Events for prospective students

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

Tameside Network - Spring meeting - AM group

09:00 - 12:00 2 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

Tameside Network - Spring meeting - PM group

13:15 - 16:15 2 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

Greater Manchester Open Network - Spring meeting

09:00 - 12:00 3 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Greater Manchester schools not affiliated with our other established networks. These include schools from: Bury Bolton (non…

Manchester Central Network - Spring meeting

13:00 - 16:00 3 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for central Manchester schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

Oldham Network - Spring meeting

13:00 - 16:00 4 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Oldham schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lyla Mehta: The politics of climate change, uncertainty and transformation in marginal environments

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. The scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true…

Beauty & the Beasts – Beauty in Languages

17:30 - 19:00 5 March 2020
Beauty & the Beasts – Beauty in Languages 5pm till 7.30pm Sylvia’s Space Come join Manchester Museum’s Young People’s Collective as they bring us an evening of multilingual poetry…

Black Voices Singing Workshop (part of Musica Festival 2020)

14:30 - 16:00 5 March 2020
We continue our celebration of women in music with an afternoon of songs from black oral music traditions. Explore harmony singing in diverse styles – from traditional African, spirituals…

History Research Seminar: Clare Hickman (University of Newcastle) - 'Pine Fresh: A history of pine aroma and health from the sanatorium to the domestic bathroom'

16:15 5 March 2020
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International Women's Day: Each for Equal

13:00 - 15:00 5 March 2020
‘GIRLS COUNT: Equity in STEM’ Please join us on Thursday, 5 March, 1.00pm – 3.00pm We are delighted that Anita Shervington, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow and Director of Community…

Rochdale Catholic Network - Spring meeting

13:00 - 16:00 5 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Rochdale Catholic schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'.

Stockport Network - Spring meeting

13:00 - 16:00 5 March 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Stockport schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'.

WCLC: Black Voices Lunchtime Concert (part of the Musica Festival 2020)

13:10 - 14:00 5 March 2020
Come along to the Martin Harris Centre and experience the exceptional sounds of Black Voices - an all-female a cappella collective who are globally celebrated for their stunning voices…

Artist in Residence – Beauty and the Beasts

10:30 - 16:00 6 March 2020
Meet Kate Eggleston- Wirtz, our artist in residence who is creating a curious and fantastic insect hotel over the next few weeks in the Beauty and the Beasts exhibition. Insects are…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 6 March 2020
Professor Nigel Hooper, The University of Manchester " Reverse engineering a human blood-brain barrier platform for studying neurovascular diseases"

MUMS - Musica Festival

13:10 - 14:00 6 March 2020
Female music-making has been long underappreciated in the Western music world. Join the student-founded Musica group to celebrate women in music. In this concert, they explore female…

The Little Magazine Symposium

10:00 - 17:00 6 March 2020
Little poetry magazines had a profound impact on literature in the late twentieth century as a conduit for the avant-garde during a period when the mainstream British literary press…

Artist in Residence – Beauty and the Beasts

10:30 - 16:00 7 March 2020
Meet Kate Eggleston- Wirtz, our artist in residence who is creating a curious and fantastic insect hotel over the next few weeks in the Beauty and the Beasts exhibition. Insects are…

The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

19:00 - 21:00 7 March 2020
The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra presents a concert full of the Manchester spirit. Emeritus Professor John Casken’s Maharal Dreaming and a new work by postgraduate student…

CoMA Contemporary Music for all Festival

8 March 2020
CoMAFest: Contemporary Music for All Join players, singers and audience in a day of workshops and rehearsals of exciting new music. These workshops will culminate in an evening concert…

Girls Night Out

19:00 - 22:00 8 March 2020
Our ever-popular Girls Night Out returns for International Women’s Day with a special celebration of the women of Jodrell Bank! Our speaker for this event will be Laura Wolz, a researcher…

MUMS - Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1

13:10 - 14:00 11 March 2020
MUMS Chamber Orchestra accompanies soloist Sebastian Mueller performing Paganini’s fierce Violin Concerto No. 1, renowned for its extreme demands on the soloist with its fiendishly…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lauchlan Munro: What can we learn when we compare neoliberalism with other things that don’t exist?

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Frustrated by constantly hearing about an ideology, neoliberalism, that no one adheres to,…

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