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Lancashire UCAS Higher Education Convention

7 - 8 March 2012
The University of Manchester will be attending the Lancashire UCAS Higher Education Convention on 7th and 8th March 2012. The University of Manchester receives applications from talented…

Living Worlds

14 April 2011 - 14 April 2012
Now open (permanent gallery) If you think nature is something far away, think again - we are nature. Living Worlds explores the connections between all living things, including us,…

National Science & Engineering Week 2012

8 March 2012
National Science and Engineering Week is a 10 day programme of around 3,500 events running throughout the whole of the UK with the aim of celebrating science, engineering and technology…

Quatour Danel Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’

14:30 8 March 2012
Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’ - The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students FREE

Social Capital and Determinants of Personal Consumption

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2012
Speaker: Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Further details: Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professorial Research Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and world-leading economist, will…

Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

30 September 2011 - 6 September 2012
30 Sep 2011-6 Sep 2012. Calling all budding Egyptologists and archaeologists. We need your help! Our Egyptologist Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:00 8 March 2012
Programme to include: Richard Whalley Interlocking Melodies Philip Grange New Work (world première) Camden Reeves Dactylozooid Complex As part of the North-West Composers’…

Opera Scenes

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2012
In the second of our free Lunchtime Concert series, Opera Scenes returns as famous scenes and arias are performed by talented students.

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 9 March 2012
Mendelssohn Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Philip Grange New Work César Franck Quartet in D The last of Mendelssohn’s six quartets is his most dramatic and Beethovenian.…

Big Saturday: Jurassic climate change

11:00 - 16:00 10 March 2012
11am-4pm. Come and see Percy the Plesiosaur at The Manchester Museum. Join us for a day of events celebrating Percy’s redisplay and exploring the Jurassic Climate Change. Make your…

University of Manchester String and Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 10 March 2012
Josef Suk Meditation On An Old Czech Hymn – St Wenceslas Zden?k Fibich Poème Kevin Malone Angels & Fireflies – World Première Leoš Janá?ek Suite for Strings Josef Haydn Symphony…

The Tech Factor Challenge and Bug Hunt

12:00 11 March 2012
12-3pm. To complete the Tech Factor Challenge, follow QR code clues to search for examples of technology amongst the Museum’s displays. At each clue in the treasure hunt you will find…

Colm Tóibín in Conversation with Roy Foster

18:30 - 20:30 12 March 2012
Colm Tóibín will be in conversation with acclaimed historian and Yeats biographer Roy Foster. They will talk about the politicisation of history and the importance of revisionism in…

National Science & Engineering Week 2012

10:00 - 15:00 12 March 2012
National Science and Engineering Week is a 10 day programme of around 3,500 events running throughout the whole of the UK with the aim of celebrating science, engineering and technology…

A Unique Agreement: The Creation and Breakdown of the “Gentleman’s Agreement” for Flood Insurance in the UK

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2012
Speaker: Alexander Hall, University of Manchester

Happiness, Develpment and ICTs

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2012
Speaker: Prof. Richard Heeks, IDPM Further details: Growth of interest in well-being and positive psychology has increasingly pushed happiness onto individual, organisational and…

Trainees' Prize Evening

18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2012
Coffee & Registration from 6.00 pm Further details: For further details please email admin@mms.org.uk, telephone 0161 273 6048 or visit www.mms.org.uk. There is a £10 registration…

Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 14 March 2012
A chance to take a walking tour of our largest accommodation campus in Fallowfield, with the opportunity to see inside at least one student bedroom.

Employment in social care at a time of austerity: needs, opportunities, fairness and risks

12:00 14 March 2012
Speaker: Dr Shereen Hussein (King's College London) This is an EWERC seminar. Please contact Charlotte McClelland (charlotte.mcclelland@mbs.ac.uk) if you need any further information.

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 14 March 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester by a member of the Undergraduate Recruitment and Widening Participation Team, followed by a question and answer session and a tour of the campus with a current student

Imaging Language

13:30 - 17:00 14 March 2012
Biomedical Imaging Institute, FMHS Speaker: Anna Woollams, Paul Hoffman, Patti Adank, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer Further details: Background: The advent of different forms of…

National Science & Engineering Week 2012

10:00 - 15:00 14 March 2012
National Science and Engineering Week is a 10 day programme of around 3,500 events running throughout the whole of the UK with the aim of celebrating science, engineering and technology…

Northern Ireland UCAS Higher Education Convention

14 - 15 March 2012
The University of Manchester will be attending the Northern Ireland UCAS Higher Education Convention on 14th and 15th March 2012. The University of Manchester receives applications…

Shaping and selling policy: studying networks and influence in primary school literacy

12:30 - 14:00 14 March 2012
Humanities & Education present: Shaping and selling policy: studying networks and influence in primary school literacy Speaker: Colin Mills For further details: Diane Brooks: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk

Tour of the Botany stores

13:30 14 March 2012
Every Wednesday, 1.30-2.15pm & 2.15-3pm: Tours of the stores. Go behind the scenes and explore our Palaeontology and Botany stores (one store per week).

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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