School of Social Sciences

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…

Against Definitions - Alana Lentin

13:30 - 15:00 22 April 2025
This is a hybrid event: you can register to join online or in person. If you are attending in person, please join us from 1.15 for tea, coffee and pastries. SUMMARY In my new book,…

Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College). Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon – Book talk

15:00 - 17:00 28 April 2025
The book Forest Lost (Duke, 2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest…

Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders

12:00 28 April 2025
This Morgan Centre Conversation/ConnecteDNA event seeks to make connections in third party assisted reproduction research. It does so in two ways. In part, it aims to bring together…

Macro Seminar - Aseem Patel (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 6 May 2025
Title: Automation, Market Power and Welfare

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Prof Michael Elliott

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Please join us for the last Social Statistics seminar of the semester. We have coffee and cake! Michael Elliott Professor of Biostatistics University of Michigan Title: The Role of…

Fiction and Research

14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently…

MET Seminar - Peter Klibanoff (Northwestern)

17:00 - 18:00 14 May 2025
Title: Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication Authors: Xiaoyu Cheng, Peter Klibanoff, Sujoy Mukerji and Ludovic Renou Abstract: This paper explores whether and to what extent ambiguous…

Econometrics workshop: Advances in Macroeconometrics

09:00 - 18:00 16 May 2025
The Econometrics group at the University of Manchester is happy to announce a workshop on Advances in Macroeconometrics. The workshop takes place on Thursday the 16th of May, 2025 at…

Archival film night: "Wages for Housework & Beyond"

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2025
Join us for a screening of All Work and No Pay and a discussion of the legacies and relevance of 1970s feminist activism and political economy today. We will be screening a 1976 documentary…

The Role Of The Criminal Law As A Response to Healthcare Violations

10:30 - 11:30 29 May 2025
This webinar will explore the relationship between scandals in the healthcare sphere and the criminal law, whether that be through scandal leading to the development of healthcare-specific…

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest

16 - 18 June 2025
AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Epistemic games and causal problems

14:00 - 15:30 16 June 2025
Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. Studies in science education demonstrate that laypeople typically engage with…

Evidence-Based Law Workshop

20 June 2025
The emerging field of evidence-based law (EBL) holds that laws ought to be based on good evidence to demonstrate that they will achieve their desired end, such as reduced crime, increased…

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