Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings

14:00 - 15:30 23 March 2023
CTIS Research Seminar 2 'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings Narratives are primary means of constructing identity…

BASS Annual Lecture 2023

11:00 - 12:00 23 March 2023
Nazir Afzal was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2022. He has a long and prestigious record of engaging with, and fighting for human rights, social justice,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Hilary Marlow, University of Cambridge, The Land, the Poor, and the Rich: An Ecojustice Reading of the Book of Amos

14:10 - 15:30 23 March 2023
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,…

Fred Jevons Lecture - Equity for Women in Science

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
This year’s Fred Jevons lecture will be given by Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.…

Jérémie Voirol (Geneva/UoM): Indigenous elegance in the city: Producing contemporary indigeneity through YouTube music videos in Otavalo, Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This talk will be ftf in Samuel Alexander A114 but can be also followed…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar: Gardening Can Speak Proper English: Exploring Early Modern Manuals

12:00 - 12:45 23 March 2023
Join us for an online discussion about John Evelyn’s translation of La Quintinie’s gardening summa, Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers of 1690, Stephen Switzer wrote,…

Report Launch: International Innovations in Childcare – What can Manchester share and learn?

28 March 2023
For the last year the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team at the University of Manchester have been working with Manchester City Council to consider innovative urban policy strategies…

Hilary Hunt -- Metabolism and energy bottlenecks in plant vasculature [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2023
Join us for this seminar by Hilary Hunt (Oxford) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/…

MAHSC Inaugural Lectures: Celebrating MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2023
The MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs are awarded on an annual basis by The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Promotions Committee. They are awarded…

Smart cities: what are they and who benefits?

13:00 - 14:30 29 March 2023
Join Policy@Manchester for our monthly GM Policy Hub seminar series. Each month, we will focus on a different regional policy agenda, with a University of Manchester academic presenting…

Towards a two-dimensional spin photon interface

12:00 - 13:00 29 March 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Hannah Stern. Optically addressable spins in materials are important platforms for quantum technologies, such as repeaters for quantum…

MICRA Research Showcase

12:00 - 17:00 3 April 2023
We are delighted to host an in-person Research Showcase on Monday 3rd April to present the latest in ageing research. The event will begin with a complimentary lunch on the mezzanine…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Edmond Smith (Manchester)

16:00 - 17:00 6 April 2023
Title: TBC

Division of Psychology & Mental Health April PGR Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 18 April 2023
Please join us in April for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health PGR Research Seminar Tuesday 18th April 12:00 - 13:00 *virtual seminar*. we are pleased to welcome: • Angie…

From scientist to entrepreneur in the Biotechnology and HealthTech sector

13:00 - 14:00 18 April 2023
This guest lecture showcases the entrepreneurial journey from converting possibilities into opportunities, evaluating risk, forming partnerships and exiting via buy-outs and acquisitions,…

Macro Seminar - Alexander Ludwig (Frankfurt)

16:00 - 17:00 18 April 2023
Title: The Medical Expansion, Life-Expectancy and Endogenous Directed Technical Change

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Jack Shotton

13:00 - 14:00 18 April 2023
Speaker: Jack Shotton - Durham Joint with Number theory Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jack Shotton

13:00 - 14:00 18 April 2023
Joint talk with Algebra seminar - note the unusual time of 1 pm Speaker: Jack Shotton (Durham) Title: Endomorphisms of Gelfand-Graev representations Abstract: The Gelfand-Graev representation…

The Politics of ‘Voice’ in Education: Dr Eve Mayes (Deakin University, Australia)

14:00 - 15:00 18 April 2023
In this dialogic talk, Dr. Eve Mayes will share some of the textures, tremors and murmurs of voice felt over ten years of ethnographic and participatory research in Australian schools…

Vortex connection and turbulence cascade

15:00 - 16:00 18 April 2023
Abstract of the lecture: This is an online only lecture. Turbulence, one of the most challenging problems left over from classical physics, has a wide range of applications in the…

Brownbag - Patrick Bennett (Liverpool)

13:00 - 13:50 19 April 2023
Title: The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Liz Richardson

16:00 - 17:30 19 April 2023
Liz Richardson (University of Manchester)

MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - Stephen Walker, “Occasional Architecture”

14:00 - 16:00 19 April 2023
MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - 19 April 2-4 pm – Stephen Walker, “Occasional Architecture” - Room Booked 1.27 HBS

Maria Tatulea-Codrean -- Asymptotic approaches to solving the N-flagella problem of bacterial motility [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 19 April 2023
Join us for this seminar by Maria Tatulea-Codrean (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Xiaochuan Yang - Some recent progress in random geometric graphs: beyond the standard regimes

15:00 - 16:00 19 April 2023
Xiaochuan Yang (Brunel University London) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) I will survey some recent joint works with Mathew Penrose (Bath) on the cluster structure…

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