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GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead

16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development.…

The 3rd Brian Robson Lecture 2025: High Hopes, Hard Realities - Civic Universities at the crossroads

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2025
Guest speaker: Prof John Goddard OBE Manchester alongside Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham is one of the initial group of civic universities that evolved in the great Northern…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Prof. Henrietta L. Moore

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2025
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture! Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Professor Henrietta…

Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories

18:00 - 19:30 3 December 2025
A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast. Gabriel Gatehouse has spent many years investigating conspiracy…

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

The Sarah Fielden Lecture Series: Teaching Education at the Crossroads: Scholarship, Practice and Policy

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
For the next in the Sarah Fielden Lecture Series, join Professor Jean Murray, Emeritus Professor at the University of East London, to examine the shifting history of teaching education…

GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?

16:30 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more…

WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast

15:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University, USA), Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour, Germany), Barbara…

The Role of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Multilateral Negotiations

11:00 - 12:00 12 December 2025
Multilateral negotiations are increasingly under strain, making it more important than ever to understand how global agreements are shaped behind the scenes. Dr Andraž Kastelic, a leading…

How to make your research more usable to policy-makers in UK parliament

16:00 - 17:00 18 December 2025
Presentation from Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) The Higher Education Research Group is delighted to announce that Professor Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) will be the invited speaker…

Campus Projections and Interrupted Flows: What does a campus ‘say’ to students and shape their movements within it?

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Guest speaker: Richard Budd is a Lecturer in Higher Education in the school of Social Sciences at Lancaster University Research on university campuses tends to be divided into somewhat…

New Lovell Lecture: Be the astronomer

19:30 - 21:00 29 January 2026
René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at JBCA, invites you to join a unique “choose-your-own-adventure” lecture, where audiences can step into an astronomer's shoes, investigate an…

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture…

‘She says she would like to know more about me’: Minoritised applicants’ doctoral subjectivity formation in the pre-application stage

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2026
Guest lecture from Emily F. Henderson, Professor and Director of the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR) at the University of Warwick Doctoral admissions tend to…

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