Past events
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Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance
15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam-building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary...
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Briefing on Sudan (HCRI webinar)
16:00 - 17:30 10 December 2024
ABOUT The Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is hosting a guest speaker to brief us on and discuss the current political and humanitarian situation in Sudan. Our guest is Munzoul Assal, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum and currently a scholar at risk at Chr Michelsen Institute. More on Professor Assal...
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society Seed Corn Showcase 2023-24
14:30 - 17:00 11 December 2024
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (The Centre) is excited to present the CDTS Seed Corn Showcase. This event celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the five research projects funded in our 2023-2024 Seed Corn Funding. Our scope includes cybersecurity, but we also see digital security as part of a set of broader issues of trust and...
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Community of Practice: Innovative Capacity Building in the Development Sector
08:00 - 09:00 12 December 2024
Capacity development initiatives in global development aim to empower individuals, organisations, and societies to achieve sustainable progress by enhancing their skills and resources. However, these initiatives often encounter persistent challenges that hinder their effectiveness. These challenges are deeply rooted in long-standing structural...
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The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump Prime Call Launch Event
14:30 - 16:00 14 January 2025
The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) will be launching the latest round of pump-priming awards in January 2025. The call aims to encourage collaboration and provide support for activities that will lead to an increase in successful interdisciplinary research. Awards of up to £50K available, you’ll have one year to explore...
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GDI Webinar: Cybersecurity Economics for Development
14:00 - 15:00 21 January 2025
Speaker: Estefania Vergara Cobos (PhD, Economist at the World Bank) Chair: Isaac López-Moreno Flores (PhD Candidate in Development Policy and Management at GDI) Join us for a discussion on the connection between cybersecurity and economic development, inspired by the World Bank’s new book, Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital/publication/Cybersecurity-Economics-for-Emerging-Markets#1 Drawing...
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The Albatross Lecture 2025: Dr Jared Margulies
11:00 - 15:00 23 January 2025
* **Please note this event is open to those both internal and external to The University of Manchester*** Join us on the 23rd January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Dr Jared Margulies, Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama and author of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade. Followed by lunch,...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr. Ben Collier
14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2025
UK police forces are increasingly adopting 'influence policing', a form of digital influence campaign that uses internet technologies and behavioral psychology to prevent crime. Initially developed for counter-radicalization, it now targets a range of areas, including online child abuse, knife crime, and cybercrime, raising ethical and theoretical...
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GDI Webinar: Plural Climate Storylines to Foster Just Urban Futures
13:00 - 14:00 31 January 2025
Managing climate change-related risks requires robust and actionable insights into future climates. In this webinar, presenters will discuss a recent paper that develops the plural climate storylines framework to complement existing physical climate storylines, which have strengthened the usability of climate projections yet struggled to generate...
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GDI Webinar: Navigating Crises: Turkey’s Migration Policies in the Face of Refugee Challenges and Disaster Response
13:00 - 14:00 3 February 2025
Presenters: Prof Tim Jacoby, Dr Ibrahim Efe Chair: Prof Tanja Müller Webinar abstract: Turkey’s migration policies have undergone profound transformations since the onset of the Syrian conflict, evolving from an open-door approach to a multifaceted framework addressing both refugee integration and voluntary return. The February 6, 2023, earthquakes...
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GDI Film Screening and Panel Discussion: We Don't Do Charity
16:30 - 18:00 12 February 2025
Panel: Alan Braithwaite (Executive Producer) Amanda Campbell (Producer) David Campbell (Director) Join GDI and One World Together for a screening of ‘We don’t do charity’, a compelling film pushing for change in the aid and development space towards a global finance system that supports the priorities and dignity of local communities. Hear...
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GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?
16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so, who opposes them? What kind of property is disputed? How long do cases take? To what extent do judgements favour women, and what does the language of judgements reveal?...
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Sustainable Futures Seminar: Active Mobility | Climate Action
14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2025
The February edition of the Sustainable Futures Seminar will take place online and will feature Luana Scrivano, who will present on 'Active Mobility and Mental Health: A Scoping Review towards a Healthier and Greener World' and Dr Christopher Walsh whose presentation is about 'Creating Momentum for Climate Action in Devolved Governments'. Sign...
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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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Urban Futures and the Threat to Heritage: A Look at Lagos, Nigeria
16:30 - 18:00 11 March 2025
Speaker: Taibat Lawanson (University of Liverpool) Seminar co-hosted by the African Cities Research Consortium and the Global Urban Futures and Environment, Policy and Place research groups. This talk begins with an overview of the cultural value of urbanization and goes ahead to unpack how globalization and climate change impact urban heritage...
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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
14:30 - 16:00 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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