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Alexandra Whittingham guitar

13:10 - 14:00 6 October 2022
Since the release of her debut album ‘My European Journey’ last year, guitarist Alexandra Whittingham has enjoyed sharing her passion for 19th century European music with the world.…

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

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

10:00 - 11:30 6 October 2022
Secondary analysis offers a great option for dissertation students who are looking to gain experience working with data but who have limited abilities to go out into the field or would…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Graham Twelftree (London School of Theology) ‘Magic and the Purpose of John’s Apocalypse’

14:00 - 15:30 6 October 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Have workplace studies had their day?

16:00 - 19:00 6 October 2022
Improving health and safety in the workplace – or the best management of occupation ill-health when it occurs – needs to be evidence based. But as time goes by, the collection of data…

Qualitative Methods Training for Manchester City Council, Autumn 2022

3 - 31 October 2022
We ran five qualitative methods training sessions for members of Manchester City Council as part of our CAPE project. After introducing the foundations and principles of qualitative…

[Internal UoM Event] Imaging Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Imaging Innovation Club. Innovation Spotlight: Tony Richards - Advanced Heritage Imaging: Acquisition and Delivery Tony Richards, Senior Photographer,…

Dafydd Fell - How do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party

12:30 - 13:30 7 October 2022
IN-PERSON: Electoral defeat is often viewed as the mother of party change. However, studies show that parties do not necessarily learn the right lessons of defeat. The way that parties…

A.M. Homes in Conversation (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2022
‘If I can pull us back into one conversation, the question is how to reclaim our America, a traditional America that honours the dreams of our forefathers.’ In a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona…

An Evening with Kamila Shamsie (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2022
How much can a childhood friendship developed into adulthood withstand? Maryam and Zahra are lifelong friends despite differences of class, politics and lifestyles. Their relationship…

Kit de Waal (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2022
'I live with the dread that one day when my young muscles rebel, can take no more stillness and the brutal confinement of my very self, I will stand and strip naked and burst out of…

A Memory of Dust: Heroin Addiction and Polydrug use in Post-industrial Scotland

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2022
Laura Roe (University of St Andrews) Chair: Sonja Dobroski

Black History Month lecture delivered by Professor David Olusoga OBE

10:00 - 11:30 10 October 2022
To celebrate Black History Month join us for a lecture with award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster, Professor David Olusoga OBE. The University of Manchester’s Professor of…

Guilt by Association: race, culture and criminalization

14:30 - 16:00 10 October 2022
In a recent controversial conspiracy case in Manchester several Black teenagers were found ‘guilty by association’ after prosecutors used social media messages and references to drill…

PGCE Secondary: Virtual information session

18:00 10 October 2022
A combination of impressive academic rankings and committed school partnerships means a PGCE from The University of Manchester will set you up for a bright future in teaching with a…

Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys

10:00 - 11:30 11 October 2022
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research…

Disasters and gender: presence and absence (HCRI Landmark Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 11 October 2022
The HCRI 2022 Landmark Lecture will be given by UCL's Prof. Maureen Fordham, an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing on the inclusion…

Kailing Xie - Love in the 'Chinese' way: making new national role models under Xi

12:30 - 13:30 11 October 2022
WEBINAR: When the Western concept of "true love” first came to China at the beginning of the twentieth century, China’s New Culturalists critiqued its absence in a traditional arranged…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Simon May

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Simon May - Leeds Title: A non-commutative resolution for discriminants of complex reflection groups. Abstract: In this talk I will introduce the complex reflection groups…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Galois bounds for unlikely intersections in a product of modular curves Abstract: The Zilber-Pink conjecture predicts that there…

Advanced electrocatalysts for sustainable energy technologies

12:00 - 13:00 12 October 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Laurie King. The annual production of hydrogen is over 70 million tons, with > 96% generated from fossil fuels (mostly by steam methane…

Manchester Digital Epidemiology School

09:00 12 - 17:30 14 October 2022
The Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis is hosting the 4th Manchester Digital Epidemiology School. The event is an exciting three-day course where participants will learn all about…

Marc Hodes - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 12 October 2022
Marc Hodes (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Title: Adiabatic section flow resistance…

Reverse engineering the locomotion of an early tetrapod: Insights from an multi-disciplinary approach

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2022
Dr. John Nyakatura from Humbolt Universitat zu Berlin will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation

09:00 12 - 17:00 13 October 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…

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