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
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support interventions by involving diverse societal actors that range from individual citizens to entire communities. How..
Summer School: Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research
This course offers a hands-on introduction to creative approaches to doing qualitative research. It is designed for researchers and PhD students who already have a background in qualitative research techniques and would like to expand their knowledge to include more creative techniques. The course will engage with various stages of research in..
Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference
The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are happy to invite you to celebrate with us the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity.Since 2015, the DRL has aimed to make philosophy more inclusive, diverse, and to promote equality of oppo..
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..
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..
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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