Events
Unit M Startup Weekend
Calling all Women in STEM - Students, staff & alumni (2025): Have you ever wondered what day 0 of your startup actually feels like? In collaboration with The Tech Bros, Unit M are running an all-expenses paid weekend in Cheshire (hotel stay included) on 24th-26th October. What’s on the agenda? - A founder crash-course - A true startup s..
Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects us all. Drawing on groundbreaking research on reproductive loss, post-mortem and bereavement, Professor Reed will problematise the boundary between life an..
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..
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..
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..
GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political winds had already reversed. But a further..
GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domesti..
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services that leverage available data to address..