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A beginner’s guide to observing the heavens workshop

19:30 - 21:30 22 January 2014
The talk will show you how to find your way around the sky using smart phones, tablet computers and laptops along with planispheres, magazines and websites. You will be shown how…

Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

Explorer Tour: A peek behind the scenes!

14:30 - 15:30 22 January 2014
Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you!

Face Analysis in the Wild

13:00 22 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Healthcare Ethics and Law in the News - 2014 Annual Health Care Conference Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (Open to prospective students for Masters or PhD)

16:30 - 20:00 22 January 2014
Not a day passes but the news includes controversial questions about ethics and law in healthcare. The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester is a world…

Morbid Micellany

14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…

Polari Mission: Bona Eek

16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…

Research Centre for Radwaste & Decommissioning Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 22 January 2014
The following presentations (20 minutes) will be given: - Sam Shaw "Molecular scale studies of radionuclide incorporation into mineral phases" - Victoria Coker "Characterisation and…

Research Matters - Maximising the Impact of Our Research

12:00 - 13:30 22 January 2014
The aim of this first Research Matters session of 2014 is to consider the ways in which we can optimise the influence of MIE research on society, the economy, culture, public policy…

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

Tours of Manchester Museum

6 - 31 January 2014
Taster tours Every Wednesday & Thursday, 1pm Drop-in (no need to book), free, meet at the Information Desk (Floor G) Come and join one of our Visitor Services Assistants for a tour…

Hox genes and patterning brain development: A story in segments

14:00 - 15:00 23 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

Mechanistic models of T cell activation

12:00 23 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Session

14:00 - 15:00 23 January 2014
Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Collections Study Centre once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils. Drop-in, free, Collections Study Centre (Floor 3)

A tale of knights and love

14:00 - 15:00 25 January 2014
Discover the world of Orlando and his fellow knights. Take a look at beautiful pictures from selected editions of the Orlando furioso from the 1500s to 1700s, and explore a world of…

Big Saturday: Under the Sea

11:00 - 16:00 25 January 2014
A day bursting with hands-on craft and art activities for all the family, inspired by the Coral exhibition. Meet experts, come along and hear under the sea stories, find out more about…

Big Garden Birdwatch with RSPB

10:00 - 12:00 26 January 2014
Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers and the Macclesfield RSPB Local Group will be coming to Jodrell Bank for the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch. There will be advice on using…

Distributed decisions: new insights from radio-tagged ants

15:00 - 16:00 27 January 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

Policy@Manchester New Researchers Network Forum - Shale Gas: A golden age or a gilded cage?

16:00 - 17:00 27 January 2014
Following the previous NRN presentation on economic methods for accounting for time in health care policy, this forum will discuss what policy researchers can learn from the case of…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 27 January 2014
Henri Tomasi Evocations for solo oboe Helen Clinton oboe Jacob Ter Veldhuis May This Bliss Never End Jacob Ter Veldhuis The Garden of Love Gillian Blair…

Manchester Museum Book Club

17:30 - 18:30 28 January 2014
Buy a glass of wine or cup of coffee, meet people and discuss books inspired by the Museum’s new exhibition. This month's book is Rebecca Stott's The Coral Thief.

Structural biology of the laminin network

13:00 - 14:00 28 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 29 January 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 29 January 2014
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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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