Events
This section gives information on the events and conferences which take place as part of your programme.
Seminars and workshops
- Centre for Development Informatics (CDI)
- Collaboratory for Urban Resilience and Energy (CURE)
- Geography
- Global Development Institute (GDI)
- Global Urban Research Group (GURG)
- Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG)
- Manchester Institute of Education (MIE)
- Manchester Urban Institute (MUI)
- Planning and Environmental Management (PEM)
- Spatial Policy and Analysis Unit (SPAL)
SEED PGR Conference 2023-24
The SEED PGR conference forms a key part of the doctoral programme and is designed to give you the opportunity to present and gain feedback on your research from an interested audience.
The conference also gives you the opportunity to attend presentations and workshops delivered by some of the School’s leading researchers and external experts.
The conference takes place each year in May and is attended by SEED Research students, academic colleagues and Alumni members.
What's on in SEED
Digital Transformations for Leadership in the Development Sector
Digital Transformation for Development (Dx4D) is an emerging phenomenon in the development sector. In this webinar, leading academics from The University of Manchester and Melbourne's online Leadership for Development programme, will discuss how digitalisation is driving changes in organisational structures and inclusivity in leadership. Thi..
Attempting to Kill the Law of Peace
A public talk with Prof Mary Ellen O’Connell, Professor of Law and International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame; co-hosted by HCRI and the Law School at University of Manchester. Registration and info via: https://law-of-peace.eventbrite.co.uk ABOUT THE TALK The almost unimaginable loss and devastation of World War II led to t..
GDI Lecture: Where do we go from here? Navigating power inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system
With speakers Nicola Banks, Badru Bukenya (Makarere University), Willem Elbers (Radboud University), Emmanuel Kumi (University of Ghana), Margit van Wessel (Wageningen University), Thomas Yeboah (University of Ghana), Innocent Kamya (Makarere University), and Lau Schulpen (Radboud University) In a context in which localisation, locally-led d..
GDI Lecture: The politics of complaint: Digitalizing discontent, in Bangladesh and beyond
The first quarter of the 21st century has seen so many mass protest movements that popular discontent barely registers any more. It may be no coincidence that digital platforms for registering discontent have simultaneously proliferated in tandem, from the ‘free speech’ platforms of social media to the highly constrained mechanisms for gri..
PIA (Power, Inequality, and Activism) Conference
What is the conference and what does it involve? Developed through our PGRs, the PIA (Power, Inequality, and Activism) conference will be a space to explore, interrogate and question some key provocations (themes to provoke thought) related to our work. We would be delighted if others sign up to a provocation group - group participants will..
Sustainable Futures Seminar: Space & Sustainability | The RoundView
On Thursday 25th April 2024, Sustainable Futures will be hosting our fourth 2024 Seminar in our monthly seminar series with Dr Joanne Tippett and John Mackintosh. Indicative Agenda 14:00 - 14:05 - Introductions and Welcome. 14:05 - 14:25 - John Mackintosh, PhD researcher in the space research group at The University of Manchester, will pres..
Centre for Digital Trust and Society Seed Corn Showcase
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) is excited to present the CDTS Seed Corn Showcase. This event celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the four research projects funded in our 2022-2023 Seed Corn Funding. What is the CDTS Seed Corn Funding? Each year, CDTS awards funding to cutting-edge research proposals that explore cr..
Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century
Book launch with Dr Portia Roelofs, King’s College London Political science has long claimed that African political systems are dysfunctional because they are too embedded in social and material relations. This assumption informed the rise of the World Bank’s good governance agenda in the late 1980s. This lecture and book launch situates..
Sustainable Futures Seminar: Plastics and Circular Economy in UK
This event is open to both internals and externals to The University of Manchester On Thursday 30th May 2024, Sustainable Futures will be hosting our fifth 2024 Seminar in our monthly seminar series with Dr Adeyemi Adelekan and Prof. Maria Sharmina from The University of Manchester. Indicative Agenda 14:00 - 14:05 - Introductions and Welcom..
Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024
This year’s Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference, a Digital Futures activity, will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Manchester over the course of two days on the 3rd and 4th of June 2024. It will also coincide with The University of Manchester’s bicentenary celebrations occurring across the year. The Adv..