Lectures and seminars

Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning

10:30 - 16:30 25 May 2018
10.30-11am Tea/Coffee (Foyer) 11-11.50am Grief-Stricken: Medical and Psychological Models of Mourning Naomi Baker (Manchester), Mourning Sickness: Is Grief a Disease? Lesel Dawson…

Understanding Ukraine's Goals of and the Main Obstacles to Eurointegration - JMCE Annual Lecture 2018

17:30 - 19:00 25 May 2018
Sergii Leshchenko is a member of Ukrainian Parliament, former investigative journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist. In 2013/14 he played a key role in the launching of the…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Grouped functional time series forecasting method for multiple sub-populations

15:00 - 16:30 29 May 2018
Associate Professor Han Lin Shang, Associate Professor of Statistics, Australian National University Abstract: Age-specific mortality rates are often disaggregated by different attributes,…

Tom Whittaker (Warwick University), ‘'Deviant speed: Mapping la Ruta del Bakalao'

13:30 - 15:00 30 May 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Understanding human behaviour and wellbeing with online photographs

15:00 - 16:15 5 June 2018
Dr Suzy Moat, University of Warwick Abstract: Our global society is now uploading increasing volumes of photographs to the Internet, creating vast quantities of data on where we are…

Age, Health and Professional Drivers

13:00 - 16:00 7 June 2018
The transport and logistics sector in the UK is experiencing a rise in their workforce average age. The work that professional drivers do can be detrimental to health, and health and…

Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Domain Seminar with Professor Christos Pantelis

12:00 - 14:00 8 June 2018
World leading psychiatrist, Professor Christos Pantelis (University of Melbourne), will discuss 'Trajectories of Brain Change in Psychosis: Impact of Risk and Resilience Factors' The…

Centre for Biostatistics Seminar

14:00 11 June 2018
Title: Application/Applicability of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs) to irregular healthcare data The uptake of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs) as a methodological alternative for…

HSRC Seminar - Managers, Medics and Manchester: The History of the NHS Administrative Training Scheme

13:30 - 14:30 11 June 2018
In Britain Ministers are, at least in theory, democratically accountable for the successful running of the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS is centrally-funded and universal.…

HSRC Seminar - Resilience, Relationships, and Retention in Times of Transition

12:00 - 13:30 11 June 2018
Resilience, Relationships, and Retention in Times of Transition: NHS leaders and service reorganisation, and first-year management students adjusting to university life The concept…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Synthetic data in Scotland and beyond: lessons learned and future directions

15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2018
Dr Beata Nowok, Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland Abstract: Confidentiality constraints severely restrict access to unique and valuable microdata in many contexts. Synthetic data…

Environmental management, CSR, and governance in clusters of small firms in developing countries: toward an integrated analytical framework".

16:00 - 17:00 13 June 2018
The Global Production Network, trade and labour research group will be hosting a seminar by Jose Puppim de Oliveira next Wednesday 13th June at 4 p.m. in G0.35/0.36 Arthur Lewis Building…

Examining the link between different tie properties in ego networks (Omar Lizardo)

16:00 - 17:30 13 June 2018
Recent work in social network analysis has examined the theoretical implications of different ways of conceptualizing and measuring the notion of a “social tie.” Scholars have noted…

CEAS School Seminar: Dr Parasuraman Selvam

11:00 - 12:00 25 June 2018
"Ordered Nanoporous Materials and Morphologically-controlled Nanomaterials for Sustainable Catalysis" by Dr Parasuraman Selvam from Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai (India).…

Strategies for tackling inequality

13:45 29 June 2018
As part of the Development Studies Association Conference the Global Development Institute is pleased to host an event on Strategies for tackling inequality. This event will include…

MICRA Annual Lecture 2018: Loneliness in later life: social problem, public health problem, or moral panic?

17:30 - 19:00 2 July 2018
Loneliness in later life: social problem, public health problem, or moral panic? MICRA are pleased to announce our 2018 Annual Public Lecture. This will be presented by Professor Christina…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Sarah Bridle

19:30 - 21:00 5 July 2018
Seeing the Invisible: Observing the Dark Side of the Universe… and the Earth. Professor Sarah Bridle It seems that most of the universe is made up of mysterious ingredients which we…

CMB&RM Seminar: Mechanical changes of the cell nucleus in disease and ageing

13:00 - 14:00 6 July 2018
The sequencing of the human genome has provided a wealth of scientific information, but this information is limited by the poor understanding of the mechanisms that control gene expression.…

Centre for Biostatistics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 9 July 2018
Our next seminar talk is at 2pm on Monday 11 June, in Room G306A. Qian Liu will be speaking. Genetic causal pathways: Mendelian randomization, fine-mapping and colocalization A…

Special seminar: The cardiac microenvironment and the challenges to mend a broken heart

10:00 - 11:00 12 July 2018
“Replacing damaged tissue following a myocardial infarction remains a challenge. Several strategies using gene/cell approaches have been explored in recent years with limited success.…

Disclosing versus concealing a mental health problem at work: what do we know and where do we go from here?

10:00 - 12:00 18 July 2018
Mental health is a growing global concern. Mental health problems represent a significant cost to companies stemming from reduced productivity, absences, and turnover. Despite a notable…

Special seminar: The extracellular matrix in cancer progression and metastasis

13:00 - 14:00 18 July 2018
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a master regulator of cellular phenotype and behaviour. It plays a critical role in both normal tissue homeostasis and pathological disease progression.…

Non manual intervening and without power outage

09:00 - 10:00 18 August 2018
As part of the EEE research seminar programme Xingliang JIANG will be presenting research on non manual intervening and without power outage. Non Manual Intervening and Without Power…

Seminar - Matrix mechanosensing: From scaling concepts in ’omics data to mechanisms in the nucleus, regeneration, and cancer

13:00 - 14:00 31 August 2018
Many of the most important molecules of life are polymers. In animals, the most abundant of the proteinaceous polymers are the collagens, which constitute the fibrous matrix outside…

SMS Professorial Inaugural Lectures

16:00 - 18:00 4 September 2018
You are invited to attend the latest SMS Professorial Inaugural Lectures to be held on Tuesday 4 September 2018, in the Manchester Cancer Research Centre Lecture Theatre. Professor…

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