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Daily notices for Friday, 3rd February 2012

  • Environmental Sciences Seminar – Tuesday 7th February

    Tuesday 7th February, E34, John Dalton East Building, from 1.00-2.00 pm.

    Working Infrastructure: Making Urban Collectives

    Dr Colin McFarlane, University of Durham

    How might we understand the relationship between infrastructure and collective urban life? And how might we do so give the legacies of thought on the ‘crumbling’ and ‘overwhelmed’ infrastructures of the ‘megacity’? The place of infrastructure in urban theory has radically changed. No longer just backdrops for urban life or pre-political sites for capital investment, infrastructures are now understood to enable, prescribe, enhance, bypass, and attack cities. But if infrastructures are understood as variously political and politicised, the relations between infrastructure and the ‘megacity’ remain stubbornly linked to imaginaries of overwhelming collapse. In this presentation, I examine the relations between infrastructure and the megacity by focussing on the making of urban collectives. In particular, I consider how the urban fabric within informal settlements is produced and maintained through a series of routines, disruptions, improvisations, and forms of governing. Infrastructure emerges as a series of variously predictable collective urban rhythms that are made and disrupted in different ways, including through changing political, economic, and social conditions that shape the different openings and closures that particular groups of people inhabit, struggle with, and contest.
    While imaginaries of megacity infrastructure as crumbling and overwhelmed networks are often naturalised in the lexicon of different urban constituencies, they negate the ways in which infrastructure is put to work interactively by urban inhabitants. Drawing in particular on the case of Mumbai, I consider the work of infrastructure as a process linked in different ways to the making, prescribing and fragmenting of urban collective life. Through the case of sanitation infrastructures in informal settlements in Mumbai, I highlight two key dimensions to everyday infrastructure: a variegated politics of sanitation, and the ongoing improvisation of sanitation systems. These two different domains are key constituent parts in the making of everyday urban life, and illustrate the precarious, contingent, uncertain, predatory, and collectivised nature of informal urban environments. They are also central reference points for a more inclusive metabolic urban commons.

  • Careers & Employability – what’s on next week?

    The Careers & Employability Service offers a fantastic programme of career development workshops and employer presentations to help our students maximise their chances of career success. The workshop sessions are crammed with information and practical tips, whilst our employer presentations offer students the chance to network, find out about opportunities and what organisations look for in potential candidates.

    Encourage your students to take part in the range of career development workshops and employer presentations taking place on campus next week:

    Successful interviews: get that job!

    *12:00, Monday 6th February 2012, Crewe, Frances Wood FW-0-33

    Find that job!

    *13:00, Monday 6th February 2012, Room 332, Geoffrey Manton Building

    Employer Presentation: Summer work in the USA

    *13:00, Tuesday 7th February 2012, Room 302, Geoffrey Manton Building

    How to present like a professional

    *13:00, Tuesday 7th February 2012, Room 337, Geoffrey Manton Building

    How to write great CVs

    *15:00, Tuesday 7th February 2012, Room 508, Hollings

    Employer Presentation: Spend your summer in the USA - CCUSA Presentation

    *17.15, Tuesday 7th February 2012, Lecture Theatre 6,Geoffrey Manton Building

    Considering teaching?

    * 13:00, Wednesday 8th February 2012, Room 0.1, Birley Building, Didsbury

    Employer Presentation: Work in New York - Mountbatten Internship Programme

    * 13:00, Wednesday 8th February 2012, Lecture Theatre 2, Business School, Aytoun Campus

    Successful interviews: get that job!

    * 14:00, Wednesday 8th February 2012, Room 301, Aytoun

    How to present like a professional

    * 12:30, Thursday,9th February 2012, Crewe, Frances Wood FW-0-02

    Full details can be found at http://www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/events

    Please encourage your students to attend.

    MMU Careers & Employability Service

    * Event subject to change. Please check www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/events for the latest information.

  • Time Management course 8th March

    We have places on a Time Management Course running all day on Thursday 8th March at All Saints.

    Open to ANY staff who wish to gain an awareness of time management issues and/or build on their existing skills and practices.

    Course Content

    • examine personal barriers to time management
    • circle of concern and influence
    • personality styles and how these can affect how time is managed
    • prioritisation
    • time management tools
    • structured group work around common time management issues
    • personal action planning

    Objectives

    By the end of the event the participants will be able to:

    • state your current approach & problems in organising your workload
    • demonstrate effective use of prioritisation skills
    • select suitable tools & techniques to improve self organisation
    • prepare a personal action plan to implement and review time management practices

    Course Booking Forms are obligatory, and can be found at

    www.mmu.ac.uk/humanresources/devandtrain/ and should be forwarded to OD & T, 6th Floor, All Saints or via your line manager's email to dandtcoursebookings@mmu.ac.uk

  • Women’s 5-a-side Football

    Starts on leap day: Wednesday 29th Feb 2012

    Match Day: Wednesday nights

    Where: Tennis Centre, SportCity (outdoors)

    Format: 5 aside

    Cost: £15 per team per week

    Duration: 1hr a week for 7 weeks

    KO Times: 7pm and 8pm

    EXTRAS: register as a team or an individual / unlimited squad size / no football kit required – bibs supplied / non team players a priority so as to emphasise fun and fitness!

    Note the deadline is Friday 24th Feb – please circulate to friends, relations, neighbours and colleagues.

    For further details contact:

    Fiona Callaghan

    fiona.callaghan@manchesterfa.com

    0161 203 2990 Option 2

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