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Alien Hunt!

24 April - 20 June 2021
Alien Hunt! Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the…

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

24 April - 31 October 2021
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Saturday 25 September – Sunday 31 October The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s hugely popular Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at…

Daily Telescope Talks

24 April - 20 June 2021
Daily Telescope Talks Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Join one of our expert Explainers for a short talk on the giant Lovell Telescope. You’ll learn all about its fascinating…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Kazuo Ishiguro & Jackie Kay in Conversation

19:30 19 April - 12:00 17 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Mon 19 April 2021 and available to watch until 17 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Do you believe in the human heart?’…

Natalie Diaz NEW COMMISSION Hosted by Mary Jean Chan

22 April - 21 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April 2021 and available to watch until 21 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Natalie Diaz is a poet who…

Postgraduate Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

09:00 - 16:15 14 May 2021
Annual PGR symposium in Latin American Studies organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. It will include training sessions & presentations. All welcome, especially…

Pure Mathematics Colloquium - Martin Hairer - Geometric stochastic PDEs

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2021
Speaker: Martin Hairer, Imperial College London Series: Pure Mathematics Colloquium Title: Geometric stochastic PDEs Abstract: We review Parisi and Wu’s stochastic quantisation…

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…

Ginestra Bianconi -- Mathematics of epidemic spreading: From modelling the epidemic plateaus to assessing the role of contact tracing apps in mitigating the epidemics

14:00 - 15:00 17 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

MRC Come & See: Prof Alan McNally on COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance

16:00 - 17:00 17 May 2021
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents one of the greatest global public health threats, endangering the effective prevention and treatment of common bacterial infections as well as…

Restud Tour 2021

13:45 17 - 17:00 21 May 2021
The Review of Economic Studies May Meetings have been held annually in May since 1989. Every year, in line with the Review’s tradition of encouraging the work of young economists, some…

UK manufacturing must digitise in order to grow

15:30 - 17:00 17 May 2021
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by guest speaker, Donna Edwards, Managing Director Business Support and Business Finance,…

Enrich Your Teaching and Learning with Special Collections

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2021
The University of Manchester Library's Special Collections span five millennia, they form an astonishingly rich resource of rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, archives, oral…

GM Connected Health Ecosystem: COSMIC-19 and EMBRaCE Projects

10:30 - 12:00 18 May 2021
The second Connected Health Ecosystem of 2021 will be held virtually on Tuesday 18th May, 10.30-12.00. The meeting is centred on two new projects in connected health that are led…

INFRA+ Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities: Southeast Asia

14:30 18 May 2021
Speakers: Prof Amita Bhide, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Shubhagato Dasgupta, Centre for Policy Research Arif Hasan Dr Kavita Wankhade, Indian Institute for Human Settlements…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Tom Zielinski - University of Oxford

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2021
Speaker: Tom Zielinski - University of Oxford Title: Fusion products and perverse coherent sheaves Abstract: Cyclic modules over loop algebras possess an interesting monoidal structure…

Manchester Digital Collections: Getting to Know Gaskell

19:00 - 20:00 18 May 2021
Elizabeth Gaskell fanatic or new to her novels? Explore digitised documents in this online event with Curator Jessica Smith, resident researcher Zoe Miller, a specialist in gender and…

Online Discussion: Community Responses to COVID-19 in Greater Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 18 May 2021
Policy@Manchester and the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, present: Community Responses to COVID-19 in Greater Manchester How have communities across Greater Manchester responded…

Online workshop: Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

11:00 - 12:30 18 May 2021
Secondary analysis is a great way to get experience working with data without having to go into the field. This free workshop, organised by the UK Data Service, will take you through…

Towards an Anti-Racist Dance Research

14:00 - 15:30 18 May 2021
In this talk we reflect, as two colleagues and friends, on expectations, doubts, and discoveries arising from our collaborative, anti-racist research project on contemporary dance in…

Webinar: What is Synthetic Data?

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2021
In this free webinar series, we cover the advantages and disadvantages of synthetic data. We explore the variety of methods available to generate synthetic data. Finally, we discuss…

Xiaodong Lin, Magdalena Wong & Derek Hird - Masculinities in China and Chinese Masculinities: Roundtable Discussion

12:30 - 13:30 18 May 2021
In this discussion-focused event, the MCI has invited speakers Dr Xiaodong Lin (University of York) and Dr Magdalena Wong (Independent scholar), as well as discussant Dr Derek Hird…

SCI David Schlosberg Seminar Series

10:00 - 12:00 19 May 2021
This talk explores the idea of – and demand for – Political Participation that is just, pre figurative, sustainable, and based in material actions. What kind of politics is guerrilla…

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