Events
Seminars, conferences and workshops
Details of any School events for PGRs held throughout the year can be found on the Doctoral Academy online noticeboard.
What's on in the School of Social Sciences
Money as if Finance Mattered #2
A collaboration of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the University of Manchester (Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy, Law and Technology Initiative, and Political Economy Centre) Introduction Approaches to money and finance in economics typically discount core dynamics: monetary models often abstract from finan..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography.
Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. Evidence-based policy is typically grounded in a narrow conception of evidence, one that prioritizes comparative studies and quantitative meta-analyses as the preferred base for establishing causal claims. However, this prevailing theory of evidence—often implicitly adopted in policy context..
'Bringing Criminological Theory to Life' Book Launch
Join us for the launch of ‘Bringing Criminological Theory to Life’, a cutting-edge new book that brings the theories of desistance and developmental criminology to life through the compelling life-story of William ‘Billy’ Mahaffey. This book is not just a collection of scholarly chapters; it is a vivid narrative that chronicles Billy's..
M Summer. School: Introduction to Network Analysis for Social Sciences with UCINET
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This is a core introductory course on network analysis for social scientists. The course covers the main network-analytical concepts, methods, and data collection/processing techniques for social sciences. The course is largely based around the use of UCINET point-a..
M Summer. School: Network Analysis for Social Sciences with R
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of concepts and measures in social network analysis. This course is (slightly) more technical than the “Introduction to Network Analysis for Social Sciences with UCINET” and will be using R (instead of UCINET). No prior..
M Summer. School: Statistical Network Modelling for Social Sciences
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of statistical models for social network analysis. The course covers some of the core statistical methods, including Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs), Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOMs/SIENA) and Relational Eve..
Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts
"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound personal and collective risk. From incendiary manifestos to suppressed memoirs and carceral correspondence, these texts expose, unsettle, and resist. While we recognise their power to challenge authority and interrogate societal norms, we know fa..
Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy
We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in philosophy. Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and friendly environment. With two parallel sessions running thro..
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