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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…

Daily Telescope Talks

22 August - 29 November 2020
Join a Telescope Talk where one of Jodrell Bank's friendly Explainers will tell you all about the might Lovell telescope. You’ll find out more about how the Grade 1 listed Telescope…

Economy and Livelihoods after Covid-19

12:00 1 - 16:30 4 September 2020
Join us for this online symposium over four days. We’ll be considering the implications of the global Covid-19 pandemic for economy and livelihoods. The Covid-19 pandemic and responses…

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…

The 7th International Degrowth and 16th ISEE Joint Conference

1 - 5 September 2020
Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of Ecological and Political Crisis.

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: Social Network Analysis: Fundamental Concepts

15:00 - 16:00 1 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python

16:00 2 - 17:00 30 September 2020
Social scientists may find that working with semi-unstructured data, such as natural language text, is an essential but time consuming and difficult part of a research project. However,…

Foresight 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 4 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – a ‘hyper-wicked’ problem, with deeper threat multipliers all around. How to manage such transformations, and steer from crisis to opportunity?…

A Museum at Night and Hierlooms DigiFest2020 Exhibition

13:00 - 13:30 5 September 2020
We're delighted at Manchester Museum that our friends at Pure Arts Studio are sharing their work with Manchester Museum in short films on Saturday 5 September as part of Manchester…

11th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis

6 - 9 September 2020
On behalf of the organizers, I would like to invite you to the 11th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis in Manchester, UK from 6 to 9 September 2020. The ICEC, which…

Maite Conde (Cambridge): TBC

8 September 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon.

MERI Seminar - Deep heat in Newcastle: the Helix well and the search for geothermal energy in an urban setting

14:00 - 15:00 9 September 2020
In 2011, Newcastle Science Central no 1 was drilled to a depth of 1821 m to investigate the geothermal potential of the Fell Sandstone Group, which is part of the Lower Carboniferous…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 9 September 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

Alliance MBS Scale-Up Forum: Workforce of the Future

14:00 - 15:00 10 September 2020
How business leaders plan to ensure they maintain the balance of skills required to succeed in the digital age Automation and digitisation in the workplace is shifting the composition…

RAIN Webinar: mobile mapping

09:30 - 10:30 10 September 2020
The RAIN Webinar series is back with a session focused on mobile mapping for nuclear robotics. Join us on zoom: https://zoom.us/j/708659623 This webinar is being coordinated by…

Deeper City-3.0

13:00 - 14:30 11 September 2020
Many cards are up in the air with the pandemic – the future of cities being one. Can we expect enclaves of safety and risk, policed by surveillance cameras and paramilitaries? Or…

Cancelled - See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 12 September 2020
Sat 12 Sept: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their…

Sexual Violence on University Campuses

17:00 - 18:30 14 September 2020
Shamus Khan & Jennifer Hirsch, authors of Sexual Citizens, In conversation with Dr Caroline M Parker In SEXUAL CITIZENS: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Columbia…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Getting and Marshalling Data

15:00 - 16:00 15 September 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. Thus, computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing…

Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation

18:30 - 20:00 16 September 2020
Donor conception was once routinely kept secret in families, while donors were kept a good distance away through anonymity laws, regulation and standard clinical practices. In 2004,…

Opportunities for graphene in carbon fibre

15:30 - 16:30 17 September 2020
Dr Arun Prakash Aranga Raju will present an overview of the success stories and future opportunities for graphene and other 2D materials in carbon fibre products.

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Prof. Melissa Raphael (Gloucestershire) “The (Dis)appearing Feminine: Jewish Feminist Art and the Liberation of Women and God..."

16:00 - 17:30 17 September 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

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