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Achieve a formal, national teaching qualification for your contribution to teaching and learning (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 22 March 2019
The University’s Leadership in Education Awards Programme (LEAP) has awarded over 300 Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowships to colleagues across the University, celebrating our…

Big Band

19:30 - 21:00 22 March 2019
The Manchester University Big Band returns, pushing the ensemble’s capabilities and featuring soloists from all areas of the band. Expect new sounds, rhythms and grooves from this tight-knit…

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…

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…

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…

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

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…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Intergenerational conference on Climate Change, Risk and Resilience Organised by Manchester Environmental Education Network and Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

09:30 - 15:30 22 March 2019
Around the world, climate change is intensifying socio-environmental risks and making these more unpredictable. As well as being the generation expected to live longest with the effects…

MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Baroque Orchestra: Music by Handel, Avison, Geminiani and the Earl of Kelly

13:10 - 14:00 22 March 2019
Come and enjoy a lunchtime concert performed by the Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are free, no need to book just turn up. The University of Manchester period-instrument…

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…

SHORT COURSES: Structural Equation Modelling Using Mplus

20 - 22 March 2019
Structural Equation Models (SEM) amalgamate regression analysis, path/mediation analysis and factor analysis, allowing for more richly detailed statistical models to be specified and…

Statistics Careers Event

13:30 6 March - 16:00 6 May 2019
This year's annual Statistics Careers Event (kindly sponsored by the RSS Manchester Local Group) will take place on Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 1.30-4.00 pm in the Alan Turing Building,…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Creature Features

10:00 - 16:00 23 March 2019
Creature Features What if wings were where the head should be? What if tentacles were where the feet should be? What if you had a typewriter for a body? Use our collection of curiosities…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Stockport Youth Orchestra

15:30 - 17:30 24 March 2019
“The arts aren’t just a nice-to-have add-on; they should be a core part of our lives. The Stockport Youth Orchestra has been a marvellous example of this.” (Nicholas Kenyon, Director,…

Sunday Concerts: Paula O’Malley and Andrew Broome

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2019
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

An introduction to n-of-1 methods in health-related research

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2019
Seminar outline: Randomised controlled trials are often regarded as the ‘gold standard’ for evaluating the effectiveness of health-related interventions. Findings from these studies…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Karl Travis

11:00 - 12:00 25 March 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Karl Travis from the University of Sheffield, on Monday 25 March, titled…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Martin Holbraad (UCL)

16:00 - 18:00 25 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th March 2019 Dr Martin Holbraad – University College London Permanence premised: the granted power of revolution in Cuba. Martin Holbraad…

The Annual Gillian White Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 25 March 2019
The Annual Lectures concentrate on international economic law and aim to commemorate the legacy of the first woman to be appointed professor in law in mainland Britain, Professor…

Appraising the evidence from Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

10:00 - 13:00 26 March 2019
Participants will understand the design of systematic reviews and the main sources of bias that affect systematic reviews, and be able to interpret the results of meta-analysis. We…

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