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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…

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…

HARRP Session: The Map is Not The Territory: When Research Plans Meet Real Life

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2026
This online session invites participants to reflect on the emotional friction that arises when carefully planned research designs collide with the unpredictability of real-world fieldwork.…

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…

[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…

Remembering the past, fighting for the future

17:30 - 20:30 7 May 2026
We invite you to join us after hours at the museum for an evening of author talks reflecting on industrial action over the last 100 years. On the centenary of the 1926 General Strike,…

DISEASE X: Moving from Global Failure to Global Readiness

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 2026
Join HCRI for this hybrid event with Kate Kelland, Chief Scientific Writer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), discussing the themes of her book - DISEASE…

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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