Secondary schools

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?…

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…

Lockdown Lectures: Danielle George

12:00 - 13:00 1 June 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?…

Lockdown Lectures: Perdita Barran

12:00 - 13:00 8 June 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?…

Lockdown Lectures: David Olusoga

12:00 - 13:00 10 June 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?…

Salters' Festival

10:00 - 15:00 11 June 2020
These one day hands-on science activities are aimed at school students in Years 7 and 8. Salters' Festivals are organised by the Salters' Institute, and are designed to encourage young…

Lockdown Lectures: Dan Davis

12:00 - 13:00 15 June 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?…

Salters' Festival

10:00 - 15:00 15 June 2020
These one day hands-on science activities are aimed at school students in Years 7 and 8. Salters' Festivals are organised by the Salters' Institute, and are designed to encourage young…

The Great Science Share for Schools

16 June 2020
The #GreatSciShare is an annual campaign to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with new audiences. It welcomes parents/carers, families, teachers and STEM organisations…

Insights into the immunological response to COVID-19

15:30 - 16:30 17 June 2020
The MAHSC Seminar Series Professor Tracy Hussell - 'Insights into the immunological response to COVID-19' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) is a partnership between…

Lockdown Lectures: Michael Wood

12:00 - 13:00 17 June 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?…

Salters' Festival

10:00 - 15:00 17 June 2020
These one day hands-on science activities are aimed at school students in Years 7 and 8. Salters' Festivals are organised by the Salters' Institute, and are designed to encourage young…

Our Shared Cultural Heritage Radical Reading Group in collaboration with DecoloniseUoM

14:00 26 June 2020
Our Shared Cultural Heritage Radical Reading Group in collaboration with DecoloniseUoM The Radical Reading Group embraces the opportunity for young people to reflect on how they might…

Halle Choral Academy

19:00 - 21:00 4 July 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/a-notice-to-all-patrons/

Meet the Chemistry academics

11:00 22 - 13:00 23 July 2020
If you're interested in STEM, we have a number of lectures over two days for you to meet academics and understand a bit more about their area of interest.

Film Premiere - 'The God of Small Things: Visions of Kerala’

17:00 - 18:30 2 August 2020
Delve into images and literature of Kerala, India, featuring a reading of fragments of Indian author Arundhati Roy’s marvellous novel, The God of Small Things (Chapter 1). Brought to…

Challenging Colourism and Western Beauty Standards Workshop 1

03:00 - 04:30 4 August 2020
A workshop about colourism and beauty standards within the South Asian community with Samihah Mudabbir. Session 1 will start with a presentation introducing colourism, colonialism and…

Challenging Colourism and Western Beauty Standards Workshop 2

03:00 - 04:30 12 August 2020
A workshop about colourism and beauty standards within the South Asian community. Session 2 will allow participants to read out poems, creative pieces and conclude with engaging conversation,…

In Conversation with David Olusoga: Making History in the age of #BlackLivesMatter

17:30 - 18:30 22 October 2020
Join us for our online event with David Olusoga, Historian and Broadcaster and Professor of Public History at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester.…

Researching Black British History

12:00 - 14:00 22 October 2020
Discover the fantastic collections available for researching Black British History and learn more about research techniques and challenges. In this 2-hour workshop, History staff…

Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2020
Two rising stars of the UK literary scene, both Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh excel in creating atmospheric tales centred around women and girls. Sophie’s dystopian Blue Ticket…

Maaza Mengiste In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

16:00 - 17:00 23 October 2020
These aren’t the days to pretend you’re only a wife or a sister or a mother, she says. We’re more than this. In her stunning Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Shadow King, Maaza…

Half Term: Alien Hunt!

24 October - 1 November 2020
Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the hidden clue to finding life in space. Self-guided…

Half Term: Fancy Dress!

24 October - 1 November 2020
We know its hallowe’en soon and you may not be able to dress up and trick and treat like usual, so, this half term, we’re inviting children to visit us in their best fancy dress! We…

Romalyn Ante, Will Harris & Nina Mingya Powles

12:00 - 13:00 24 October 2020
Three exciting young poets read from their debut collections. What unites the work of all three is their exploration of the self, what it means to be multi-heritage in today’s world,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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