Events
Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) runs a wide variety of different events and activities and collaborates with a range of local, national, and global partners.
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Online archival workshop: The Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain
15:00 - 16:30 19 February 2026
Join us for an online workshop exploring the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s. Organized in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute and co-sponsored by the Institute of Race Relations, this event will focus on the archival legacy and continued significance of the Black radical press — as made...
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Climate Urbanisation: Climate Strategies and Extended Urbanisation
15:00 - 17:00 26 February 2026
The accelerating impacts of global warming render planetary urbanisation lenses particularly compelling for analysing how municipal climate strategies produce effects extending into rural hinterlands and regional territories. Municipal climate strategies are increasingly deployed as critical policy instruments in response to climate crises. Yet...
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Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead
14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026
Find out more about our Digital Worlds theme and learn more about the support we can provide. Meet the Digital Worlds Theme Lead, Dave Topping, at Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead! "When we frame digital tools as an ecology, we draw on natural-system concepts to reveal how software, hardware, data, people, and the wider environment...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Harnessing Storytelling to Amplify Research
13:45 - 14:45 18 March 2026
How can we ensure our interdisciplinary research creates real-world benefits? At The University of Manchester, we recognise that transformative research requires not just technical expertise, but also strong collaborations across disciplines and authentic engagement with communities. This workshop explores how we can co-create research narratives...
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The Digital Environment Conference 2026
1 April 2026
Step into the frontier of human–planet intelligence. This is where the systems that will shape our planetary future are imagined, contested, built and live. Co?hosted by the University Digital Futures platform and the NERC Digital Solutions Hub, the event will begin with keynote from NVIDIA to mark the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s On Computable...
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