Catalyst for Progress: Connect and Shape Your Future
Join us for a lively set of talks, panels, speed networking and employer meet‑ups designed to help you explore future pathways, build social capital.
28 events found.
Events for 2nd July 2026
Postgraduate Research Exhibition
The postgraduate research exhibition will feature current research being conducted at the University of Chester across a variety of disciplines. The research will be presented via posters, detailing what the researcher is doing, how they are doing it, and what impact this could have.
University of Chester Glenesk BioBlitz Event
Discover the Hidden Wildlife of Chester's Glenesk and Help Shape the Future of Urban Nature.
Nourish to Flourish (Photo Exhibition)
Nourish to Flourish is a school-based project led by Kate and Ellie, helping children feel confident about healthy eating through creativity. Supported by the Bluecoat Charity, the Westminster Foundation and Crossing Borders, with evaluation support from RECAP (University of Chester). This year children explored artists from around the world and created artwork using food as material. The event includes a photo exhibition.
Retracing Footsteps: The Past, Present and Future of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon
Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is Wales's most iconic mountain, attracting over 650,000 visitors each year. This exhibition takes us on a journey that considers the past, present, and sustainable future of the mountain.
Team Falcons Powerful Learning Project: Enough for Everyone
The TEAM Falcons Powerful Learning Project, Enough for Everyone, focuses on sustainability and the urgent issue of climate change. Through this project, pupils will present persuasive arguments to inspire others to take action and make positive changes in their daily lives.
Free
Cheshire as a Palatinate
As Cheshire proceeds with plans for devolution as part of a Mayoral Combined Authority, this talk examines the county’s history of semi-independence from central government.
Free
Sustainability Walk – Economy
This led walk, which is also "wheels accessible", is one of four themed routes staged as part of the 2026 "Festival of ideas" that uses examples from the existing cityscape to demonstrate various aspects of the overall theme of Sustainability.
Free
University of Chester Riverside Museum object handling
See objects from the Riverside Museum and meet its knowledgeable volunteers to find about more about this collection of curiosities from the worlds of medicine, nursing, midwifery and social work.
Let’s Talk History
Lace up your plimsoles and sprint through the last century of Cheshire’s sporting past with Let’s Talk, History. Using historic sound recordings from Cheshire Archives’ collections, this free audio trail tells 100 years of stories about the county’s competitive, recreational and, at times, amusing sports.
Voices, Evidence and Change: A Conversation about Rough Sleeping
Rough sleeping remains one of the most urgent and visible social challenges facing our communities today. Voices, Evidence and Change brings together academics, community partners, practitioners and people with lived experience, to explore how research and collaboration can contribute to meaningful responses to rough sleeping.
Free
Finding the Battle of Brunanburh: Was This Definitive Battle of 937 Located at Bromborough in the Wirral?
This illustrated talk by the authors of a new book will outline the case for Bromborough as the location of the ‘great war’, as it was known, of 937.
Free
The Micro World and the Wood Wide Web
When thinking of the natural world, everyone pictures badgers, foxes, wildflowers or maybe tall trees in a green woodland. However, none of this world would exist without the invisible micro world that ties the environment together. Dive into this world and learn how truly connected our precious biosphere truly is.
Free
Sustainable (workplace) flexibility and how to achieve it
This interactive session explores what sustainable workplace flexibility looks like and how it can be achieved in practice.
Free
A Practitioner Panel on Trauma Informed Approaches to Support Expectant Families
Led by practitioners from Warrington Borough Council, this event convenes a panel of practitioners from Tameside Council and CWaC to discuss trauma-informed and relationship-based practice through the RESTORE programme.
Free
Lasting Powers of Attorney: what are they, and how can our students help you complete them?
Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) are hugely important documents that enable you to nominate trusted people to make decisions about your health, welfare, property and finances in the event you lose mental capacity. Join this event to hear about how LPAs work, the risks of not having one, and how our students at the University of Chester Law School can help you complete your LPAs free of charge.
Free
How old am I? Trying to date buildings in our rural and urban landscapes
Our villages, towns and cities are full of buildings which date from many different periods. Many have a story to tell. This introductory talk will look at the buildings around us (both rural and urban) and offer some hints and pointers to dating houses, churches and civic buildings.
Free
The Early Neston Collieries: Seven Reasons Why They Were Remarkable
The collieries at Neston on the Wirral were worked for hundreds of years but few people know much about them. The early mines were, however, remarkable for their industrial, social and commercial innovation.
Free
Scriveners, Priests, Feasts…and Huge Quantities of Objects – Medieval and Later Finds from Chester Amphitheatre
Linked to the Grosvenor Museum's exhibition 'Chester Amphitheatre - an 8000 year story', join the museum's Archaeological Officer for a talk on medieval and later finds from the 2004-6 excavations at the Amphitheatre.
Free
Why write a biography of Alfred Mond? The Many Lives of Chester’s Forgotten MP
Who today knows of Alfred Mond? Once one of the world's greatest tycoons, Mond has largely vanished from British public memory. Yet, elsewhere in the world the picture is very different.
Free
On Holy Ground: Experiencing Life in Relationships
This lecture explores the idea that life is all about relationships, and that the experiences that we have with ‘others’ are holy ground where we can develop in dialogue with those we are in relationship.
Free
Walking and Cycling to a Better Future?
Cycling is well known as an essential part of sustainable transport planning. This public lecture from Peter Cox, Emeritus Professor at the University of Chester and internationally acclaimed writer on cycling and sustainable travel, will explore the implications of taking walking and cycling as the starting point of thinking about movement; not just including them in travel plans.
Free
What Am I Looking At? Following Chester’s Buildings Through Time
Chester is filled with beautiful and distinctive buildings, but in a place where people have lived for more than two thousand years, things are rarely as they seem.
Free
Hidden Histories Beneath Our Feet: How Digital Tools Reveal Local Stories
Through visual examples from local heritage sites, including castles and community spaces, this session explores how technology can reconnect people with the stories beneath their feet, and inspire new ways of seeing familiar places.
Free
Monika Haeger – Inside Stasi: The Art of Translation and Adaptation for the Stage
This event will be led by Dr Stef Kerrigan and Dr Richard Millington and will include an audience Q&A. This presentation is the first public sharing of an ongoing collaborative project between staff
Free
Can You Spot the Traitor? The Psychology Behind The Traitors
Missing The Traitors now the series has finished? Join this interactive session exploring the psychology behind the show.
Free
Cheshire Prize for Literature Awards Evening
The Cheshire Prize for Literature showcases the literary talents of writers with a connection to the Cheshire area. Now in its 22nd year, the awards evening will announce the winners in the primary, secondary and adult categories for poetry, short stories, children’s literature and scriptwriting.
Research is a Laugh – Stand-Up Comedy Night!
Think academic research isn’t your thing? Think again! Join us for an evening stand-up comedy, a new event for 2026!
Free