All events

"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…

A circular economy won’t work unless……

14:30 - 15:30 11 November 2015
Noble Laureate Frederick Soddy complained that the economy had a broken money system and didn’t pay attention to resources and energy. That was 1926. Can the idea and practice of a…

A circular economy won’t work unless……

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…

Cardiovascular Sciences Open Day

14:00 - 16:00 11 November 2015
The open day will provide an opportunity to experience our research facilities, meet existing postgraduates and academics and discover whether postgraduate training within the cardiovascular…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Theory Intensive: David Harvey

12:00 - 14:00 11 November 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's regular Theory Intensives series. Dr David Alderson (English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester) will run a seminar on…

Darkness and Light: Exploring Gothic

16 July 2015 - 10 January 2016
EXTENDED UNTIL 10 JANUARY This intriguing exhibition reveals how Gothic architecture and anatomy inspired and influenced a literary genre, and how the lasting legacy of Gothic can be…

Dr Tom Tunstall Allcock (University of Manchester) ‘Rethinking Modernization: Lyndon Johnson and Latin America’

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Arthur Lewis Building G.019

Each Thursday: Thursday Lates

18:00 23 July - 18:00 17 December 2015
Thursday Lates Our late night openings are the perfect place to meet friends and enjoy a selection of talks, performances, film screenings, live music and artist interventions. Thursday,…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 11 November 2015
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

External Seminar Series | Implications of research with frail older people for advance care planning practice and policy

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 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…

First Saturday each month: Outdoor Art Club – Family Events – the Whitworth

11:00 1 August - 13:00 5 December 2015
Family activities at the Whitworth Outdoor Art Club On the first Saturday of each month 11am - 1pm. Free A workshop that brings art, nature and creativity together that takes…

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…

Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed

8 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
A groundbreaking exhibition of over 60 animal mummies showing how modern science can help explain this ancient practice. Mummies of jackals, crocodiles, cats and birds are displayed…

Interdependence and incomplete performance measures - Masafumi Fujino, Nihon University

14:00 - 16:00 11 November 2015
This accounting seminar, delivered by Masafumi Fujino of Nihon University, discusses interdependence and incomplete performance measures.

International Law and WWI - A Law Professor at the Supreme Command: Enrico Catellani and Italy's claims for war reparations

17:30 - 19:30 11 November 2015
International Law and WWI - A Law Professor at the Supreme Command: Enrico Catellani and Italy's claims for war reparations In the historiography of WWI, overlooking Italy has become…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 11 November 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…

Key data: Qualitative and mixed methods data

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2015
This webinar is intended for anyone who wants to know more about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service. The UK Data Service provides access to a range…

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Inventing the Tudors"

17:30 - 18:30 11 November 2015
A talk by Dr Jerome De Groot (Department of English) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". This talk looks at the way we…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Noisy Bodies

1 October - 20 December 2015
Manchester-based contemporary artist Daksha Patel fuses art with science in this exclusive exhibition. Her intriguing work explores how scientific systems visualise, map and measure…

Procedural justice and legitimacy in prisons in England and Wales

15:15 - 17:00 11 November 2015
Studies of procedural justice and legitimacy have generally shown that where legal actors employ formal rules in ways that are perceived to be fair and consistent, greater compliance…

Re-Envisioning Development: a 'horizontal' approach - The Global Development Seminar Series

16:30 - 18:00 11 November 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series. Re-Envisioning Development: a 'horizontal' approach. Co-sponsored by the State-Society Relations Research Group (Details to follow). Professor Sandra Halperin, Royal Holloway

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…

Telling Tales - Manchester Science Festival 2015 exhibition

19 October - 19 November 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' ''Telling Tales'' is a collaboration between members of the Language Development and Disorders Research Group,…

That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into

15:00 11 November 2015
As part of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Seminar Series, Neil Allen, Mental Health Lecturer and Barrister (University of Manchester, 39 Essex St Street Chambers) will be presenting…

The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

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

The oldest war crime in the book? Humanitarian aid under fire after the airstrikes on the Kunduz hospital

17:30 - 19:30 11 November 2015
Hospital and medical structures around the world are under fire today. Did the airstrikes on the MSF Kunduz hospital change anything? How do the laws of war apply today? Can the humanitarian…

The Phantoms of Congo River: Photographs by Nyaba Ouedraogo : Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 10 April 2016
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo is a self-taught photographer born in Burkina Faso, and now working and living between Paris and West Africa. The Phantoms of the Congo River is a photography exhibition…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 11 November 2015
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

The Study at Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 31 December 2016
Big ideas. Singular collaborations. Strange and wonderful things. Exhibitions and events with some of the most interesting people we know. And somewhere that brings them all together.…

Thinking about police and public in a more divided world

17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2015
Sir Peter Fahy is leaving policing at the end of October after 34 years' service, 13 of them as a chief constable in Cheshire and Greater Manchester. He has faced many challenges in…

Thursdays: Great Escape: Yoga – the whitworth

08:30 23 July - 08:30 10 December 2015
Great Escape: Yoga Thursday from 8:30am-9:45am No emails, texts, updates or alerts – yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth's peaceful setting - and some of its wonderful…

To the Glory and Honour of the members of this College: The stories behind the memorials

16:40 - 19:00 11 November 2015
To mark armistice day, and as part the University’s World War One centenary activities, this event will focus on the stories behind the University’s memorials to those lost during the…

Wednesdays: Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 29 July - 08:30 16 December 2015
Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing Wednesday, from 8.30am to 9.30am £5 Tai-Chi for Wellbeing A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting…

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,…

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