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Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 19 February 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…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 19 February 2014
Adult learners considering returning to education to pursue a degree, or who have already applied to the University, can sign up for an 'Adults Returning to Education Session'. This…

Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

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.…

DEV@Man Food sovereignty, the peasant way, and all that: a sceptical view

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2014
development@manchester is the flagship seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It is organised by the Institute for…

Eating the flesh with its life? Jehovah's Witnessed and the legal and ethical implications of bloodless transplants.

14:00 19 February 2014
Seminar from visiting academic of interest to students in the area of Healthcare Ethics and Law.

February Half Term

11:00 17 - 16:00 21 February 2014
Create under the sea creatures and mythical monsters inspired by the Coral exhibition. Mon 17 Feb – Fri 21 Feb 2014, 11am–4pm

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.…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 19 February 2014
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…

Homicide Law Reform and the “Implementation Effect”: Examining the unintended consequences of reforming the law of provocation in Australia and the UK

16:00 - 17:00 19 February 2014
This seminar will examine what has been termed, by Rosemary Hunter, the “implementation effect”. This is the notion that once implemented law reform can have a range of intended and…

Kids vs Grown-ups – Science Quiz Show 17-21 feb

10:00 17 - 17:00 21 February 2014
Our family show will take on an interesting twist this half term! How well do you know your planets from your comets? Kids will battle it out against the grown-ups to become the winners…

Language Testing of Asylum Seekers

18:00 - 20:00 19 February 2014
Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (LADO) is a new branch of applied linguistics, used by governments in processing asylum seekers who are applying for refugee status. As…

MAP Selection and Introduction Day

19 February 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

MARC Talks - Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within

12:30 - 14:00 19 February 2014
Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within This presentation represents a synopsis of the key arguments made in my forthcoming monograph with the same title (IB Tauris,…

Modelling beta band oscillations in the Subthalamic Nucleus - Globus Pallidus network

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Neurophysiology Seminar series Neuronal firing in the basal ganglia - cortex network shows a number of characteristic peaks in its frequency spectrum,…

Open Access: The Book Challenge

14:00 - 18:00 19 February 2014
Much of the public debate in the period since the appearance of the Finch Report in July 2012 has concerned issues that relate to publishing in journals. However, in disciplines in…

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Lessons from Chile: 40 Years On'

17:00 - 19:00 19 February 2014
In my talk I will refer to the “two sources” of the Chilean Revolution in the 1970s, radical Enlightenment thought and the less-well known legacy of Mapuche and indigenous resistance…

Research Matters: An Introduction to Rasch Modelling

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
In this presentation I will draw on current and previous research projects on trajectories and transitions in mathematics education. I will focus on the surveys and questionnaires we…

Research seminar: Controls on carbon fluxes in the Earth System: local to global scales

16:00 - 19:30 19 February 2014
The research seminar series offers staff and students the opportunity to engage with new and emerging geographical research. Over the past three years, over 50 speakers have been hosted…

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…

Transcriptional Regulation in Bacteria: Why it Matters!

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Seminar Series.

University of Manchester Drama Society’s Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTA’s)

19:00 - 21:00 19 February 2014
Following the success of the Autumn Showcase 2013, The University of Manchester Drama Society are back with their first performance of the awards season. The MIFTAs open with a bang…

View from the underbelly

13:00 - 15:00 19 February 2014
Furture city and community resillience network meeting

Bus Stop Stories

20 February - 22 June 2014
At the start of 2013, John Shinnick, a Manchester photographer, set out to document the people using a local, city centre bus stop; a quiet stop were people rarely alight. The people…

Dynamic models of cellular metabolism – an uncertain perspective

09:00 - 10:00 20 February 2014
Dynamic models of metabolism are powerful tools to understand cellular biology, develop medical interventions to treat disease, and to help engineering biological systems with new functionalities.…

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