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Consent issues in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 8 June 2023
Does your research involve human participants? This means your research will require ethical approval. Do you know the different types of consent, for example consent for research participation…

New Future Music and Big Band

19:00 - 20:00 8 June 2023
Come down for an eclectic evening of music! Student compositions performed by the New Future Music Society Club Band and rounding off the evening with Big band classics! Student compositions…

Nigerian Gospel Performance

18:00 - 18:40 8 June 2023
The Music Department’s Nigerian Gospel Singing Ensemble is back for another end-of-year public performance. The ensemble was first formed in September 2021 to enable an encounter with…

Of Song and Speech: Music and Words from Industrial Lancashire

17:30 - 19:15 8 June 2023
Join us in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for an evening celebrating the culture of the 19th-century working classes. There will be a chance to explore rich collections…

One World Together Launch

11:00 - 12:30 8 June 2023
Please join GDI staff and students for a celebration and soft launch of their radical new social enterprise, One World Together. For the past two years, GDI academic Niki Banks and…

Writing for Wellbeing

12:00 - 14:00 8 June 2023
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something…

Exploring interactions between health, environmental challenges and disease

09:00 - 17:00 9 June 2023
On 9th June 2023 the ‘Ecoimmunology and context-specific Immunology’ branch of the Lydia Becker, joint with the Manchester Environmental Research Institute and Healthy Futures within…

Film Screening: Not Just Roads

18:00 - 21:00 9 June 2023
The University of Manchester's Global Urban Futures research group present a rare UK screening of the award-winning ethnographic documentary film "Not Just Roads", followed by a Q&A…

PLAY Day

10:30 - 14:30 9 June 2023
A space for under 5s and their grown-ups to come together to play, be curious and be creative with simple, open-ended play resources. “We love how these sessions give you the opportunity…

Prof. Juan Valle Retirement Celebration: 2pm Friday 9th June 2023

14:00 - 16:30 9 June 2023
Professor Juan W. Valle is retiring in June 2022 after over 30 years working for the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, and other international organisations.…

What's in a word, and what's in a dictionary?

11:00 - 12:00 9 June 2023
How would you describe the meanings of everyday English words such as rose, aunt, or giggle? You have probably come across words in one language that have several translations in another…

The University of Manchester Community Festival 2023

11:00 - 16:00 10 June 2023
There's so much to do at our Community Festival! Ever fancied hunting for the stars, tickling a robot or fighting killer fungus? Ever wondered how strong chocolate is, how the nervous…

University Heritage Tours

11:00 - 14:00 10 June 2023
As part of The University of Manchester’s Community Festival 2023, we invite you to join our Heritage Tour. Tours run at 11am, 12:30pm, and 2pm. Booking essential. The University of…

Workers' Words from Lancashire Life

10 June 2023
The Rylands is pleased to present a day of free activities inspired by the stories of culture, community and resilience from industrial Lancashire featured in our Workers’ Playtime…

Tasting children's literature - An edible readathon

12:30 - 13:30 11 June 2023
From the apple that Snow White should not have bitten and the drink that makes Alice’s trip to Wonderland possible to the feast gobbled by the very hungry little caterpillar in Eric…

Phononics 2023: 6th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials/Metasurfaces, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics

12 - 16 June 2023
Phononics 2023 is the sixth conference dedicated to analysis and manipulation of phonons (vibrations in solids), connecting researchers interested in phononic crystals, acoustic, elastic,…

CSSC Talk: Prof Heather Love (Penn), 'To be Real: The Passion of the Self in Queer Writing'

17:00 - 18:30 13 June 2023
This event is part of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture's public event series. Professor Heather Love is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She…

Hiro Fujiwara seminar 13/06/23

12:00 - 13:00 13 June 2023
Hironobu Fujiwara, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan "Multicellular and ECM dynamics underlying skin morphogenesis" The interaction between cells and…

IDSAI | Advances in Data Science and AI Conference 2023

08:30 - 18:30 13 June 2023
The Institute of Science and AI's annual Advances in Data Science and AI (ADSAI) Conference will take place on Tuesday 13 June in Manchester. This is a Digital Futures activity. The…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Miriam Norris

15:00 - 16:00 13 June 2023
Speaker: Miriam Norris (Manchester) Title: Lattice graphs for representations of GL3(F_p) Abstract: In recent work Le, Le Hung, Levin and Morra have proved a generalisation of Breuil’s…

Public Talk: Prof Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'The First Person at Work: Helen Garner, Hannah Arendt, and Wages for Housework'

13:00 - 14:30 13 June 2023
This event is part of the English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar, co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture Professor Christina Lupton…

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