Events
Find out more about our upcoming events, including our programme of seminars and workshops.
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SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar Series 2026
30 April - 26 November 2026
SALIENT Lunch and Learn Webinars are your chance to:? Discover the latest developments in the world of National security and resilience? Hear short TED-style talks by experts on related topics.? Get your questions answered with 10 mins of Q&A.? Join us on the last Thursday of the month at 12:00 pm (GMT) for a lightning 20-minute talk from an...
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Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics.
13:00 - 15:00 24 September 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar with Rebecca Friel MBA
12:00 - 12:30 24 September 2026
Join us for our next SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar on Thursday 24th September at 12pm Speaker: Rebecca Friel from OddArts Title Is theatre really a tool for social justice? In her talk Rebecca will cover how Theatre of the Oppressed goes on to inspire her work in communities and prisons today, and how Odd Arts uses theatre to influence systems,...
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Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026
12:00 - 17:00 01 October 2026
The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality in women’s health outcomes as one of the defining healthcare and social justice challenges of our time, and the role of digital technology in tackling it. The...
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Thomas Ashton Institute Lunch and Learn: Rethinking Safety Leadership: From “Safety First” to “Safe Performance"
12:30 - 13:00 07 October 2026
Today’s leaders operate in environments where safety must coexist with productivity, efficiency, speed and operational demands. So what does effective safety leadership actually look like when these priorities collide? This online Lunch and Learn session will explore what decades of research have taught us about safety leadership — what works,...
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Lane Lecture 2026: The Evolution of Evidence and the Changing Nature of Employment: What this means for the work of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In collaboration with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Thomas Ashton Institute is delighted to announce that registration for this years Annual Lane Lecture is open. The lecture will take place on Wednesday 21 October 2026, in the Kanaris Lecture Theatre, The Manchester Museum Programme: . Main Lecture & Q&A 4:30pm...
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Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manchester. Event...
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Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind
13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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TAI Lunch and Learn: Developing a web application for Process Safety Insights
12:30 - 13:00 09 December 2026
In this online lunch and learn session, Matt Clay from the Health & Safety Executive will describe a long running research and development project with the aim of producing an online software tool, accessible to industry. The tool extracts useful insights from underutilised freetext incident records and produces an analysis of these records for...
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The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem
13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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