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80 years of Jodrell Bank: Get involved at home!

7 May - 31 August 2025
Celebrate Jodrell Bank's 80th Anniversary with our cosmic community art project inspired by the tradition of quilting. Participants can submit a 23 cm x 23 cm textile square inspired…

Attending to absence: Supporting schools to increase school attendance

13:00 - 14:30 7 May 2025
Join Policy@Manchester on Wednesday, 7 May for an in person GM Policy Hub seminar exploring how local approaches can improve school attendance and support disadvantaged children. Persistent…

GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza

16:30 - 18:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for…

Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'

16:00 - 17:30 7 May 2025
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership' Venue: A7, Samuel Alexander Building…

Logic seminar: David Meretzky

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Title: Differential Galois theory with new algebraic constants. Abstract: A well-known counterexample due to Seidenberg shows that Picard-Vessiot extensions need not exist for arbitrary…

Movement in an Age of Extremes

15:00 7 May 2025
In her book Mobility Justice (2018) Professor Mimi Sheller referred to the age of extremes as a triple crisis involving climate disruption, unsustainable urban mobilities, and a crisis…

Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Space Dome experience

26 April - 13 July 2025
SOLD OUT! After a sell-out dates in 2024, we are thrilled to announce that Jodrell Bank's popular 'The Dark Side of the Moon' Space Dome experience is returning April - July. Fusing…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:00 - 11:30 7 May 2025
We showcase the use of our antique and fully functional Colombian printing press. Based on the collections, the prints are free to take home after the demonstration. The John Rylands…

Probability Seminar: Liqian Zhang - Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to random forests

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Liqian Zhang (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to…

Rare Reads

14:15 - 15:00 7 May 2025
During our Rare Reads facsimile encounters we share beautifully accurate copies of some of our most famous objects. The incredibly rare special collections housed within The John Rylands…

Reclaiming Islamic and Arabic philosophical heritage: translator’s interventions in the Hekmah Journal Translations

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Hanan Alotaibi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

SEERIH Bolton Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

13:00 5 November 2024 - 16:00 24 July 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Bolton Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term meeting: 5 November 2024, 13:00-16:00 Spring term meeting:…

SEERIH Bury FA1 Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

13:00 5 December 2024 - 16:00 1 July 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Bury FA1 Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term meeting: 5 December 2024, 13:00-16:00 Spring term…

SEERIH GM Open Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

09:00 12 November 2024 - 12:00 1 July 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH GM Open Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term meeting: 12 November 2024, 9:00-12:00 Spring term…

SEERIH Manchester MSA Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

12:00 12 November 2024 - 16:00 1 July 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Manchester MSA Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term meeting: 12 November 2023, 13:00-16:00 Spring…

SEERIH Oldham Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

13:00 14 November 2024 - 16:00 26 June 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Oldham Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term meeting: 14 November 2023, 13:00-16:00 Spring term…

SEERIH Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

09:15 19 November 2024 - 12:15 8 July 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network. Autumn term meeting: 11 December 2024, 12:30-3:30…

SEERIH STOCCAT Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

13:00 7 November 2024 - 16:00 3 July 2025
The STOCCAT Network is for teachers in Greater Manchester who are part of STOCCAT , but if you cannot attend these dates, please email fascinate@manchester.ac.uk. We're delighted that…

SEERIH Stockport Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

09:15 11 November 2024 - 16:15 23 June 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Stockport Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network. Autumn term meeting: 11 November 2024, 9:15-12:15 or 13:15-16:15…

SEERIH Tameside Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

13:00 13 November 2024 - 16:00 25 June 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Tameside Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network Autumn term PM meeting: 13 November 2024, 13:00-16:00 Spring…

SEERIH Trafford Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2024-25

09:15 18 November 2024 - 16:15 24 June 2025
Bookings are open for all three termly meetings of the SEERIH Trafford Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Network. Autumn term AM meeting: 18 November 2024, 09:15-12:15 Autumn…

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…

Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 8 May 2025
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…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:00 - 11:30 8 May 2025
We showcase the use of our antique and fully functional Colombian printing press. Based on the collections, the prints are free to take home after the demonstration. The John Rylands…

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health: 11th NCISH Conference

10:00 - 12:30 8 May 2025
Please join us for our free half day virtual conference presenting the [https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=75346/ latest UK-wide findings] relating to people who…

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