School of Social Sciences

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…

On the Home Front: The challenges of reducing household energy use

16:00 - 21:00 5 November 2015
Can households dramatically reduce their energy consumption? What can the social sciences tell us about the most effective policies? And, how do the UK government’s existing policies…

Creative chaos and the art of doing: Learning from the Ladyfest DIY ethos

10:30 - 16:00 7 November 2015
This FREE day workshop is part of the 2015 ESRC Festival of Social Science's celebrations in Manchester. - Get creative - Learn about DIY music events - Plan your own festival - Make…

Kids say the funniest things

11:00 7 - 16:00 8 November 2015
The event will take place in the Manchester Museum as a collaboration between the Museum’s extremely successful family education/early years’ programme and the ESRC International Centre…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - 09 NOVEMBER 2015 - STAVROULA PIPYROU (ST ANDREWS)

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2015
Title : "Adrift in Time : Lived and Unspoken Pasts in Calabria, South Italy" This work in progress aims to make connections between silence, money and lived experience in Reggio…

Asylum and the city: Discussing displacement

18:30 - 21:00 10 November 2015
Part of the 2015 ESRC Festival of Social Science this event is a panel discussion and exhibition (photography, printmaking and podcasting), based around work undertaken with asylum…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Inequalities in Higher Education in India

16:00 - 17:30 10 November 2015
Abstract This paper uses data from the 71st NSS round (Education Survey: January-June 2014) to estimate the probabilities of person in India, between the ages of 18 and 22 years,…

Creativity Matters Networking Event (Cre8tv.eu)

18:00 - 20:30 10 November 2015
Creativity matters – it is an important source of enjoyment and fulfilment, for well-being and, increasingly, for wealth creation. In association with the ESRC’s Festival of Social…

Development Economics Seminars: Professor Omer Moav

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
Development Economics Seminars

Philosophy Research Seminar: David A Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod)

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2015
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The University Living Lab and collaborative research

14:00 - 16:30 10 November 2015
A project-making workshop that brings together citizens, practitioners and academics from Greater Manchester to learn about the Living Lab approach to sustainability, and to explore…

"Theorising Electoral Fraud: from isolated cases to a typology of causes of electoral fraud in the UK”

03:30 - 17:00 11 November 2015
Eleanor Hill talks about the paper authored by Maria Sobolewska, Eleanor Hill, Stuart Wilks-Heeg and Magdalena Borkowska Electoral fraud in the UK seems rare. Any known cases are therefore…

Gentrifiers in two ethnic diverse neighbourhoods: Between belonging and ‘being part of the problem’ - Sebastian Juhnke

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2015
Dalston and Reuterkiez are two socially mixed and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in London and Berlin that experience gentrification and are argued to play an iconic role for the…

Introduction to Survey Sampling

11 November 2015
This course introduces participants to what survey sampling is, why it is important, and how it is implemented. It focuses on the practical aspects as well as some of the technical…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 11 November 2015
Sam Roberts, University Of Chester

Reducing precarious employment in UK workplaces

13:15 - 18:30 11 November 2015
There is an urgent need to find new ways of reducing precarious work in Britain. Since the financial crisis, more and more new jobs are characterised by insecurity, irregular hours…

The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2015
The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

What is the point of research?

17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2015
Young people from the Hideaway Youth Project in Moss Side will showcase their film based on interviews with researchers at the Manchester Institute of Education at The University of…

Yes we can! Learning disabled people doing research and teaching

16:00 - 18:00 11 November 2015
In recent years we have seen a growing devaluation of the lives of disabled people in general, and learning disabled people in particular, with a steep rise in disability hate crime,…

CRESC Annual Lecture 2015: What Can Devolution Do?

18:00 - 19:30 12 November 2015
Keynote Speaker: Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party What kind of opportunity does devolution represent? Hopes and promises are not outcomes, and devolution is too narrowly…

Questionnaire Design

12 November 2015
Rubbish in, rubbish out – have you ever discovered too late that your survey questions did not deliver useful or useable data? Through looking at a wide range of pitfalls, this course…

Beyond the ‘fracking’ polemic: ‘energy landscape’ game

13:00 - 17:00 13 November 2015
A session that brings together citizens from Greater Manchester to engage in a role play game around key stakeholder perspectives. Based on research that considers responses to proposed…

Citizen social science: Crowdsourcing social science research

10:00 - 17:00 13 November 2015
This event examines the use of crowdsourcing for public involvement in academic research and how social science research improves understanding of these processes. The Zooniverse is…

Discovering neighbourhood statistics

09:30 - 12:30 13 November 2015
The event is relevant to the target audience members of local organisations interested in discovering aspects of the neighbourhoods where they live but may not know how to access these…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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