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Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge - Lessons

13:30 8 February - 14:00 8 March 2021
In response to lockdown 3, we’re proud to present a brand new series of lessons designed by the GMEC team to support you to deliver engineering learning to your pupils. These hands-on,…

Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 9 March: The Rise of the Nones and Religious Polarization across the US 1973-2018

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – March Session The Rise of the Nones and Religious Polarization across the US 1973-2018: State-level Trends Based on Multilevel Regression and Poststratification…

Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
The Department of Social Statistics is pleased to invite everyone interested in quantitative social research to a series of online seminars. The events will be held once a month throughout…

Gender and Covid-19: Workers in global value chains

12:00 - 13:30 8 March 2021
This paper presents a framework to analyse the gendered impact of Covid-19 on workers in global value chains, illustrating the channels of transmission using the business process outsourcing,…

International Women's Day: Choose to Challenge

12:30 - 13:30 8 March 2021
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) is delighted to host an event to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 on Monday 8 March. We will be joined by guest speaker Dr…

International Women's Day: School of Health Sciences event

16:00 - 18:00 8 March 2021
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health's School of Health Sciences (SHS), is delighted to host an event to mark International Women's Day (IWD). The event features four fantastic…

International Women’s Day: Inspirational Women Graduates Event

12:00 - 13:00 8 March 2021
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is delighted to welcome back four inspirational women graduates to discuss their careers and how they…

Maxine Peake in Conversation

19:00 - 20:00 8 March 2021
Join Creative Manchester for an in conversation event with Maxine Peake, who has been appointed as Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance at The University of Manchester.…

Rebecca Shipley -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Rebecca Shipley (UCL) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 8 March 2021
An informal and supportive session to provide an opportunity to discuss scholarship ideas, protocols, activities, results, presentations and publications. To book a place, please go…

Antibiotic Resistance Live Webinar

18:30 - 19:30 9 March 2021
Bacterial antibiotic resistance is on the rise globally, threatening modern medicine as we know it. Nearly every medical procedure, from cancer treatment and organ transplantation to…

Diamonds illuminate the nature of Earth’s deep and dynamic carbon cycle

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2021
Dr Sami Mikhail, Min Soc Distinguished Lecturer, University of St Andrews, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Carbon is omnipresent…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Robert Muth

16:00 - 17:00 9 March 2021
Speaker: Robert Muth - Washington and Jefferton College Title: Specht modules and cuspidal ribbon tableaux Representation theory of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier (KLR) algebras in affine…

Rape: Why Still Misunderstood?

15:00 - 16:30 9 March 2021
The challenges of prosecuting rape from the perspective of a former prosecutor and senior policy advisor About this Event Charlotte Triggs OBE has over 30 years experience in criminal…

China and the World after Covid-19: A Conversation & Book Launch with Orville Schell

17:00 - 18:30 10 March 2021
This webinar will commence with a discussion of the legacies of China’s Cold War past in Chinese domestic and foreign policies today, before exploring the prospects for China’s relations…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘Afrofuturism’

14:00 - 16:00 10 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Natalie Zacek, ‘Afrofuturism’ ZOOM link - click on joining links Passcode: 888153

Cultural Rejuvenation, Reciprocal Engagement & Unconditional Repatriation

17:15 - 18:15 10 March 2021
Stephen Welsh (Independent Curator & Consultant) - Cultural Rejuvenation, Reciprocal Engagement & Unconditional Repatriation Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research…

Halim Kusumaatmaja - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 10 March 2021
Halim Kusumaatmaja (Durham) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk…

Manchester American Studies Seminar: James West: “Getting on the Negro History Bandwagon: Selling Black History in Modern America”

17:00 - 18:30 10 March 2021
Part of the Manchester American Studies Seminar Series, discussing paper by James West of Northumbria University, "Getting on the Negro History Bandwagon: Selling Black History in Modern…

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