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..
Annual Harry Street Lecture 2026 with Attorney General Richard Hermer KC
The School of Social Sciences and Department of Law are delighted to host the 2026 Annual Harry Street Lecture delivered by an alumnus of our school and leading figure in the legal and political sphere, The Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, Attorney General of the UK Government. Full details on the lecture synopsis will be revealed soon. The Harry Stre..
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..
GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Social Protection in the Global South
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..
Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways in which art, research and movement come together to break down barriers. At this event you will hear about the Manchester Histories ‘This is Us’ project, which celebrates overlooked stories, reflects on complex legacies, and creates spaces where every voice can be heard; from Gras..
Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means to lead as a woman within systems that too often reward conformity and resist change. In “PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equa..