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..
Exhibition: MossWorlds - Re-Storying Urban Lives
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives Until 2 March 2026 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor The exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester from the 19th Century to the present, tracing their shared artistic, political and botanical stories. Through poetry, musical scores and embroid..
Online archival workshop: The Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain
Join us for an online workshop exploring the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s. Organized in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute and co-sponsored by the Institute of Race Relations, this event will focus on the archival legacy and continued significance of the Black radical press — as m..
Creativity and AI: Entertainment
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the Northwest, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries community. The first event of the 202..
Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead
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 envi..
Building China: People’s Infrastructure
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather than the skyline. Bringing together photographs and prints from the 1950s to the 1980s with field images from the early 2000s and contemporary works, the exhibition traces urban change through the ordinary spaces..
GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers
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..
GDI Lecture: Roundtable on Taxation and Development
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 i..
Digging into the Index of Multiple Deprivation
Hosted by Open Data Manchester, with support from the Spatial Policy and Analysis Lab, University of Manchester. With the release of the updated Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) in November, this is a chance to dig into the rationale, methodology and uses of the data. Measuring relative deprivation across seven domains; Income, Employment..
Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney
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 Vulner..