School of Social Sciences

Econometrics Seminar - Dimitris Korobilis (Glasgow)

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2025
Title TBA

Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion

15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2025
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts…

Macro Seminar - Morten Olsen (Copenhagen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2025
Title: The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality

"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder,…

Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power, Privacy, and the Digital Pound'

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2025
We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. This is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy, politics, and economics. Our speaker this year will…

Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research - online taster session

12:30 - 13:30 19 March 2025
This session gives you a taster of the two-day summer school on creative approaches to qualitative research which is team taught by members of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday…

MET Seminar - John Levy

17:00 - 18:00 19 March 2025
Title: Small Player Robustness Abstract: We introduce a concept of stability of a Nash equilibrium, or of a set of Nash equilibria, to the addition of small players, i.e., players…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series with CMI

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Juergen Lerner. University of Konstanz Relational hyperevent models for the coevolution of coauthoring and citation networks. The development of appropriate statistical models has…

Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’ - Professor Michèle Lamont

14:30 - 17:30 20 March 2025
In this lecture Michèle Lamont addresses the power of recognition for understanding and addressing the global contemporary crisis of inequality. Discussing the key ideas from her recent…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis.

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2025
Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis. In other work, we have explored methodological issues around a research approach we call Large-N Qualitative…

Jieun Kim (Leeds). Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of Gift, Debt and Inheritance in South Korea

15:00 - 17:00 24 March 2025
Drawing on archival materials and interviews with donors, blood bank staff, and experts, this talk explores how the logics of gift, debt and inheritance shape the moral and affective…

Inspiring Careers in Economics: Exploring Opportunities Across Sectors

16:00 - 18:30 26 March 2025
Are you passionate about economics and curious to discover the wide-ranging career opportunities the field has to offer? Join us at this exciting event, where professional economists…

MET Seminar - Federico Echenique

17:00 - 18:00 26 March 2025
Title: Stable matching as transport Authors: Federico Echenique, Joseph Root, Fedor Sandomirskiy Abstract: This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 March 2025
Giulia Berlusconi. University of Surrey Understanding risk in commercial sex markets: Exploring sex buyers’ sexual networks to understand their purchasing patterns and perception of…

Maria Abranches (East Anglia). When the Dust Settles: Exploring Temporalities amongst Reunited Refugee Families through Multi-Media Narratives

15:00 - 17:00 31 March 2025
This seminar will reflect on the results of one year of fieldwork with refugee families in Manchester and Glasgow using a co-production approach based on narrative interviews and participant-led…

Macro Seminar - Vytautas Valaitis (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 1 April 2025
Title: Optimal Fiscal Policy under Endogenous Disaster Risk: How to Avoid Wars?

MET Seminar - Craig Webb

17:00 - 18:00 2 April 2025
Title: Time Tradeoffs for the Foundations and Analysis of Discounted Non-Stationary Utility Author: Craig Webb Abstract: Tastes change as time passes. This simple truth can be expressed…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 April 2025
Dorottya Hoor UCL A network typological approach to sexual and mental health in rural South-Africa. While there has been substantial research examining the impact of social relationships…

Book launch: 'Families' by Vanessa May

16:30 - 19:30 3 April 2025
Please join us for a book launch event to (belatedly) mark the publication of Vanessa May’s book 'Families'. The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family…

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Jackie Wong Siaw Tze

14:00 - 15:30 8 April 2025
Fully Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Decay in Ordinal Relational Event Models Relational event models (REMs) can infer the generative properties of longitudinally observed social…

“It would have slowed down the work” – The Challenges of Gender Sensitive Economic Policy in the EU

15:00 - 16:00 10 April 2025
Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of excellence seminar, co-hosted with Political Economy Centre, UoM

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation.

15:00 - 16:30 14 April 2025
How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Evidential Pluralism, an emerging account of the epistemology…

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