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.
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.
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.
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.
This interactive session explores what sustainable workplace flexibility looks like and how it can be achieved in practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Missing The Traitors now the series has finished? Join this interactive session exploring the psychology behind the show.