Exhibitions, Lecture

Architecture for the People Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People -------------------------------------------------- For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens…

Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds…

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…

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…

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…

AI at Manchester Exhibition

14 January - 11 February 2026
This academic year, the University of Manchester is celebrating 75 years since Alan Turing established the Turing Test by spotlighting the work of early career researchers on the future…

Cosmic Threads Community Quilt

24 January - 27 March 2026
In honour of Jodrell Bank’s 80th anniversary, we have partnered with UK textile artist Anne Kelly to create an extraordinary community quilt. Featuring over 200 contributions from members…

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…

Professor Steven Pierce ’s Inaugural Lecture: The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria

16:30 - 18:30 28 January 2026
Guest Speaker Professor Olutayo Adesina, British Academy Global Professor (University of Manchester); Professor of History, University of Ibadan Venue Details The wine reception…

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…

Expert Insight Series: A radical reset for nuclear regulation (and what it means for us)

12:30 - 13:30 3 February 2026
Professor Sarah Sharples will be joined by Prof. Andrew Sherry and Mark Bassett, two members of the independent nuclear regulation Taskforce Last year, the Prime Minister established…

Architecture for the People Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

08:00 11 - 23:30 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People -------------------------------------------------- For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens…

Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler

15:30 - 18:00 11 February 2026
You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Will Fletcher, Professor of Physical…

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…

Exhibition: MossWorlds - Re-Storying Urban Lives

12 February - 2 March 2026
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives Until 2 March 2026 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor The exhibition showcases the mosses…

MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives

17:30 - 19:15 12 February 2026
Join us for the launch of the 'MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives' exhibition, followed by a panel discussion. This exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester, from the 19th century…

Keynote speech: Researching Professionals and Doing Research Critically - Professor Emerita Helen Gunter

15:00 - 16:00 13 February 2026
Professor Gunter’s lecture will examine what it means for educational professionals to practice as researching professionals, and the risks and challenges of undertaking critical approaches…

‘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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