Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest
AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments of sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology, economics, history, geography or elsewhere. Discussions are marked by a long-established spirit of collegia..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Epistemic games and causal problems
Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. Studies in science education demonstrate that laypeople typically engage with science to meet situation-specific needs. Their interest in science often emerges only when it directly helps them solve a particular problem. However, most resea..
Evidence-Based Law Workshop
The emerging field of evidence-based law (EBL) holds that laws ought to be based on good evidence to demonstrate that they will achieve their desired end, such as reduced crime, increased safety or improvements in social justice or well-being. Following the move to an evidence-based approach in medicine (EBM) and policy (EBP), EBL aims to use..
Health Studies User Conference 2025
Are you interested in research using health related-data? Want to know what the future holds for population health surveys? Or are you curious how large-scale surveys are used in research, policy-making and monitoring? Join us for the Health Studies User Conference 2025! View the programme under event resources below. The conference will tak..
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..