School of Social Sciences

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…

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…

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…

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…

Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 17 February 2026
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
Alessandro Lomi Università della Svizzera, Italy

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Combining evidence for establishing causality.

15:00 - 16:30 23 February 2026
Medicine and health science relies on a variety of methods, but do they establish the same thing? It is not uncommon that the available evidence points in different directions with…

Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2026
Shan Shi University of Manchester

Macro Seminar - Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 10 March 2026
Title: TBA

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 March 2026
Zsofia Boda University of Essex

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 behavioral sciences. Yet both philosophers and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy

Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2026
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Andrew Parker University of Durham

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Eleanor Power London School of Economics

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…

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