Workshop

Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing

10:00 9 May 2024
Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research projects. A key data management…

Venture Building Workshop: Getting into social entrepreneurship and mission-led business

11:00 - 13:00 9 May 2024
The initial part of this workshop will provide you with insights into designing and developing initiatives to create social as well as commercial impact. Following this, you'll be put…

Artsmethods: Textual Analysis

11:00 - 13:00 13 May 2024
This core workshop introduces one of the most practised methods in the study of texts. Textual analysis is intended as a tool which engenders readings. The workshop provides postgraduates…

Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing

10:00 - 11:30 14 May 2024
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to Copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focuses…

Venture Building Workshop: Storytelling 101

15:00 - 17:00 15 May 2024
We delve into the power of narratives in the business context. We will explore the different ways in which you can craft a compelling narrative around the founding team and your startup's…

Heritage and Archival Correspondences: The attentive public and the ‘impact’ of discovery

10:00 - 16:00 16 May 2024
This one-day workshop explores the direct engagement of an ‘attentive public’ with researchers and heritage institutions by means of personal and/or official ‘correspondence’ of all…

The City After Dark: Air Space Night Walk + Workshop

19:30 - 21:30 16 May 2024
“The city after dark is always in a process of becoming, arguably even more so than the city during the daytime, since boundaries of identity and place may appear more ambiguous and…

Venture Building Workshop: Trend watching; how to innovate and predict the future

15:00 - 17:00 16 May 2024
This session will give you an introduction to techniques that can be used to notice, observe and sometimes predict trends. You'll develop knowledge of how trends emerge and transform…

Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives

10:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground…

Venture Building Workshop: Value Proposition Canvas

15:00 - 17:00 29 May 2024
Join us for an awesome session where we'll help you figure out what makes your startup tick using the Value Proposition Canvas – no fancy stuff, just practical advice! Step 1: Let's…

Consent issues in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 5 June 2024
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…

Art for Wellbeing Methodology Workshop

10:00 - 13:00 6 June 2024
In this free to attend workshop, Cartwheel Arts will share their Art for Wellbeing methodology and practise. You will learn how Art for Wellbeing is distinct from other practises such…

Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography 2024

10 - 12 June 2024
Join Maisie Tomlinson for this 3-day immersive, reflective workshop in multi-species methods in Manchester. How can we be more sensitive, imaginative, critical and ethical researchers…

Exploring Narrative as a Research Methods

11:00 - 13:00 10 June 2024
This workshop will focus on narrative as informing research methodology. We will look at narrative as a practice of understanding ourselves and our relationship with the world through…

Computational social science drop-in

13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the…

Introduction to anonymisation techniques for social sciences research data

10:00 - 11:30 11 June 2024
Researchers are often at a crossroads on how to share data collected from human participants ethically while complying with the rigorous standards set by UK General Data Protection…

Making Doughnut-Economics work for Peace

11 June 2024
Hosted by Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The purpose of the workshop is to provide a space for a focused discussion…

Healthier Futures: Poverty and Deprivation Networking Event

10:00 - 12:30 12 June 2024
Please register for the event here: https://forms.office.com/e/j2aMT9GSHe The Healthier Futures Poverty and Deprivation theme, led by Dr Cristina Temenos and Dr Luke Munford, is bringing…

What's in a word, and what's in a dictionary? (Festival of Libraries 2024)

15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2024
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…

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

18:00 - 19:50 13 June 2024
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…

Animals and the Archive

14 June 2024
This one-day workshop brings emerging and established scholars together to explore how archival sources reveal relationships between animals and humans focusing on agency, cultural…

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

13:00 - 15:00 14 June 2024
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…

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

11:00 - 13:00 15 June 2024
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 census microdata

10:00 - 11:30 17 June 2024
Census microdata provides multivariate samples of individuals and households from the England and Wales Census 2021. Similar samples will be released for the Northern Ireland and Scottish…

Using World Literature

11:00 - 13:00 17 June 2024
This workshop provides an overview of World Literatures as a debated theoretical and methodological field. Its interdisciplinary approach will draw out the political and historical…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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