Past events
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 Stre...
Digging into the Index of Multiple Deprivation
Hosted by Open Data Manchester, with support from the Spatial Policy and Analysis Lab, University of...
Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney
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
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
Speaker: Taibat Lawanson, University of Liverpool African cities are leveraging opportunities inher...
Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century
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
Part of the Geography Department Research Seminar series. Guest lecture from Professor Stephen Rice...
GDI Lecture: Roundtable on Taxation and Development
African states raise more revenue through taxation than the combined total of overseas development a...
GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typical...
Building China: People’s Infrastructure
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen ta...