All events

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Levelling up regional resilience: Policy responses to COVID-19

12:00 - 13:00 23 September 2020
Can lessons be learned from the recovery of UK regions to the global financial crisis of 2008 when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic recession? And does recovery from…

Richard Clarke - Understanding the role of the endothelial glycocalyx: a brush-like coating on the walls of blood vessels

10:00 - 11:00 23 September 2020
Richard Clarke (University of Auckland) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk…

The Future of Trees

13:00 - 15:00 23 September 2020
Trees are an integral part of many landscapes in forests, woodlands, parks, streets and cities but are facing immense challenges from climate change, pests and diseases. This event…

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…

HCRI PhD Conference

12:00 - 17:30 25 September 2020
HCRI's annual PhD Conference is going virtual! Join HCRI for an afternoon of discussion, hearing about a variety of different issues central to humanitarian affairs: from the complexities…

Webinar: Data and resources for teaching

15:00 - 15:50 28 September 2020
This free webinar introduces participants to the data and resources of the UK Data Service for teaching purposes through a presentation followed by a question and answer session. Data…

Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Techniques and Methods of Analysis

15:00 - 16:00 29 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…

Brilliant and Black presents Gary Younge

13:00 - 15:00 1 October 2020
In Celebration of BHM 2020 The University of Manchester is proud to present: “Brilliant and Black” with Professor Gary Younge The month of October has been celebrated as Black History…

Ian McGuire: The Abstainer (Online Blackwell's Event)

19:00 - 20:00 1 October 2020
Join acclaimed North Water author Ian McGuire at an Blackwell's online event, as he talks about his new novel, The Abstainer - an epic story of revenge and obsession. About this Event…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Nijay K Gupta (Northern Seminary, Illinois) - “Reconstructing Junia's Imprisonment: Examining a Neglected Comment in Romans 16:7”

16:00 - 17:30 1 October 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…

Eco-urban 3.0

13:00 - 14:30 2 October 2020
This is about the climate challenge, both local and global – how to get the science/tech, economics, politics, culture and psychology all working together? On one small and fragile…

Webinar: Financing national scale energy projects in developing countries – An economy-wide evaluation of Ghana’s Bui Dam

15:00 6 October 2020
Large energy infrastructure can imply special financing arrangements between governments in developing economies and investors or lenders. These arrangements can lead to economy-wide…

Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2020
Some 500 years ago, a growing awareness of cracks in the Ptolemaic model led to the Copernican revolution - a paradigm shift in our understanding in which we came to realize that the…

Paul Bresslof - Biological pattern formation: beyond classical diffusion-based morphogenesis

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Paul Bressloff (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the…

Prometheus: executive level learning and development conference for leaders from the UK 3rd Sector

09:30 - 14:45 7 October 2020
Prometheus is a free to attend executive level learning and development conference for leaders from the UK 3rd Sector. It is Alliance Manchester Business School’s annual programme…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Siobhán Jolley (University of Manchester) ‘Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a culture of sexual violence.’

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

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