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
Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)
Title: TBA
Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we're not willing to do anything about it?" Starting from this provocation, this paper investigates psycho-c..
Macro Seminar - Remzi Kaygusuz (Durham/Sabanci)
Title: A Different World: Drivers of Income Inequality 1980-2020
Social Statistics Seminar Series
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform (joint with Xavier Jaravel) The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to conduct qualitative interviews at a large scale, with thousand..
Brownbag - Lucía Contreras
Title: tbd
MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal
Title: Data linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? Abstract: A merger of two companies active in seemingly unrelated markets creates data linkage: by operating in a product market, the merged company acquires an informational advantage in an insurance market where companies compete in menus of..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Cecilia Menenghini, University of Exeter A network approach to study organised crime movement across local communities This talk explores how social network analysis can be used to understand the movement of organized criminal groups across geographical areas. I will introduce a novel method for quantitatively studying the structure and dynami..
Global Social Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion
Please join us for a roundtable discussion of some of the critical challenges facing the world today, from economic inequalities, over-consumption, migration, an ageing population, technology and work, gender, and pandemics. We will explore these issues - and more - and discuss how sociological perspectives can help us find a path through thes..
MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal
Speaker website: http://www.cherresthal.com/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk
Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow. This paper responds to urgent and timely discussions relating to the emotional and social responses to ecological breakdown, by examining the lived experiences of..