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#austerityGtrMcr - photography competition

20 May - 20 June 2014
Are you affected by recent cuts in public services? Are they worsening your standard of living or the quality of your life? Or have you found new ways of taking control of things in…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 4 June 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…

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…

Collection Bites: Designed by Nature, Made by Hand

01:00 - 14:00 4 June 2014
Wed June 4, 1.05-2pm Local artist Jade Mellor shows us how Manchester Museum has inspired her sculptural jewellery. Share a unique insight into her experimental processes and unique…

Estival 2014

3 - 6 June 2014
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into four days in an unmissable…

ESTIVAL 2014: Manchester University Wind Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 4 June 2014
Saint-Saens Orient et Occident Grieg Norwegian Dances Tomlinson Suite of English Folk Dances arr. Guyer: Brotherhood of Man Stanek St Thomas-Choral Ellerby Paris Sketches arr.…

ESTIVAL 2014: MUMS Grade One Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 4 June 2014
Having only been learning their instruments for two months, the talented fundraisers that make up MUMS Grade One Orchestra showcase your favourite works like you’ve never heard them…

From the War of Nature

11 April - 31 August 2014
Manchester Museum new exhibition. Boxing hares, burrowing parasites, baby birds and prowling wolves are just some of the characters appearing in this story of predation, competition,…

Higher Education and the Social Economy

16:30 - 20:00 4 June 2014
New opportunities for research, policy and practice? …where HE meets SE. From student entrepreneurs to business school research, and from academic collaborations with social enterprises…

Imprinting the Imagination: Northern Renaissance Prints from the Holtorp Collection

8 May - 26 October 2014
Imprinting the Imagination delves into the world of the sixteenth-century printed image. This small but captivating show, including works by artists such as Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht…

Ion mobility mass spectrometry - measuring more than mass

12:00 - 13:00 4 June 2014
Gene Regulation and Cellular Biotechnology - Spring Seminar Series 2014

MAP Library Drop in Sessions

4 June 2014
This 1 hour session will allow you to learn how to access books and online resources at The University of Manchester Library. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured…

MARC Talks - Visualising Invisible Architectures: communities, participation and learning

12:30 - 14:00 4 June 2014
This talk presents a summary of ongoing research into the ways communities structure and nurture their ‘information landscapes’, that is, the collections of informational resources…

Monthly Cycle Ride

08:30 - 09:00 4 June 2014
On the first Wednesday of the month, the Corridor partners (members of the Corridor Manchester Strategic Transport Group; University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University,…

The Space Between: exhibition of artworks by Anthony McCarthy

27 February - 3 August 2014
The concept for the exhibition began as artist, Anthony McCarthy, walked along Chapel Street in Salford heading towards Manchester and The John Rylands Library. Armed with pencil,…

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…

Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play and Politics

24 May - 5 October 2014
This exhibition examines and explores how the role of Manchester’s Whitworth Park has changed over time. The displays are the result of a local archaeology project and the myriad of…

ESTIVAL 2014: Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers

17:00 - 19:00 5 June 2014
University chamber choirs Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers join forces for a stunning choral concert featuring beautiful works by Tallis, Poulenc and Ligeti, the two choirs collaborating…

ESTIVAL 2014: University of Manchester Brass Band

13:10 - 14:00 5 June 2014
Andy Scott Madiba Andy Scott My Mountain Top (with Principal Cornet - Illy Quane) Peter Meechan Epitaph (for Hillsborough) Leslie Condon The Call of the Righteous Kevin Larsson…

Genetics of Speech and Language Disorders | Communication and Deafness |Talking Genetics with Robinson Crusoe

16:00 - 17:15 5 June 2014
'''Host:''' Prof. Gina Conti-Ramsden (School of Psychological Sciences) '''Speaker:''' Dr Dianne Newbury (Research Fellow in Physiology and Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human…

Modulating tumor specific T-cell mediated immune responses in melanoma / A novel role for a signalling lipid in the regulation of target of rapamycin complex activity

13:30 5 June 2014
Raghavendar Nagaraju, (Hurlstone Lab) David Cobley, (Petersen Lab)

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Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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