School of Social Sciences

Macro Seminar - Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 10 March 2026
Title: Does Student Aid Improve Educational Mobility?

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 March 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Mónica Hernández Alava Professor in Health Econometrics, University of Sheffield Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

MET Seminar - Omer Edhan (Manchester)

17:00 - 18:00 11 March 2026
Title: Lyapunov Games Authors: Omer Edhan Idan & Ziv Hellman Abstract: Decentralised learning is often used to explain how play might settle on equilibrium, but even natural adjustment…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Zsofia Boda University of Essex. Upward Network Influence and Intergenerational Integration in German Schools

16:00 - 17:30 11 March 2026
Social scientists consistently document ethnic segregation in social networks, demonstrating its association with inequalities in social capital, or the ability to activate relationships…

“Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 16 March 2026
Cristiana Giordano (UC Davis) - “Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence for mechanisms and the challenge of mechanism individuation

15:00 - 16:30 17 March 2026
(Joint work with Till Grüne-Yanoff.) Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely used to inform policy decisions in the social and behavioural sciences. Yet both philosophers and…

MET Seminar - Ina Taneva (Edinburgh)

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2026
Title: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design Authors: Ina Taneva & Thomas Wiseman Abstract: We study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly refuse…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy. Events, Networks, and Collective Action Processes

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
The recent interest in events as an object of study has been accompanied by numerous attempts to develop a conceptual framework for their interpretation. I argue that adopting a processual-relational…

Annual Harry Street Lecture 2026 with Attorney General Richard Hermer KC

17:00 - 19:00 23 March 2026
The School of Social Sciences and Department of Law are delighted to host the 2026 Annual Harry Street Lecture delivered by an alumnus of our school and leading figure in the legal…

Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2026
Title: Pricing Dynamics Under Financial Stress

The Erosion of the Right to Humanitarian Assistance

13:00 - 15:00 23 March 2026
In this Guest Lecture, Professor Patrycja Grzebyk will guide us through the legal foundations of the right to humanitarian assistance and explore contemporary developments that place…

‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 March 2026
Joanna Cook (University College London) - ‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’

(Un)common methodologies in History and the History of Philosophy

09:00 - 17:00 25 March 2026
This workshop aims to bring into contact academics from the history of philosophy, philosophy of history, and intellectual history. If you wish to attend, please register in the link…

CLACS Film screening: 'Madan Saras'

17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2026
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in affiliation with the SPLAS Cine-club and with the support of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Andrew Parker University of Durham. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Effect of Alter’s Brokerage Orientations on an Individual’s Leader Identity

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While prior research has primarily focused on individual characteristics and experiences…

Book Launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges

18:45 - 20:45 8 April 2026
Hot off the press for spring 2026, 'Interrogating the Global Social Challenges' presents wide-ranging expertise from sociologists on some of the most urgent issues of our time. This…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn: From “oops” to “ops”: spotting insider risk before it becomes an incident with Dr. Ismini Vasileiou.

13:00 - 13:30 15 April 2026
Insider threats are the cyber risk that often looks like “normal work”: trusted access, everyday shortcuts, and small decisions that can snowball into real incidents. This talk will…

Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026

16 April 2026
The Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) are hosting a landmark convention this April…

Europe’s Age of Externalisation? Migration, External Cooperation, and Human Rights

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2026
European states are currently exploring a number of so-called ‘innovative solutions’ to address the irregular arrival of asylum seekers and migrants at their borders, often entailing…

‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2026
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'

Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)

13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2026
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Eleanor Power London School of Economics The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the public. I will introduce two projects that…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.

11:00 - 12:30 23 April 2026
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions…

‘The European Court of Justice: An Insider’s Perspective’

14:00 - 16:00 23 April 2026
Prof. Alejandro del Valle-Gálvez will provide an insider’s perspective on the workings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), drawing on his extensive experience within the EU legal…

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