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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Interdisciplinarity & Lost in Translation? Bridging Research Cultures Through Dialogue & Speed Networking
14:00 - 15:30 8 July 2026
Each research discipline has its own ethos - distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly...
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Regulating the Digital Society: UK and EU Perspectives
1 July - 9 August 2026
Join us & explore how the UK and EU member states are approaching the regulation of the digital society in the the post-Brexit era! The increasing digitisation of daily life poses important questions for policy makers, service providers and academics about whether and how we can regulate these technologies...
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Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms
13:30 - 16:00 25 June 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the North West, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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Filming the City
08:00 - 15:00 14 May 2026
How might moving images reshape the ways in which cities are studied, represented and understood? This question sits at the centre of an upcoming USL ThinkSpace event, which brings together scholars working across the arts, architecture, urban studies and film studies to reflect on the methodological...
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Remote Patient Monitoring in the NHS: From Promise to Practice
11:00 - 17:00 14 May 2026
Remote patient monitoring is a cornerstone of the government’s 10-year plan to get the NHS 'fit for the future'. It could support earlier detection of health problems, better assessment of treatment response, and more proactive self-management. While there have been promising examples of success,...
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