Lectures and seminars

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Campus Projections and Interrupted Flows: What does a campus ‘say’ to students and shape their movements within it?

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Guest speaker: Richard Budd is a Lecturer in Higher Education in the school of Social Sciences at Lancaster University Research on university campuses tends to be divided into somewhat…

Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown

13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses This event invites participants from all disciplines…

Professor Steven Pierce ’s Inaugural Lecture: The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria

16:30 - 18:30 28 January 2026
Guest Speaker Professor Olutayo Adesina, British Academy Global Professor (University of Manchester); Professor of History, University of Ibadan Venue Details The wine reception…

New Lovell Lecture: Be the astronomer

19:30 - 21:00 29 January 2026
René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at JBCA, invites you to join a unique “choose-your-own-adventure” lecture, where audiences can step into an astronomer's shoes, investigate an…

MIOIR Seminar Series - When Experiential Learning Fails

15:30 - 16:30 2 February 2026
When Experiential Learning Fails: How Complexity of Experience Undermines Learning from Failures Learning from failures is widely regarded as a central mechanism of organizational…

Expert Insight Series: A radical reset for nuclear regulation (and what it means for us)

12:30 - 13:30 3 February 2026
Professor Sarah Sharples will be joined by Prof. Andrew Sherry and Mark Bassett, two members of the independent nuclear regulation Taskforce Last year, the Prime Minister established…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Marie Roth

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2026
TBA

Behavioural Science for the International Health Workforce Winter External Seminar

10:00 - 11:30 4 February 2026
You are invited to our Winter External Seminar, bringing together research and practice to explore how behavioural science can be applied to strengthen health professional education,…

CLACS Seminar: Austin Zeiderman (LSE) "Racial Ecologies in Fluvial Colombia"

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 4 Feb 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG) Seminar: The Morecambe Bay Curriculum’s collaborative approach to educational innovation

13:00 - 14:30 4 February 2026
This session will explore how the Morecambe Bay Curriculum (MBC) movement has been embedding place-based environmental education into everyday practice across the North West coast.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network analysis. When applied to disconnected graphs, it typically assigns non-zero values…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Rebecca Turner

15:00 5 February 2026
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…

Hiroe Ishihara (University of Tokyo) "Reconstructing Relational Values: Constitutive Values, Norm Circles, and Cultural Assemblages"

16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2026
Abstract: Calls for transformative change in sustainability highlight the need to understand how environmental values are formed, sustained, and transformed. Yet, most frameworks still…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: The Optimal Assignment Principle

13:00 - 15:00 5 February 2026
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics Research Group The idea that languages are shaped by a constellation…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Eng-Jon Ong

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Eng-Jon Ong (Queen Mary University of London) Title: Discrete spectrum in S-adic substitution dynamical systems via the balanced pair algorithm Abstract: Substitutions and…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Eoghan McDowell

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2026
TBA

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 February 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Joey Bose

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2026
On 11 February, we will have Joey Bose from Imperial College London. If you cannot attend in person, please register via the Ticketsource link provided and you will receive the link…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London…

Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler

15:30 - 18:00 11 February 2026
You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Will Fletcher, Professor of Physical…

Lunchtime seminar with Prof Audrey Osler: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
MIE Anti-Racist Education Network would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you…

MIE Anti-Racist Education Network: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
We would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you from? No, where are you really…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin…

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture…

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