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Registration for the FBMH Future of Teaching and Learning Symposium is now open

19 September - 15 December 2025
We are excited to announce that the second FBMH Faculty Symposium on the Future of Teaching and Learning will take place on 16 December 2025. This full-day event (09:00–16:15) will…

Astro Night: Uniformed Groups

4 November 2025 - 4 February 2026
Calling all Brownies, Cubs, Guides, and Scouts - embark on an exclusive Astro Night adventure at Jodrell Bank this winter filled with cosmic discovery. Journey through an immersive…

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…

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…

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

Gemini and Mercury remastered

6 September 2025 - 4 January 2026
Embark on a breath-taking visual journey through the dawn of human space exploration in our new exhibition where we welcome back Andy Saunders for the release of the ‘prequel’ – Gemini…

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Rakib Akhtar

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2025
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city. Dr. Rakib Akhtar is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham. An interdisciplinary…

Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change

18:00 - 20:00 5 November 2025
This event is the launch of an exhibition of artwork and poetry co-curated by older women living on the Aquarius Estate in Hulme. The event will include a talk by community members…

Impact and Blast Short Course

3 - 5 November 2025
The course is designed for professional engineers, consultants, researchers and graduate students, who are involved in the analysis, testing, modelling, design and assessment of structures…

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 8 October - 17:30 10 December 2025
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural…

Modern Architecture in Models: from the B.15 Workshop Archive

11:00 31 October - 17:00 24 December 2025
An exhibition of student models from the modernist canon of the twentieth century were created by groups of students from the University of Manchester School of Architecture between…

Our Green Working Lives

11:00 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Discover how we are making Manchester a fairer, cleaner, greener place for all. Win prizes and take plants home as you learn how Manchester is working to be a carbon neutral city-region…

Sci-Fi film season at Jodrell Bank!

4 October - 30 November 2025
TICKETS SELLING FAST! Get ready for an autumn under the stars with Jodrell’s popular Sci-Fi Film Season! From the intergalactic journeys of Interstellar and Dune to the dystopian futures…

SEED GenAI Community of Practice

12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
While chatbots like ChatGPT have dominated the conversation about generative AI, we've also seen remarkable advances in machine translation. These tools are now widely used by international…

SEERIH GM Open Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2025-26

09:00 5 November 2025 - 12:00 25 June 2026
Please note that this Network is open to all schools who are in Greater Manchester. SEERIH, at The University of Manchester, is a specialist hub which supports teacher development.…

SEERIH Manchester MSA Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2025-26

12:00 5 November 2025 - 16:00 25 June 2026
Please note that this Network is open to all schools who are in Manchester. SEERIH, at The University of Manchester, is a specialist hub which supports teacher development. To facilitate…

SEERIH Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2025-26

09:00 4 November 2025 - 12:00 25 June 2026
Please note that this Network is open to all schools who are in Rochdale. SEERIH, at The University of Manchester, is a specialist hub which supports teacher development. To facilitate…

Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"

14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2025
Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics…

Academic Leadership in SEED: Departmental Leadership

11:30 - 13:00 6 November 2025
In this session we are joined by Lisa Murtagh (current Head of MIE) and two of the three current Deputy Heads of MIE: Sylvie Lomer and Edda Sant, to reflect on their Experience of Departmental…

Academic Leadership in SEED: Dialogues on enhancing inclusive practice - Lisa Murtagh, Sylvie Lomer and Edda Sant

11:30 - 13:00 6 November 2025
Please join us for the first of our series on enhancing inclusive practice, which focus on our academic leadership practices in SEED: how understand what leadership looks like and how…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Mai Haiba

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2025
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them

09:00 - 17:00 6 November 2025
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National…

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