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Working while studying? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session. This interactive session will explore findings from the L-earning research project, which reveals that many young people face poor working conditions — including low pay, insecurity, and even harassment — and often d..
Imagining Our Working Lives
Join us for a creative, participatory workshop exploring how work shapes our lives, relationships, and aspirations. Open to adults (18+) in Greater Manchester and the North West, including careers advisors, social enterprise leaders, and anyone interested in personal development. Part of the ERSC Festival of Social Science
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa will present early findings from his ongoing..
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo
Talk Title: Crypto and Crime in Taiwan As a prosecutor specializing in blockchain-related crime, Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo examines how the rise of blockchain technology has accelerated the growth of virtual assets while also creating new avenues for criminal misuse. The presentation first outlines Taiwan’s regulatory framework for virtual asset se..
GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India, which examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation in India. We live in a world that sees informatio..
Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change
This event is the launch of an exhibition of artwork and poetry co-curated by older women living on the Aquarius Estate in Hulme. The event will include a talk by community members explaining their art work, a panel discussion by research team explaining the themes and learning from project, Q&A and some time to network, along with refreshment..
Our Green Working Lives
Discover how we are making Manchester a fairer, cleaner, greener place for all. Win prizes and take plants home as you learn how Manchester is working to be a carbon neutral city-region by 2038 and how you can be part of it with green skills. Part of the ERSC Festival of Social Science
Book Launch: Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia
Join us to celebrate the publication of Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia, Policy Press https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-transnational-care By Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. Drawing on interviews with migran..
Reimagining New Towns: Delivering Growth and Place-Making for 21st Century England
Join us for an exploration of the New Towns Taskforce Report to Government, a major contribution to the national conversation on housing and place-making. The event will explore how new towns can help address England’s housing challenges, featuring reflections from Dame Kate Barker, the deputy chair of the government taskforce that produced..
GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement, segregation, and gender inequality. The film captures how ordinary people are reshaping their neighbourhoods—fighting not just for rights, but for the power to de..