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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

CIDRAL Public Lecture: David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan): The Drop Outs Are Anticipating Future Economic Policy: Work, Class and Countercultural Legacies

17:00 - 19:00 20 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. This event is co-sponsored by the Raymond Williams Society. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will…

17th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Kei Miller, Sinéad Morrissey and Matthew Welton (Fully booked)

18:00 - 19:15 21 November 2019
***This event is now fully booked*** This year’s Rylands Reading inaugurates a year-long celebration of the 50th birthday of Manchester independent literary publishers, Carcanet Press.…

HCRI End of Term Lecture - Homelessness: Creating Solutions

16:00 - 19:00 26 November 2019
Our End of Term lecture is dedicated to an important humanitarian issue we face in our own community. A growing number of people in the UK, including in Manchester, are sleeping rough.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance: Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

14:00 - 16:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): The Idea of Decolonization

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

Colliders, Higgs and the strong interaction

15:00 - 17:00 27 November 2019
Particle colliders are our main laboratory tool to study the smallest distance scales accessible to humankind. Recent years have seen major advances, notably the discovery of long-…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Paul Vallely: Is philanthropy good for international development?

17:00 - 18:30 27 November 2019
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED FOR NEXT YEAR. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. The Global Development Lecture Series brings experts involved in global development…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times for the Straight Book:…

Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2019

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society will host the 2019 Irene Manton lecture at The John Rylands Library. The lecture celebrates and…

Christmas demonstration lectures (Bolton)

11:00 - 15:00 9 December 2019
Funded and organised in partnership with the local Royal Society of Chemistry, this annual lecture runs in both Bolton and Manchester. The “Ernest Worthington Memorial lectures”, named…

Christmas demonstration lecture (Manchester)

14:15 - 15:15 11 December 2019
Funded and organised in partnership with the local Royal Society of Chemistry, this annual lecture runs in Manchester and Bolton. The “John Salthouse lecture”, named in honour of former…

FSE Inaugural Lecture Series - Department of Computer Science, Prof Daniel Dresner

17:00 11 December 2019
You are invited to the inaugural professorial lecture i the Department of Computer Science of Professor Daniel Dresner, Department of Computer Science Title: The Attack on a Cyber…

Vital Topics breakfast event: What’s next for wellbeing

08:00 - 09:30 11 December 2019
Hear from a panel of experts with a wealth of knowledge about wellbeing in the workplace: Judith Grant, Director of Health and Wellbeing at MACE David Roomes, Group Director - Health,…

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