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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Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?
17:00 - 20:00 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review over 100 years of occupational health research by Government and consider if this capability should be considered as an important front-line service. In person...
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The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam
16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
Speaker: Claire Mercer (LSE) Co-organised with the Geography Department African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier...
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‘Connecting Through Culture as We Age’: Digital Creative Citizenship
12:00 - 13:30 21 October 2024
In this edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) will draw from her recently completed UKRI Healthy Ageing-funded research project ‘Connecting through Culture as we Age’ to explore how all forms of arts and culture participation, particularly those accessed digitally, can influence wellbeing and social...
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AI and the City: Urbanistic perspectives on artificial intelligence
13:30 - 15:30 28 October 2024
Manchester Urban Institute seminar with Dr Federico Cugurollo, Trinity College Dublin Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this seminar we will explore the connections between AI and the urban by focusing on the concept of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonomous...
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BEYOND Conference 2024: Creative Cities
25 - 27 November 2024
Creative Manchester will be a partner of this year's BEYOND 2024 conference, where we will showcase the innovative research taking place with partners from across the city and beyond, in digital and creative technologies. As part of this we will deliver a creative R&D Showcase on one of the conference's stages, centred on the Our Heritage, Our...
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