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A Life in Science

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 2015
Talk from the President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, followed by a Q&A session.

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Jon Williamson - The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims

16:00 - 17:15 3 March 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Jon Williamson from the University of Kent will deliver a talk entitled 'The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims'. Abstract:…

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 3 March 2015
Tues 3 Mar. 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm: Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Tues 3 Mar, 1-2.30pm. Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 3 March 2015
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis

12:30 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Catrin Tudur-Smith, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool will be talking about why you would want to consider IPD, what are the…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Loving Illumination - Paintings of Light

4 December 2014 - 29 March 2015
In this exhibition artist Judith Hurst explores the interconnectivity of science, maths, religion and art. Working on vellum, and using inlays of exotic wood and precious metals, Judith…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Modelling ordered categories

13:00 - 15:00 3 March 2015
Booking will open at 9am on 19 February This session introduces the use of Proportional-odds regression (a GLM with a logit link) to model ordered categorical data. Simple and complex…

Performing Proficiency: Psychological Experiments on Man-Machine Systems in the United States, 1950-1965

16:00 - 17:00 3 March 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. …

Public Opinion and the 2015 Election

17:40 - 19:00 3 March 2015
As part of a series of events to coincide with the 2015 General Election, the People’s History Museum brings together leading pollsters and academics to discuss current thinking on…

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 31 December 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

Tuesday Talks – at the Whitworth – Lynda Morris: Drinking with Gilbert & George 1972-76

11:00 - 12:30 3 March 2015
Tuesday Talks return to the Whitworth Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary…

“Sex education is always trouble” The representation of sex education and HIV-positivity on the BBC’s Grange Hill

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 2015
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 4 March 2015
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between October and March. Please arrive at the…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 4 March 2015
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

Hebrew Collections

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
This monthly series of lunchtime talks introduces the new John Rylands Research Institute and its vibrant research portfolio. Each informal, accessible seminar showcases cutting-edge…

Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the information literacy movement

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Research Matters series of lectures Speaker Drew Whitworth

Risk preferences and subjective beliefs: implications for crop insurance subsidies

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2015
Speaker: Carlo Fezzi (University of East Anglia) Abstract: This paper proposes a novel methodology to estimate risk preferences using market insurance data and incorporating individuals'…

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Transforming Manchester - a cities@manchester workshop

09:30 - 16:30 4 March 2015
Contemporary Manchester continues to exhibit a perplexing mix of on-going decline and dynamic transformation. While the narrative of success tends to dominate urban discussions, only…

What is..? textual analysis

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2015
All welcome. No Booking required. Presented by Imelda McDermott and Jonathan Hammond. Although discourse analysis has gained popularity in social research, there has been less attention…

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