Talk 200

This event was recorded on Tuesday, 19 November 2024 at the University’s Whitworth Hall and is the fourth and final live instalment of the Talk 200 lecture and podcast series. In contrast to the preceding three Talk 200 live events, this was a live podcast episode, centred around a panel discussion rather than a lecture from an individual speaker.    Professor April McMahon, Vice-President for Tea...

Host Andy Spinoza invites Professor John McAuliffe , Director of Creative Manchester, Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing, and Professor of Poetry at The University of Manchester; Professor Caroline Bithell , Professor of Ethnomusicology at Manchester; and Keisha Thompson FRSA , Innovation Fellow with Creative Manchester; to explore Manchester’s rich creative and cultural environment – and t...

In this bonus content to accompany Professor Mike Shaver’s live lecture: ‘The unmaking of everything ’, you’ll hear the full panel discussion with him that followed Mike’s talk.  If you haven’t seen the lecture yet, head to manchester.ac.uk/talk200 to hear from the Director of Sustainable Futures at The University of Manchester as he discusses sustainability challenges and the complex nature of ou...

This lecture was recorded on Tuesday, 17 September 2024 at the Jarvis Hall in London and is the third live instalment of the Talk 200 lecture and podcast series. Professor Mike Shaver , Professor of Polymer Science and Director of Sustainable Futures at The University of Manchester, discusses the complex nature of our material world, with a particular focus on plastics. He examines our presumption...

Sitting down with host Andy Spinoza to talk all things digital and AI are Dr Riza Batista-Navarro , Senior Lecturer in Text Mining at the University; Dr Mauricio Álvarez , Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning; and Dr Filip Bialy , Research Associate here at Manchester, Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and Lecturer at the European New School of Digital Studies.  O...

Host Andy Spinoza is joined by Professor Alejandro Frangi , Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute and the Bicentennial Turing Chair in Computational Medicine at The University of Manchester; Dr Louise Hunter , a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology Gastroenterology; and Raluca-Elena Valcescu , Executive Officer for the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health...

Joining host Andy Spinoza are Professor Colette Fagan , the University’s Vice-President for Research and responsible for leading our research and doctoral training strategy; Aisha Akram , University of Manchester Students’ Union Wellbeing and Liberation Officer; and George Obolo , a final year MBChB Medicine student at Manchester and award-winning social entrepreneur, leader, builder and public sp...

In this panel discussion to accompany the second lecture of our Talk 200 series, Nazir Afzal is joined by Tom Hedges, sub-postmaster at Hogsthorpe Post Office near Skegness from 1994 until he was unjustly sacked in 2010, aged 57, after being wrongfully accused of false accounting; barrister and advocate Thalia Maragh; and Suzanne Gower, PhD researcher, lecturer in Law and former Managing Director...

This lecture was recorded on Friday, 7 June 2024 at the Martin Harris Centre as part of Universally Manchester Festival. It is the second live instalment of the Talk 200 lecture and podcast series.  Nazir Afzal , Chancellor of the University and former Chief Crown Prosecutor for north-west England, discusses inequalities in access to justice and a vision for fairer treatment across the legal servi...

Professor Richard Jones , Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy and Vice-President for Regional Innovation and Civic Engagement, and Professor Aline Miller , Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Dean for Business Engagement and Innovation in the Faculty of Science and Engineering , join host Andy Spinoza to talk innovation, economy and commercialisation at the Univers...

Host Andy Spinoza is joined by Professor Alice Larkin , Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in The University of Manchester’s School of Engineering ; Dr Aneeqa Khan of the University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute , and Research Fellow in Nuclear Fusion in the School of Engineering; and Aidan Rhode, a Manchester third-year BSc Geography wi...

Find out what to expect from the Talk 200 podcast from series host Andy Spinoza. If you wish to access the transcript for this episode, you may do so by clicking here .

In this panel discussion to accompany the first lecture of our Talk 200 series, Professor Sir Chris Whitty is joined by Professor of Nursing Dame Nicky Cullum, Jade Pilkington, Director of Population Health at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership, and Chair Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, our President and Vice-Chancellor.  If you haven’t seen Professor Whitty’s lecture yet, head to m...

Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser, and head of the public health profession, discusses how as a society we face the hard truth that the more socio-economically disadvantaged someone is, the higher their risk of poor health. The world’s greatest killer is not any one individual disease, but the unequal way in which people are bo...