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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Climate café @ UoM
12:00 - 13:00 31 May 2024
A Climate Café is a safe space to share your thoughts and feelings about the climate crisis. Cafés are facilitated by Public Health staff and are supported by the Climate Psychology Alliance. What is a Climate Café? A climate café is a safe space to share our feelings about the climate crisis – a thinking and feeling space, a haven from...
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Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024
3 - 4 June 2024
This year’s Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference, a Digital Futures activity, will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Manchester over the course of two days on the 3rd and 4th of June 2024. It will also coincide with The University of Manchester’s bicentenary celebrations occurring across the year. The Advances...
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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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