Events at The University of Manchester

School of Social Sciences

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…

Health Studies User Conference 2025

09:30 - 16:30 23 June 2025
Are you interested in research using health related-data? Want to know what the future holds for population health surveys? Or are you curious how large-scale surveys are used in research,…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.

15:00 - 16:30 30 June 2025
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute…

Summer School: Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research

30 June - 2 July 2025
This course offers a hands-on introduction to creative approaches to doing qualitative research. It is designed for researchers and PhD students who already have a background in qualitative…

Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference

2 - 4 July 2025
The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are happy to invite you to celebrate with us the various efforts and projects dedicated…

Money as if Finance Mattered #2

8 - 11 July 2025
A collaboration of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the University of Manchester (Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy, Law and Technology Initiative, and…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography.

15:00 - 16:30 21 July 2025
Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. Evidence-based policy is typically grounded in a narrow conception of evidence, one that prioritizes comparative studies and quantitative…

'Bringing Criminological Theory to Life' Book Launch

14:30 - 17:30 11 September 2025
Join us for the launch of ‘Bringing Criminological Theory to Life’, a cutting-edge new book that brings the theories of desistance and developmental criminology to life through the…

M Summer. School: Introduction to Network Analysis for Social Sciences with UCINET

15 - 19 September 2025
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This is a core introductory course on network analysis for social scientists. The course covers the main…

M Summer. School: Network Analysis for Social Sciences with R

15 - 19 September 2025
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of concepts and measures in social network analysis. This course…

M Summer. School: Statistical Network Modelling for Social Sciences

22 - 26 September 2025
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of statistical models for social network analysis. The course…

Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

09:30 - 18:00 30 September 2025
"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound personal and collective risk. From incendiary manifestos to suppressed memoirs and…

Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy

2 - 3 October 2025
We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in philosophy. Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working…

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