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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…

Curator Tour: Carcanet CANCELLED

11:00 - 11:30 20 June 2020
Explore the story of Manchester’s Carcanet Press, as we delve into our newest exhibition. Celebrate the enduring power of poetry, discover how the Press continues to promote new poets…

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…

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…

Aperture CANCELLED

10:30 - 11:30 21 June 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…

Synthesis spectroscopy and chromatography day

10:00 - 15:30 22 June 2020
This activity is directed at Year 12 students, although gifted and talented Year 11 students have also benefited in the past. Students work in pairs to convert benzophenone into diphenylmethanol…

UK Regional Inequalities, Levelling Up, and the Post-Covid Challenges

15:00 - 16:00 22 June 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, webinar hosted by Professor Philip McCann. To join this webinar, please sign up via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-institute-of…

Disaster resilient infrastructure: A tale of two floods

13:00 - 14:00 23 June 2020
The Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation at The University of Manchester invites you for a virtual session. Globally rainfall patterns are changing due to climate change, introducing…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Louise Sutton - Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras

14:00 - 15:00 23 June 2020
Speaker: Louise Sutton - University of Manchester Title: Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras Abstract: Specht modules are an important family of modules…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 23 June 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Bo Yao, Lecturer, University of Manchester The neural mechanisms of inner speech

Moderation Work in a Digital Health Platform

14:00 - 15:00 23 June 2020
IHPO/CPCHSR webinar: We are pleased to announce that Dr Dimitra Petrakaki, from the University of Sussex Business School, will join us to present a talk titled “Moderation Work in…

Stockport Network - Summer meeting Group 1

13:30 - 14:30 23 June 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Stockport schools. We have 2 x PM sessions available. To register for this meeting, please click on the Learning Leads link under 'More information'

Stockport Network - Summer meeting Group 2

15:00 - 16:00 23 June 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Stockport schools. We have 2 x PM sessions available. To register for this meeting, please click on the Learning Leads link under 'More information'

Synthesis spectroscopy and chromatography day

10:00 - 15:30 23 June 2020
This activity is directed at Year 12 students, although gifted and talented Year 11 students have also benefited in the past. Students work in pairs to convert benzophenone into diphenylmethanol…

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and COVID-19

15:00 - 16:00 24 June 2020
In January Alliance MBS hosted a Vital Topics event with keynote speaker Sacha Sadan (Director of Investor Stewardship at LGIM) arguing that ESG was now in the mainstream. 3 weeks…

Synthesis spectroscopy and chromatography day

10:00 - 15:30 24 June 2020
This activity is directed at Year 12 students, although gifted and talented Year 11 students have also benefited in the past. Students work in pairs to convert benzophenone into diphenylmethanol…

RAIN Webinar series

09:30 - 10:30 25 June 2020
A weekly webinar series from the Robotics and AI for Nuclear Hub. Join us on zoom: https://zoom.us/j/708659623, Meeting ID: 708 659 623 This week we have a series of presentations…

Tameside Network - Summer meeting - AM group 1

09:30 - 10:30 25 June 2020
Join us online for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. We have two x AM sessions available. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register…

Tameside Network - Summer meeting - AM group 2

11:00 - 12:00 25 June 2020
Join us online for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. We have two x AM sessions available. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register…

Tameside Network - Summer meeting - PM group 1

13:30 - 14:30 25 June 2020
Join us online for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. We have 2 x PM sessions available. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for…

Webinar: Using information and technology to improve efficacy of welfare programs: Evidence from a field experiment in India with Dr Upasak Das

14:00 - 15:00 25 June 2020
This talk is based on a paper by Upasak Das (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester), Amartya Paul (Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum), Mohit Sharma (Collaborative…

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