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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Addressing Biodiversity Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Research
09:00 - 14:00 4 June 2024
Please note that this event is only open to internals to The University of Manchester About the event: Biodiversity – the variety of life in the world – is essential to human wellbeing and a healthy planet. Yet, despite ongoing efforts, we are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. Recent assessments show that the window of opportunity to...
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Community-Centred Approaches to Active Travel Policy
13:30 - 15:00 5 June 2024
Policy@Manchester's June seminar will focus on creative community engagement and its impact on active travel policy. Greater Manchester (GM) has among the worst levels of pollution in the UK. It has been estimated that poor air quality contributes to around 1,200 premature deaths each year in the city region, and vehicular transport is a major...
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Marginalisation, Gender and Decolonisation
14:30 - 16:00 12 June 2024
The third session in the INTALInC seminar series, 'Decolonising Transport Planning: What are the implications for transport poverty?', we will reflect on ways in which decolonial thinking opens up new ways in which different forms of mobility-related disadvantage can be worked around and addressed in context-sensitive and often creative ways. The...
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The University of Manchester's Environment and Health Symposium
13:00 - 17:00 13 June 2024
Please note this event is only open to those internal to The University of Manchester Welcome to The University of Manchester Environment and Health Symposium! Join the Manchester Environmental Research Institute and Sustainable Futures for engaging discussions and insightful presentations on work that focuses on the intersection of health and...
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AI and Sustainability Workshop
13:00 - 16:00 17 June 2024
Please note this workshop is only open to researchers from The University of Manchester post-PhD level Are you interested in AI and Sustainability? Come and join us for a half day workshop on 17th June, 1-4pm. Open to UoM academics who are eligible to co-supervise PhD candidates, the workshop will explore the interface between these two research...
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