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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GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?
16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so, who opposes them? What kind of property is disputed? How long do cases take? To what extent do judgements favour women, and what does the language of judgements reveal?...
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Sustainable Futures Seminar: Active Mobility | Climate Action
14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2025
The February edition of the Sustainable Futures Seminar will take place online and will feature Luana Scrivano, who will present on 'Active Mobility and Mental Health: A Scoping Review towards a Healthier and Greener World' and Dr Christopher Walsh whose presentation is about 'Creating Momentum for Climate Action in Devolved Governments'. Sign...
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GDI Book Talk: City of Desire: Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh
16:30 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Speaker: Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) City of Desire, by Tanzil Shafique, is a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It seeks to develop a Southern perspective on urban slums, challenging mainstream Western discourses. Shafique's approach is rooted in a personal and thematic exploration of slum dwellers' lived...
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Digital Health Equity Seminar: Cross-pollinating Knowledge on Digital Health Equity: Lessons from Two Countries
13:00 - 14:00 5 March 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 5-Mar 2025 at 1-2pm GMT (2-3pm CET; 8-9am ET) for a virtual conversation titled “Cross-pollinating Knowledge on Digital Health Equity: Lessons from Two Countries” with Ibukun Abejirinde (Canada) and Nicole Goedhart (the Netherlands). The webinar will start with a...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Gunes Acar
14:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Register to explore a groundbreaking study on web tracking and advertising on child-directed websites. The research, which analyzes 2,000 sites, finds that nearly 90% embed trackers and 27% feature targeted ads, often without parental consent, violating privacy regulations. The study also reveals inappropriate ads promoting products such as dating...
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GDI Lecture: Enforcers Beyond Borders: The Growing Role of NGOs in International Law Enforcement and Effects on Wider Advocacy Movements
15:00 - 16:30 5 March 2025
Speaker: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni NGOs have generally served as issue-entrepreneurs, advocates and service providers, leaving law enforcement to states. However, in recent decades, environmental and human rights organisations around the world have come to play a growing role in enforcing international laws, both through ‘direct action’ enforcement...
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International Women's Day Workshop - Intentional Careers™: How to figure out 'what's next?' and the strategy to make it happen (Translation Manchester)
12:00 - 13:30 5 March 2025
Struggling under the weight of managing it all? Are you feeling lost when it comes to ‘what’s next?’ in your career? Regain control of your future by immersing yourself in a transformational workshop led by Dr Hannah Roberts (career coach and professional skills trainer), Amazon's #1 bestselling author of Intentional Careers for STEM...
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Africa OneHealth workshop
14:00 - 16:30 12 March 2025
This workshop is open to UoM academics who are eligible to apply for external funding. One Health is a broad interdisciplinary approach that addresses health issues at the human-animal-environment interface. As global challenges such as climate change, urbanisation, pollution, disease, inequality, and biodiversity loss escalate, the need for such...
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GDI Lecture: Africa's Structural Transformation for Job Creation: Trends and Policy Priorities
16:30 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Africa’s GDP has grown 5.3 times between 1990 and 2020. Still, at USD 8.86 trillion today, the continent’s economy is just twice the size of the UK, with a population (1.5 billion) 22 times bigger than the UK (69 million) and projected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050 – a quarter of the world population. What explains this performance? How can...
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GDI Lecture: Decolonization and the Future of Academic Research
16:30 - 18:00 19 March 2025
On the panel: - Diana Mitlin (African Cities Research Consortium, GDI) - Eyob Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (Slum Dwellers International and GDI) - Tina Cribbin (Aquarius Savers, Ageing Well in Place in Hulme) How can development research – and universities more generally – overcome the traditional...
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