Past events
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Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post-pandemic US and East Asia
15:00 - 16:30 12 February 2024
Lecture organised by the Global production networks, trade and labour group Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), Professor Yeung’s presentation will offer some key empirical observations on the highly...
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Careers Panel: Work and life in the humanitarian sector
13:30 - 14 February 2024
A discussion with experienced professionals from humanitarian and human rights organisations, for University of Manchester students and interested members of the public. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Michelle Farrington - Public Health Promotion & Community Lead (and Interim Deputy Humanitarian Director) at Oxfam Fatima Katergi - Senior Programmes Coordinator...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Co-designing ???? (Gene) a genetics app to improve genetics understanding with the British Pakistani community
13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 14th February, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/93665163466). Prof Ang Davies from the University of Manchester will talk about “Co-designing ???? (Gene) a genetics app to improve genetics understanding with the British Pakistani community”
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Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, stratification, and outcomes
16:30 - 18:00 14 February 2024
Social protection is an essential component of public policy. Its successes or failures have direct implications for social welfare, especially among disadvantaged groups. Unlike other institutions, the evolution of social protection reflects advances or regressions in social justice. This lecture discusses social protection in Latin America, its...
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Community of Practice: Sharing Stories and Conversations About the Practicalities of Supporting Migrant- and Refugee-Led Organisations
14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2024
How can development practitioners help refugee- and migrant-led organisations implement practices, processes, and policies that make a real difference to the lives of migrants and refugees in different contexts? Join us to explore this issue at our next community of practice. The online session will build on a lively discussion that took place...
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Advanced Materials in Medicine Seminar
13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
The Advanced Materials in Medicine (AMM) Seminars are delivered as part of the Pankhurst Seminar Series. The Pankhurst Seminar Series provides an opportunity to experience talk and discussion from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, reflecting the diverse and inter-disciplinary character of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute. The series...
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GDI Lecture: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2024
In this lecture, Tom Lavers (UoM) will discuss his recent book, which is concerned with the politics of state-led development and, specifically, how regimes maintain power during the extended periods required to bring about economic transformation. The book focuses on Ethiopia, the leading example of state-led development in Africa in recent decades....
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Careers in Humanitarianism Fair - Meet NGOs, charities, Careers Service and more
13:00 - 15:00 28 February 2024
Come and meet staff from a range of local and international humanitarian and rights organisations, who can answer questions about what it is like to work in the sector, how they got started, what their organisation is about, and any potential work, volunteering and training opportunities. This event is open to all University of Manchester students....
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GDI Lecture: Contending nationalisms in Ethiopia: New contours of Amhara politics
16:30 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa where the idea of the nation state was implemented in the European sense of the term; expressed in the form of cultural homogenization and political centralisation. This nation state project has succeeded to the extent that it has produced a national Ethiopian identity for some. However, the political...
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How can we create sustainable forests? - Manchester Museum Late Event
18:00 - 20:00 6 March 2024
Can’t see the wood for the trees? Exploring the future of forests for people and planet. If we’re serious about tacking the climate crisis, while also reducing poverty, then restoring forests around the world is an urgent task. Forests host most of the biodiversity on land, are the world’s largest carbon stores, and contribute directly to...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Drawing from sociological and other disciplinary literature for digital health equity translational pedagogy
13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2024
In collaboration with the International Centre for Translational Digital Health, our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 13th March. It will be a hybrid event with a networking lunch. The programme is as follows: - Networking lunch – 13th March, 1200-1300 on the ground floor of the Christabel Pankhurst Building,...
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Re-orienting Global Development: The multiscalar dynamics of de-risking Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe
16:30 - 18:00 14 March 2024
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most visible manifestation of the country’s wider internationalisation efforts in which infrastructure connectivity projects are central. Existing spatialised narratives of these projects have usefully focused on long-standing geopolitical binaries and bilateral state relations, as well as newer spatial...
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The power of community: launching One World Together’s community space
15:00 - 16:30 15 March 2024
One World Together and One World Together Students’ Union Society are delighted to welcome you to celebrate the launch of our online Community Space. The Community Space connects community activists with One World Together’s Global Citizens, enabling people to share and learn about new forms of support for global development. Come and celebrate...
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Poverty Dynamics: The Case of Bangladesh
13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2024
In this webinar, Isaac will explain the concept of “poverty dynamics” and discuss the results from research papers that have analysed poverty dynamics in Bangladesh using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The objective is to provide relevant insights about various reasons behind different poverty dynamics and poverty trajectories,...
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Digital Transformations for Leadership in the Development Sector
08:00 - 09:00 10 April 2024
Digital Transformation for Development (Dx4D) is an emerging phenomenon in the development sector. In this webinar, leading academics from The University of Manchester and Melbourne's online Leadership for Development programme, will discuss how digitalisation is driving changes in organisational structures and inclusivity in leadership. This...
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GDI Book Talk – Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy
12:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
Organised by GDI's Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GPNTL) group and Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) group. Philip Schleifer (University of Amsterdam) discusses his new book. In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption in the agricultural...
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GDI Lecture: Where do we go from here? Navigating power inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system
15:00 - 16:30 17 April 2024
With speakers Nicola Banks, Badru Bukenya (Makarere University), Willem Elbers (Radboud University), Emmanuel Kumi (University of Ghana), Margit van Wessel (Wageningen University), Thomas Yeboah (University of Ghana), Innocent Kamya (Makarere University), and Lau Schulpen (Radboud University) In a context in which localisation, locally-led development...
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GDI Lecture: The politics of complaint: Digitalizing discontent, in Bangladesh and beyond
16:30 - 18:00 24 April 2024
The first quarter of the 21st century has seen so many mass protest movements that popular discontent barely registers any more. It may be no coincidence that digital platforms for registering discontent have simultaneously proliferated in tandem, from the ‘free speech’ platforms of social media to the highly constrained mechanisms for grievance...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Intersectionality in digital health disparities research
13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Our next seminar in digital health inequities seminar series is on 8th of May, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91295080563). Laiba Husain from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences will talk about “Desperately Seeking Intersectionality in Digital Health Disparities Research”. Laiba Husain is a third-year DPhil student at...
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GDI Webinar: AI for Social Good and the Corporate Capture of Global Development
13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2024
In this webinar, Gianluca Iazzolino will discuss his recently co-authored article focusing on the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement, which aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It argues that, through AI4SG, Big Tech is attempting to advance...
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