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Alternative Metrics for Research Assessment

13:00 - 14:00 13 February 2015
This talk will describe a range of web-based metrics that can be used as impact indicators in various contexts. Although less robust than citation counts, they can sometimes be used…

Open Lecture on the work of a Shadow Minister with Lucy Powell (MP)

11:00 - 12:30 13 February 2015
Policy@Manchester and the Parliamentary Outreach Service present the Lucy Powell (MP for Manchester Central) open Lecture on the work of a Shadow Minister, at the University of Manchester.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - ‘’cows, beef and identity politics in contemporary India” - Dr James Staples, University of Brunel, London

13 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23rd February 2015 Dr James Staples, University of Brunel, London ‘’COWS, BEEF, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA” The fact that debates…

Why Facebook won't get you anymore friends

15:00 - 16:00 13 February 2015
Invited Speaker

Pressure-driven cell movement through a 3D matrix

12:00 - 13:00 16 February 2015
Fibroblasts migrating in three-dimensional (3D) matrix change how they move in response to the elastic behavior of the material surrounding them. Linearly elastic environments, such…

Resistance to Zionism as Educative Practice

17:00 - 18:00 16 February 2015
A Talk on Resistance to Zionism as Educative Practice - Part of Middle Eastern Studies Departmental Seminar Series, 2014-2015. In analysing the relations between Jewish-Israeli society…

Social Anthropology Seminar - "The Business of Being Kind in Russia"

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 16 February 2015 Dr Melissa Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz "The Business of Being Kind in Russia" In Russia over the past ten…

Africa's Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality (Devt@man seminar series)

16:30 - 18:00 17 February 2015
Devt@man seminar series: Africa's Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality, Professor Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin). Development@Manchester is the flagship seminar series…

All-Aboard the Poo-Poo Choo-Choo: Biosolids, Public Health, and Environmental Justice in Post-War America - Graham Mooney

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2015
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

Clash Narratives in Context: What Really Drives the Science and Religion Debate

16:00 - 17:00 17 February 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. …

Jesús Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): 'La comicidad dialógica de Sancho Panza en el Quijote de 1615' (in Spanish)

17 February 2015
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese Seminar Series. Abstract: Algunas diferencias entre las dos partes del Quijote. La reacción de la escritura cervantina frente al apócrifo de Avellaneda.…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Kevin Lang - Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

16:15 - 17:30 18 February 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, held on a Wednesday (one-off date change), Kevin Lang from Boston University will give a talk entitled 'Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination?…

Bacterial RNA and DNA interference

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Life Sciences.

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On the Affect of Language (with Denise Riley)

10:00 - 12:00 18 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive On the Affect of Language with Denise Riley (UEA), Jackie Stacey (CIDRAL) and Janet Wolff (EAC) Readings: Riley, Denise,…

Dr Christopher Storrs (Dundee): 'Rethinking the Dark Age of Spanish Historiography, 1665-1746'

17:00 18 February 2015
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar. The session starts at 5 pm in room W3.13 in the Samuel Alexander Building. Dr. Christopher Storrs is Reader in History in the…

English Literature Show and Tell with Liam Harte, Rebecca Pohl, and Janet Rogerson

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
English Literature Show and Tell with Liam Harte, Rebecca Pohl, and Janet Rogerson

Fundamentals and Applications of Dose Rate Reduction Technology in Boiling Water Reactors

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2015
The presentation forms part of the Dalton Seminar Series. Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for questions/discussion and light refreshments will be available afterwards.

Internal Seminar Series | Changing illness representation via imagery information to improve patient understanding of rheumatoid arthritis and adherence to treatment

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run internal research seminars every month. Presenters…

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