Seminar

Research Matters: Using critical discourse analysis in educational research

12:00 - 13:00 23 July 2014
This session looks at the potential for critical discourse analysis as a research approach. The session will consider the theoretical underpinnings of CDA approaches and also seek to…

Integrated glycomics and proteomics of tissue slides

12:00 - 13:00 4 August 2014
Joe is at the forefront of GAG MS analysis and also has lots of experience with N- and other O-linked sugar analysis. He’s been developing a technology which allows him to carry out…

Roundtable on ‘Fracking: Energy Futures and Vulnerability’

1 September 2014
To be held in September 2014. More information to be available shortly at http://urban-energy.org

Investigating the quality of urban life: theory and practice

13:00 - 14:30 3 September 2014
CURE guest seminar Centre for Urban Resiliance and Energy: http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/cure/ Cities worldwide are growing at an unprecedented rate,presenting major challenges:…

Sarah Fielden Seminar Series: Metaphors of the meltdown: an educational deconstruction of the narratives of the great recession

17:00 - 18:30 10 September 2014
The ways in which notions like the ‘learning society’ and the ‘knowledge economy’ re-draw educational philosophy, policy and practice will be examined, starting from the 1980s and tracing…

The role of CDC6 in mitotic entry

14:00 - 15:00 10 September 2014
This is a one-off special seminar hosted by Berenika Plusa.

Sociology seminar: Measuring parental involvement in childcare and housework

13:45 - 15:00 16 September 2014
More details to follow.

Research Matters: Critical Pedagogies research showcase - Implications of 'funds of knowledge' for pedagogy

12:00 - 14:00 17 September 2014
This seminar will provide a showcase for recent, current and future research in the Critical Pedagogies thematic programme of research at MIE.

Biological hydrogels - from supramolecular organization and dynamics to biological function

14:00 - 15:00 18 September 2014
Nature has evolved complex materials that are exquisitely designed to perform specific functions. Certain proteins and glycans self-organize in vivo into soft and dynamic, strongly…

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 20 - 15:00 26 September 2014
Emotion perception and the translation process Speaker: Severine Hubscher-Davidson, Aston University

Rebuilding Britain: Planning for a better future - Planning and Environmental Management Seminar Series 2014/15

16:00 - 17:00 22 September 2014
The Planning and Environmental Management 2014/15 Seminar Series is about to start with the first seminar next week. The seminar, entitled “Rebuilding Britain - Planning for a better…

Torture and laughter: Political incarceration and the art of performing happiness in an urban Indian prison

16:00 - 18:00 22 September 2014
This paper explores the politics of prison art through oral testimonies of former female cadres of a Maoist-Naxal uprising in 1970s India. It specifically focuses on guerrilla women…

CMIST Seminar :: Introducing PhD Seminars @ CMIST

12:00 - 13:00 23 September 2014
CMIST students will present their ongoing work. Light lunch will be provided. To be held in room 2.07 in the HBS building from 12pm to 1pm.

Dying to be beautiful: The medical exception, culpable doctors and harmful enhancement? Alex Mullock and Danielle Griffiths

24 September 2014
Medical lawyer Alex Mullock of the School of Law and social scientist Danielle Griffiths ISEI provide a seminar on this subject - open to all.

Philosophy research seminar: Christy Mag Uidhir

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2014
Philosophy research seminar: Christy Mag Uidhir

Recognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid work in the context of development (Devt@man seminar series)

16:30 - 18:00 24 September 2014
Devt@man seminar series: Recognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid work in the context of development, Professor Diane Elson (University of Essex). Chaired by Tanja Bastia.…

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Maurie Cohen - Be Careful What You Wish For: The Empty Promise of the “Sharing Economy”

16:00 - 17:30 24 September 2014
Abstract Proponents of sustainable consumption have long endorsed the attenuation of societal commitments favoring product ownership and the corresponding ascendency of exchange relationships…

Chronic parasite persistence in the GI tract as a new paradigm in American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease)

12:00 - 13:00 25 September 2014
part of the Manchester Immunology Group Seminar series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes - ‘Our Politeuma is in Heaven’ (Phil. 3:20): Institutions and Identity in Jewish and Roman Contexts

14:00 - 16:00 25 September 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

How public policy can stimulate the capabilities of firms to innovate in traditional industry through academic engagement: The case of the Swedish food industry

13:00 - 14:00 25 September 2014
This paper provides a detailed, longitudinal case study of university-industry interactions in the Swedish food industry, from the 1990s to the present, analyzed as a case where public…

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