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

10:00 - 11:30 20 April 2023
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: John Barton, University of Oxford, Suffering and the Problem of Evil in the Prophets

14:10 - 15:30 20 April 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,…

In-Between Textiles, 1400–1800: Online Book Launch

15:00 - 16:00 20 April 2023
Join us online for a book launch organised in collaboration with Amsterdam University Press to celebrate the publication of In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and…

Joint MET-Macro-Applied Seminar: Anne Villamil (Iowa)

15:00 - 16:00 20 April 2023
Title: Tighter Credit and Consumer Bankruptcy Insurance Abstract: How does bankruptcy protection affect household balance sheet adjustments and aggregate consumption when credit tightens?…

Political Deference (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 20 April 2023
Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick) Political deference is deference to the political judgment of others. The standard view in political philosophy is that citizens are not required…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2023
This event, in partnership with Creative Manchester, will showcase talks from The University of Manchester's Professor Ricardo Climent and Professor Mat Paterson. Agenda 14:00: Welcome…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 20 - 17:00 21 April 2023
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…

WCLC - Lana Bode performs HerStories Unsung by Kevin Malone

13:10 - 14:00 20 April 2023
Contemporary pianist Lana Bode performs the world premiere of Kevin Malone’s HerStories Unsung Vol.2, a suite of piano pieces which tell the stories of marginalised women including…

Working with Industry as an Early Career Researcher

12:00 - 13:30 20 April 2023
Join Dr Sam Butterworth, Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry and SHS Business Engagement Lead, and a panel of ECR speakers to find out their perspective of working with industry.…

Christopher Rea - Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities

15:30 - 17:00 21 April 2023
How can we use digital platforms—including social media—to enhance research and learning on modern China? How can we make the “obscure” (to non-specialists) discoverable? What are the…

Global Shakespeare in Manchester

11:00 - 16:00 22 April 2023
Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library to mark the anniversary of the publication of the first edition of William Shakespeare’s plays 400 years ago. Meet curators…

Applied Creative Practice 1: What is the “applied” in applied creative research?

11:00 - 13:00 24 April 2023
This seminar is the first of a series of three linked workshops which will bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary fields in SALC to examine how different disciplines…

Chemical Imaging and Tomography - Training Course

09:00 24 - 17:00 25 April 2023
Jumpstart your understanding of advanced chemical imaging & tomography with this two-day course by Finden. Learn about the fundamental principles, current instrumentation, and how these…

Faith in paper: Title deeds, land fraud and anxious subjectivities - the pursuit of middle-class homeownership on Nairobi’s urban frontier

16:00 - 18:00 24 April 2023
Dr Peter Lockwood Faith in paper: Title deeds, land fraud and anxious subjectivities - the pursuit of middle-class homeownership on Nairobi’s urban frontier Beginning with scenes of…

International symposium “Thinkers for Architecture – Dialogue 1: Foucault / Merleau–Ponty / Latour”

24 - 27 April 2023
24-27th of April – International symposium “Thinkers for Architecture – Dialogue 1: Foucault / Merleau–Ponty / Latour” in collaboration with the “Thinkers for Architects” series at…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Simulations at the nexus of known and unknown: Catastrophe models in terrorism insurance

15:30 - 16:30 24 April 2023
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23 with Dr Eugenia Cacciatori, Senior Lecturer in Management at Bayes Business School, City, University…

Simon Pearce -- Detecting and subtyping cancer using cell-free DNA methylation from blood plasma [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 24 April 2023
Join us for this seminar by Simon Pearce (CRUK Manchester Institute) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Design for additive manufacturing, a methodology to enhance fatigue performance

15:00 - 16:00 25 April 2023
Abstract of the lecture In the design of mechanical components and structures, the presence of geometrical discontinuities is unavoidable. These geometrical discontinuities are usually…

Ineffability and Transcendence

25 - 26 April 2023
The philosophy department is proud to present a two-day event on Ineffability and Transcendence. The event is supported by the University of Manchester, the Global Philosophy of Religion…

Macro Seminar - Paul Klein (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 25 April 2023
Title: Innovation-Driven Growth in a Multi-Country World

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Pavle Pandzic

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2023
Speaker: Pavle Pandzic - Zagreb Title: Embeddings of Dirac operators Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Michael Curran

15:00 - 16:00 25 April 2023
Speaker: Michael Curran (Oxford) Title: Correlations of the Riemann zeta function Abstract: Shifted moments of the Riemann zeta function, introduced by Chandee, are natural generalizations…

Refugee Tales: Walking Inquiry Exhibition

25 - 27 April 2023
Join us for the Refugee Tales: Walking Inquiry Exhibition in Manchester, which brings together the voices and insights of people with lived experience of immigration detention and Volunteer…

Research Café: Other Voices and Walking Inquiry Exhibition Launch

16:00 - 18:00 25 April 2023
Images of immigration and refugee experiences rarely include their voices and this roundtable will reflect on different approaches to reframing, raising awareness of and centring immigrant…

Technicity against “Technology”: An Anthropology of Technical Objects

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2023
A talk on Technicity against “Technology”: An Anthropology of Technical Objects delivered by Ludovic Coupaye (UCL). This event is part of Affective Artefacts, a series of events exploring…

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