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Cancelled. Easter Holiday Activities - Bees & Butterflies

14:00 14 - 16:00 16 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

CANCELLED: 12th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference

15 - 17 April 2020
(with a pre-conference event for PhD students and early career researchers on 14th April 2020). Registration for this event will open in December 2019. Join us for OBHC 2020 in Manchester,…

Cancelled: Beauty and the Beasts Bug Ball

18:00 - 20:30 16 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

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…

Easter Holidays: Meet the Expert

6 - 17 April 2020
1pm Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have the chance to ask the space questions you’ve always wanted to ask!

Easter Holidays: Science Show: Seeing Jupiter Differently

4 - 19 April 2020
Show Times: Weekdays and bank holidays: 11am, 12pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm Weekends: 12pm, 3:30pm People have been viewing Jupiter for many centuries and over time, as we have developed different…

Easter Holidays: Seeing your little world differently

4 - 19 April 2020
11am – 4pm (drop-in any time) A drop in session for children under 5 to explore the world of how we see things including mirrors, lenses and colours. There will also be a story time…

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…

Science Learning at Home

20 March - 30 June 2020
Jodrell Bank Observatory is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site and an icon for British science and engineering. For the last 75 years, the pioneering scientists and researchers…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

Webinar: Getting Data from the Internet

15:00 - 16:00 16 April 2020
We all know that the Internet is awash with data not all of which is directly available on a web page. This free webinar, organised by the UK Data Service, will illustrate techniques…

Cancelled: Finds Liaison

10:00 - 16:00 17 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

Manchester Rheumatology Afternoon meeting: April 2020 - Professor Nelson-Piercy - 'Pregnancy and rheumatological conditions'

14:30 - 16:45 17 April 2020
The MRA meetings are monthly educational rheumatology meetings, which will be of interest for anyone working in clinical or research fields related to rheumatology or musculoskeletal…

Aperture CANCELLED

10:30 - 11:30 19 April 2020
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general…

LITERATURE LIVE: An Evening with Hilary Mantel hosted by Kamila Shamsie

19:00 - 20:20 19 April 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://tinyurl.com/s4yyrfz

(POSTPONED) Christina Cobbold - Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar

14:00 20 April 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Christina Cobbold (Glasgow) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract to follow. To subscribe to the…

Cancelled: Jodrell Bank: 75 Years of science

20 April - 13 November 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Since 1945, this globally significant…

Carl Whitfield - Characterisation of ventilation heterogeneity in lung airway networks with Spectral Graph Theory.

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2020
(via Zoom) This webinar is a trial run to kick off the online seminar series that has been arranged in place of the original series. Abstract to follow. Details of the zoom meeting…

Literature Live: Jessica Moor and Juliet Bates

18:30 - 19:45 20 April 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--1-april-2020/

CANCELLED Marco Iglesias - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division - Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh Host: Chiara Francavilla

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) - Jack Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 21 April 2020
Speaker: Jack Saunders - University of Birmingham Title: Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) Abstract: Given a finite group G acting irreducibly on a vector space V, the first cohomology…

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 21 April 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Fabien Chauveau, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre 'Virtual histology of the brain with X-ray phase-contrast imaging'

Richard Kirkby - PRC Under Mao: The Anti-Urban Myth

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2020
Super-urbanisation is the PRC’s avowed policy of today, and it is in a sense one of continuity with the 1949-1978 era. State strategies dating back to the First Five Year Plan gave…

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