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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…

Cancelled: Stars and Stones

2 May - 7 October 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2nd May, 13th May, 24th June, 11th July, 9th September and 7th October Stars and Stones offers…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Defining Antisemitism: The IHRA Definition': Led by Brian Klug (Oxford)

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Defining Antisemitism:…

Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research

16:00 6 - 17:00 27 May 2020
Computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing data are an increasingly important component of a social scientist’s toolkit. Central to engaging in these methods is the…

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…

Health Studies User Conference 2020

22 May 2020
The annual Health Studies User Conference is a one-day conference on 30 June and is free to attend. It is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social…

Imran Perretta: the destructors

8 May - 4 October 2020
The Whitworth presents a new 2-screen film by London-based artist Imran Perretta. Drawing on the artist’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the film explores personal…

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…

Lockdown Lectures: Cary Cooper

12:00 - 13:00 22 May 2020
Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown? Then why not join some of the nation’s foremost…

Oliver Rhodes - TBA

14:00 - 15:00 22 May 2020
Dr Oliver Rhodes from The University of Manchester will be speaking at this seminar.

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…

Always unprepared: Politics, disaster preparedness and what to do about it

13:00 - 14:00 26 May 2020
The Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation at The University of Manchester invites you for a virtual session. From inadequate testing to a widespread shortage of personal protective…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2020
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups Abstract: Donovan's conjecture states that for any finite p-group P there exist finitely many…

Webinar: Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

11:30 - 12:30 26 May 2020
Secondary analysis is a great way to get experience working with data without having to go into the field. This free webinar, organised by the UK Data Service, will take you through…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 26 May 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

Lockdown Lectures: Kostya Novoselov

12:00 - 13:00 27 May 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Manchester Live: Student Finance (2021 entry)

11:00 - 12:00 27 May 2020
Tune in to find out everything you need to know about student finance. Suitable for UK students - we will be covering everything from budgeting tips and tricks to Student Finance England…

Webinar: Women's empowerment and healthy digital dividends: Depression in Dhaka slums 2018 with Dr Gindo Tampubolon

14:00 - 15:00 27 May 2020
Mental health has received increasing attention in empirical work on development in developing countries. This talk presents new results on empirical associations between empowerment,…

CoDE Seminar: Mixed-race, white (rural) space: Black (and white) mixed-race family’s experiences of managing and negotiating racialisation and racism in a predominantly white English town

12:00 - 13:00 28 May 2020
In this ethnographic thesis Chantelle Lewis explores the retrospective accounts of racialisation and racism experienced, negotiated and managed by six Black mixed-race families who…

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