School of Social Sciences

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…

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…

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…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - The experience of the Bush : Hunters and social aesthetics in Burkina Faso

16:00 - 18:00 28 September 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 28 September 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Lorenzo Ferrarini, University of Manchester…

CMIST afternoon seminar: When “contexts” are geographical areas, is multilevel model still a good choice to model hierarchical data, or a new approach is needed?

16:00 - 17:30 29 September 2015
Abstract: It is very common that our research uses hierarchical data where the higher level units or “contexts” are defined as geographical areas—for example, individuals nest into…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)

29 September 2015
"Four kinds of perspectival truth" In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism. I clarify the rationale…

Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture: Danny Dorling “Inequality and understanding the danger of idiots”

18:00 - 19:00 1 October 2015
“Inequality and understanding the danger of idiots” We are delighted to announce that Halford Makinder Professor Danny Dorling, at the University of Oxford will be delivering our…

EU-Russia Relations 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation

14:00 - 15:30 5 October 2015
EU-Russia Relations 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 5th October 2015 - Dr Alice Elliot, UCL - The gender of the crossing : Movement and impermanence in emigrant Morocco

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Dr Alice Elliot, UCL The gender of the crossing…

Bolt from the Blue: Why the Tories Triumphed (and what it means for 2020)

12:45 - 14:00 6 October 2015
Leading political commentators are set to debate the recent victory of the Conservative party, what it means and what lies in store, in the wake of the party’s unexpected General Election…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Takahiko Kiso

13:00 - 14:00 6 October 2015
Title: The Impact of Electricity Prices on the Installation of Residential Solar Photovoltaic Panels in Japan Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of electricity prices on…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Nikk Effingham (Birmingham)

15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2015
"Time Travel and Torturing Nikk Effingham" Abstract: As I’m about to present this paper, a time travelling DeLorean from the future appears and I stumble out of it. Delirious, and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 7 October 2015
Nick Crossley, University of Manchester

What's sex got to do with it? When a woman asks questions - Dr Bethan Harries

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2015
In a moment in which social research is embracing ‘big data’, it is timely to reflect on the status of the qualitative interview. We must query how different types of data are valued.…

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Dr Degui Li

16:15 - 17:45 8 October 2015
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects and Multiple Structural Breaks Abstract: In this paper we consider estimation of common…

Rethinking mobility through the Alexander Technique and other embodied practices

11:00 - 15:00 9 October 2015
How can we think creatively about changing mobilities? Mobility has become a wide and encompassing term covering migrations, everyday travels, physical movements, mobile technologies…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINARS SEMESTER 1 (2015- 2016)

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Dr Gabriela Nicolescu, UCL Three faces of communism:…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Social network and health behaviours inequalities: theory and results of the SILNE study

16:00 - 17:30 13 October 2015
Abstract Although health behaviours, such as smoking, accounts for a large proportion of socio-economic health inequalities, it is unclear how these inequalities emerge at a young…

Development Economics Seminars: Professor Henrik Hansen

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2015
Development Economics Seminars The Importance of Being Surveyed: The Representativeness and Impact of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys Using census data from 1999 and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 14 October 2015
Martin Everett, University of Manchester

CIDRAL Special Public Event: Benoît Peeters, 'Writing the Life of Jacques Derrida'

17:30 - 20:00 19 October 2015
This is a CIDRAL Special Public Event, jointly organised by CIDRAL, Sociology, and CRESC at the University of Manchester, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Institut français du Royaume-Uni…

Social Anthropology Seminar Adom Philogene Heron Becoming Papa Kinship Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles

16:00 - 18:00 19 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 19th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Adom Philogene Heron, University of St Andrews…

Development Economics Seminars: Dr Greg Fisher

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
Development Economics Seminars

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Michael Burton

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
Title: Spatially explicit discrete choice experiments: an application to coastal management in the Kimberley, Western Australia Abstract The northern coast of the Kimberley region…

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