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Art Garden Party at the Whitworth

10:00 - 16:00 6 June 2015
Art Garden Party. How better to mark our nomination as Museum of the Year than with a gallery-wide garden party? Join us on Saturday 6 June for a day of family activities, afternoon…

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Dragon tales

11:00 - 12:00 6 June 2015
Join us to hunt out the Library’s mythical beasts before settling down for stories!

Garden Dance Party - Disco Mums at the Whitworth

20:00 - 23:55 6 June 2015
Garden Dance Party Saturday 6 June, 8pm-12pm, free but booking essential. Disco Mums are in residence at the gallery, for a one-off night of dancing and disco. As our daytime garden…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

What’s the Weather Like Today?

12 March - 28 June 2015
The weather is fascinating. We can hardly avoid talking about it and how it makes us feel. This exhibition uses items from the Library’s collections to explore descriptions, reflections,…

Inequality: What can be done?

16:30 - 18:00 8 June 2015
Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems and has returned with a vengence. In his new book Tony Atkinson argues there is much more we can do to tackle inequality than skeptics…

MRC funding priorities, researcher training and career pathways

14:00 - 15:00 8 June 2015
Anne-Marie will give an overview of current MRC priorities and funding opportunities. She will also describe the work that MRC has been leading on in the area of career destinations;…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 9 June 2015
Tues 9 Jun. 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm: Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when…

Drosophila as a model for JAK/STAT associated disease

15:30 - 17:00 9 June 2015
The JAK/STAT signal transduction cascade is named after its components, the Janus Kinase (JAK) and the downstream transcription factor termed STAT. Normally required for a wide range…

Innovation, Sustainable Cities and the University

16:30 - 18:30 9 June 2015
Please join us at this exciting event organised by Dr. James Evans (Geography, University of Manchester) and sponsored by CURE and Cities@Manchester. Provocations from Tim May (Cities,…

Moving the hands of the clock

13:00 - 14:00 9 June 2015
This seminar is part of the Future Leaders in Sensory and Computational Neuroscience series - showcasing the best up and coming researchers in the field. …

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme - A journey from zero to 2000 blended learning students in 12 months

13:00 - 14:30 9 June 2015
MBS’s Ann Mahon, Programme Director for the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme (part of the NHS Leadership Academy), will be leading a seminar about the trials, tribulations and ultimate…

Using chimaeras to investigate cell lineage specification in early mammalian development

13:00 - 14:00 9 June 2015
The ability of early mammalian embryos to incorporate donor embryonic stem (ES) cells has proved an invaluable tool for many aspects of biomedical research, including investigation…

CMIST Short Course :: Advanced:: Causal Modelling in STATA

10 June 2015
The need for data products that combine information across databases and organisations is increasing. Overwhelmingly, the data from which these data products are built is reported at…

External Seminar Series | Could Do Better: a scoping review of migrant women's experiences of maternity care in the UK’

12:00 - 13:00 10 June 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 10 June 2015
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up! Please note that we cannot accept large groups on this tour. If your group would like a…

MARC talks! a series of three talks presented by staff of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre

10:30 - 14:30 10 June 2015
MARC talks! Three special talks given by staff of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre: 10.30 Lukasz Stanek: Hzbigniew Dmochowski and the politics of architectural drawing…

Sociology Seminar: ‘‘Real’ Bread: Biopower, Biopolitics and Governance in an ‘Alternative’ Food Network’ (Samantha Foster)

14:00 - 15:00 10 June 2015
All staff and students welcome at our Sociology seminar, this time given by Samantha Foster. We start at 2pm (tea and coffee available from 1.45pm). Bread has been at the heart of…

Wednesday Tours at Manchester Museum: Geology & fossils

14:00 - 15:00 10 June 2015
Wed 10 Jun, 2pm. Weekly Wednesday tour at Manchester Museum, with a different theme each week.

CMIST Short Course :: Introductory :: Introduction to Statistics

11 - 12 June 2015
The aims of the course are to familiarise participants with the main features of IBM SPSS Statistics and to provide an introduction to data exploration and statistical analysis using…

Seminar - Juan Galeano - International migration and demographic change in Spain before and during the economic crisis(2000-2014): A demo-spatial analysis

13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2015
You are warmly invited to a CoDE/CMIST seminar by visiting researcher Juan Galeano (CED, Barcelona) on Thursday 11th June, 1-2pm, HBS room 2.07. The seminar will discuss international…

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