Events
Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds of different municipal buildings. They ranged from grand airport terminals to the small public lavatories, from the high profile like the new Free Trade Hall to..
In Conversation: African Climate Futures
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 f..
Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown
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 Technol..
Business Impact: Driving biodiversity recovery through business action
Join us for an inspiring evening immediately following IPBES-12 Stakeholder Day. This event will bring together business leaders, sustainability professionals, and key stakeholders who will translate scientific evidence into concrete action for nature. Why attend? The Business and Biodiversity Assessment is the first major global scientific..
Book Launch with author Janet Alder: 'Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister's Fight for Truth'
As part of Race Equality Week, the Manchester Institute of Education Anti-Racist Education Network and School of Environment Education and Development EDI are pleased to invite you to a book launch and talk with author, Janet Alder. Janet will be speaking about her book Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister’s Fight for the..
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Dr Zhipeng Wang & Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini
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 cyberse..
Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG) Seminar: The Morecambe Bay Curriculum’s collaborative approach to educational innovation
This session will explore how the Morecambe Bay Curriculum (MBC) movement has been embedding place-based environmental education into everyday practice across the North West coast. We will demonstrate how we brought structure to a grass-roots movement, share examples from teacher-led projects and explain the processes of curriculum co-design w..
The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
UoM Geography & the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host two leading scholars to discuss their new book - The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressive, Liberalism. --- In The Politics of Feeling, Ben Anderson and Anna Secor argue that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The un..
Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler
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 a..
Shape a sustainable future with systems thinking: RoundView workshop
Discover an accessible, robust way to make sense of sustainability. Leave equipped with practical approaches you can apply immediately. Join Dr. Joanne Tippett from The University of Manchester for a free, hands-on workshop with the RoundView - an award-winning toolkit for sustainability thinking and learning. Watch this short video to find..