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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

Bike Registration Event

08:00 - 11:00 15 June 2022
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

Conference: Alternative Futures & Popular Protest

13:30 13 - 15:30 15 June 2022
Join us for our - free, online - international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest, and cognate topics, including: * contemporary or historical movements and…

Connectivity & inclusivity in Higher Education -Pilot Study 2

10:00 - 15:00 15 June 2022
Would you like to make your work easier, more inclusive and appealing to more people? Why not come along to this interesting and innovative workshop organised by the Women In Environmental…

Creativity, Health and Wellbeing café

13:00 - 14:30 15 June 2022
Join us for an informal lunch event and discussion centred on Creativity, Health and Wellbeing About this event: Join us for an in-person event to connect researchers with, artists,…

Data scraping with R

13:00 - 15:00 15 June 2022
To sign up, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/web-scraping-with-r-tickets-265887024247 Overview In recent years, there has been an increase in interest in collecting and…

Greater Manchester Festival of Libraries 2022

15 - 17 June 2022
15-19 June 2022 sees the return of Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries. Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcases…

Investigating the water oxidation mechanism on metal oxide electrocatalysts using operando spectroelectrochemistry

13:00 - 14:00 15 June 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Reshma Rao. Efficient (photo)electrochemical oxidation of water is central to the production of energy carriers such as hydrogen.…

Levelling Up Education: New Approaches to Place, Work and Education

14:00 15 - 13:00 16 June 2022
Hosted by the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) and the Academic College Day ONE: 2-6pm, 15 June 2022 Day TWO: 9:30am-1pm, 16 June 2022 Participants include: Kate Green MP,…

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…

Social Movements and Anti-Racism (online and in person)

11:15 - 12:45 15 June 2022
Leading scholars and activists consider the relationship between researching social movements, ‘race’/racisms and practicing anti-racism. In one of few empirical accounts of anti-racist…

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.…

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…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 15 - 17:00 16 June 2022
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming…

'Mapping the Politics of Race, Place and Sex in Twentieth-Century Britain' Jade Bentil (Oxford)

13:00 - 14:15 16 June 2022
How might Black women and transfeminine people's adventures with pleasure, sex and glamour be understood as an art form? What might beauty as a method offer to those living in a space…

Bike Registration Event

10:00 - 12:00 16 June 2022
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

Controlling light down to the single-photon level with integrated quantum photonic devices

12:00 - 13:00 16 June 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Luca Sapienza. Light-matter interactions allow exploring new physics and adding functionalities to photonic on-chip devices, thus…

Humans In The Loop: The Future of Design and Digital Manufacturing

10:00 - 12:00 16 June 2022
We are hosting an exciting cross-theme event between the Digital Futures Human-Centred Design, Industry 5.0, and Employment & Productivity themes. As we move towards more sophisticated…

MCAE presents 'Manchester Community Archaeology and History Day'

10:00 - 17:00 16 June 2022
The Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology is hosting a one-day networking and knowledge exchange event on community archaeology and history activities and research undertaken…

Mental Capacity and Personal Finances

11:00 - 12:00 16 June 2022
The ability to manage personal finances is particularly important for older adults, who in addition to managing day-to-day finances, are required to make major financial decisions associated…

Policing the pandemic

17:30 - 19:00 16 June 2022
Join Co-POWeR and CoDE to discuss policing during Covid-19 and its implications on state racism and public health law and guidance The over-policing of racialised communities increased…

Reanimating data: secondary analysis, historical enquiry, & participatory data collection

16 June 2022
The aim of this interactive workshop is to explore data reanimation as a qualitative research method. The focus will be on creative, participatory and innovative ways of working with…

Urban Infrastructural Configurations with Vincent Andrisani

16:30 - 18:00 16 June 2022
We are running a 2021-22 Reading Group on urban infrastructural (re)configurations. We are interested in infrastructure and the everyday, focusing on the human-infrastructure interface.…

RADER Facility Virtual Launch

13:00 - 15:00 17 June 2022
The launch of the new Radioactive Waste Disposal and Environmental Remediation Lab, funded by NNUF II and The University of Manchester. The seminar is targeted at both new and experienced…

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