Past events
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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 Balcha Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (GDI, reflecting on her work with Slum Dwellers International [SDI]) - Tina Cribbin (Aquarius Savers, Ageing Well in Place in Hulme) How can development research – and universities more...
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GDI Webinar: Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' Integration
13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2025
Speaker: Alexander Yarkin, Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University (2023), Post-doc at UC Davis (Global Migration Center) Chair: Isaac López-Moreno Flores, Development Economist and PhD Candidate, Global Development Institute Abstract: The global spread of the Internet and the rising salience of immigration are two of the biggest trends of the...
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Climate Crimes and Human Rights: Examining the Efficacy of Human Rights, International Law and Criminal Law in the Fight for Climate Justice
16:00 - 17:30 24 March 2025
Seminar hosted by the Climate and Justice Study Group Speaker: Paul Clark, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Given the role that the law and the courts play in contemporary governance both domestically and internationally, it is unsurprising that litigation is viewed by many as a key weapon in the fight against climate change. The invocation of...
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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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Contesting "Just" Transitions in South Africa
15:30 - 17:00 27 March 2025
Politics, Governance, and Management research seminar Speakers: Alex Beresford (University of Leeds) Ruth Bookbinder (University of Leeds) The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) between South Africa and a collection of Western countries (USA, UK, France, EU and Germany) is hailed as a blueprint for energy transitions in the global south....
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GDI Film Screening: One Side of the Road
17:00 - 19:00 27 March 2025
GDI is hosting a film screening of One Side of the Road, a documentary film by Jalil Nordman (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development-DIAL), on Thursday, 27th March at 5-7pm in A101, Samuel Alexander Building. The award-winning documentary explores the segregation and oppression of Dalit populations in southern India and...
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GDI Alumni Talk - Development in Action: What They Don't Teach You in School
12:00 - 13:30 4 April 2025
Speaker: Taio Gardey, Farming Out Of Poverty (FOOP) Join us for an open conversation with Taio Gardey, an alumnus of the University of Manchester and Executive Director of Farming Out of Poverty (FOOP), an NGO empowering farmers in Sierra Leone to overcome hunger and poverty. Taio will share his journey from studying International Development...
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Webinar: What Next for Our Broken Aid System?
13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2025
Following recent upheavals in aid programmes worldwide, GDI and the Development Studies Association (DSA) have organised a webinar to discuss whether and how these dramatic changes could serve as a catalyst for reform. Titled, ‘What Next for Our Broken Aid System?’, we’ll cover topics including how we can tackle the structural inefficiencies...
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Digital Health equity seminar: Focus On Research and EQUITY: integrating an intersectoral equity lens into health-related research
13:00 - 14:00 9 April 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 9-Apr-2025 1-2pm BST via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99046314977). Distinguished Professor Jennie Popay from the University of Lancaster will talk about Focus On Research and EQUITY: integrating an intersectoral equity lens into health-related research. For more information about...
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GDI Webinar: Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India
16:30 - 18:00 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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Sustainable Futures: Biodiversity Seminar
13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2025
Date: 24 Apr 2025 Time: 13:00- 14:00 Location: Nancy Rothwell building, 3A.012 Indicative Agenda: 13:00 - 14:05 - Introductions and Welcome. 13:05 - 13:25 -Dr Emma Shuttleworth, title tbc 13:25 - 13:30 - Q&A 13:30 - 13:50 - Dr Hannah Dickinson, Promising blue futures: marine biotechnologies and the uptake of ocean life 13:50 - 13:55 -...
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During this event Professors Michèle...
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Film Screening: No Other Land
16:00 - 19:00 30 April 2025
Join GDI Students for Palestine for a special screening of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Following the film, we'll enjoy Palestinian catering from Jafra. Film synopsis: Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents...
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GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza
16:30 - 18:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for the space and anyone inside it. It documents the short history of Rukban, an encampment on the border of Syria and Jordan, and how it sheds light on our contemporary...
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Sustainable Futures - Inclusive Research Bid Development Sandbox
13:00 - 15:00 8 May 2025
Join our EDI Sandbox to explore how to design research bids that champion equity, diversity, and inclusion. Funders are placing increasing importance on equity, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in their assessment of research bids, looking to see if researchers demonstrate a commitment to supporting a diverse and inclusive research culture in their...
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GDI Lecture: Living the Urban Periphery: Our Book and Related Thoughts...
16:30 - 18:00 14 May 2025
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on the complexities of African urban peripheries and the varied nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. Our multi-authored collaboratively-produced monograph ‘Living the urban periphery’ (2024) examines...
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GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta
16:30 - 18:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest contiguous mangroves delta in the world, spanning India and Bangladesh. The delta is a volatile island archipelago, a fluid geography, traversed by rivers, separating landmasses – it is neither land, nor water, but a liminal-dichotomous space. It...
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SEED Symposium: Getting serious about sustainability: Research, education and advocacy’
22 - 23 May 2025
A transdisciplinary symposium exploring transformative pathways for sustainable futures This two-day symposium will feature contributions from diverse actors within and beyond the University of Manchester community on how we might ‘get serious’ about sustainability in our research, teaching, advocacy and daily lives. Day 1 Thursday, 22 May:...
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Digital Technology, Crime, and the Law Conference 2025
11 June 2025
Digital technology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives, shaping how we communicate, work, and interact. To build trust in technology, its design, development, and deployment must ensure security and safety. A sustainable digital future relies on frameworks that protect both systems and users. Date and Time: 11 June 2025 | 8.30AM - 5PM Location:...
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