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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 - 12:00 7 October 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…

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…

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…

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

Bike Registration Event

08:00 - 12:00 10 October 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…

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…

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 15:30 12 October 2022
Professor Peter Gries (University of Manchester): “How Gendered Stereotypes of Race Shape Anti-Chinese Covid-related Prejudice”

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 12 October 2022
Title: An unbounded version of Zarankiewicz's problem Abstract: Zarankiewicz's problem for hypergraphs asks for upper bounds on the number of edges of a hypergraph that has no complete…

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…

Martin Larsson - Propagation of chaos for maxima of particle systems with mean-field drift interaction (online)

15:00 - 16:00 12 October 2022
Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study the asymptotic behavior of normalized maxima of real-valued particles with mean-field drift…

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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