School of Social Sciences

Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau

14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will…

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…

"Managing the Wealth of Nations": PEC Research Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 30 April 2024
What a conceptual and ideas-based approach can tell us about capitalism and economic development, 15th-19th centuries?” Dr Philipp Rössner, Professor of Early Modern History, University…

Macro Seminar - Minchul Yum (Southampton)

16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
Title: TBA

Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and…

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2024
Title: Family Labor Supply under Health Shocks

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 1 May 2024
Dr Javier Sajuria, Queen Mary University of London

MET Seminar - Francesco Giovannoni (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 1 May 2024
Title: Pricing Novel Goods Abstract: We study a buyer-seller problem of a novel good for which the seller does not yet know the production cost. A contract can be agreed upon at either…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Devon Cass, "Equality and Institutions"

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2024
Dr Devon Cass, University of Manchester - "Equality and Institutions"

2023-24 Full Year: Undergraduate Politics Dissertation Conference

09:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Organised jointly by the Politics Department and Juncture [junctureuom.co.uk] student journal, the conference showcases undergraduate research in Politics & IR at the University of…

Macro Seminar - Jeanne Commault (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Title: TBA

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)

14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2024
Professor Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute) will be presenting "Perinatal health in educational attainment: individual and population level relevance" (joint work with…

Brownbag - Akbar Ullah (manchester Centre for Health Economics

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Title: The Impact of Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity on Wage Variation and Wage Sorting: Evidence from England's Adult Social Care Sector

MET Seminar - Joel Watson (UCSD)

17:00 - 18:00 8 May 2024
Title: Contractual Chains Abstract: This paper develops a model of private bilateral contracting, in which an exogenous network determines the pairs of players who can communicate…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Merten Reglitz, “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

16:00 9 May 2024
Dr Merten Reglitz, University of Birmingham - “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

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