Past events
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Resilience to economic shrinking as a development strategy for the 21st century
16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2023
Dr. Martin Andersson and Dr. Tobias Axelsson from Lund University will present their work on “Resilience to economic shrinking as a development strategy for the 21st century” and their ongoing project on the topic. Despite divergent views on best policy practice the principal explanation to why low-income countries struggle to catch up is...
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UoM Sustainability Teaching and Learning Community of Practice Launch Event
13:45 - 16:00 22 November 2023
The Inspired and Informed Challenge Area and the Institute of Teaching and Learning are launching a University wide community of practice (CoP) in, and around, sustainability (self defined) teaching and learning. This workshop will launch the CoP network in this space and showcase the award winning Round View. Indicative Agenda: 13:45 - 14:00...
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Digitalisation, Circular Economy and Infrastructure Workshop
10:00 - 12:00 23 November 2023
***Please note that this event is open to both internals and externals to The University of Manchester.*** The Resourceful Futures Challenge Area presents this workshop on digitalisation, circular economy and infrastructure. Utilising digitalisation and embracing the principles of the circular economy can steer us toward achieving sustainable...
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Disasters, risks and politics in the age of climate change
16:30 - 18:00 23 November 2023
HCRI roundtable on climate change and disasters, with BBC's Navin Singh Khadka and University of Cambridge's Dr Ayesha Siddiqi SPEAKERS: Navin Singh Khadka - A senior environmental correspondent for the BBC, who specialises in climate changed-related reporting and recently collaborated with HCRI colleague's on work around climate resilient infrastructure...
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Empowerment in the context of international migration: The case of women and gender non-conforming people in Mexico
14:00 - 15:30 24 November 2023
Join the Global Development Institute for a lecture and Photovoice exhibition presenting some of the creations of the research project collaborators Migration brings with it new opportunities and constraints that can accelerate or stifle processes of empowerment. People on the move, transiting spaces and systems of oppression, face inequalities,...
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Reimaging urban reform: Emerging insights from the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC)
16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2023
With Diana Miltin (GDI), Shuaib Lwasa (ISS), Victoria Beard (Cornell), and more speakers TBC Africa’s urban populations are set to double over the next 25 years, reaching 1 billion people by 2040, but residents remain frustrated about the lack of development opportunities. The political underpinnings of both urban opportunity and neglect...
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Reimaging urban reform: Emerging insights from the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC)
16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2023
With Diana Miltin (GDI), Shuaib Lwasa (ISS), Victoria Beard (Cornell), and more speakers TBC Africa’s urban populations are set to double over the next 25 years, reaching 1 billion people by 2040, but residents remain frustrated about the lack of development opportunities. The political underpinnings of both urban opportunity and neglect...
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Co-producing urban research: Sharing methods and experience
13:30 - 15:00 6 December 2023
Manchester Urban Institute, Global Development Institute – University of Manchester and Methods@Manchester panel discussion: Co-producing urban research: sharing methods and experiences Room G.36, Arthur Lewis Building from 1:30pm – 3:00pm This panel discussion hosted by MUI, GDI and Methods@Manchester brings together experts from around...
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Inaugural Lectures - Prof Ian Mell and Prof Ralitza Dimova
16:30 - 18:30 6 December 2023
On Wednesday 6 December, join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning (Department of Planning, Property and Environmental Management) and Ralitza Dimova, Professor in Development Economics (Global Development Institute)...
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HCRI Landmark Lecture - Dr Silvia Salvatici
17:00 - 7 December 2023
ABOUT THE TALK Talk with the title 'From recipients to donors? Southern European countries and international aid (1945-1990)', followed by Q&A and discussion. In recent years, international humanitarianism has increasingly attracted the interest of historians. A great deal of research has mainly examined the experience of donor countries in northern...
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Film premiere and discussion - MIGRANTS: Joy, Rest & Celebration
16:00 - 17:30 11 December 2023
Supported by the SEED Impact Fund, Migrants: Joy, Rest & Celebration is a short film by Sheril A. Bustaman with Dr Nadiah Ahmad in collaboration with MIDEQ partners at the University of Manchester Dr Tanja Bastia and Matthew Walsham, looking at the activities of Nepali migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during Hari Raya Aidilfitri (known...
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Accelerating Just Climate Action Conference
08:30 - 17:30 12 December 2023
To save a few airmiles and prevent feelings of flightshame related to COP28 being hosted in UAE this year, Sustainable Futures with support from Tyndall Manchester, Henry Royce Institute and Creative Manchester is hosting an all-day event showcasing the work of Early Career Researchers that intersect with topics that will be inevitably discussed...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Developing a digitally inclusive falls prevention program (KOKU) for older adults- 13th Dec
13:00 - 14:00 13 December 2023
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 13th December, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91013749944). Prof Emma Stanmore & her team from the University of Manchester will talk about “Developing a digitally inclusive falls prevention program (KOKU) for older adults’ from culturally diverse and underserved communities”
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Research inequalities and supporting digital inclusion in remote monitoring for rheumatoid arthritis
13:00 - 14:00 10 January 2024
Next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 10th January, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/97370960983). Prof Caroline Sanders from the University of Manchester will talk about “Research inequalities and supporting digital inclusion in remote monitoring for rheumatoid arthritis”
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The 695th Lord Mayor's Lectures: Computational Medicine and Digital Twins Improving Medical Care, with Prof Alex Frangi
11:00 - 12:00 12 January 2024
Prof Alex Frangi, Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, and the Bicentennial Turing Chair for Computational Medicine, will speak at the Lord Mayor’s Lectures Series next week about computational medicine and digital twins in healthcare. Novel medical technologies are being introduced at unprecedented rates, demanding scientific evidence...
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Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World
16:00 - 17:30 24 January 2024
Elliott Green (LSE) explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy of rural life', industrialization makes societies more ethnically homogenous. More speci?cally, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value...
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GDI Webinar: Never let a crisis go to waste: Speculation, rent-seeking and rent-extraction in the food sector
13:00 - 14:00 25 January 2024
Join us for the first instalment of our pilot GDI lunchtime webinar series. These webinars are open to all and designed to provide a space for speakers to share their ideas and discuss pressing topics with staff and students across a range of departments. This webinar will be led by Sophie van Huellen, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics...
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The Albatross Lecture 2024: Professor Mark Miodownik
11:00 - 14:00 30 January 2024
Why the Albatross Lectures? Check back soon to find out why we chose the Albatross to champion this lecture. The Albatross Lecture 2024 Join us on 30th January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London. For more than twenty years Prof. Miodownik has championed materials science research that...
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The infrastructural South:Techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization
15:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
GDI Lecture organised in conjunction with the Department of Geography and Manchester Urban Institute. In this lecture, Jon Silver will discuss insights from his recent book, The Infrastructural South. The book represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure's role in the third wave of urbanization centred on Africa....
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Expanding the horizon of GIS in the environmental research landscape
14:00 - 16:00 8 February 2024
A seminar in which researchers from different environmental backgrounds and disciplines show how the GIS can be applied in their research. The target audience are researchers who are exploring methods for which GIS might be an interesting tool. The seminar consists of one introductory plus three thematic sessions of 20 minutes (15-minute presentation...
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