Past events
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MIOIR Seminar Series - The Building Blocks of Software Work
15:30 - 16:30 8 December 2025
Frank Neffke will explore the building blocks of software work and what they reveal about learning, careers and the spread of programming languages. (Co-authors: Xiangnan Feng, Johannes Wachs, Simone Daniotti) Abstract: Recent waves of technological transformation are reshaping work in uncertain and...
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Quatuor Danel: Evening Concert with Pete Furniss (clarinet), Richard Whalley (piano)
5 December 2025 - 23 July 2026
Joined by String Students from Chetham's School of Music Ustvolskaya Trio for violin, clarinet and piano, Marc Danel with Pete Furniss and Richard Whalley Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 Barshai Chamber Symphony (arrangement of String Quartet No. 8) Op. 110a (1960) for string orchestra, arranged...
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Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
08:45 - 13:00 4 December 2025
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19...
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Homeworking for Special Licence and Secure Access data
10:00 - 11:30 3 December 2025
With more researchers working remotely, many are asking: “Is it possible to access safeguarded Special Licence or Secure Access data from home?". Whether you are already accessing such data at your institution, or you are just preparing an application, you may be wondering if homeworking is an option...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2025
Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services...
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Data in the spotlight: Qualitative and mixed methods
10:00 - 11:30 2 December 2025
Did you know that qualitative and mixed methods data can be accessed for research? The UK Data Service provides access to a range of qualitative and mixed-methods data, including ethnographic data and field notes, images, oral history transcripts, and essay responses. This workshop will help you get...
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Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow
14:00 - 15:30 2 December 2025
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. Throughout the twentieth century and into our own time, the future has been imagined through science and superstition, data, design, and dreams. Drawing on objects...
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Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)
15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Universities and the climate crisis: the case for a leadership role
15:30 - 16:30 1 December 2025
Meric S. Gertler discusses the case for universities to take leading roles in the fight against climate change. Abstract: The evidence continues to mount that the climate crisis is accelerating. The Financial Times reported recently that last year saw the largest single-year increase in atmospheric...
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Data in the spotlight: International time series databanks
10:00 - 11:30 27 November 2025
Are you wanting to understand how the world works? Have an interest in climate science, economy, trade, demographics, health or international development? Want to know about and how to access data from the IMF, World Bank, UN or OECD? This free 90-minute online workshop will introduce you to the international...
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