Seminar

CANCELLED: CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Work-life balance and class: in search of working-class work-lives

16:00 - 17:30 9 February 2016
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has had to be cancelled. We hope to rearrange this seminar for a future date. Abstract: The common conclusion from work-life studies…

Five years after the January 2011 Uprising: How did the Uprising affect people's lives and aspirations in poor communities in Egypt?

17:00 - 18:30 9 February 2016
Solava Ibrahim is Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Poverty, Inequality and Development Studies and a lecturer in International Development here at the University of Manchester's Institute…

Growth control by the Hippo signalling pathway

15:30 - 17:00 9 February 2016
Nic will discuss his current research about the control of tissue growth and architecture in the context of development and cancer.

Norman Nicholson - Beyond Lakeland

16:00 - 17:00 9 February 2016
Norman Nicholson (1914-1987) was an English poet and writer who was known for his lifelong connection to the small industrial town of Millom on the west coast of Cumbria. Although…

A study of th experiences of post primary students with special educational needs in Ireland

12:00 - 13:00 10 February 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminar series in Manchester Institute of Education

Accounting seminar by Leonidas Doukakis

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2016
The Informativeness of Micro and Macro Information During Economic Crisis and Non-crisis Periods

An introduction to the latest thinking in social impact measurement: wellbeing valuation

13:00 - 14:00 10 February 2016
Social impact measurement is a hot topic at the moment. With governments scaling back the services they provide, greater burden is being placed on charities and not-for-profits to support…

Democracy and Elections seminar: 'Benefits of Diversity: why do political parties recruit women and BME MPs and what does it mean for representation?'

15:30 10 February 2016
Benefits of Diversity: why do political parties recruit women and BME MPs and what does it mean for representation?' With Dr Maria Sobolewska With party diversity high on the agenda…

Finance seminar by Mauricio Larrain, Columbia Business School

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2016
https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/mlarrain/papers/CLLS.pdf

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 10 February 2016
Robert Young, University of Glasgow Adolescent peer networks and mental health: Studying the influence of online and in-person peer networks on young people’s mental health. The talk…

Sensing of the environment by the NLRP3 inflammasome

16:00 - 17:00 10 February 2016
Leaders in Science - The first talk of the series will be delivered by Professor Eicke Latz who is Director of the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn in Germany.…

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Human Development in the World Market: The UNDP’s Social Compact for Global Capitalism"

16:30 - 18:00 10 February 2016
The Global Development seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2016
Dr. Gabriel Siles-Brugge (University of Manchester)

‘Can brands save the world?’ On the ethical projects of commercial communications

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2016
Corporations increasingly draw upon notions of sustainable consumption to address consumers, employees and other stakeholders. The paper draws upon primary research into the commercial…

CTIS Research Seminar: The Paradox of Poetry: Soviet Translators and the Rendering of Poetic Form

14:00 - 15:30 11 February 2016
In this paper I examine Soviet translations of English poetry published between the 1930s and 1980s, and consider what we might deduce from them about the guiding principles of the…

Dendritic cells in immunity and tolerance

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mika Pajunen (Helsinki) - "On he Paths of Judgment and Salvation: Prophetic Fulfilment and Anticipation in the Psalms of Solomon and the Barkhi Nafshi Hymns"

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

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