School of Social Sciences

Brownbag - Kyriakos Neanidis

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2021
Title: The Currency Composition Channel of Monetary Policy and the Role of Macroprudential Regulation

ESRC Festival of Social Science Manchester

1 - 21 November 2021
The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Salford are running a variety of online and in-person events as part of this year’s ESRC Festival…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool)

15:15 - 16:50 17 November 2021
This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to…

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Sociology seminar: 'The Educational Stratification of Families: A sibling perspective'

14:45 - 15:45 17 November 2021
Speaker: Stian Uvaag (University of Bergen) Inequality in educational attainment is well-known to sociologists. An individual’s level of education is strongly associated with his or…

Applied Seminar - Annamaria Milazzo (World Bank)

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2021
Title: TBA

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson - via Zoom in the boardroom

16:00 - 18:00 22 November 2021
Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson The seminar is at 16:15 - 17:45pm in the boardroom if you are in the Arthur Lewis Building, in the Boardroom, Second Floor, 2.016/017 and via zoom. Please…

Family life across public/private settings: Towards a reconceptualisation of ‘family’ (Vanessa May)

15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2021
Vanessa May will be presenting a paper titled Family life across public/private settings: Towards a reconceptualisation of ‘family’ as part of 'Domestic | Private | Familial - 4'…

Macro Seminar - Edouard Schaal (CREI)

16:00 - 17:00 23 November 2021
Title: Herding through Booms and Busts (joint with Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel)

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
Title: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Labour Market Outcomes in the Future Generation?

Applied Seminar - Mauro Rota (Rome)

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2021
Title: TBA

Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’

16:00 - 18:00 29 November 2021
Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’ From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and…

Macro Seminar - Andreas Mueller (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 30 November 2021
Title: Structural Reforms in the Shadow of Debt Overhang: A Quantitative Perspective (joint with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti)

Brownbag - Michele Berardi

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2021
Title: TBA

Applied Seminar - Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary)

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2021
Title: TBA

Social Anthropology Seminar - via Zoom and in the Boardroom - Dr Rosana Pinheiro Machado

16:00 - 18:00 6 December 2021
Speaker : Rosana Pinheiro Machado Title : The right to shine : Poverty, consumption, and the politics of pleasure in Brazil. Description of the talk : The talk examines the political…

Macro Seminar - Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Barcelona)

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Title: Transfer Progressivity and Development (joint with Enric Martorell and Leandro De Magalhaes)

Social Statistics Seminar - 7 December 2021

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – December Session New measures for assessing non-ignorable selection bias in non-probability samples and low response rate probability samples…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)

15:15 - 16:50 8 December 2021
This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to…

Applied Seminar - Jacquelyn Pless (MIT)

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2021
Title: TBA

Material potencies and dormant things - inaugural lecture by Professor Sophie Woodward

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2021
Join us for Professor Sophie Woodward's inaugural lecture: "Material potencies and dormant things: expanding a vital sociology of the everyday" There is perhaps no more striking example…

Comics, short stories and fiction: Communicating research creatively

15:00 - 16:15 13 December 2021
Communicating research findings is a key aspect of academic work. In the main, scholarly papers and presentations to academic and non-academic audiences take the form of conventional…

Brownbag - Jasmin Fliegner

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2021
Title: TBA

The Limits of Racial Representation: Race, Culture, & Media

17:00 - 18:15 16 December 2021
A conversation between Herman Gray (UC Santa Cruz) and Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths). How has the politics of racial representation changed in the past thirty years? Professor Herman Gray…

Social Statistics Seminar - 18 January 2022

16:00 - 17:00 18 January 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – January Session We need to talk about statistics: The purpose of statistics is insight not numbers Neil Sheldon (Teaching Statistics Trust) …

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