Past events
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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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Masterclass: Remembering Violent Histories: Against Erasure
14:00 - 15:30 28 April 2026
Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne Through oral testimonies of those detained at the immigration prison located on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, Against Erasure focuses on how the demolition of an immigration prison site erased its violent history. This interdisciplinary research project adopted innovative approaches to produce a digital...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Daniel Shiu
12:00 - 13:00 29 April 2026
The Internet is shifting to post?quantum security as current encryption weakens. This talk explores the risks &how we can protect our future This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Can we make the Internet quantum-resistant? The...
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GDI Lecture: The Toxic Effects of Border Violence, Claire Loughnan
16:30 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne The recent deaths of US citizens at the hands of that country’s ICE agents signal disturbing patterns of violence and misconduct that are spilling over in ways that have been enabled by Trumpist politics. But such patterns are not new. They are the product of an accumulation of harsh border policies...
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Digital Trust & Security Webinar: Online Harms-Policy, Regulation & Policing
13:00 - 14:30 30 April 2026
Online harms are on the rise, but how well are our legal frameworks, regulatory bodies and police actually equipped to respond? This event brings together four speakers from NGO, regulation, frontline investigation and national policing to examine online harms from four different perspective: policy, regulation, investigation and victim support....
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Tao Wen
13:00 - 15:00 7 May 2026
Explore a series of interconnected studies that examine human behavior and decision-making processes within social networks This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Modeling and Analyzing User Behavior and Decision-Making in Social...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities in the UK
13:00 - 14:00 13 May 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 13th-May, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92175396746. Lopa Patel MBE (Diversity UK) will talk about Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities in the UK. For more information about the talk...
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Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy Analysis
11:00 - 12:00 23 June 2026
Speaker: William D. Ferguson, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics Grinnell College Why do well-meaning developmental policies so often fail? Consider the recent collapse of the well-constructed peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC guerillas. Likewise, privatizing former Soviet assets in Russia engendered authoritarian...
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Digital Economy Ethics of AI Workshop
14:30 - 16:30 24 June 2026
Join us for an engaging and timely workshop exploring the ethical challenges emerging from the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence across research, industry and policy. Dr. Arash Hajikhani (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; LUT University) will deliver a thought-provoking talk on the ethics of artificial intelligence, focusing on...
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Regulating the Digital Society: UK and EU Perspectives
1 July 2026
Join us & explore how the UK and EU member states are approaching the regulation of the digital society in the the post-Brexit era! The increasing digitisation of daily life poses important questions for policy makers, service providers and academics about whether and how we can regulate these technologies to ensure they work for the benefit of...
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society Forum 2026
2 July 2026
Now in its 4th year, the Centre for Digital Trust and Society Annual Forum brings together leading voices from academia, government and civil society to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities shaping digital trust and security. The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) brings together interdisciplinary expertise from across the...
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Interdisciplinarity & Lost in Translation? Bridging Research Cultures Through Dialogue & Speed Networking
15:00 - 16:30 8 July 2026
Each research discipline has its own ethos - distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly vital - driven by complex societal challenges...
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