Intergenerational learning to strengthen community resilience to disruption
| Dates: | 29 January 2026 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Families, General public |
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| Speaker: | Chika Watanabe |
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Resilience grows when generations learn from one another.
Communities are strongest when knowledge, experience, and imagination are shared across generations.
Resilience is not built in isolation. It is shaped through relationships, stories, memory, and collective action that span generations. By bringing together young and old, communities can expand how they understand disruption, preparedness, and survival. This webinar will explore how intergenerational learning can:
- Deepen our understanding of what “disaster” really means
- Strengthen everyday forms of preparedness
- Build more inclusive, resilient futures.
Join our speaker, Chika Watanabe, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester, who will draw on her participatory and ethnographic research to demonstrate how collaborative and creative methods can reveal powerful, lived practices of resilience that often go unnoticed.
Speaker
Chika Watanabe
Role: Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Organisation: The University of Manchester
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