Events
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..
The Real Cost of Urban Innovation in Lagos, Nigeria
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 dri..
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..
From the pesticide treadmill to the Global Pesticide Complex: Uneven and combined chemical geographies
Guest seminar from Professor Marion Werner, State University of New York, Buffalo Part of the Geography Department Research Seminar series
GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals
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..
Sea Ice in the Climate System
Lecture from Dr Amy McGuire, Geography, University of Manchester Part of the Geography Department Research Seminars series
The Digital Environment Conference 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..
GDI Conference: What is the future for global development?
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-conf..
The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP)
SAVE THE DATE The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP) will take place at the University of Manchester, UK, following the success of EPIP 8 at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain, in 2024. The conference aims to bring together researchers, students and teachers of English, phonetics, p..