Past events

The Digital Environment Conference 2026

1 - 10 April 2026

Step into the frontier of human–planet intelligence. This is where the systems that will shape our...

Sea Ice in the Climate System

15:00 - 16:30 25 March 2026

Lecture from Dr Amy McGuire, Geography, University of Manchester Part of the Geography Department Re...

GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals

16:30 - 18:00 25 March 2026

Speaker: Hemansu-Roy Trivedy, former UN Resident Coodinator in Timor-Leste Drawing on Blanchard and...

Annual Harry Street Lecture 2026 with Attorney General Richard Hermer KC

17:00 - 19:00 23 March 2026

The School of Social Sciences and Department of Law are delighted to host the 2026 Annual Harry Stre...

Digging into the Index of Multiple Deprivation

12:00 - 16:00 18 March 2026

Hosted by Open Data Manchester, with support from the Spatial Policy and Analysis Lab, University of...

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2026

Explore how Software Defined Radios expose & detect radio?frequency vulnerabilities across 5G, auton...

From the pesticide treadmill to the Global Pesticide Complex: Uneven and combined chemical geographies

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2026

Guest seminar from Professor Marion Werner, State University of New York, Buffalo Part of the Geogr...

The Real Cost of Urban Innovation in Lagos, Nigeria

11:30 - 13:00 16 March 2026

Speaker: Taibat Lawanson, University of Liverpool African cities are leveraging opportunities inher...

Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century

18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2026

From microchip factories in Germany to port expansions in East Africa, from tech hubs in Southeast A...

What did animals ever do for us? Why geomorphologists need to be aware of what animals get up to in rivers and why it matters for everyone

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2026

Part of the Geography Department Research Seminar series. Guest lecture from Professor Stephen Rice...