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Registration for the FBMH Future of Teaching and Learning Symposium is now open

19 September - 15 December 2025
We are excited to announce that the second FBMH Faculty Symposium on the Future of Teaching and Learning will take place on 16 December 2025. This full-day event (09:00–16:15) will…

Aesthetics and the City Launch

15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025
Join us for the launch of Aesthetics and the City, an edited collection that explores the vital role of aesthetics in shaping urban experience. Bringing together contributors from…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Pablo Moreno Muñoz

11:00 - 12:00 8 October 2025
October's AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Engineering Building B, room 2B.003. It’s easy to find: from the second floor (where Eng B and Nancy Rothwell Building…

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

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

Digital Health Equity Seminar Series - Advocating for digital health equity in the academic and digital health sectors - 8th Oct

13:00 - 14:30 8 October 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-Oct, 1-2pm BST (8-9am EDT) via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91546057388. Victoria Betton (co-founder of the…

Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

10:00 - 11:30 8 October 2025
Secondary analysis offers a great option for dissertation students who are looking to gain experience working with data but who have limited abilities to go out into the field or would…

FBMH Social Responsibility Conference 2025

10:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
This brand-new event will bring together staff, postgraduate researchers, and community partners for a day of sharing ideas, sparking collaboration and discussions around putting social…

GDI Alumni Talk: An introduction to oxford economics and economic consultancy with Elizabeth Martindale

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2025
Talk by GDI Alumna Elizabeth Martindale, Senior Economist, APAC Cities & Regions Forecasting at Oxford Economics All students welcome. The session will cover: - Discussion of Elizabeth's…

Gemini and Mercury remastered

6 September 2025 - 4 January 2026
Embark on a breath-taking visual journey through the dawn of human space exploration in our new exhibition where we welcome back Andy Saunders for the release of the ‘prequel’ – Gemini…

Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester

17:30 - 20:00 8 October 2025
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy…

Nuno Palma, UoM: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 8 October 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Politics - 2025 Annual 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…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:30 - 12:00 8 October 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: Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda - Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees.

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2025
Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees Abstract: In this talk, we…

Rare Reads

10:40 - 11:20 8 October 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…

Rylands Discovery Tour

15:00 - 15:30 8 October 2025
During our Rylands Discovery Tours our staff will travel with you through the library spaces and share the fascinating history of the founding of the library, the breadth of the rare…

Sci-Fi film season at Jodrell Bank!

4 October - 30 November 2025
Get ready for an autumn under the stars with Jodrell’s popular Sci-Fi Film Season! From the intergalactic journeys of Interstellar and Dune to the dystopian futures of Alien and District…

Shape a Sustainable Future with Systems Thinking: Introduction to the RoundView Workshop (8th of October 2025)

10:00 - 12:00 8 October 2025
Join us this semester for a cross-university interactive workshop using the RoundView - an award-winning toolkit for sustainability thinking and learning. These workshops are open to…

Shape a Sustainable Future with Systems Thinking: Introduction to the RoundView Workshop (8th of October 2025)

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2025
Join us this semester for a cross-university interactive workshop using the RoundView - an award-winning toolkit for sustainability thinking and learning. These workshops are open to…

The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project Speaker Bio: Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at Oxford University. He is also…

Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025)

13:10 - 14:00 9 October 2025
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 The Danels pay tribute to Soviet avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina.…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:30 - 12:00 9 October 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…

Rare Reads

14:10 - 14:50 9 October 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…

Shape a Sustainable Future with Systems Thinking: Introduction to the RoundView Workshop (9th of October 2025)

10:00 - 12:00 9 October 2025
Join us this semester for a cross-university interactive workshop using the RoundView - an award-winning toolkit for sustainability thinking and learning. These workshops are open to…

Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper

12:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
Session by Dr Simon Rudkin. Part of the Methods North West lunchtime seminars. Data visualisation is a core component of the empirical process, from data exploration to the evaluation…

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