Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming events
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Community of Practice: The role of hope in transforming places of despair into resilient spaces
08:00 - 09:00 21 October 2025
Hope represents a vital resource in a development landscape affected by rising geopolitical tensions, funding problems, employee burnout, climate crisis, and other interconnected challenges. But how can we harness hope to help us make genuine progress in our endeavours? How can we keep hope alive under difficult circumstances? And how can we...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
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...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo
12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
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 service...
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GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan
16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
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 information...
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Book Launch: Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia
16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2025
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 migrants’...
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GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre
16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2025
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 design...
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GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
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 wave...
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GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
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 domestic...
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Co-created Futures Conference
09:00 - 17:00 3 December 2025
Sustainable Futures will deliver the Co-created Futures Conference in partnership with MERI, Royce, Tyndall and MUI. This one-day conference will convene academics, policymakers, industry and community partners to showcase co-developed and co-produced environmental sustainability research across three themes: Materials: Sustainable resource management,...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2025
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 a...
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