Past events
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GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
08:00 - 09:00 25 November 2025
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles, it’s not enough to keep us going in the long term. Community and solidarity represent a vital piece of the puzzle, helping us to tackle complex problems and...
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GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2025
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed peace...
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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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Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2025
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme plays out in the overall return trajectories of West African migrant men and women I could accompany before, during and after the AVRR procedure. Contrary...
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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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GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation
16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation (tr. 1983) in framing the centrality of industrialisation for understanding economic development and the fundamental differences between centres and peripheries...
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Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
08:45 - 13:00 4 December 2025
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic! This event will look at the lessons...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral Arbiters Artificial Intelligence has enabled the automation of cognitive tasks. The more able autonomous machines are, and the more they share the same environment...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital research
13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Dec 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/98736638103). Anita Banerji, Jasmine Folz, Ella Kaye, and Pauline Karega from the Universities of Manchester and Warwick will talk about “A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital...
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GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?
16:30 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more protracted decline of overseas aid. To help us make sense of this shift and discuss potential ways forward, this session will take the form of a fireside chat between...
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What can Digital Futures do for you
12:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Register to this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Join President Duncan Ivison, Digital Futures Director Richard Kingston, and the platform’s theme leads for this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Full agenda to be confirmed....
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Community of Practice: How are different types of resilience connected? And how does this connectedness generate impact?
08:00 - 09:00 16 December 2025
Over the past few months, we've explored many dimensions of resilience and the role it plays in supporting a strong development sector. From personal resilience to the power of social cohesion and community, it's clear that fostering resilience is a complex and multi-layered challenge. In the final session of our community of practice series,...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Faith and Health: a case study of British Muslims - 14th January 2026
13:00 - 14:00 14 January 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 14-Jan-26, 1-2pm GMT via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96196306877). Salman Waqar, a GP and former president of British Islamic Medical Association, will talk about his work around faith-based approaches that are helpful in understanding and addressing healthcare...
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In Conversation: African Climate Futures
17:00 - 19:00 22 January 2026
In Conversation: African Climate Futures with Dr Carl Death and Prof Jade Munslow Ong Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of African Climate Futures. This special event celebrates the launch of African Climate Futures, the latest book by Dr Carl Death, which explores how African science fiction...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown
13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Challenges with real world Privacy Enhancing Technologies...
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Digital Futures Interdisciplinary ECR Lunch Workshop
13:00 - 16:30 3 February 2026
Join us for an energising, hands-on workshop designed to spark new ideas, build connections, and elevate your digital research journey. [This is an internal UoM Staff and Student only event] Whether you're already working within the digital space or simply curious about how a digital strand could enrich your research, this event is your chance...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Dr Zhipeng Wang & Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini
12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2026
Learn how blockchain “digital communities” can be exploited—and how to prevent it. Talk Title: DAO Governance Takeover Attack on the blockchain: Code as Law, Cybersecurity and Governance [Online Webinar] In this talk, Dr Zhipeng Wang and Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini analyse the DAO governance takeover attack as a major governance-level cybersecurity...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?
13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London School of Economics) will talk about Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity? For more information about the talk and the speaker,...
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Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler
15:30 - 18:00 11 February 2026
You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Will Fletcher, Professor of Physical Geography, and Seth Schindler, Professor of Urban Politics & Development, at the Cordingley Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street. Join us from 3.30pm for drinks and...
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