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"How Memory Survives" - The 2020 Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture, with Alice Bloch

07:30 - 09:00 17 December 2020
The 2020 Agnes Heller Sociological Lecture is organised by the Department Of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Australia (which explains the early start for UK-based viewers). This…

ESID webinar - The Politics of Building State Capacity in Africa: What Role for 'Pockets of Effectiveness'?

17 December 2020
Why do some parts of the state in developing countries function much more effectively than others? What role do these ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) play in delivering development…

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…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Birth and Death: relations and connections' - Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

14:00 - 15:00 17 December 2020
Birth and death are usually conceived in opposition: birth as a beginning, death an end, birth as a source of hope and optimism and death the cause of grief. In this talk we will outline…

PSDP How can we help?

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2020
An opportunity to discuss small group sessions and practice/share any approaches with a warm and friendly group.

Queering the Gay Anthology: Edward Carpenter’s Ioläus

14:00 - 15:30 17 December 2020
This paper explores the central role played by translation in the gay liberation movement, focusing on the anthology as a privileged, although understudied, cultural form in minoritarian…

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…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 12 January: Should we measure food insecurity (and if so, how)?

16:00 - 17:00 12 January 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – January Session Should we measure food insecurity (and if so, how)? Insights from a novel machine learning approach with the world's largest food…

UK Data Service Computational Social Science Drop-in

13:00 - 14:00 12 January 2021
Join our free monthly UK Data Service Data Drop-in to get or give some help on Computational Social Science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert…

Coding Demonstrations: Social Network Analysis in Python

14:00 - 15:00 13 January 2021
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…

Manchester Live - Choosing What and Where to Study

17:00 - 18:00 13 January 2021
Tune in to receive top tips when choosing a degree programme and university. How do you make a decision when there are nearly 40,000 courses available at more than 370 Higher Education…

Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Network: Welcome Meeting

15:45 - 16:30 13 January 2021
Join us online for a welcome meeting of the new Primary Science Network Meeting for Rochdale REAL Trust schools. Book through the REAL Trust by clicking 'Register now' under More Information.

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 13 January 2021
An informal and supportive session to provide an opportunity to discuss scholarship ideas, protocols, activities, results, presentations and publications. To book a place, please go…

Data pre-processing training series: Webinar 1: Data Pre-processing: Introduction and Integration

13:00 - 14:00 14 January 2021
Data pre-processing is a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format. With the increasing amount of data available for research and analysis,…

International Symposium on very low Earth orbit missions and technologies

09:00 14 - 17:00 15 January 2021
Join us for the 1st Symposium bringing together the industrial, academic, and policy-making community involved in, or with aspirations for, VLEO missions. Many satellite applications…

New Directions in the Social History of Religion, 1700-1900, 14th-15th January 2021, 2-5pm

14 - 15 January 2021
Join our virtual workshop on new directions in the social history of religion. The history of religion has often occupied a historiographical space of its own, and has been unevenly…

How locally embedded are KIBS? A study of non-London advertising agencies and the locations of their leading clients

15:30 - 17:00 18 January 2021
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by Professor Bruce Tether and Gerald Chan, Alliance Manchester Business School. To join…

Does you Research have economic and/or social impacts?

12:30 - 14:00 20 January 2021
Join this online session January 20th to hear how the Innovation Factory and faculty Business Engagement team support academics in Humanities to create and maximise their value. Event…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 20 January 2021
We're offering students the opportunity to book a one-to-one session with a member of University staff! As we aren't currently visiting schools and colleges in person, Manchester Connect…

Manchester Live - Why Manchester?

19:00 - 20:00 20 January 2021
Tune in to find out everything you need to know about The University of Manchester. This webinar will explore the University's history and heritage, as well as the student experience,…

Photogenerated radical pairs as spin qubits: exploiting quantum entanglement of electron spins

15:00 - 16:00 20 January 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Michael R. Wasielewski. Ultrafast photodriven electron transfer reactions are used to prepare entangled electron spins having…

Data pre-processing training series: Webinar 2: Data Pre-processing: Clean, Reduce, Transform

13:00 - 14:00 21 January 2021
Data pre-processing is a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format. With the increasing amount of data available for research and analysis,…

Debating Buddhist Translations in Cyberspace: The Buddhist Online Discussion Forum as a Discursive and Epitextual Space

13:00 - 14:30 21 January 2021
Recent research in contemporary Buddhist studies has evinced a growing interest in how Buddhism is constructed and performed in the digital space (Grieve and Veidlinger 2015), and how…

Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

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