Lecture

Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

16:30 - 19:00 17 April 2026
We are excited to announce this year's Healthier Futures Annual Lecture, featuring Professor Clare Bambra, one of the leading UK voices on health inequalities. Join us for what promises…

GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Social Protection in the Global South

16:30 - 18:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Matthew Greenslade, Economist and former employee of the UK Department for International Development Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's…

New Lovell Lecture - Down to Earth Astronomy: A Tour of the Radio Universe

23 April 2026
Dr. Emma Chapman, (Royal Society Fellow), takes us on a cosmic journey through radio astronomy. Discover secrets of pulsars, galaxies, and black holes and why listening to the sky changes everything. 19.30 - 21.00

Multispecies Deconstructions of the ‘Human’ Within International Human Rights Law

13:00 - 15:00 27 April 2026
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This…

National Productivity Week: Productivity for Better Outcomes

13:30 - 17:30 27 April 2026
Join us at Manchester Central Library for a National Productivity Week 2026 event to showcase The Productivity Institute’s seven integrated research programmes, designed to strengthen…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality

16:00 - 18:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means…

GDI Lecture: The Toxic Effects of Border Violence, Claire Loughnan

16:30 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne The recent deaths of US citizens at the hands of that country’s ICE agents signal disturbing patterns of violence and misconduct that…

National Productivity Week - Skills, Talent and Productivity in Greater Manchester

16:30 - 18:30 29 April 2026
New research from the Centre for Economic Performance builds on the Economy 2030 Inquiry recommendation that expanding the graduate workforce in Greater Manchester by around 180,000…

National Productivity Week: The Role of Regional Data in Driving Productivity

13:30 - 15:00 1 May 2026
About the Session: Understanding and improving regional productivity requires rich, place-based insights that reveal how communities, businesses, and institutions really function.…

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

17:30 - 19:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer…

Stephen Mossman's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Spirituality and a Military Order: God’s House in Medieval Strasbourg’

16:30 - 18:30 6 May 2026
One focus of Stephen Mossman's research for more than a decade has been the commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in medieval Strasbourg, founded by the financier and mystical writer…

Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2026
Join us as esteemed economist Pierre-Richard Agénor shared insights from his upcoming book ‘Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach’, exploring the…

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

17:00 - 18:30 13 May 2026
In this public lecture, EACW John Edward Taylor Fellow Prof. Anne Anlin Cheng will be reading from her most recent book, Ordinary Disasters, and reflecting more broadly on how this…

Lovell Lecture: A Constellation of Women in the History of Astronomy

19:30 - 21:00 14 May 2026
Join Dr Sian Prosser, librarian and archivist at the Royal Astronomical Society, for a special Lovell Lecture exploring the stories of the women who helped shape our understanding of the Universe.

Proof of Human: AI, Copyright, and the Fight for Creative Authorship with Andrew Melchior

18:00 - 19:30 18 May 2026
A special lecture and discussion with composer, musician, technologist and producer Andrew Melchior. Join us in welcoming composer, musician, technologist and producer Andrew Melchior…

Lane Lecture 2026: The Evolution of Evidence and the Changing Nature of Employment: What this means for the work of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In collaboration with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Thomas Ashton Institute is delighted to announce that registration for this years Annual Lane Lecture…

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