Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming events
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GDI Book Talk: City of Desire: Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh
16:30 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Speaker: Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) City of Desire, by Tanzil Shafique, is a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It seeks to develop a Southern perspective on urban slums, challenging mainstream Western discourses. Shafique's approach is rooted in a personal and thematic exploration of slum dwellers' lived...
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Digital Health Equity Seminar: Cross-pollinating Knowledge on Digital Health Equity: Lessons from Two Countries
13:00 - 14:00 5 March 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 5-Mar 2025 at 1-2pm GMT (2-3pm CET; 8-9am ET) for a virtual conversation titled “Cross-pollinating Knowledge on Digital Health Equity: Lessons from Two Countries” with Ibukun Abejirinde (Canada) and Nicole Goedhart (the Netherlands). The webinar will start with a...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Gunes Acar
14:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Register to explore a groundbreaking study on web tracking and advertising on child-directed websites. The research, which analyzes 2,000 sites, finds that nearly 90% embed trackers and 27% feature targeted ads, often without parental consent, violating privacy regulations. The study also reveals inappropriate ads promoting products such as dating...
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GDI Lecture: Enforcers Beyond Borders: The Growing Role of NGOs in International Law Enforcement and Effects on Wider Advocacy Movements
15:00 - 16:30 5 March 2025
Speaker: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni NGOs have generally served as issue-entrepreneurs, advocates and service providers, leaving law enforcement to states. However, in recent decades, environmental and human rights organisations around the world have come to play a growing role in enforcing international laws, both through ‘direct action’ enforcement...
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Africa OneHealth workshop
14:00 - 16:30 12 March 2025
This workshop is open to UoM academics who are eligible to apply for external funding. One Health is a broad interdisciplinary approach that addresses health issues at the human-animal-environment interface. As global challenges such as climate change, urbanisation, pollution, disease, inequality, and biodiversity loss escalate, the need for such...
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GDI Lecture: Africa's Structural Transformation for Job Creation: Trends and Policy Priorities
16:30 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Africa’s GDP has grown 5.3 times between 1990 and 2020. Still, at USD 8.86 trillion today, the continent’s economy is just twice the size of the UK, with a population (1.5 billion) 22 times bigger than the UK (69 million) and projected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050 – a quarter of the world population. What explains this performance? How can...
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GDI Lecture: Decolonization and the Future of Academic Research
16:30 - 18:00 19 March 2025
On the panel: - Diana Mitlin (African Cities Research Consortium, GDI) - Eyob Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (Slum Dwellers International and GDI) - Tina Cribbin (Aquarius Savers, Ageing Well in Place in Hulme) How can development research – and universities more generally – overcome the traditional...
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Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets
24 - 25 March 2025
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow on more than one image or to develop a bespoke...
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GDI Lecture: Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India
16:30 - 16 April 2025
Speaker: Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University) India entered a new political and economic phase in 1991 with adoption of the structural adjustment programme. Since then, studies have tended to focus on global and national factors to understand ongoing political processes in the country. With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding...
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GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities
16:30 - 18:00 23 April 2025
Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and as animosity against Jews. Contextualising events provides a different interpretation. It is not to justify what happed, rather to understand and assess these events in wider political context, with specific reference to escalating settler attacks...
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