Past events
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Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
08:45 - 13:00 4 December 2025
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic! This event will look at the lessons...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral Arbiters Artificial Intelligence has enabled the automation of cognitive tasks. The more able autonomous machines are, and the more they share the same environment...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital research
13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Dec 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/98736638103). Anita Banerji, Jasmine Folz, Ella Kaye, and Pauline Karega from the Universities of Manchester and Warwick will talk about “A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital...
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GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?
16:30 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more protracted decline of overseas aid. To help us make sense of this shift and discuss potential ways forward, this session will take the form of a fireside chat between...
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What can Digital Futures do for you
12:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Register to this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Join President Duncan Ivison, Digital Futures Director Richard Kingston, and the platform’s theme leads for this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Full agenda to be confirmed....
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Community of Practice: How are different types of resilience connected? And how does this connectedness generate impact?
08:00 - 09:00 16 December 2025
Over the past few months, we've explored many dimensions of resilience and the role it plays in supporting a strong development sector. From personal resilience to the power of social cohesion and community, it's clear that fostering resilience is a complex and multi-layered challenge. In the final session of our community of practice series,...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Faith and Health: a case study of British Muslims - 14th January 2026
13:00 - 14:00 14 January 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 14-Jan-26, 1-2pm GMT via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96196306877). Salman Waqar, a GP and former president of British Islamic Medical Association, will talk about his work around faith-based approaches that are helpful in understanding and addressing healthcare...
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In Conversation: African Climate Futures
17:00 - 19:00 22 January 2026
In Conversation: African Climate Futures with Dr Carl Death and Prof Jade Munslow Ong Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of African Climate Futures. This special event celebrates the launch of African Climate Futures, the latest book by Dr Carl Death, which explores how African science fiction...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown
13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Challenges with real world Privacy Enhancing Technologies...
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Digital Futures Interdisciplinary ECR Lunch Workshop
13:00 - 16:30 3 February 2026
Join us for an energising, hands-on workshop designed to spark new ideas, build connections, and elevate your digital research journey. [This is an internal UoM Staff and Student only event] Whether you're already working within the digital space or simply curious about how a digital strand could enrich your research, this event is your chance...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Dr Zhipeng Wang & Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini
12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2026
Learn how blockchain “digital communities” can be exploited—and how to prevent it. Talk Title: DAO Governance Takeover Attack on the blockchain: Code as Law, Cybersecurity and Governance [Online Webinar] In this talk, Dr Zhipeng Wang and Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini analyse the DAO governance takeover attack as a major governance-level cybersecurity...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?
13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London School of Economics) will talk about Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity? For more information about the talk and the speaker,...
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Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler
15:30 - 18:00 11 February 2026
You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Will Fletcher, Professor of Physical Geography, and Seth Schindler, Professor of Urban Politics & Development, at the Cordingley Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street. Join us from 3.30pm for drinks and...
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Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead
14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026
Find out more about our Digital Worlds theme and learn more about the support we can provide. Meet the Digital Worlds Theme Lead, Dave Topping, at Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead! "When we frame digital tools as an ecology, we draw on natural-system concepts to reveal how software, hardware, data, people, and the wider environment...
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GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers
16:30 - 18:00 3 March 2026
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist...
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GDI Lecture: Roundtable on Taxation and Development
16:30 - 18:00 4 March 2026
African states raise more revenue through taxation than the combined total of overseas development assistance, foreign direct investment, and remittances. Yet, on average, they only collect around 15% of GDP in taxes, which is roughly half the OECD average. Strengthening domestic revenue mobilisation is a key development priority, especially in...
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Digital health equity seminar series: A systems approach to addressing digital health equity in Wales
13:00 - 14:00 11 March 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Mar, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97225205099. Diana Bright (Public Health Wales and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Health Equity) will talk about A systems approach to addressing digital health equity in Wales. For more information...
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Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century
18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2026
From microchip factories in Germany to port expansions in East Africa, from tech hubs in Southeast Asia to infrastructure corridors linking Europe and the Middle East, global politics is reshaping cities. After the Cold War, many believed globalization would reduce the likelihood of major conflict. Today, intensifying rivalry between the United...
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The Real Cost of Urban Innovation in Lagos, Nigeria
11:30 - 13:00 16 March 2026
Speaker: Taibat Lawanson, University of Liverpool African cities are leveraging opportunities inherent in globalisation and the digital turn to adopt new ways of city-making. Recently, the ‘smart city’ concept and the platform economy have been prominent in Lagos, Nigeria’s primate city. Lagos’ ambition for world- class status has driven...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney
13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2026
Explore how Software Defined Radios expose & detect radio?frequency vulnerabilities across 5G, autonomous systems & critical infrastructure This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Software Defined Radios: RF Enabled Cyber Vulnerability...
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