Lecture

Colloquium: Living to the limits; ageing well

15:00 - 17:00 27 September 2019
The University of Manchester at Harwell Director, Professor Neil Bourne, presented on 'Living to the limits; ageing well', at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.…

Teaching Large International cohorts (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

11:00 - 12:30 27 September 2019
This session will explore engagement challenges when teaching cohorts with a large international element. The workshop will seek to provide practical strategies to address the issues…

HCRI Research Seminar - The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity in the Wildland Fire Profession

16:00 - 19:00 1 October 2019
HCRI kick start our research seminar series for the new term with guest speaker Dr Christine Eriksen and Dr Billy Haworth as Chair. Event title: The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity…

GDI Lecture with Prof Rhys Jenkins: How China Is Reshaping the Global Economy

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Rhys Jenkins, University of East Anglia to discuss "How China Is Reshaping the Global Economy" China’s growing…

Innovating policy from the centre

16:00 - 17:30 3 October 2019
The case of Indonesia’s development priorities 2014-2019. Chair: Joe Ravetz, Manchester Urban Institute How can science-technology-innovation (STI) studies help with policy and policy-makers…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland): The Optimised Self: A Brief History of Time Management and the Quantified Body

17:00 - 19:00 8 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Optimised Self: A Brief History…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Wiktor Marzec (Warsaw): From Cotton and Smoke: Lodz – the Industrial City and Discourses of Ansynchronous Modernity

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Co-hosted by the Russia and Eastern European Studies Seminar. Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw) will deliver a public…

Proton Therapy at the Christie

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
In December 2018 the Christie NHS Foundation Trust opened a new proton beam therapy (PBT) facility. This is the first NHS high- energy PBT centre in the UK as part of a E250M NHS England…

GDI and MUI Lecture with Prof Raquel Rolnik: Urban Warfare - housing under the empire of finance

17:00 - 18:30 14 October 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Raquel Rolnik: Urban warfare - housing under the empire of finance In cities across the world the story is…

HCRI Research Seminar - Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons and Networks

16:00 - 19:00 15 October 2019
HCRI's second research seminar of the new term will be with guest speaker Professor Madhu Krishnan. Event title: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 17 October 2019
We are delighted to announce that The Annual Harry Street Lecture 2019, entitled 'Andy Burnham on Greater Manchester and the North of England', will be delivered by Andy Burnham,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick): Challenging Hegemonic Notions of Leadership Through Storytelling: Experiences From Professionals Around the Globe

17:00 - 19:00 22 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Challenging Hegemonic Notions of Leadership…

GDI Lecture with Prof Anthony Shorrocks - Wealth Levels, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Inequality: A Global Perspective

17:00 - 18:30 23 October 2019
This century began with a remarkable spell of global wealth creation, notable not only for rapid growth but also its broad coverage, both geographically and socially. The “Golden Age”…

Teddy Chester lecture: "Why are workforce issues so critical now and what would a good strategy look like?" - Anita Charlesworth, Director of Research and Economics, The Health Foundation

17:30 - 19:30 29 October 2019
This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester. From his appointment in the early…

Digital literacy (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

09:30 - 11:30 30 October 2019
This masterclass will enable participants to explore how they might effectively and appropriately integrate digital literacy into the teaching and learning environment to support single…

GDI Annual Lecture with Dr Rachel Glennerster - Can technology solve global poverty?

17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2019
The lives of the poor around the world have been transformed by relatively simple but powerful technologies from mobile phones to high yielding wheat seeds. Many of these technologies…

HCRI Research Seminar - On The Border of Soldiering: Ambiguous Visuals of War Participation

16:00 - 19:00 5 November 2019
HCRI's fourth research seminar of the new term will be with guest speakers Dr Hannah Partis-Jennings and Dr Henry Redwood. Event title: On the border of Soldiering: Ambiguous Visuals…

'What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?' - Anne McBride inaugural lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
The People, Management and Organisations division will be hosting a special lecture on 6 November 2019 as part of a cross-school AMBS inaugural lecture series. The lectures provide…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra): Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confessions in the Age of “True Crime”

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics…

The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X

14:30 - 16:00 6 November 2019
The stable generation of high temperature hydrogen plasmas (ion and electron temperature in the range 10-20 keV corresponding to about 100-200 million "K) is the basis for the use of…

What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
Anne McBride, Professor of Employment Relations, will give a talk on “What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations – and can it lead to changes…

Architectural Models: Past, Present, Future of a Design Practice

16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2019
Lecture by Dr Simona Valeriani, Senior Tutor V&A/RCA History of Design MA and Researcher at the V&A research Institute.

HCRI Research Seminar - Outstanding BSc Student Dissertations

16:00 - 19:00 12 November 2019
HCRI's fifth research seminar of the new term will be with recent UG graduates Isabelle Kidder, Julia Kiemle-Gabbey and Jennifer Small, who will present on their BSc dissertations.…

Adrian Leftwich memorial lecture: Cathy Boone - Spatial inequality in African political economy: rethinking uneven development

17:00 13 November 2019
Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is interested in patters conducted research on industrial, commercial…

Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC

16 November 2019
Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC Time tbc

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