Seminar

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

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…

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

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…

The University game: differentiation and [de]regulation in English higher education

17:00 - 18:30 11 May 2016
The Sarah Fielden Seminar Series in the Manchester Institute of Education

ZooSoc Postgraduate Research Seminar series - Policy & Peacocks!

11:00 - 12:00 11 May 2016
ZooSoc's Postgraduate Seminar Series enables University of Manchester postgraduates studying animal behaviour, physiology, ecology, and evolution to easily communicate their research…

Decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly (403/2-323/2 BC): perspectives from literature

16:55 - 18:30 12 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Development and function of dendritic cell subsets in immunity

12:00 - 13:00 12 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 12 May - Simon Hope - University of Stirling

16:00 - 18:00 12 May 2016
ABSTRACT: This paper advances three claims. 1: The on-going debates in moral and political philosophy over idealisation and "ideal theory" vs "non-ideal theory" are ill-served…

Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Stefan Roberts, University of Bristol, School of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids Host: Paul Shore

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: “Income inequality thesis” revisited

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2016
The focus of the presentation is the so called “income inequality thesis”, i.e., the idea that living in countries with high income inequality is detrimental for health and well-being.…

Lifting the veil on patents and inventions: Implications for strategy research

13:30 - 14:30 16 May 2016
Patent data is a valued source of information in many areas of strategy research. However, as patents result from within-firm selection processes, patent-based studies may suffer…

Masterclass: Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’

11:00 - 13:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman Masterclass (open to all MA and PhD students, NWCDTP) ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’ Suggested…

Immune Cell-to-Cell communication: Mechanisms of microRNA and proteins sorting into exosomes

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 2016
Exosomes are released by most cells to the extracellular environment and are involved in cell-to-cell communication, mediating transfer of proteins and RNAs through structures as the…

Managing the 'Pissing Evil' in Welfare Dictatorship: Diabetes prevention, care and research in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1990 - Kathrin Hiepko (University of Manchester, CHSTM)

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 2016
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

Importing the liberal arts to England: differentiation and elitism in a marketised HE system

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2016
The current higher education policy landscape is characterised by an increasing focus on employability, and in such a context it is particularly difficult for HEIs to make a case for…

Precision and Reproducibility in Development

16:00 - 17:00 18 May 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire - Making tastes, making markets: Cultural intermediaries in the Chinese fine wine market

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2016
Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer of Cultural Production and Consumption, University of Leicester, will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 18 May 2016, entitled 'Making tastes,…

The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The hidden barriers, or ‘gender pay gap’, preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet in this talk we demonstrate that, in Britain, there is also…

Unpacking links between learning gains, learning styles and achievement: a study of 1st year pharmacy students on an integrated curriculum?

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The seminar is part of the Teaching and Learning Seminar Series. The seminar will take place in Room 1.006 AV Hill Building on Wednesday 18 May 2016 from 1-2pm. Sign in via doodle…

Interfacing nanomaterials with neural networks: what happens when brain meets the artificial

11:00 - 12:00 19 May 2016
The application of nanotechnology to neuroscience promotes innovative solutions that may be useful for brain repair strategies after damage. Carbon based nanomaterials, such as carbon…

The metabolic regulation of innate immune cell activaton

12:00 - 13:00 19 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

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