashburne Hall">Ashburne Hall</a></li> <li>Oak House</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Park" title="Owens Park">Owens Park</a> <small>(Closed)</small></li> <li>Richmond Park</li> <li>Sheavyn House</li> <li>Unsworth Park</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uttley_House" title="Uttley House">Uttley House</a></li> <li>Woolton Hall</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #660099; color: white;;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester#History" title="University of Manchester">University of Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology" title="University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology">UMIST</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_University_of_Manchester" title="Victoria University of Manchester">Victoria University of Manchester</a></li> <li><a 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