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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Book Launch: COVID-19, Inequality and Older People Everyday Life during the Pandemic
18:00 - 20:00 26 June 2023
This event celebrates the launch of 'COVID-19, Inequality and Older People Everyday Life during the Pandemic' published by Policy Press. The book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The launch will involve short presentations from the authors and some of the partner organisations...
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M-ADE Bespoke - Making Bespoke Clothing a Reality
13:00 - 15:00 24 July 2023
Making bespoke garments a sustainable reality requires the integration of different skills and a well-informed development plan. This 2hr online session provides an opportunity to hear about some developments supporting bespoke, as well as feed into decisions about how we can do bespoke and set a clear shared research agenda. Following the presentation...
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M-ADE Female Engineers in Fashion: Reskilling Women in Clothing Manufacture
09:30 - 16:00 25 July 2023
Please note: In the morning, the event will take place in Engineering B 2B.026 and in the afternoon, we will move over to room 2A.020 Women are key to the clothing industry in the UK, though often the mundane nature of manufacture means their skills are overlooked as engineering. This is compounded as we seek cheaper ways to exploit manufacturing...
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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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