Social Responsibility

Events

• Sustainable Futures External Launch
  Tomorrow, 10:00 - 11:30

  The Sustainable Futures External Launch event, will bring together researchers from across the University of Manchester and key external stakeholders to discuss sustainability activity at UoM at the launch of the new Sustainable Futures initiative.

• Save Our Streets: Has Covid killed our ethnically diverse high streets?
  Thu 21 Oct 2021, 14:00 - 15:00

  High streets shape our communities, towns and cities, and reflect the changing populations of local areas.

• Vacancy and Under-Utilisation of Housing in Greater Manchester
  Thu 21 Oct 2021, 10:00 - 12:00

  Why is vacancy and under-utilisation of housing growing in Greater Manchester when the region is facing a housing crisis? This event, organised by Action on Empty Homes, will explore this pressing issue.

• GDI Lecture Series: Maritime Temporalities and Capitalist Development
  Wed 27 Oct 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  This intervention develops arguments in our book Capitalism and the Sea (Verso, 2021) on the complex temporalities attached to capitalism's intense and peculiar relationship to the global ocean.

• ESRC Festival of Social Science Manchester
  Mon 1 Nov 2021 - Sun 21 Nov 2021

  The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Salford are running a variety of online and in-person events as part of this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science, 1st -21st November 2021.

• Dig for Victory: An interactive urban gardening workshop to grow Greater Manchester's sustainable food revolution
  Tue 2 Nov 2021, 12:00 - 14:30

  Have you, or would you like to set up a community garden in your local area? Are you interested in recovering a green space to produce your own food? Or simply curious to find out more about the role of urban gardening Manchester's fight against climate change? Whether you’re a novice gardener, a local community group, park, business, researcher or an established community garden, everybody is welcome to join us for our lunchtime urban gardening workshop.

• Climate Urbanism: Strategies for Just Transitions
  Thu 11 Nov 2021, 14:30 - 17:30

  This event will present some of the pioneering research funded by the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) in recent years.

• On and off screen diversity: Why does it matter?
  Thu 11 Nov 2021, 13:30 - 17:30

  How diverse is the media and creative industry? Why does diversity matter and what can we do about it? Have you ever thought why diversity matters in the cultural industries, or how representations about race are made? This event will answer these questions and explore with you how things can be done better.

• Turing-UoM Sandpits 2021-22: Sustainability
  Wed 17 Nov 2021, 14:00 - Thu 18 Nov 2021, 16:00

  The Sustainability sandpit is a two-day event scheduled to take place from 14.

• Navigating crisis from the margins: LGBTQIA+ vulnerability and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research and stories from the UK and Brazil.
  Wed 1 Dec 2021, 13:00 - 15:00

  The coronavirus pandemic and responses have had uneven impacts on different segments of societies.

• Turing-UoM Sandpits 2021-22: Digital Twins
  Wed 1 Dec 2021, 14:00 - Thu 2 Dec 2021, 16:00

  The Digital Twins sandpit is a two-day event scheduled to take place from 14.

• Achieving cleaner air for all
  Fri 3 Dec 2021, 10:00 - 11:00

  Policy@Manchester are delighted to invite you to attend our policy event on the issue of Air Quality, taking place in person, in Central Manchester.