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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…

PROGRESS: Lessons from and end-to-end robust digital clinical trial

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2026
Join Health Research from Home for our next webinar where we will hear from Ed Ramos and Katie Baca Motes as they discuss their recently published remote trial in the metabolic health…

Michael Kahan Kapelye (the university klezmer ensemble)

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2026
A wedding without a klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears’. As co-directed by MIE's Richard Fay, the fifteenth generation of the university’s resident klezmer ensemble returns…

The Past, Present & Future of the Computer in Electronic Music

12:15 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Music and Manchester: Join us for a research cafe exploring the past, present and future of computers in electronic music. While Manchester is prominently featured in music history,…

People as Infrastructure: The Architectural Wisdom of Informality

18:00 - 19:00 16 April 2026
Join us for the first public talk of the year launching our anniversary exhibition "Building China: People’s Infrastructure". Explore the spontaneous and ingenious adaptations found…

Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power (HCRI event)

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2026
Join us for a talk and discussion with Prof Rochelle Burgess, from UCL's Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases. This is a hybrid, public event with the HCRI and FBMH's Health…

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…

Co-leading with Fairness, Respect, Inclusion and Compassion.

14:30 29 April 2026
In this talk we discuss how we developed our co-leadership model, arising from feminist principles of leadership. We outline the key values that are central to our departmental leadership…

[FBMH - PMH] PGR Showcase -"Success and challenges" April 2026

10:00 - 15:00 29 April 2026
Postgraduate Researcher Showcase, April 2026 10:00-15:00 Simon Building, Room 3.44a Join us for a vibrant showcase that offers the chance to: • Explore the exciting research being…

Creativity and AI: Cultural Heritage

14:30 - 17:00 30 April 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester…

People's Infrastructure: Everyday Life in Changing China

18:00 - 19:00 5 May 2026
This talk moves from the visual culture of the 1950s and the institutional landscapes of the 1970s to contemporary studies of markets, parks, sidewalks, and sites of urban redevelopment.…

Dan Hicks: Monuments Will Fall

18:00 - 20:00 6 May 2026
On 6 May 2026, Dan Hicks will be in conversation with Sadia Habib for the Manchester leg of the book tour marking the release of the paperback edition of Dan's latest book, 'Every Monument…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart

19:00 26 May 2026
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.

15:00 - 16:30 26 May 2026
Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones

19:00 2 June 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana,…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.

15:00 - 16:30 22 June 2026
The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences…

Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms

14:30 - 17:00 25 June 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester…

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