Lectures and seminars

LIVESTREAM TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: In conversation with ESA astronaut John McFall

19:30 - 21:00 15 July 2025
Join us for a new Lovell Lecture with ESA astronaut John McFall in conversation with Teresa Anderson, Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement. They will discuss the future of…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Laurent Orseau

11:00 - 12:00 16 July 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Bio: Laurent…

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…

Expert Insights Series | Nuclear and Net Zero: The global status of nuclear

13:00 - 14:00 23 July 2025
Watch the recording via YouTube: https://youtu.be/pGzJs_e1Jbw?si=ezNayLEKdPuheKzv Nuclear energy is essential in achieving the Net Zero goal. This has been emphasised as more governments…

Suicide & Self Harm Research Seminar: Gambling & Suicidality in Hong Kong - Dr. Paul Wong

12:00 - 13:30 23 July 2025
You're Invited to a Special Talk by Professor Paul Wong <b>Topic:</b> The Case for Investigating Gambling and Suicidality in Hong Kong: Contexts, Challenges, and Opportunities <b>Date:</b>…

AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models

09:45 - 13:30 24 July 2025
AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models | GM Connected Health Ecosystem Digital Futures at the University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Foundation…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture | Rafael Izbicki

11:00 - 12:00 3 September 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of invited lectures featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Bio:…

Digital Health Equity Seminar Series - Exploring barriers to digital inclusion for remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis - 10th Sept

13:00 - 14:00 10 September 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Sep, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99435997840). Caroline Sanders, Josh Behan-Devlin, and Karen Staniland…

CANDUs in Cumbria: Third Time's the Charm?

13:00 - 14:00 12 September 2025
Please join us for our seminar featuring Dr Stevel Lisgo. A general fact-finding discussion concerning potential CANDU reactor builds at Sellafield. Topics include UK electrification…

Nexus Fusion

14:15 - 15:15 12 September 2025
Please join us for the following seminar featuring Dr Steven Lisgo. An advanced materials and wall design services startup. To accelerate progress, technology development strategies…

Resources, Environment, and Development Research Group Seminar

12:00 - 14:00 15 September 2025
Presentation 1: Environmental Justice as Reparation Speaker: Prof Maano Ramutsindela Professor Maano Ramutsindela is the University of Pretoria-University of Cape Town Future Africa…

Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine

14:00 - 15:30 15 September 2025
A joint initiative between the GDI Students for Palestine group and the Global Urban Futures and Resource, Environment and Development research groups. This hybrid session will focus…

Patient Safety from the Start: A World Patient Safety Day Webinar hosted by RCPCH and NIHR PSRC Network

13:00 - 14:00 17 September 2025
Celebrating the theme of “Safe care for every newborn and child”, the RCPCH and NIHR PSRC Network (SafetyNet) are jointly running a webinar open to everyone involved in any aspect of…

MIOIR Seminar Series with Prof Valentina Tartari

15:30 - 16:30 22 September 2025
Strategic Idea Revival: How Creators Leverage Evaluator Turnover to Resubmit Rejected Ideas Dr Valentina Tartari will examine how evaluator turnover shapes the resubmission of previously…

Expert Insight Series | Bridging the Gap: Science, Regulation and Diplomacy in Nuclear Policy

14:00 - 15:00 24 September 2025
Join leading experts for a thought-provoking panel on the future of UK nuclear policy in the era of climate urgency and energy security. This event will explore how science, regulation,…

Foreign Traders: Brokers to Bridge China and the World

14:30 - 16:30 25 September 2025
GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jixia Lu, China Agricultural University Since the 1990s, China has become a significant migration destination…

SOLD OUT - Gemini and Mercury Remastered Heritage Lecture

19:30 - 21:00 25 September 2025
SOLD OUT -To coincide with his latest exhibition, NASA digital restoration expert Andy Saunders delivers a special Heritage Lecture sharing the untold story of humanity’s first ventures…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health Seminar hosted by the Health & Justice Research Network (HJRN)

11:30 - 13:00 29 September 2025
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Iain McKinnon, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Consultant Psychiatrist with Cumbria Northumberland Tyne & Wear…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Harvey Sykes

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2025
Title: Complete reducibility in Kac-Moody groups Abstract: A Kac-Moody group G generalises a split reductive group. I will give a brief overview of these groups and discuss how to…

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

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

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Nicky Knowles

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2025
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Chester & Dr Lane

16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2025
Talk Title: Automated Data Collection from Politically Restricted Social Media Platforms: Challenges and insights from China and Russia Join us for a webinar to learn about the automated…

Ava Khamseh -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Ava Khamseh (Edinburgh) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series here in Manchester (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Kieran Calvert

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2025
TBC

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

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

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