School of Social Sciences

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 November 2016
Rhiannon Edge, Lancaster University Assessing the effects of social networks on vaccination behaviour. The Chief Medical Officer for England recommends that healthcare workers have…

Politics DA - Pankhurst Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2016
2016: Understanding the New Politics A Politics ‘Pankhurst Seminar’ Wed 16 November 2016 – 1- 2pm HBS Room G0.32 A panel discussion with: Professor Angelia Wilson - Gender Class…

Seminar: Digital radio

14:00 - 16:00 16 November 2016
Speaker: Chris Bissell (Open University) More details to follow This is a Critical Investigations of Digital Culture Seminar, organised by the Digital Work and Living Research Group.…

Jungyoon Lee (Royal Holloway)

16:15 - 17:45 17 November 2016
Title: Misspecification Testing in Spatial Autoregressive Models Abstract: Spatial autoregressive (SAR) and related models offer flexible yet parsimonious ways to model spatial or…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Elizabeth Ewart - University of Oxford

16:00 - 18:00 21 November 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 21st November 2016 Dr Elizabeth Ewart – University of Oxford and Dr Wolde Tadesse – African Studies Centre, University of Oxford ‘’ A Tree for…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

16:00 - 17:30 22 November 2016
Dr Justin Gest will be presenting work from his book: "The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality", published by Oxford University Press.…

Development Economics Seminar: James Fenske (University of Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2016
Title: Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India. Abstract: We study the role of linguistic barriers in explaining local market integration. We collect data on grain and…

Aditya Goenka (University of Birmingham)

17:00 - 18:00 23 November 2016
Title: TBA Host: Igor Evstigneev

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2016
Marijtje A J Van Duijn, University of Groningen Perceptions in Social Network Analysis Social network data are usually collected as self-report dyadic data: actors assess the presence,…

John Hey (University of York)

16:15 - 17:45 24 November 2016
Title: Testing Manski’s Theory of Satisficing Abstract: In 1955, when economics was driven by the obsession of optimising, Simon introduced a radically new theory, which he called…

Social Anthropology Seminar - John Gledhill - The University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2016
John Gledhill – The University of Manchester The enduring contradictions of policing in Brazil: ethnographic and structural perspectives Brazil offers a spectacular example of a…

Seminar: Vito Polito (University of Bath)

16:15 - 17:45 29 November 2016
Title: Population Ageing, Social Security and Fiscal Limits

(Important! Cancelled) The economic crisis and the environment in Europe

14:00 - 15:00 30 November 2016
This event has been cancelled! Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Burns (University of York) Title: The economic crisis and the environment in Europe

Is data literacy the new black?

13:00 - 17:00 30 November 2016
This event by The University of Manchester Q-Step Centre is a celebration of the success of the Q-Step Summer Internships in 2016. Following keynote talks on the role and portrayal…

Jeroen van de Ven (University of Amsterdam)

17:00 - 18:00 30 November 2016
Title: TBA Host: Ayse Gul Mermer

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 30 November 2016
Gaelle Aeby, University of Manchester Pluralization of personal networks across three European countries This presentation investigates the diversity of personal networks across three…

Royal Economic Society - 2016 Annual Public Lecture

17:30 - 20:00 30 November 2016
'In Search of the Perfect Match – the economics of picking our partners and jobs' - Professor Philipp Kircher (The University of Edinburgh)

Degui Li (University of York)

16:15 - 17:45 1 December 2016
Title: Semiparametric Ultra-High Dimensional Model Averaging of Nonlinear Dynamic Time Series Abstract: We propose two semiparametric model averaging schemes for nonlinear dynamic…

Open Minds XII: Student Philosophy Conference

2 - 3 December 2016
We are pleased to announce our twelfth Open Minds philosophy conference. After a very successful decade as a conference for PhD students (and recently awarded PhDs), we are continuing…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Jon Mair - University of Kent

16:00 - 18:00 5 December 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 05th December 2016 Jon Mair – University of Manchester Comparative virtue ethics: lessons from the study of contemporary Buddhism In recent…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 7 December 2016
Fei Gao, Northeastern University, Shenyang

Seminar: Digital Game Ontologies (Andreas Gregersen)

14:00 - 16:00 8 December 2016
Speaker: Andreas Gregersen (University of Copenhagen) What do we mean when we say digital being? …and who are “we”? Well, I will assume that this “we” could refer to researchers that…

Seminar: Guido Ascari (University of Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 13 December 2016
Title: Rational Sunspots

Europe as Empire

14:00 - 15:00 14 December 2016
Speaker: Dr. Julian Patrick Panke (University of Birmingham) Title: Europe as Empire

MA Politics Conference 2016

15 December 2016
The conference will showcase the best Masters level research in Politics in the UK. We want to encourage students to think of themselves as researchers and have a chance to experience…

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