Sustainable Futures: upcoming July events

06 Jul 2023

Book your place on the latest in the seminar series

11 July – Degrowth and Technology in Fashion Debate and Afternoon Tea (Resourceful Futures)

Date and time: Tuesday, 11 July | 13:45 - 17:00

Location: 3A.016, Engineering Building A

From the Resourceful Futures Challenge Area, this event will be a debate-style session with networking and an afternoon tea.

Sustainability is a key issue within the fashion industry, if you are wondering how degrowth and technology may enable a more sustainable approach, this event is for you.

Hear about recent research led by Dr Katia Dayan Vladimirova, Lecturer at The University of Geneva and founder of the Sustainable Fashion Consumption Network, which has over 200 members globally. Her research interest is linked to sustainable fashion consumption, with a specific focus on de-growth and sufficiency. Katia will provide key insights into her research and also how she is actively shaping policy by posing challenging questions.

Dr Katia Dayan Vladimirova will be in conversation with Dr Courtney Chrimes, who is a Lecturer in Digital Fashion Marketing at The University of Manchester. She conducts research on the intersection of fashion and digital technology. Courtney is interested in the application of blockchain technology within the fashion industry and more specifically, how this technology can be used to help facilitate the transition to a circular economy. By delving into this topic, she aims to unravel the various ways blockchain can be harnessed to foster sustainable practices and drive positive change within the industry.

25 July – Prestigious Lecture and Panel event with Chris Stark (CEO of Climate Change Committee)

Date and time: Tuesday, 25 July 2023 | 11:00 - 14:00

Location: CityLabs 1.0, Nelson St, Manchester, M13 9NQ

Sustainable Futures is delighted to announce this Prestigious Lecture and Panel event with Keynote Speaker Chris Stark, CEO of the Climate Change Committee followed by an engaging panel discussion with a range of experts. The talk description and panel members will be announced very soon...

Refreshments will be provided and there will be lots of networking opportunities to connect with colleagues also working in sustainability but in areas or sectors that you may not otherwise have opportunity to meet during your everyday role.

Who can attend?

This event is open to academics (including PhD and ECRs) and professionals working in the area of sustainability or those looking to engage more with sustainability in their role/area, whether internal or external to our University.

27 July – Sustainable Futures July Seminar Series

Our July edition of the monthly Sustainable Futures Seminar Series will be held on Thursday, 27 July 2-3pm (online).

This event will host the following presentations...

Prof. Adrian Bull MBE, BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy and Society and Member of the Dalton Institute at The University of Manchester | 'How Nuclear Energy can Rebuild it's Relationship with Society'.
Dr Thomas Franklin, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Sustainable Materials Hub in the Henry Royce Institute at The University of Manchester | 'Post-Consumer Resin and the Circular Economy: Understanding the quality-performance linkage for packaging'.

Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the researcher.