Lectures and seminars

"Architecture and the Politics of Materiality” by Professor Antoine Picon

14:30 10 December 2018 - 16:00 10 January 2019
"Architecture and the Politics of Materiality” by Professor Antoine Picon (Graduate School of Design, Harvard)

Public Lecture with Professor David Nutt – 'Not all in the mind – the contribution of brain science to modern psychiatry'

18:00 - 20:30 9 January 2019
Public Lecture with Professor David Nutt – 'Not all in the mind – the contribution of brain science to modern psychiatry' David will talk about how brain science is helping both professionals…

Robotic systems for use in the nuclear industry

14:00 - 15:00 9 January 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Intelligence and autonomy seminar series and hosted by Professor Stephen Furber. With multi-billion pound programmes in place…

HSRC Seminar - Just “Amazon” It: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Ongoing Disruption in U.S. Primary Care Delivery

12:00 - 13:30 10 January 2019
Disruptive forces have descended on the U.S. primary care delivery system in the past decade, transforming not only the way we think about primary care services but also how and where…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Nicole Martin: Bias at the Ballot Box: why do ethnic minority candidates face an electoral penalty?

15:30 - 17:00 16 January 2019
Dr Nicole Martin of the University of Manchester will speak on bias at the ballot box and why ethnic minority candidates face an electoral penalty. Dr Martin's work focuses on political…

Work and Equalities seminar: ‘An unequal opportunity? Female academics’ experiences of research evaluation in the UK'

15:30 - 17:00 16 January 2019
‘An unequal opportunity? Female academics’ experiences of research evaluation in the UK' Dr Emily Yarrow, University of Edinburgh Business School

Lovell Lecture: Professor Daniel M. Davis

19:30 - 21:00 17 January 2019
The Beautiful Cure, Professor Daniel M. Davis The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific…

Glenn Prestwich seminar: Propelling Chemically Modified Glycosaminoglycans Into the Clinic

11:00 - 12:00 18 January 2019
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are ubiquitous, complex, and essential components of the extracellular matrix, and have been used therapeutically for years. The focus of this talk is chemically…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research- Monday 21 January 2019

13:00 - 14:00 21 January 2019
Date: Monday 21 January 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Caroline Ospelt – “The role of synovial fibroblasts in RA.” Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department…

Analysis and design of secure and privacy-enhancing information sharing systems: the case of Facebook and car sharing

14:00 - 15:00 23 January 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Dr Mustafa Mustafa. The advancement of communication technologies such as the Internet,…

Beyond Lecture Capture (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 23 January 2019
Beyond Lecture Capture

CPPI Research Cluster with Dr Catherine Hakim: Is the Beauty Bias Unfair? The Social, Political and Economic Value of Erotic Capital

16:00 - 17:30 23 January 2019
Join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr Catherine Hakim's 'Is the Beauty Bias Unfair? The Social, Political and Economic Value of Erotic Capital'. Dr Hakim is known for developing preference…

Vision to navigation: information processing between the visual cortex and hippocampus

13:00 - 14:00 23 January 2019
Next in the DNEP External Seminar Series Dr. Aman Saleem, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London Will give a talk entitled "Vision to…

Citizenship Circuits Across The Life Course : The Trans Territorial Journeys Of Mainland Chinese Migrants - Associate Professor Elaine Ho

16:30 - 18:00 24 January 2019
Amid the hype over China’s diaspora strategies, there are areas of neglect and tension that deserve critical scrutiny. Chinese diaspora strategies target the migrant professionals who…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nina Holm-Vohnsen - Aarhus

16:00 - 18:00 28 January 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 28th January 2019 Dr Nina Holm-Vohnsen - Aarhus University “Mars, Polydomes, Other Digressions In Political Thinking” In literature, a digression…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 29 January 2019
Dr Nicola Ray Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, will give a talk entitled Neuroimaging metrics of cholinergic system degeneration for understanding neurodegenerative disease

GDI Lecture Series with Drs Faul & Tchilingirian: Theorising multistakeholder partnerships as a space between fields: integrative and dissociative dynamics

16:30 - 18:00 30 January 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Moira V. Faul, Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath, to talk about: Theorising…

GPE Research Cluster with Jacqueline Best: Liberal exceptionalism as a political economic practice

15:30 - 17:00 30 January 2019
The 2008 global financial crisis was met with a host of exceptionalist measures, as bailouts, stimulus and then austerity measures were rammed through legislatures or introduced through…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (The case of Albaro Siza's archive)" by Professor Albena Yaneva

12:30 - 14:30 30 January 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (The case of Albaro Siza's archive)" by Professor Albena Yaneva

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