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Alien Hunt!

24 April - 28 May 2021
Alien Hunt! Saturday 24th April – Friday 28th May Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the…

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

24 April - 30 October 2021
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Saturday 24th April – Sunday 30th October The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s hugely popular Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at…

Daily Telescope Talks

24 April - 28 May 2021
Daily Telescope Talks Saturday 24th April – Friday 28th May Join one of our expert Explainers for a short talk on the giant Lovell Telescope. You’ll learn all about its fascinating…

Enrich Your Teaching and Learning with Special Collections

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2021
The University of Manchester Library's Special Collections span five millennia, they form an astonishingly rich resource of rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, archives, oral…

GM Connected Health Ecosystem: COSMIC-19 and EMBRaCE Projects

10:30 - 12:00 18 May 2021
The second Connected Health Ecosystem of 2021 will be held virtually on Tuesday 18th May, 10.30-12.00. The meeting is centred on two new projects in connected health that are led…

INFRA+ Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities: Southeast Asia

14:30 18 May 2021
Speakers: Prof Amita Bhide, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Shubhagato Dasgupta, Centre for Policy Research Arif Hasan Dr Kavita Wankhade, Indian Institute for Human Settlements…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Tom Zielinski - University of Oxford

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2021
Speaker: Tom Zielinski - University of Oxford Title: Fusion products and perverse coherent sheaves Abstract: Cyclic modules over loop algebras possess an interesting monoidal structure…

Manchester Digital Collections: Getting to Know Gaskell

19:00 - 20:00 18 May 2021
Elizabeth Gaskell fanatic or new to her novels? Explore digitised documents in this online event with Curator Jessica Smith, resident researcher Zoe Miller, a specialist in gender and…

Natalie Diaz NEW COMMISSION Hosted by Mary Jean Chan

22 April - 21 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April 2021 and available to watch until 21 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Natalie Diaz is a poet who…

Online Discussion: Community Responses to COVID-19 in Greater Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 18 May 2021
Policy@Manchester and the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, present: Community Responses to COVID-19 in Greater Manchester How have communities across Greater Manchester responded…

Online workshop: Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

11:00 - 12:30 18 May 2021
Secondary analysis is a great way to get experience working with data without having to go into the field. This free workshop, organised by the UK Data Service, will take you through…

Restud Tour 2021

13:45 17 - 17:00 21 May 2021
The Review of Economic Studies May Meetings have been held annually in May since 1989. Every year, in line with the Review’s tradition of encouraging the work of young economists, some…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 4 May: In-group bias or out-group reluctance? The role of gender and religion in creating religious friendship segregation among Muslim youth

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – May Session In-group bias or out-group reluctance? The role of gender and religion in creating religious friendship segregation among Muslim youth…

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…

Webinar: What is Synthetic Data?

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2021
In this free webinar series, we cover the advantages and disadvantages of synthetic data. We explore the variety of methods available to generate synthetic data. Finally, we discuss…

Xiaodong Lin, Magdalena Wong & Derek Hird - Masculinities in China and Chinese Masculinities: Roundtable Discussion

12:30 - 13:30 18 May 2021
In this discussion-focused event, the MCI has invited speakers Dr Xiaodong Lin (University of York) and Dr Magdalena Wong (Independent scholar), as well as discussant Dr Derek Hird…

Privacy models for machine learning and statistics

14:00 - 15:00 19 May 2021
Please join us for the following talk in Computer Science (online) Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/91710725386 Abstract: Data privacy studies how to take advantage of data without…

SCI David Schlosberg Seminar Series

10:00 - 12:00 19 May 2021
This talk explores the idea of – and demand for – Political Participation that is just, pre figurative, sustainable, and based in material actions. What kind of politics is guerrilla…

Jhumpa Lahiri & Kamila Shamsie in Conversation

20 - 27 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 May 2021 and available to watch for 7 days. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘I’m both ablaze with energy and…

HCRI MSc Global Health webinar

13:00 24 May 2021
Our unique, online and part-time Global Health course, which has been developed in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross, is one of our most popular courses…

Pedagogy Journal Club

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2021
A monthly session to meet and discuss a journal article or paper. The choice of article will be based on current issues as well as the Faculty’s teaching strategy. To book a place,…

Agrifood@Manchester Networking Event

16:00 - 17:00 25 May 2021
Working remotely has made it harder to get to know and connect with colleagues from different parts of the university who are working on similar issues. We hope to have a session where…

Introduction to Access Manchester

16:45 - 17:15 25 May 2021
Join our introductory Access Manchester webinar to find out more about the access schemes we offer at The University of Manchester, plus ask us any questions you may have about our…

Webinar: Synthetic Data - Masking and Redaction

13:00 - 14:00 25 May 2021
In this free webinar series, we cover the advantages and disadvantages of synthetic data. We explore the variety of methods available to generate synthetic data. Finally, we discuss…

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