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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

Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing

10:00 - 11:30 20 May 2022
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to Copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focusses…

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…

Reproducibility Bootcamp - online

26 April - 24 May 2022
Ideally, research is collaborative, well-documented, sharable, and can be reproduced by others (or by the original researchers at a later point in time). Not only does this make a researcher’s…

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.…

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…

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09:00 16 - 17:00 20 May 2022
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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…

A Practical Introduction to Facet Methodology

10:30 - 16:00 23 May 2022
This is an intermediate level course organised by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Facet Methodology is an approach developed by a team of colleagues at the Morgan Centre…

A Practical Introduction to Facet Methodology

23 May 2022
Facet Methodology is an approach developed by a team of colleagues at the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester. It is a creative approach to mixing…

AMBS Doctoral Research Conference

09:00 23 - 17:00 27 May 2022
This event is for our Doctoral Postgraduate Researchers and their supervisory teams. More information will follow in due course. To register please email paul.greenham@manchester.ac.uk

Can Southern cities generate inclusive/distributive development? Urbanization pathways in Africa today

12:00 - 13:30 23 May 2022
Urban-economic geographers have called for a more robust, comparative project to examine and elucidate the drivers of, and prospects for, more just, distributive, and progressive urban…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Amita Baviskar

16:00 - 18:00 23 May 2022
Title : To be added shortly Description : To be added shortly Please register here : https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdO2hqjouHtNwQF4AQQ-ruCzVYKrnHGzN

Confucius Institute Talk: The portrayal of gay characters in Chinese cinema

18:00 - 19:00 24 May 2022
This talk will introduce the audience to the changing representations of gay characters in films from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The films that will be explored include,…

Getting started with secondary analysis

10:00 - 11:30 24 May 2022
Participants will learn about the key issues to consider when using secondary data analysis as a method. This introductory workshop will briefly cover the pros and cons of reusing data…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - John Murray

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2022
Speaker: John Murray Title: From the Alperin-McKay conjecture to Berstein-Zelevinsky Triangles Abstract: The McKay conjecture asserts that a finite group has the same number of odd…

Margaret Hillenbrand - Feeling Precarious in China

12:30 - 13:30 24 May 2022
On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in the basement of a two-storey building in Xinjian urban village, located just outside Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road. At least…

Brownbag - Stefan Petry

13:00 - 14:00 25 May 2022
Title: Firm Survival and Performance during Hyperinflation: Business as Usual?

CGP Cluster Seminar Series Events in Semester 2, 2021-2022 - Chenchen Zhang (Queens University Belfast)

13:00 - 15:30 25 May 2022
“Race, gender, and the culture war in the co-construction of the US-China rivalry”. Details to be confirmed

Logic Seminar - Paul Shafer (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 25 May 2022
Title: Cohesive powers of linear orders Abstract: A cohesive power of a computable structure is an effective analog of an ultrapower, where a cohesive set acts as an ultrafilter. We…

BASS Annual Lecture by Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE

11:00 - 12:00 26 May 2022
For the BA Social Sciences Annual Lecture, Helen Pankhurst will be giving a participatory lecture on women’s lives, past, present and future. The session will start with some reflections…

Faculties of Science & Engineering and Humanities Electrification Workshop

12:30 - 15:30 26 May 2022
Please note that tickets are sold out for this event. The electrification of the UK is fundamental to the government’s 2050 Net Zero targets. This is a radical change that will impact…

Nuclear Waste Services RSO Seminar | Automation and autonomous research

13:00 - 14:30 26 May 2022
The Nuclear Waste Services Research Support Office (RSO) research in progress seminar series aims to facilitate knowledge exchange between NWS, academics and research organisations…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Cottonopolis: The Making of Global Manchester

12:00 26 May 2022
Join our lunchtime seminar to delve into questioning how the cotton industry allowed Manchester to become the metropolis it is today. In this lunchtime seminar, Edmond Smith and Janette…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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