Tim Minshall | Your Life is Manufactured
Sat 25 Apr 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
Unless you are floating naked through space, you are currently in direct contact with multiple manufactured products – furniture, technology, clothing, or even food. Revelatory and fascinating, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the profound impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world. Join Tim Minshall (the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge) as he explores better choices for ourselves, our communities, and the planet.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Tim Minshall is the inaugural Dr John C. Taylor Professor of
Innovation at the University of Cambridge, the head of the
Engineering Department’s Institute for Manufacturing and a fellow of
Churchill College. His research, teaching and outreach are focused
on the links between manufacturing and innovation. Your Life is
Manufactured was shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Science
Book Prize and longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroder
Business Book of the Year.
