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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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown
13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Challenges with real world Privacy Enhancing Technologies...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Dr Zhipeng Wang & Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini
12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2026
Learn how blockchain “digital communities” can be exploited—and how to prevent it. Talk Title: DAO Governance Takeover Attack on the blockchain: Code as Law, Cybersecurity and Governance [Online Webinar] In this talk, Dr Zhipeng Wang and Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini analyse the DAO governance takeover attack as a major governance-level cybersecurity...
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Writing for Policy
11:00 - 12:30 10 February 2026
Join Manchester Urban Institute and Policy@Manchester for an interactive workshop, Writing for Policy. Designed for early career researchers and postgraduate students working on urban topics, this training will help you develop the skills needed to strengthen policy engagement through your work. The session offers a practical introduction to...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Leadership & Team Building: Challenge-Led Hackathon
14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
In a vast university setting, bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle complex challenges is essential. These teams combine expertise from various fields, focusing on problems that cannot be solved through a single research lens. But how do you find colleagues with similar interests? How do you identify those willing to collaborate? Join...
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Online archival workshop: The Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain
15:00 - 16:30 19 February 2026
Join us for an online workshop exploring the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s. Organized in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute and co-sponsored by the Institute of Race Relations, this event will focus on the archival legacy and continued significance of the Black radical press — as made...
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