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An introduction to the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr John Baker. The Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) is a partnership between universities (Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton,…

ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

22 January - 31 December 2022
Be blown away by the stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photography of the Year exhibition from The Royal Observatory Greenwich. IMAGE: Polar Lights Dance © Dmitrii Rybalka

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Title: Air Pollution and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Europe

Collection Encounter: Living Letters

14:30 - 15:30 23 February 2022
Join us as we explore the fascinating world of letters. Using the unique collections at the Rylands we'll peek into private correspondence, offering us a rare view of writer and the…

Dalton Seminar Series | How do we develop fusion regulation?

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
A virtual round table discussion about what we need to do to develop the regulation required for future fusion reactors, with representatives from The University of Manchester, the…

Dr Emma Chapman - Preventing & Tackling Sexual Misconduct: Lessons Learned

15:00 - 16:00 23 February 2022
The Department of Physics & Astronomy welcomes Dr Emma Chapman for our February Colloquium. There are many obstacles in the way of navigating the academic world successfully. This…

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection

2 July 2021 - 1 May 2022
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

FEBRUARY HALF-TERM: Astronomy Photographer of the Year craft activities

19 - 27 February 2022
FEBRUARY HALF-TERM Astronomy Photographer of the Year craft activities Saturday 19th February – Sunday 27th February 11am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-4pm Come along to our Astronomy Photographer…

FEBRUARY HALF-TERM: Astronomy Photographer of the Year – The Science Show!

21 - 25 February 2022
FEBRUARY HALF-TERM Astronomy Photographer of the Year – The Science Show! Monday 21st February – Friday 25th February Show times: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm You’ve seen the Astronomy Photographer…

Finn Lindgren - inlabru: Extending and simplifying the INLA interface for spatial and non-linear models

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Finn Lindgren, Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: inlabru: Extending and simplifying…

GDI Lecture Series: The New International Economic Order and the Right to Development: Rethinking Genealogies of Globalization with Jennifer Bair

16:00 - 17:30 23 February 2022
This talk focuses on development politics at the United Nations, particularly the period of the so-called New International Economic Order (NIEO) in the 1970s. The NIEO was an effort…

Julio Villa-García & Francisco Martín Miguel (University of Oviedo): "Lessons from linguistics: putting the science of language to use"

16:00 - 17:30 23 February 2022
In this talk, we argue that knowledge of linguistics can be extremely useful, particularly for language experts (teachers, translators, etc.). Far from the preconceived idea that a…

Kathputli Utsav - A Festival of Traditional Indian Arts

15:30 - 17:00 23 February 2022
Join us as we celebrate International Mother Language Day with Kathputli Utsav - A Festival of Traditional Indian Arts. Kathputli Utsav celebrates the skill, talent and culture of…

Kathputli Utsav Student Social

17:00 - 18:30 23 February 2022
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute are delighted to welcome staff and students back for Semester Two with this social, following the Kathputli Utsav. Catch-up with course-mates…

Knowledge acquisition of expatriates: Implications for career development and innovation performance

14:30 - 15:30 23 February 2022
Acquiring and transferring knowledge across countries is a key success factor for multinational enterprises. Expatriates, as conduits of knowledge, play a key role in this process.…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2022
Marion Hoffman IAST Toulouse Statistical modeling of social groups: An example and some outlooks Many social relations are situated within groups. Social groups are formed, for example,…

Naval Singh - Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Naval Singh (University of Manchester) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis…

Outdoor Explorers

4 August 2021 - 17 August 2022
Whether you live in a city or town, countryside or seaside, you will find all sorts of nature on your doorstep. Just like the scientists and researchers who have collected and studied…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)

15:15 - 16:50 23 February 2022
Please note that this seminar will be taking place on Zoom. For the relevant Zoom link, contact Dr Stephen Ingram Title: *Playfulness as a Moral Virtue? Abstract: *In this paper I…

Robert Shorten -- Cyber-physical Systems, Control Theory, and examples of Health Interventions

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Robert Shorten (Imperial) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

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:…

Still Parents: Life after Baby Loss

24 September 2021 - 4 September 2022
Still Parents is the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories open conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.…

Suzanne Lacy: What kind of city? A manual for social change

26 November 2021 - 10 April 2022
The Whitworth presents the first major UK presentation of multiple works of US artist Suzanne Lacy, a pioneer of social practice and community organising for almost five decades. In…

Telescope Talks

25 September 2021 - 29 May 2022
Telescope Talks (weekends only) Times: 11am, 12pm, 2:15pm and 3:15pm Come and join one of our expert Explainers for a talk about the Lovell telescope. You’ll learn all about the fascinating…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

TO PARADISE - Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Simon Savidge

18:30 - 20:30 23 February 2022
Hanya Yanagihara, author of the million-copy bestseller A Little Life, introduces her incredible new novel TO PARADISE. About this event with Blackwell's Manchester We're thrilled…

Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation

09:00 23 - 17:00 24 February 2022
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process…

[Internal UoM Event] Mapping/GIS Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

15:00 - 16:00 23 February 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Mapping/GIS Innovation Club. Innovation Spotlight: Dr Matt Dennis will be talking to us about the CASTOR (Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes…

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