Lectures and seminars

China’s new-to-the-world innovation performance and its antecedents: Evidence from international patent statistics

13:00 - 14:00 9 September 2016
How China performs in new-to-the-world innovations and what underpins its performance are barely addressed in the literature on innovations. To develop a systematic account of which…

Developing proposals for the Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme

10:30 - 13:00 9 September 2016
This seminar is one of a series organised by the NIHR Research Design Service North West (RDS NW) to highlight national funding opportunities for applied health and social care research.…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Piyushimita Thakuriah on Seeing Cities through Big Data: Emerging Topics in Urban Informatics

09:00 - 10:30 12 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Denise Pumain on Urban Dynamics and Geo-diversity: from Theory to Modeling

09:00 - 10:30 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Katharine Willis on Whose Right to the Smart City: Data and Citizenship

10:45 - 11:45 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Juval Portugali on Complexity, Cognition, Information and the City

09:00 - 10:30 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Peter Allen on The Co-Evolving Complexity of Cities: Towards Sustainability?

10:45 - 11:45 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

Technicians Seminar Series - Marco Smolla: From bumblebee copycats to animal culture

13:00 - 14:00 14 September 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

Getting to know our new Faculty: Research, PGR and Business Services

12:00 - 13:00 16 September 2016
For the second of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Kay Hodgson, Head of Research, PGR and Business Services, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work undertaken by…

Evaluating the quality of survey and administrative data with generalized multitrait-multimethod models

13:00 - 14:00 21 September 2016
Administrative register data are increasingly important in statistics, but, like other types of data, may contain measurement errors. To prevent such errors from invalidating analyses…

Animal Kingdoms – Stereoscopic images talk

18:00 - 19:30 22 September 2016
Artist Jim Naughten has brought a mesmersing collection of natural history images to life in three dimensions, using stereoscopic photography to Manchester Museum. Join Denis Pellerin,…

NoWCADD Project Event

13:00 - 17:00 23 September 2016
The first North West Advanced Drug Delivery review brings together pharmaceutical scientists and engineers from industry and academia to discuss recent developments and future trends…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 26th September 2016 - Flavia Kremer, University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 26 September 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th September 2016 Flavia Kremer, University of Manchester ‘’ Filmmaking and ‘The Exchange of Men’: Exploring the use of film in research through…

Difference and diversity though the lens of encounter

13:00 - 14:00 27 September 2016
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Over the last decade, 'geographies of encounter' has been used as a shorthand for a body of work which has sought…

Seminar: Christodoulos Stefanadis (University of Piraeus)

16:15 - 17:45 27 September 2016
Title: Monopolistic Competition and Inadequate Aggregate Demand

Seminar: Teaching statistics to non-statisticians

14:00 - 15:30 27 September 2016
The Data, Skills and Training research group at CMIST, University of Manchester, has a focus on statistical literacy. We are delighted to have two renowned speakers for our next research…

Dora Marsden Lecture: Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

17:00 - 18:30 28 September 2016
Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

Finance seminar by Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics

14:00 - 16:00 28 September 2016
M&A and Spillover Effects on Workers

Getting to know our new Faculty - Planning, Compliance, Governance, Risk and the NHS

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2016
For the third of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Rebecca Moss, Head of Planning, Compliance, Governance, Risk and the NHS, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Kate Soper

16:00 - 17:30 28 September 2016
Professor Kate Harvey, Emerita Professor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 28 September 2016, entitled 'The interaction of policy and…

Technicians Seminar Series: TBA (Cellular signalling in Melanoma Skin Cancer)

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

Sir Mark Elder CBE - Inaugural Lecture: Are Conductors Really Necessary?

15:00 - 16:30 29 September 2016
Join Sir Mark Elder as he gives his inaugural lecture at The University of Manchester since being appointed Honorary Professor. Sir Mark has been Music Director of the Hallé since…

Socrates as Bully: Indictment and Defence

16:55 - 18:30 29 September 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Division of Psychology & Mental Health research seminar: Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia

12:45 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Professor Shôn Lewis, Professor of Adult Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, will be giving a research seminar on” Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia”,…

Emerging innovation policies and their impacts in Chile

13:00 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Well-recognized for its market-oriented strategies, Chile, the most socially unequal OECD country, faces the challenge of leaving behind its historical dependency on natural resources…

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