Past events
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Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025
9 - 10 June 2025
We are excited to invite you to the Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025. This annual conference brings together leading researchers and innovators to discuss the future of AI and data science, with a focus on new technologies and the societal impacts of these advancements. Through engaging talks, workshops, and...
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Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon
10 - 11 June 2025
The University of Manchester is hosting an academic workshop from June 10-11, 2025, for the research project Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon, part of the Amazônia+10 Initiative. This project brings together academics from UoM with colleagues from various Brazilian universities. It focuses...
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Digital Technology, Crime, and the Law Conference 2025
11 June 2025
Digital technology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives, shaping how we communicate, work, and interact. To build trust in technology, its design, development, and deployment must ensure security and safety. A sustainable digital future relies on frameworks that protect both systems and users. Date and Time: 11 June 2025 | 8.30AM - 5PM Location:...
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Socially constructed concepts related to Gene and Health for addressing health inequities
13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 11-June 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91602578521). This edition, Salman Waqar (president of the British Islamic Medical Association) will talk about socially constructed concepts related to Gene and Health for addressing health inequities.
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Ecotopian pedagogies for the symbiocene
10:00 - 17:00 27 June 2025
The session will begin with a critical historical investigation of the rise of (E)SD before going on to explore ecotopian pedagogical possibilities, speculating about the following: How might we enable students’ sense of pathways of transformative possibility that abound? What teaching and learning methods and activities can further enhance...
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Digital Trust and Security in the Era of Generative AI Forum
2 July 2025
Following on from the success of our Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) Forum series we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming Digital Trust and Security in the Era of Generative AI Forum, which will take place on 2nd July, from 9:30 – 16:30, followed by an optional drinks reception, at No.1 Circle Square, Oxford Road, Manchester...
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Digital Health equity seminar: Expansion of digital tools in secondary healthcare to reduce inequalities in care access and outcomes
13:00 - 14:00 9 July 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 9-July 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/92054457125). This edition, Simon Watts and Henry Morriss (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) will talk about Expansion of digital tools in secondary healthcare to reduce inequalities in care access and outcomes.
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GDI Webinar: Developing Resilience in Turbulent Times
09:00 - 10:00 15 July 2025
As economic and political crises stack up across the globe, development practitioners are facing increasing pressures and challenges. Tackling problems such as political unrest, increasing demand for aid, and dwindling development budgets requires strength and resilience. This webinar builds on a recent pilot series of microcredentials designed...
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Natural Capital Workshop
10:00 - 15:30 22 July 2025
Natural Capital Workshop | University of Manchester | Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Join professionals from across government, academia, industry, NGOs, conservation and the environment sector for a one-day multi-stakeholder workshop exploring natural capital — over a decade since it became central to UK environmental policy. University of Manchester ...
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Shaping the Future of Global Sustainability Policy
11:00 - 15:00 22 July 2025
The need for international cooperation has never been greater. The "triple planetary crisis" of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution is a global threat that requires global solutions. But what are the routes for academic research to influence decision-making on an international scale? Join Sustainable Futures and Policy@Manchester...
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Community of Practice: What challenges do development practitioners face when developing their personal resilience?
08:00 - 09:00 19 August 2025
Development practitioners are facing an unprecedented series of crises as a result of economic, political, and climactic shocks. As development budgets buckle under the strain, such practitioners require fortitude and resilience if they want to make a lasting impact on the world. At the Global Development Institute, we’ve been pioneering methods...
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Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine
14:00 - 15:30 15 September 2025
A joint initiative between the GDI Students for Palestine group and the Global Urban Futures and Resource, Environment and Development research groups. This hybrid session will focus on understanding the links between urban and infrastructural transformation and destruction in the face of the current genocide in Palestine, with a focus on settler...
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