Seminar

Dalton Seminar Series: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: Energy Justice for the 21st Century?

12:45 - 13:45 30 March 2017
Social acceptability remains a critical challenge for nuclear energy and, especially, for new technologies such as small modular reactors (SMRs). While significant efforts are being…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), Exegesis of Scripture in the Gospel of Matthew: A Close-up

14:00 - 16:00 30 March 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

Francesco Bravo (University of York)

16:15 - 17:45 30 March 2017
Title: Semiparametric quantile regression with missing data. Abstract: In this talk I discuss a general methodology to deal with missing data in semiparametric quantile regression…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Commuter Travel: The impact of the Oxford Road corridor travel changes With David Budd and Julia Durkan

12:00 - 14:00 30 March 2017
Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy, Well-Being, Biodiversity, Food, Travel & More Launching in January 2017, the Sustainability Seminar Series seeks to present opportunities for…

Written on paper or carved in stone? – The impact of different types of evidence on the study of Roman collegia.

16:55 - 18:30 30 March 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Gender Identity

13:00 - 15:00 31 March 2017
Dr Simona Giordano will now be presenting on Friday 31st March (which was rescheduled) on 'Gender identity' issues in children, which will explore the ethics around gender re-assignment…

MIE Seminar: Ability Grouping in Mathematics

16:30 - 18:30 3 April 2017
David Pomeroy from the Victoria University of Wellington, NZ will be giving a seminar on setting and ability grouping in New Zealand. David was formerly Diane Reay’s PhD student at…

Research and Teaching Matters - FRIENDS for Life is a primary school based cognitive-behavioural preventative programme

12:00 - 13:00 5 April 2017
Presented by Michael Wigelsworth.

Sarah Fielden seminar series - 'Are there too many kids with SEN? Exploring the factors that influence over-identification'

17:00 - 18:30 5 April 2017
Seminar presented by Dr Garry Squires Why Sarah Fielden? The Manchester Institute of Education is recognised internationally as a leading centre of educational research. Education…

No end in sight for gene function discovery: Seminar

14:30 - 15:30 7 April 2017
No end in sight for gene function discovery: How long will it take to understand the human genome and what can be learned from the GAA1/GPAA1 function discovery story? 14:30 Friday…

D&E seminar series - Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh)

15:30 - 17:00 19 April 2017
The D&E seminar series is back this Wednesday, when we welcome Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh) to present her new research on "Referendums, realignment and the perception…

HCRI Seminar: Ending the Cycle of Famine in Ethiopia

15:00 - 16:00 19 April 2017
‘Citizen humanitarians’ and ‘Refugee Helpers’ in Europe – what does this tell us about the international humanitarian sector. During 2015 and 2016 1.3 million refugees and asylum…

Beyond the cutting edge: speculations on the future of social science

16:00 - 17:15 25 April 2017
Social science faces a challenge. Its subject matter, its methods and its materials are all changing at a breath-taking speed. What will it mean to be a social scientist in five, ten,…

Development Economics Seminar: Gharad Bryan (LSE)

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Title: Land Trade and Development: A Market Design Approach

NEW TIME: Of Arab Invasions, the Aryan Race, and other Iranian Nationalist Myths

17:15 - 18:30 25 April 2017
An Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Seminar: This talk discusses the work of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian…

POSTPONED: Dalton Seminar Series: Chasing Rainbows – MOD’s quest to dispose of EDTA-contaminated ion-exchange resin

12:15 - 13:15 25 April 2017
This event has been postponed due to last week’s announcement of the snap general election in June. All central and local government departments are now in the period of purdah and…

Racialisation relations

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Joint CoDE/Sociology Seminar Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. In order to discuss Islamophobia we should not isolate if from other forms of racial…

Seminar: Douglas Gollin (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 25 April 2017
Title: TBA

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif

15:30 - 17:00 26 April 2017
Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif Details to follow

Faculty Research Seminar: Platform Sciences & Technologies

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2017
The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements. Research Domain host: Platform Sciences…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2017
Speaker: Leila Alinaghian Title: SNA for supply chains: who should you partner with for innovation

Sociology Research Seminar: Ordinary Provisioning: the challenges and possibilities of everyday third sector provisioning organisations by Dr Helen Holmes

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2017
You are warmly invited to the April Sociology seminar, given by Helen Holmes, Sociology/SCI. The seminar will take place on the 26th April, 2-3pm, in Room 5.211, University Place.…

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