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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Sustainability in Construction - Retrofit Challenges and Opportunities
09:30 - 16:30 21 February 2024
A one-day event exploring retrofit and sustainable buildings. Making sure our homes, workplaces and buildings are warm and comfortable uses energy, and a lot of it when buildings are old. To reduce the environmental and socio-economic impact this has on all of us we need to make changes to how we heat, cool and build them, making them fit for...
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Creative Qualitative Methods for Researching Environmental Sustainability
09:30 - 16:00 23 February 2024
Please note this event is only open to Early Career Researchers (PhDs, Research Associates etc.) at The University of Manchester. A joint Sustainable Consumption Institute and Sustainable Futures event aimed at ECR scholars interested in creative qualitative methods. It seeks to provide a platform for alternative and innovative approaches to...
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Rethinking the 'local state'
15:00 - 28 February 2024
Geography Department Research Seminars Speaker: Madeleine Pill Chair: Christina Temenos In the extremely centralised UK our tendency to focus on the constraints of central-local relations encourages zero sum understandings of local capacity. Scholarship has tracked shifts in relational conceptualisations of local governance, but our understandings...
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Sustainable Futures February 2024 Seminar Series
14:00 - 15:00 29 February 2024
This event is open to both internals and externals to The University of Manchester. On Thursday 29th February 2024, Sustainable Futures will be hosting our second 2024 Seminar in our monthly seminar series with Prof. Jennifer O'brien and Dr Paul Baguley. Indicative Agenda 14:00 - 14:05 - Introductions and Welcome 14:05 - 14:25 - Prof. Jennifer...
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The CreaTech Network | Vision
14:30 - 18:00 4 March 2024
The Creative Tech Network | Vision Monday 4 March 2024, 2:30-6:00pm, No. 1 Circle Square In collaboration with Creative Manchester and the Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester, Digital Futures are thrilled to announce an exciting series of events set to unfold in Manchester in the new year, focused on the intersection of people working in Creative,...
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