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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'Fare Money' Stories: Transportation and everyday practices in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro
15:00 - 16:30 25 February 2025
This presentation contributes to ongoing debates on Southern urbanisms by arguing that taking money seriously - as a practical, moral and material issue and as an integral part of the production of infrastructures - can offer us new insights into the urban experience among the racialized poor in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing...
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International Women's Day Workshop - Intentional Careers™: How to figure out 'what's next?' and the strategy to make it happen (Translation Manchester)
12:00 - 13:30 5 March 2025
Struggling under the weight of managing it all? Are you feeling lost when it comes to ‘what’s next?’ in your career? Regain control of your future by immersing yourself in a transformational workshop led by Dr Hannah Roberts (career coach and professional skills trainer), Amazon's #1 bestselling author of Intentional Careers for STEM...
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Africa OneHealth workshop
14:00 - 16:30 12 March 2025
This workshop is open to UoM academics who are eligible to apply for external funding. One Health is a broad interdisciplinary approach that addresses health issues at the human-animal-environment interface. As global challenges such as climate change, urbanisation, pollution, disease, inequality, and biodiversity loss escalate, the need for such...
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Launch of the JUST Centre
17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2025
Kicking off in March 2025, the JUST Centre will be a new powerhouse of social science research and action for accelerating a fair and equitable transformation into a low carbon society. The ESRC has invested £8.5 million over five years for this national Centre to develop new ways of generating evidence about what works where, why, and for whom...
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Methods for Urban Civic Participation and Partnerships
12:30 - 14:00 19 March 2025
Join us with the Manchester Urban Institute for an informal networking lunch to discuss approaches to urban partnership and civic participation in research. This research cafe will explore the methods and approaches to urban partnership and civic participation in research aiming to explore solutions to reduce poverty and urban inequalities in...
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