All events

2016 MICRA annual public lecture - Ageing and frailty: Game changers for our health and care services

18:30 - 20:00 11 May 2016
Rapid population ageing is changing the nature of modern health and care systems for good. Many people remain in good health as they age and we need to continue the push on prevention…

A Stone's Throw

18 April - 17 July 2016
In this photographic exhibition, Manchester photographer John Shinnick has captured the words and voices of people who interact with the centre of Manchester, a metaphorical stone’s…

Accounting seminar by Sven Modell and Chunlei Yang, Manchester Business School

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Shareholder value as a strategic action field: a historically informed field study of corporate governance reforms in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Astrophotograhy Night at Jodrell Bank

19:30 18 January 2016 - 21:00 18 January 2017
Come along to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre for an informal and fun evening of Astrophotography. You'll enjoy an Introduction to Astrophotography workshop (co-presented by Dr. Ant Holloway…

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

CLES: Introduction to Local Multiplier 3 (LM3)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2016
Local multiplier 3 or LM3 for short, is a tool originally developed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to allow organisations to calculate the extent to which their procurement decisions…

Climate Control

11 May - 18 September 2016
We hear about climate change on the news and in the newspapers. Climate change is happening all around us, but this isn’t the time to ignore it, it’s the time to get really, really,…

DemElect seminar: Does Material Hardship Affect Political Preferences?

15:45 - 17:15 11 May 2016
Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham) asks if material hardship affect political preferences? And her answer: depends on the political context Anja argues that preference updating…

Finance seminar by Gyongyi Loranth, University of Vienna

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Bank Payout Policy, Performance, and Insider Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 11 May 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

Policy, Policy Research and School Based Counselling

12:00 - 13:00 11 May 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminars series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Richard Cleminson (Leeds): ‘Eugenics, Race and “Miscegenation” in Portugal, c. 1925-1960.’

17:00 - 18:30 11 May 2016
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese research seminar series.

The choice for child-care arrangements and consequences for the well-being of families - Melissa Verhoef (Utrecht University)

12:00 11 May 2016
Nonparental child-care arrangements are an important aspect of parents' daily lives. Formal and informal child care (by professionals and relatives or friends respectively) allows parents…

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