Past 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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The Politics of Resourcefulness: Networking Workshop
13:00 - 15:30 12 September 2023
Resourcefulness is clearly key to realising more sustainable and socially just futures. It involves finding quick and clever ways to meet human needs whilst sensibly managing renewable and finite resources and avoiding wasting energy, materials and water. However, there are competing visions and interests as to what form a resourceful future might...
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Austerity's Histories
11:00 - 12:30 26 September 2023
Our fifth seminar in our Austerity and Altered Life-Courses series focuses on austerity’s histories. Research on austerity across the social sciences and humanities reminds us that contemporary austerity is rooted in longer term, embedded and ongoing legacies of political and economic change, including but not limited to neoliberalism, colonialism,...
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Sustainable Futures September Seminar Series
14:00 - 15:00 28 September 2023
Our September edition of the monthly Sustainable Futures Seminar Series will be held on Thursday 28th September 2-3pm. This event will be a One Bin to Rule Them All Project Special with the following speakers: - Dr Torik Holmes, Research Associate at The University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute. - Dr Kristoffer Kortsen, Research...
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Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation
17:30 - 19:00 4 October 2023
An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Carolyn Abbot Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation by participating in both the drafting of law and policy frameworks within which regulation is developed and, more directly, in the setting of environmental standards....
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Conversations on Urban Ageing and Sustainable Cities
14:30 - 10 October 2023
In Conversation, MUARG and MUI present: In collaboration with the Manchester Urban Institute, Jenny Fisher and James Evans will be in conversation discussing Urban Ageing and Sustainable Cities. The conversation will be chaired by Tine Buffel of MUARG and will explore the connections between ageing in cities and urban sustainability. James will...
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