Past events
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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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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Harnessing Storytelling to Amplify Research
13:45 - 14:45 18 March 2026
How can we ensure our interdisciplinary research creates real-world benefits? At The University of Manchester, we recognise that transformative research requires not just technical expertise, but also strong collaborations across disciplines and authentic engagement with communities. This workshop explores how we can co-create research narratives...
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Digital Futures Interdisciplinary ECR Lunch Workshop
13:00 - 16:30 24 March 2026
Join us for an energising, hands?on workshop designed to spark new ideas, build connections, and elevate your digital research journey. We aim to bring Digital Economy applications into your interdisciplinary research, helping you introduce and apply your work to industry and real?world sectors. [This is an internal UoM staff and student only event] Location:...
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GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals
16:30 - 18:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Hemansu-Roy Trivedy, former UN Resident Coodinator in Timor-Leste Drawing on Blanchard and Hersey’s work on leadership, this presentation will focus on three areas: (i) situational leadership; (ii) working as part of a team; and (iii) resilience. Trivedy will talk about his personal experience of finding out how and why these areas...
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The Digital Environment Conference 2026
1 April 2026
Step into the frontier of human–planet intelligence. This is where the systems that will shape our planetary future are imagined, contested, built and live. Co?hosted by the University Digital Futures platform and the NERC Digital Solutions Hub, the event will begin with keynote from NVIDIA to mark the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s On Computable...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Beyond the blueprint - Designing digital tools with meaning, not assumptions
13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2026
Our next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-Apr, 1-2pm BST (8-9am EDT) via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96316523515. Sahr Wali (University of Toronto, Canada) will talk about Beyond the blueprint: Designing digital tools with meaning, not assumptions.
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GDI Conference: What is the future for global development?
13 - 14 April 2026
GDI is hosting a conference asking ‘What is the future for global development?’, which will take place on 13-14 April 2026 in Manchester. Learn more about the conference and the agenda below. Tickets are free but are currently sold out. Add your name to the waitlist here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-development-institute-conference-tickets-1980100057575?aff=oddtdtcreator Fresh...
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Beyond Growth: Cultural & Creative Industry Policies for a New XXI Century
10:00 - 15:30 17 April 2026
Join us for an open Stakeholder Forum to review and reflect on economic development policies for the creative and cultural sectors for the 21st century across the Global North and the Global South. This programme is the second day of a two-day workshop held at the University of Manchester in partnership with the Itaú Foundation. It convenes participants...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Co-Authorship: Rotating Roundtables
14:30 - 16:30 21 April 2026
Co-authoring can offer significant benefits in interdisciplinary research bringing together experts from various fields to produce impactful publications. How can we effectively manage co-authoring processes to ensure equitable contributions and recognition? What best practices can we adopt to enhance collaboration and productivity? Join us to...
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GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Social Protection in the Global South
16:30 - 18:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Matthew Greenslade, Economist and former employee of the UK Department for International Development Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection (social security, or the benefit system) in lower income countries. Matthew describes why...
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