School of Social Sciences

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…

Workshop: 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…

Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype

15:00 - 17:00 29 September 2025
While undertaking research into seaweed cultivation on the west coast of Scotland in 2022-23, I struggled to understand a gap between what was being written and spoken about seaweed…

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…

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

13:00 - 14:00 1 October 2025
Title TBD

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…

Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2025
On 1 June 2019 plastic bags were banned in Tanzania. The ban was driven by a global environmentalist narrative that plastic bags harm marine life and livestock; contribute to flooding…

Macro Seminar - Calumn G. Hamilton (Groningen & Wageningen)

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2025
Title: Foreign Aid and Structural Change

2025 Annual International Peace Lecture: The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress.

15:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
Join us for the 40th Anniversary International Peace Lecture, hosted by the University of Manchester's Department of Politics. For forty years, this renowned series has brought together…

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Title TBD

MET Seminar - Marek Pycia (Zurich)

17:00 - 18:00 8 October 2025
Title: Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade Authors: Kristof Madarasz & Marek Pycia Abstract: A privately-informed buyer takes an action that impacts the seller’s information.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using unique social network panel data from elementary school…

Politics - 2025 Annual Peace Lecture - The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress

Early Career Researcher Masterclass on Social Reproduction

11:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
This ECR masterclass has three aims: (1) to reflect on our research as it relates to the broader landscape of social reproduction research and recent calls for its pluralization, (2)…

Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)

12:00 - 13:00 13 October 2025
Title TBA

Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2025
Collins, et al. (2017) invite anthropology into a renewed engagement with contemporary media ecologies and with the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. This position advocates…

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025
Title TBD

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

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