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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Policy Engagement for Early Stage Researchers: Generating impact in urban research
10:00 - 23 October 2025
Join Manchester Urban Institute and Policy@Manchester for an interactive session, Policy Engagement for Early Stage Researchers: Generating impact in urban research. This session is designed for postgraduate students and early career researchers who want ot explore how their work can make a difference beyond academia. With a focus on urban challenges,...
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The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester
18:00 - 20:00 4 November 2025
Greater Manchester has an amazing legacy of alternative and community newspapers from the 1970s — offering us a window into the everyday issues, groups, places, events and organising efforts of the time — yet they are often overlooked or rarely known about today. Many have limited or almost no online presence making them hard to access or discover....
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa will present early findings from his ongoing...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo
12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Crypto and Crime in Taiwan As a prosecutor specializing in blockchain-related crime, Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo examines how the rise of blockchain technology has accelerated the growth of virtual assets while also creating new avenues for criminal misuse. The presentation first outlines Taiwan’s regulatory framework for virtual asset service...
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Co-created Futures Conference
09:00 - 17:00 3 December 2025
Sustainable Futures will deliver the Co-created Futures Conference in partnership with MERI, Royce, Tyndall and MUI. This one-day conference will convene academics, policymakers, industry and community partners to showcase co-developed and co-produced environmental sustainability research across three themes: Materials: Sustainable resource management,...
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