Distinguished Africa Lecture
Our annual Distinguished Africa Lecture will once again be both in-person and available to view live on-line. Please
register to attend.
Date and time: Monday 3rd June 2024 at 4:15pm
Location: Oculus, 0.03 and online
Speaker: Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, United Nations University Rector and UN Under-Secretary General.
Title: Higher Education in Africa in the era of Artificial Intelligence
LMI for All Webinar Series: Predicting Future Skill Needs
Bookings are now open for the next webinar on Predicting Future Skill Needs. Tickets for the event on 7 May, 10-11.30 am are available via Eventbrite.
The webinar will commence with a presentation on quantitative skills forecasting from Ben KriechelLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window from the Economics & DataLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window. Ben is one of the leading skills forecasters in Europe. He will demonstrate the value of skills forecasting and how it can be used to deal with labour market uncertainties and disruptions.
This will be followed by a presentation from Effie AmanatidouLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School, who will draw on her extensive experience of conducting foresight studies to reveal how this type of approach can inform the identification of future skills demand and needs.
Each presentation will be around 20 minutes long with time for questions after each session and a Q&A session at the end. IER’s Terence Hogarth will introduce the participants to the topic and chair the webinar.
UKRI Funding Opportunity
Apply for funding for transdisciplinary research projects under the UKRI-Defra co-funded Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change programme to help improve the UK’s resilience to climate change impacts. You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation to apply.
This opportunity provides a flexible route to computational support for projects across the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit. This application process is purely for compute resource. No funding is available to applicants. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
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