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Digital Futures
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Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.

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Digital Futures brings together over 2200 researchers from over 30 different disciplines across all three of the University’s faculties into multidisciplinary communities to tackle important research problems and build critical mass in new and emerging research areas.

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Remote #PatientMonitoring in the #NHS: From Promise to Practice!

Sign up to reserve your place!

🗓️ 14 May 2026
🕐 12pm - 6pm
📍 Core Technology Facility, Manchester

Tickets:

🔗 bit.ly/remotepatientmonitoringevent

#MedSky #MedTwitter #PublicHealth #SciSky #CardioSky #IDSky #HealthEquity #PulmSky
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Move from awareness to action 🌍

Join leaders from UoM, @uomhums.bsky.social, and the RSPB to examine the reliance and impact of business on the natural environment.

How can we translate evidence to real change? How can business pioneer biodiversity commitments? 🍃

Secure your free slot below 💡
Business Impact: Driving biodiversity recovery through business action
Hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School and the RSPB.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Digital Futures ECR Workshop

Join Digital Futures for a session to spark ideas, build connections, and explore how digital approaches can elevate your research.

Featuring academics from The Productivity Institute, Work and Equalities Institute, and more.

👉 Register: https://tinyurl.com/yxmhden6
January 21, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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New Funding to Catalyse Devolved Cultural Policy Making: The Mayoral Authorities Creative Health Network.

Project led by Dr Hannah Waterson at The University of Manchester

#CreativeCommunities

💡https://ow.ly/2vOx50XZZ0k
January 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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🌍 UNEA‑7 advanced global action on wildfires, AMR, AI governance and protecting vulnerable ecosystems. Read how The University of Manchester researchers contributed to the agenda: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...
#UNEA7 #UNEP #ClimateAction #Sustainability
UN Environment Assembly Reaffirms Commitment to Multilateral Action for a Resilient Planet
More than 6,000 participants from 186 countries gathered at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi for the week-long UN Environment Assembly (UNEA). UNEA-7 concluded on 12...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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TOMORROW: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI – Opportunities and Challenges

📅 20 Jan, 12.30–3.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free: ow.ly/U83L50XFFQp

Join our research café discussing the opportunities and challenges which AI brings to the study of the past.
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Interested in presenting your work or poster to top industry leaders such as NVIDIA and @anthropic.com at #TheDigitalEnvironmentConference2026?

Email Jade at digitalfutures@manchester.ac.uk with your presentation and/ or poster title, and topic or area of research.

❗Deadline: Friday 27th February.
January 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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UoM receive £1.2 million grant from @nihr.bsky.social to build an automatic system measuring hip displacement in CP patients.

"We want to make sure that every child with cerebral palsy in the UK receives the same high level of care" - @drclindner.bsky.social

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...
January 12, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Dr Kelechi Anucha joins Dr Carl Death and Prof Jade Munslow Ong for African Climate Futures for an evening digging into how climate change is imagined and contested across the continent.
🗓️ 22 Jan 2026
📍 House of Books and Friends
🕕 17:00–19:00
🎟️ Tickets: tinyurl.com/etzcr4uy
#ClimateJustice
January 12, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Last chance to view in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: (In)Visibility: An exhibition of artwork and poetry on spatial justice by the Hulme community.

📅 Until 14 January 2026
📍Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building

Faculty of Humanities School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
January 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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The Office for Open Research is pleased to announce our third cohort of Open Research Fellows 2025/26. The Fellowship supports open, transparent and inclusive research, giving Fellows time to lead impactful projects and share best practice.
#OpenResearch #ResearchCulture #UoM #Innovation
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
TICKETS SELLING FAST!

Sign up now for the next in Digital Futures and @manchester.ac.uk Ecosystem series, Remote Patient Monitoring in the NHS: From Promise to Practice!

🗓️ 14 May 2026
🕐 12pm - 6pm
📍 Core Technology Facility, Manchester

Tickets:

🔗 bit.ly/remotepatientmonitoringevent
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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This week we kicked off the new year with a great talk about endosymbiosis evolution by Dan Malumphy 🔬

Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for supplying us with snacks! 🍪
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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IN TWO WEEKS: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI – Opportunities and Challenges

📅 20 Jan, 12.30–3.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free: ow.ly/U83L50XFFQp

Join our research café discussing the opportunities and challenges which AI brings to the study of the past.
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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EVENT: International Women's Day 2026:
Ripple Effect: Co-researching Work, Precarity + Contributions in Later Life

📆Date: Wednesday March 4 , 12pm - 2:30pm
📍 @thewhitworth.bsky.social
🎟️ https://ow.ly/kOOq50XToyp

Image Credit: Andrew Brooks
#IWD2026
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Calling all Research Staff: this year's Research Staff Conference 2026 has been announced! This year's conference will focus on Research Culture: Building Positive Research Communities.

📅 29 January 2026
📍 Booth Street East Building, University of Manchester
Register: https://ow.ly/3J8X50XStUA
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Proud that @manchester.ac.uk was awarded #1 in UK & Europe and #2 in the world for impact towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2025. From a solar farm powering campus to tens of thousands of student volunteering hours, the stories behind the stats are here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Bs...
Making a Difference: A year of social responsibility at The University of Manchester
YouTube video by Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester
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January 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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AI ‘could replace humans’ in some social science surveys.

Metascientist says AI responses are similar enough to humans and could offer productivity gains.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
January 5, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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🎆 2025 RECAP 🎆
We've done a lot in 2025 and we're already looking forward to all the exciting things we have planned for 2026! From the usual events to Ideas Catalysts and Innovation Labs, we've tried new things and continued growing our network. Thank you for your support!
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Discover the fast-changing and complex #AI landscape with @manchester.ac.uk Digital Futures' AI@Mancherster Linktree.

Featured pages include Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals, Centre for Robotics and AI, and more!

🔗 linktr.ee/AI_MANCHESTER
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Wishing you a wonderful holiday season & a fantastic New Year! ✨🎆 We're proud of our work in collaboration with our partners and supporters this past year & would like to say a huge 'Thank You' for all your incredible support 🎉 we’ve rounded up some of our favourite moments of 2025 to reminisce👇
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🎙 New Podcast Series: You Ought to Know
Episode 2 explores Black British Gospel Music with Karen Gabay and guests 📅 Premieres 21 January 2026 on Substack & School of Arts, Languages and Cultures YouTube.
🔗https://ow.ly/KPcI50XL1jK & https://ow.ly/2phX50XL1jJ
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Have you booked your free ticket for The Digital Environment Conference 2026, co‑hosted with NERC?

🗣️ Speakers include Niall Robinson (NVIDIA), Justin Taylor (@anthropic.com), Rashik Parmar MBE (IBM & @universityofleeds.bsky.social), and more!

🎟️ Free Tickets Available Now: lnkd.in/eWtP2QZy
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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💭 Just imagine if Greater Manchester had the best health in the world...

'Just Imagine If', in partnership with Manchester Museum and Healthier Futures, are inviting you join a conversation on Monday 9 February to discuss how to make this a reality.
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: (In)Visibility: An exhibition of artwork and poetry on spatial justice by the Hulme community.

📅 Running until 14 January 2026
📍Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building

Faculty of Humanities School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM