Recovery, Renewal, Resilience: The Manchester Webinar Series

What to expect from our events

Over the coming months, our team, in collaboration with partners will be running a series of webinars that will explore recovery and renewal from COVID-19.

The webinars will mark key dates, discuss the themes emerging and developing through our project and report on key findings, good practice and global learning.

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Continuity & Resilience Series: Building the resilience of essential services post-Covid

7th July 2021

In the second in the Continuity & Resilience Series our panel will examine the contribution of standards to resilience planning, business continuity, and city resilience for recovering from Covid-19

A Collective Memory: A webinar examining post pandemic commemoration

25th June 2021

In this webinar we will consider how we will collectively remember the Covid-19 pandemic, reviewing lessons from history about building resilience through coproduced commemoration.

Continuity & Resilience Series: Looking beyond Covid-19

7th June 2021

In this, the first in a three-part series of webinars co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), we examine the inter-dependencies between business continuity and resilience planning, and look at how we will move beyond the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19: Resilience Planning & Emergency Management

7th May 2021

In the latest of our series of webinars our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going forward.

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Recovering from COVID-19

29th April 2021

This event is aimed at students and others who are interested in hearing how academic research can have a real world impact through the application of tools, theories and social science.

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Communities - the new local resilience capability

7th April 2021

This webinar asks whether community resilience can be a local and national resilience capability, and explores different models of community action from the US, Chile and the UK to illustrate how this might be achieved.

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Recovery and renewal from COVID-19: A year of The Manchester Briefing

26th March 2021

One year since the launch of The Manchester Briefing, this event explores and collates the key lessons and themes that have emerged from around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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One year of COVID-19: Delivering a Green and Just Recovery

25th March 2021

This webinar reflects on the lessons learned since the pandemic struck, jointly organised by Resilience Cities Network, the World Bank, and The University of Manchester.

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