School of Social Sciences

Exhibition launch: Teenage Kicks

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2024
Join us at Glasgow Women's Library this International Women’s Day to celebrate the launch of our Teenage Kicks exhibition about eight girls growing up in the 1960s. Life in 1960s…

Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974

8 March - 18 May 2024
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was…

Econometrics Seminar - Raffaella Giacomini (FRB Chicago, UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 11 March 2024
Title: A Robust Method for Microforecasting and Estimation of Random Effects Authors: Raffaella Giacomini, Sokbae Lee, Silvia Sarpietro Abstract: We propose a method for forecasting…

Juli Perczel (University of Cambridge)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2024
Juli Perczel: Labouring for the dream of a circular world Despite the extreme academic suspicion of the informal economy concept in the social sciences, it continues to be used as…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2024
Title: TBA

Brownbag - Vera Zabrodina (University of Basel)

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2024
Title: Timing Moral Hazard under Deductibles in Health Insurance

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 13 March 2024
Dishil Shrimankar and Francisco Espinoza, University of Manchester

Data Science in Practice

14:00 - 15:00 13 March 2024
Sixth and last event in the Data Science in Practice Series, organised by the Department of Social Statistics for any student interested in the use of Data Science in commercial settings.…

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 13 March 2024
Prof. Dejan Jovic, University of Zagreb – “The Balkans and the EU – prospects and controversies” Chair: EWC Time and location at University of Liverpool TBC

MET Seminar - Harry Pei (Northwestern)

17:00 - 18:00 13 March 2024
Title: Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records Abstract: I study repeated games with anonymous random matching where players can erase signals from their records. When players…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 March 2024
Yuanyuan Zhang

The Annual Harry Street Lecture 2024

17:30 - 19:30 13 March 2024
Human Rights, the Cost of Living and Polycrisis in Europe This Lecture, which will be given by Professor Aoife Nolan, President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Liam Shields, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My brother”

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2024
Liam Shields, University of Manchester - “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My brother”

“Would They Defend Our Eastern Border?” State Allegiances as Potent Connections - Sirpa Wrede

13:45 - 15:00 14 March 2024
Morgan Centre and Department of Sociology seminar Professor Sirpa Wrede (Centre of Excellence for Research in Ageing and Care, University of Helsinki, Finland) This paper considers…

Publishing in Political Economy: Navigating the Inter-Disciplinary Landscape

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2024
This roundtable is primarily aimed at PhD students and ECRs at the University of Manchester who work on issues related to political economy across a range of disciplines and those who…

Social Statistics Seminars: Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge)

14:00 - 15:30 19 March 2024
Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge) will be presenting “Mendelian randomization: How can genetics guide the design of clinical trials?”. The event will take place in Williamson Building,…

'Mystery in Everyday Life' James Hodgson

12:30 20 March 2024
This seminar organised by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSSP) at The University of Leeds is given by James Hodgson (The University of Manchester) on the topic of 'mystery…

Brownbag - Usama Jamal

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2024
Title: Tackling Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Earnings Stripping Rules

Critical Global Politics Talk - Dr Amira Halperin

15:00 - 16:00 20 March 2024
The Critical Global Politics Cluster will be hosting a talk by Dr Amira Halperin on the topic of ’The Palestinian Refugees- from Gaza & the West Bank to the UK - Past, Present and Future…

Econometrics Seminar - Melanie Schienle (KIT)

12:00 - 13:00 8 April 2024
Title: Consistent model determination of ultra-high dimensional cointegrated time series (with Shi Chen) Abstract: This paper proposes a method for model determination in ultra-high…

RESCHEULED - Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (University of Manchester)

16:00 8 April 2024
This seminar will be rescheduled to next term (date TBC). Malgorzata Stelmaszyk: Living the dream: shamanic crossings and climate crisis among Nanai in the Siberian Far East This…

Macro Seminar - Miguel Ferreira (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 9 April 2024
Title: From Spreads to Spirals: How Financial Frictions Drive Lumpy Investments

PPE Annual Lecture - Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge) on 'The Digital Economy and Productivity'

16:00 - 19:00 9 April 2024
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book - ‘Cogs and Monsters:…

Brownbag - Yizhou (Kyle) Kuang

13:00 - 14:00 10 April 2024
Title: Identification-driven Monte Carlo Sampling

Comparative Politics Seminar - 'Russia and Ukraine: Entagled Histories Divering States'

15:30 10 April 2024
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, McGill University/Tufts University - 'Russia and Ukraine: Entagled Histories Divering States'

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