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Events by Sustainable Futures

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  Sustainable Futures’ 2026 Innovation Lab: Thriving, Inclusive and Sustainable Places

  18 November 2026, 12pm-5pm
  Are you a Greater Manchester-based organisation responsible for delivering, managing or shaping essential services, utilities, infrastructure or community amenities? Do you have an..

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  National Emergency Briefing film screening and discussion

  29 October 2026, 4pm-6pm
  Colleagues from Sustainability@SEED and SoSS, in collaboration with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU), will be hosting a free screening of the National Emergency Briefi..

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  SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar: Fire Protection for the Energy Sector – Just how exposed are we?

  29 October 2026, 12pm-12.30pm
  Join us for a fascinating talk and Q&A at our monthly SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar on 29th October 2026 with speaker Professor Simon Thurlbeck from the University of Manchester..

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  The mobility trap: transport exclusion in global south cities

  11 November 2026, 12pm-1.30pm
  Geaography Research seminar with Professor Karen Lucas (Department of Geography, UoM). Chair: Saska Petrova; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

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  'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

  17 November 2026, 5pm-7.30pm
  Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in h..