School of Social Sciences

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…

Big Data From The Bottom Up

21 October 2015
This workshop brings together anthropologists and sociologists to explore how ethnography is being used to engage with big data. We invite presentations from people who are doing ethnographic…

Book launch - What a Waste: outsourcing and how it goes wrong

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 2015
What a Waste? is a new book from the CRESC research centre which analyses how government outsourcing goes wrong and makes proposals for doing things differently. This launch presents…

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Andrew Rynham and Jiaqi Hou

15:30 - 17:00 21 October 2015
Two 30 minute presentations from our student members – one by Andrew Rynham – Politics MA student on his dissertation research on deliberative democracy in the UK and the other by Jiaqi…

Does EU Free Movement Work For Manchester?

18:00 - 20:00 21 October 2015
Intra-EU migration and its impact on host communities have been widely debated over the last few years. The perceived advantages and disadvantages of free movement will be central to…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 21 October 2015
Laura Perez, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Social movements and digital media: a case study of digital activism in Tunisia The ongoing Arab Spring Revolutions since 2011 have generated…

The UK Welfare State, EU Membership and Free Movement

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2015
Prof Martin Seeleib-Kaiser from the University of Oxford is going to give a seminar titled ‘The UK Welfare State, EU Membership and Free Movement’.

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Prof Stephen Machin

16:15 - 17:45 22 October 2015
"Cybercrime and Moral Hazard:Evidence From the Dark Net" We study online drug markets on the dark net, with the aim of better understanding the economic functioning of this mode of…

Putting People before Place: Making devolution work for communities of identity

15:00 - 17:00 22 October 2015
The proposed devolution process for Greater Manchester has attracted considerable public attention at both national and local level. Much of the discussion, however, has focused on…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 26th October 2015 - Liana Chua, University of Brunel

16:00 - 18:00 26 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Liana Chua, University of Brunel If God is with…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Defeminisation of work in rural India over the long term

16:00 - 17:30 27 October 2015
India had a declining labour force participation for women 2004-2011. There were positive real rates of economic growth during the same time period. Higher female formal education…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Defeminisation of Work in Rural India Over the Long Term

Philosophy Research Seminar: Alfred Mele (Florida State)

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2015
"Two libertarian theories: or why event-causal libertarians should prefer my daring libertarian view to Robert Kane’s view" Libertarianism about free will is the conjunction of two…

Workshop on Free Will and Self Control

10:00 - 17:00 27 October 2015
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee 10.30 – 11.30 Tom Connor (Manchester), ‘Pretence as self-control’ 11.30 – 12.30 Chris Ovenden (Manchester), ‘Committed agency’ 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (own arrangements)…

Democracy and Elections seminar: Prof David Farrell

14:00 - 15:30 28 October 2015
‘That’s all very well in practice, but what about in theory’: assessing the Irish Constitutional Convention of 2012-14 Join the distinguished Professor of Politics, Professor David…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 28 October 2015
Vincent Lorant, Université catholique de Louvain Optimal network for the continuity of care of patients with severe mental disorder: a multi-level social network analysis Background/Objectives…

PhD study with the British Election Study

16:00 - 17:00 28 October 2015
Are you an undergraduate or master’s student interested in studying for a PhD in electoral politics? If so, then we would like to invite you to an information session at The University…

PhD study with the British Election Study

16:00 - 17:00 28 October 2015
Are you an undergraduate or Masters student interested in studying for a PhD in electoral politics? If so then you need to come along to an information session at The University of…

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Dr Francesco Fasani

16:15 - 17:45 29 October 2015
"Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions" (with Christian Dustmann, Xin Meng, and Luigi Minale) This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk…

'Living the weather' sketchcrawl

10:15 - 12:15 30 October 2015
Join us for a special sketchcrawl on the theme of 'Living the weather'! Led by Lynne Chapman, urban sketcher, our sketchcrawl is a chance to meet with other people and sketch. It's…

Policy Week: Can Researchers Speak Truth Unto Power?

13:15 - 14:45 2 November 2015
Academics are increasingly aware of the importance of generating impact from their research and of the need to communicate policy relevant research findings and influence policy makers.…

What is citizen social science, and how can it help make policy?

15:15 - 16:45 4 November 2015
Citizen social science is research by lay people that also helps tackle complex policy challenges. This intense and interactive session asks what is citizen social science? How does…

Greater Manchester Devolution: Implications for dementia services

10:15 - 11:45 5 November 2015
An opportunity to be updated on the Dementia Pilot within the devolution of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care budget by project lead, Maxine Power from Salford Royal. …

Is that a big number? And does it matter?

13:15 - 14:45 5 November 2015
The need to critically evaluate data and numbers is crucial in policy contexts. The British Academy's 'Count us In' report, launched in June 2015, calls for "a transformation in the…

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