Lectures and seminars

Digital Health Seminar: Dr Henry Potts

13:00 - 14:00 19 June 2019
Abstract: Most publicly available apps have not been evaluated in the scientific literature, and most apps evaluated in the scientific literature are not publicly available. Apps are…

Words and Pictures: Letters in Modern Art and Fiction

12:30 - 16:30 19 June 2019
Please join us from 12.30 pm for a symposium on visual elements in letters at the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. The introduction and collection encounter will start at 1.30 pm.…

CoDE Seminar: Neighbourhood Effects on Individual Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 20 June 2019
There is a long history of research in the role of place in shaping individuals’ economic and social life chances, and the number of empirical papers on this topic is on the rise. Albeit,…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Tim O’Brien

20 June 2019
Lovell Lecture: The Universe Live from Jodrell Bank Professor Tim O’Brien Thursday 20th June, 7:30pm Jodrell Bank Observatory helped pioneer the exploration of the invisible Universe…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar- Buildings as Power Plants: The role of buildings as active components in our future energy networks

13:00 - 14:00 20 June 2019
Using a campus building as a case study, we considered the potential for the building to offer flexibility to the local electricity network by reducing import from the network at the…

Morgan Centre seminar: Why Snobbery Still Matters (David Morgan)

13:45 - 15:30 21 June 2019
From one perspective snobbery seems slightly quaint, certainly old-fashioned and somewhat marginal to contemporary concerns. Yet, a quick look at a week's newspapers would indicate…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Villiam Bortolotti

11:00 - 12:00 24 June 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Villiam Bortolotti, from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna,…

International responses to crisis: Communications, “remediation” measures and their psychosocial impacts (focus on Chernobyl and Fukushima)

12:00 - 14:00 24 June 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

LAST SEMINAR OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR: Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 24 June 2019

13:00 - 14:00 24 June 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 24 June 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Rebecca Lee – “How can we improve pain…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series with Dave Higgins from Philips

15:30 - 16:30 25 June 2019
Dave Higgins, Senior MR clinical scientist from Philips will give a talk entitled Latest innovation in brain MRI from Philips

Polar science information session - British Antarctic Survey

13:30 - 15:00 25 June 2019
An informative session aimed at researchers with an interest in polar research to discuss funding and fieldwork opportunities for UK-based scientists. Speakers will share their experience…

Developing age-friendly cities: Turning urban research into practice

10:00 - 16:00 26 June 2019
This event will provide the opportunity for dialogue between researchers, policy makers, practitioners and older people working on issues relating to ageing, age-friendly cities and…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Comparaison in the Cold War: Thinking Third World Urbanisation Through the Second World" by Dr. Lukasz Stanek

12:30 - 14:30 26 June 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Comparaison in the Cold War: Thinking Third World Urbanisation Through the Second World" by Dr. Lukasz Stanek

Manchester Neuroimaging seminar series Project Discussion Meeting

15:30 - 16:30 2 July 2019
New Project: Understanding sodium changes in functional network hubs in MS - Dandra Jandric New Project: Language learning in healthy adults/post stroke aphasia using triple echo fMRI - Katharine Gore

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Vincenzo Spallina

11:00 - 12:00 8 July 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Vincenzo Spallina, from The University of Manchester, UK, on Monday…

Manchester Neurooimaging Seminar Series with Dr Martyn McFarquhar

15:30 - 16:30 9 July 2019
Martyn McFarquhar will give a talk entitled How To - Analyse group-level repeated measurements in SPM (and why you probably shouldn't)

Osborne Reynolds Lecture - Climate’s holy trinity: how cogency, tenacity & courage could yet deliver on our Paris commitments

16:00 - 17:00 11 July 2019
It is over twenty-eight years since the UN’s first major climate report and over a quarter of a century since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit – such heady days of international hope and optimism.…

EEE Colloquium with Andrew Taberner

11:30 - 14:30 16 July 2019
Title: Novel sensing and measurement techniques in bioinstrumentation https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ferranti-eee-seminar-tickets-64165427521 Abstract: At the Bioinstrumentation…

Manchester Neuroimaging meets Liz McManus and the public engagement team

15:30 - 16:30 16 July 2019
Liz McManus and the public engagement team invite you to come and see our current outreach activities and bring your new ideas!

Who lose and who win? The spatial differences in the impacts of high-speed railway on regional economic growth in China

13:30 - 15:30 17 July 2019
It is widely believed high speed railway could improve regional development by enlarging local labour, capital and land market, and enhancing passenger mobility efficiency. But there…

Manchester Neuroimaging seminar series with David Coope

15:30 - 16:30 23 July 2019
David Coope will give a talk entitled Imaging the tumour and the microenvironment in neuro-oncology

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series with Daniel Cox and Ben Dickie

15:30 - 16:30 30 July 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Project Discussion Meeting with Daniel Cox NEW PROJECT: Clinical optimisation of diffusion orientation complexity imaging Ben Dickie NEW PROJECT idea for fellowship:…

Special seminar: Chris Evans, Mucins, macrophages and matrix

12:00 - 13:00 5 August 2019
Chris Evans is visiting from the University of Colorado and will give a talk on Mucins, macrophages and the matrix

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Professor Charles Czeisler, Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

13:00 - 14:00 21 August 2019
The Centre for Biological Timing welcomes Professor Charles Czeisler from Harvard University. All are welcome.

Seminar - Professor Gabor J Tigyi

11:00 - 12:00 28 August 2019
Professor Gabor J Tigyi will present a talk on 'LPA-Autotaxin Axis in the Communication of Neoplastic Cells with the Tumor Microenvironment' Abstract: Cancer metastasis (MET) and…

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