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How do Countries Fare after Major Earthquakes, and What can be done to Close the Inequality Gap?

13:00 - 14:00 1 December 2020
The Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation presents a webinar: How do Countries Fare after Major Earthquakes, and What can be done to Close the Inequality Gap? Dr. Domenico Lombardi…

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…

Linda Li - Institutional Contradictions and Change: Challenges for Hong Kong and a Globalizing China

10:30 - 11:30 1 December 2020
Webinar: How to assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuous conflicts as witnessed in the unrest of 2019? This seminar contextualizes the…

Macro Seminar - Felix Wellschmied (Carlos III Madrid)

16:00 - 17:00 1 December 2020
Title: Wage Risk, Employment Risk, and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Cesare Giulio Ardito - Classification of blocks and open conjectures

13:00 - 14:00 1 December 2020
Speaker: Cesare Giulio Ardito - City University of London Title: Classification of blocks and open conjectures Abstract: Donovan’s conjecture predicts that given a p-group D there…

Online workshops: Online tools for accessing and analysing census data from the UK Data Service: Census Aggregate data, Flow data and Microdata

12:00 1 - 12:00 16 December 2020
Do you want to know how to use online tools to access and analyse UK census data from the UK Data Service? The UK Data Service is a rich source of census data. In December, we are…

PSDP How can we help?

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2020
An opportunity to discuss small group sessions and practice/share any approaches with a warm and friendly group.

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 1 December: Dual and multiple system estimation with partially and imperfectly observed covariates

16:00 - 17:00 1 December 2020
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – December Session Dual and multiple system estimation with partially and imperfectly observed covariates Paul A. Smith (University of Southampton)…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 1 June: Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – June Session Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments Joseph Sakshaug (German Institute for Employment Research) Join…

Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
The Department of Social Statistics is pleased to invite everyone interested in quantitative social research to a series of online seminars. The events will be held once a month throughout…

Windows of Creativity Art Trail

26 October - 4 December 2020
Monday 26 October until Friday 4 December Windows of Creativity Art Trail Free, Everyone, Drop by From the Wild in Art team who brought the award winning Bee in the City trail to Manchester…

Ainhoa Montoya (London): Dispossession through Juridification: Irregular Uses of Law and the Defense of Territory in Honduras

17:00 - 18:00 2 December 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. This talk will…

American Studies PGR event with Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 2 December 2020
PGR seminar co-hosted by the English department at Oxford University. A Zoom event, open to all but directed at postgraduate students. Contact Natalie Zacek for link.

Computer Science Mercury Talk

14:00 - 14:30 2 December 2020
Introducing our next Computer Science Mercury Talk Speaker: Madeleine Steeds Title: Smartphones: “Easy”, “Portable” and “Fast”? The Impact of Device Stereotypes on Cognition Abstract:…

Ehsan Azmoodeh - Optimal Variance–Gamma Approximation on Wiener Space

15:00 2 December 2020
Ehsan Azmoodeh (Liverpool) will speak in the Probability seminar. https://zoom.us/j/99566182567 Abstract: In this talk, we consider the problem of optimal Variance-Gamma approximation…

GDI Webinar: SDG1 - The Last Three Percent

16:30 - 18:00 2 December 2020
There is a little-noticed but important difference between the World Bank’s original goal for poverty reduction and the subsequent UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). While both…

Georg Christ (History), ‘The Inevitability of Crisis – Can We Escape Decline?’

12:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

Masha Dvoriashyna - Mathematical models of water transport across ocular epithelial layer

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Masha Dvoriashyna (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

SEERIH Science Spotlight: CLEAPPS

16:00 - 17:15 2 December 2020
This webinar in delivered by Jason Harding from CLEAPPS, for teachers to gain confidence in sources of information and resources, and approaches in managing risk in Primary Science,…

University of Manchester PGCE Secondary Q&A

18:00 - 19:00 2 December 2020
A Q&A session for those interested in the Secondary PGCE programmes at the University of Manchester Learn more about doing your Secondary PGCE at the University of Manchester, with…

Warning of volcanic eruptions in Campi Flegrei, southern Italy.

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
Prof Chris Kilburn, UEA, Norwich, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Forecasts of eruption are often uncertain at volcanoes reawakening…

CTIS | Research Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 3 December 2020
Translation as Circumspection: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Heidegger It is common in Translation Studies to worry a lot about theory. A perennial question from students…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 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.…

ESID webinar - The Politics of Addressing Africa's Urban Challenge

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
Urbanisation is occurring at a faster rate in Africa than in any other continent. Whether countries are able to use this to achieve higher levels of economic development, & ensure more…

Webinar: Data management basics

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
This free introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about research data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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