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
Macro Seminar - Annika Bacher (BI Norwegian)
Title: TBA
Brownbag - Imran Tahir (IFS)
Title: tbd
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol Who Says What: Identities and Natural Language Inference to Study the Spread of Health Misinformation on Social Media Health misinformation on social media undermines public trust and puts people’s health at risk. This talk explores the limitations of current methods for understanding influence on soci..
Platform Politics: Luke Yates in conversation
Join Luke Yates for the launch of his new book 'PLATFORM POLITICS: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy' at this event organised by Blackwell's bookshop. The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come abou..
Equity in Community-Centered Models for Ageing: A Virtual Summit
This 90-minute virtual summit — hosted by the Hub for Aging Collaboration and developed in partnership with interdisciplinary scholars from the University of Manchester, UCSF, and Wayne State University — will convene global thought leaders on ageing in community whose scholarships integrate research, theory, and practice to enhance work o..
Brownbag - Lucas Morissette
Title: tbd
Global Policy North Workshop
GPN Workshops take place on a regular, termly basis. The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to present research, discuss working papers, and offer an opportunity for feedback and advice. Any paper regardless of theoretical, empirical, or methodological focus is welcome, so long as the paper addresses an aspect of global policy an..
Econometrics Seminar - Christoph Rothe (Mannheim)
Title TBA
Econometrics Seminar - Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)
Title TBA
MET Seminar - Bettina Klaus
Speaker website: https://www.bklaus.net/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk