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2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition - registration open

3 December 2018 - 28 January 2019
Do you know anyone in secondary school who likes cracking codes or solving puzzles? Or maybe you just know pupils who want to win some prizes? Registration for the 2019 Alan Turing…

2019 MathsBombe Competition - registration open

3 December 2018 - 30 January 2019
Do you know anyone in sixth form and secondary school who likes cracking codes or solving puzzles? Or maybe you just know pupils who want to win some prizes? Registration for the 2019…

Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 September 2018 - 24 February 2019
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary…

Anatomy of Failure: International 'Narcotic' Drug Control

16:30 - 18:30 5 December 2018
The 2018 UNODC World Drug Report cites record highs: in the cultivation of coca and opium poppy, in cocaine and heroin production, in the manufacture of synthetic drugs, in drug use,…

APM Northern Research Symposium and Doctoral Workshop Project Management and the Productivity Challenge

4 December 2018 - 4 January 2019
APM Northern Research Symposium and Doctoral Workshop Project Management and the Productivity Challenge The Hacienda Suite, Holiday Inn Manchester Piccadilly, Tuesday 4 December 2018…

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

Brilliant bacterial biominerals: From early Earth survival to modern biotech solutions

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2018
Our speaker is Professor Vernon Phoenix from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Bacteria play a key role in the generation of…

CGP Seminar with Victoria Basham: A Tale of Two Cities? Insecurity and Terror at London Bridge and Grenfell Tower

14:30 - 16:00 5 December 2018
Victoria Basham (Cardiff University) speaks on insecurity and terror at London Bridge and in regards to Grenfell Tower. Victoria Basham’s research interests lie in the field of critical…

Chinese Film Forum UK presents: Looking for Lucky

18:00 - 20:00 5 December 2018
Hoping to get on at University, graduate student Guangsheng agrees to look after his Professor’s dog Lucky. As the film’s title suggests, Lucky goes missing and Guangsheng enlists his…

CI Film Club

15:00 5 December 2018
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from October! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions…

Colloquium: Progress in fusion reactor design

15:00 - 17:00 5 December 2018
Dr Elizabeth Surrey, Technology Programme Leader at Culham Centre for Fusion Technology, presented on progress in fusion reactor design at the first University of Manchester at Harwell…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Chris Butler: How do governing parties respond to public opinion? The strange case of the Liberal Democrats and tuition fees.

15:30 - 17:00 5 December 2018
University of Manchester Doctoral Student Chris Butler will speak on how governing parties respond to public opinion and the case of the Liberal Democrats and tuition fees.

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Digital Trust and Security Guest Lecture Series - Chris Hankin

13:00 - 14:30 5 December 2018
CNI and Cyber Security This talk will review the current cyber threat landscape in critical national infrastructure and cyber-physical systems more generally. We will describe the…

Discover Engineering

09:30 - 16:00 5 December 2018
Our Discover Engineering Day will allow Year 12 students and other potential applicants who are interested in studying engineering the opportunity to explore the different course options…

DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2018
5 DECEMBER, DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)' 5PM, SAM ALEX A112

Engaging students: what we have learnt using Twitter, Facebook, Piazza and Blackboard Discussion Boards (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2018
Engaging students: what we have learnt using Twitter, Facebook, Piazza and Blackboard Discussion Boards

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

Free Entry for National Lottery Players - #ThanksToYou

3 - 9 December 2018
From 3 – 9 December, Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre will be taking part in the Heritage Lottery Fund's #ThanksToYou celebrations by offering FREE Entry to everyone who plays the National…

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 5 December 2018
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

Introduction to Astrophotography

19:30 - 22:00 5 December 2018
Our popular Introduction to Astrophotography courses are returning this winter. Join us for an informal and fun session that includes an introductory workshop (co-presented by Jodrell…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Kutlay (City University)

14:00 - 15:00 5 December 2018
Wednesday 5 December 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Kutlay (City University) Title: Turkey in Turbulent Times: political institutions and economic development

Lives of Letters Series: Literary Letters.

15:00 - 16:30 5 December 2018
Charles Olson and Henry Murray: The Poet and the Personologist Lucy Burns (Manchester) This paper explores the unpublished correspondence between the American poet, Charles Olson,…

Livestream of TEAMs EU: European ‘Emergency Medical Teams’ (EMTs) initiative

17:30 - 18:30 5 December 2018
The TEAMS consortium will report on the work they are undertaking on the design, development, delivery and evaluation of the TEAMS project. The project, funded by DG ECHO, aims to create…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2018
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

MANCEPT Cluster Seminar with Tim Meijers: Agents of Justice

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2018
Assistant Professor Tim Meijers is based at the department in Utrecht as a post-doctoral researcher but also at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. He thinks and writes…

Methodologies for Comparative and Connected Global History

14:30 - 17:00 5 December 2018
Hosted at the Northern Cluster for Global and Transcultural Studies, 1450-1750. At the cluster's first workshop we will explore the current intellectual environment for global and…

No Recourse! Project Launch and Graduation

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2018
In celebration of our Peer Researchers completing their training and to officially launch the new partnership project between WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together) and Dr. Jenna Murray…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Schuster Colloquium - Prof Mark Lancaster - Is New Physics Lurking in the Magnetic Interaction of a Muon?

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2018
The interaction of a muon's spin with a magnetic field defines its magnetic moment in terms of the gyromagnetic ratio, g. In the Dirac equation, g is exactly 2, but additional higher…

SEED Sixth Form Lecture: Glaciated landscapes: Changes in the world’s ice sheets and glaciers

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2018
In this lecture, we will look at what defines current ice masses on Earth and how they have changed in the past. Over the last 2.6 million years, glaciers and continental-scale ice…

SEED Sixth Form Lecture: Service with a script: how can businesses improve the interpersonal skills and knowledge of their staff?

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2018
Dr Miriam Firth will offer an insightful lecture regarding a topic within Management Leadership and Leisure. The lecture will offer data on service encounters in Leisure businesses.…

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