Past events
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 8 October 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and...
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SPACES for young people's wellbeing
16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2024
Join us for an absorbing webinar on creating SPACES (Supporting Participation in Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Sports) to improve young people’s wellbeing. Hear from researchers, artists, allied professionals and young people, and join the discussion about how we can act together for change. With...
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MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
18:00 - 19:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion back at the heart of building design. With Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World, Thomas draws...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Kickstarting Industrial Diversification?
14:30 - 15:30 7 October 2024
Kickstarting Industrial Diversification? Dr. Nicola Cortinovis, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at Utrecht University, will be discussing the potential of crowdfunding (CF) platforms to foster industrial diversification. Since the 2000s, crowdfunding (CF) platforms provide opportunities for...
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Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
15:30 - 16:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent as a foreign correspondent, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. Poetry has helped her...
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