Seminar

'When I was a little child': Childhood, memory, and eighteenth-century Methodism.

14:00 - 16:00 13 July 2015
Accounts of childhood occur frequently in Methodist life writings, with childhood regretted as a time of sinfulness or celebrated for juvenile piety. Conventions governing such accounts…

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Young people's civic engagement in a social media age

01:00 - 14:30 13 July 2015
Young voters' civic engagement in a social media age. Dr Ariadne Vromen How young people use social media to engage with politics in an age of online celebrities and politicians is…

"Towards self-improving schools: lessons from the field"

17:00 14 July 2015
"Towards self-improving schools: lessons from the field" Professor Mel Ainscow CBE Tuesday 14th July, 5pm Room C5.1, Ellen Wilkinson Building Please contact shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk to reserve a place.

Towards self-improving school systems : lessons from the field

17:00 - 18:30 14 July 2015
Sarah Field Seminar Series-Manchester Institute of Education Celebrating excellence in educational research Seminars are open to all staff.students and members of the public email Shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk…

"How to write a 4* publication - some thoughts"

12:00 - 13:00 15 July 2015
"How to write a 4* publication - some thoughts" Helen Gunter, Carlo Raffo, Neil Humphrey and Julian Williams Wednesday 15th July 2015, 12-1pm C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building **Lunch…

Linking dialogue to decision: Engaging capacities for responsible innovation in the laboratory

12:00 - 13:00 17 July 2015
Integrating societal considerations directly into research and development processes is often included as a component of programs meant to address the ethics and governance of science.…

The Manchester Poverty Masterclass

10:00 - 12:00 17 July 2015
The Manchester Poverty Masterclass is a series of lectures for PhD students and staff. Professor Gary Fields of Cornell University will be presenting this Masterclass on "Labour Markets…

Electrophysiological Markers of Neurodegenerative Disease and Sleep/Wake Quality

13:00 21 July 2015
This Seminar is part of the Future Leaders series. …

Human and Mouse Genome Wide CRISPR-guide RNA Arrayed Libraries

09:30 - 10:30 22 July 2015
CRISPR-Cas9 has proven to be a useful tool for genome editing and has shown great potential in genome wide genetic screens. Here we present the first genome wide, arrayed guide RNA…

U-Battery – A Local Modular Energy Source

12:00 - 13:00 29 July 2015
The Dalton Seminar Series aims to promote exchange and offer informative events across institutions and facilities associated with The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute.…

Education-driven rent-gap in jiaoyufication areas: the case of Nanjing, China

11:00 - 12:30 18 August 2015
Gentrification, or the class-based restructuring of cities, is a process that has accrued a considerable historical depth and a wide geographical compass. But despite the existence…

Celebrating FLS Research Success: mRNA selection for translation: new perspectives on the cytosolic site of translation and the machinery involved

15:00 - 16:00 4 September 2015
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success in FLS’ series will be given by Dr Mark Ashe, who is a member of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology (CEB) Research Theme…

Institutionalization of the field of entrepreneurship’

13:00 - 14:00 7 September 2015
The scholarship of entrepreneurship has been a rather successful enterprise, in terms of numbers of faculty, chaired professorships, students, courses, University community and national…

Technology and Healthcare Behaviour Change Seminar

11:00 - 14:00 8 September 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School '''About the event:''' Manchester Pharmacy School will be organising a seminar to discuss the technological solutions supporting healthcare…

Developing proposals for the renewed Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme

10:00 - 12:00 9 September 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' One of a series of seminars organised by the Research Design Service North West (RDS NW). Seminar 10 am till 12…

How Droplet Digital™ PCR achieves absolute quantification with unrivalled precision and accuracy

13:00 - 14:00 10 September 2015
Seminar

Democracy and Elections research seminar

14 September 2015
Two half hour presentations: one by Andrew Rynham – Politics MA student on his dissertation research on deliberative democracy in the UK and the other by by Jiaqi Hou, PhD student at…

External Seminar Series | Sedentary Behaviour - is all sitting bad?

12:00 - 13:00 16 September 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…

Falls Prevention and Monitoring Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 16 September 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' The Connected Health Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that following last year's extremely successful seminar…

Signaling control of morphogenetic mechanics in Zebrafish and Drosophila

14:00 - 15:00 16 September 2015
I will present zebrafish epiboly as a model for the mechanical analysis of morphogenesis and show that the overall biomechanics of the process, which depends on actomyosin contractility…

The Manchester Business School Organizational Ethnography Network Launch

12:00 - 17:30 16 September 2015
Keynote addresses: Tony Watson - Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Work and Organisations, Nottingham University Business School Fabian Muniesa - Senior Researcher (Professor), Centre…

Engaging with US academia and industry for aerospace research - Dr Neil Ashton

12:00 - 13:00 17 September 2015
This talk discusses the work done to boost UK-US collaboration in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). The rationale for improving…

CMIST afternoon seminar: How many classes? Statistical modelling of a social network and a terrorist network, with a latent class model and Bayesian model comparisons

16:00 - 17:30 22 September 2015
This talk discusses the assessment of the number of classes in a social network, through the latent class model extension of the exponential random graph model. The assessment uses…

Integrin traffic and mechanosensing in cancer

13:00 - 14:00 22 September 2015
Integrins are a family of transmembrane cell-surface molecules that constitute the principal adhesion receptors for the extracellular matrix, and are indispensable for the existence…

Deals and Development in Liberia

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2015
Eric D. Werker, Harvard Business School, will be presenting a seminar on “Deals and Development in Liberia” on Wednesday 23 September, 4.00pm – 6.00pm, in room G7, Humanities Bridgeford…

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