Events in the School of Social Sciences

Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.

Macro Seminar - Aseem Patel (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 06 May 2025

Title: Automation, Market Power and Welfare

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Prof Michael Elliott

15:00 - 16:00 07 May 2025

Please join us for the last Social Statistics seminar of the semester. We have coffee and cake! Michael Elliott Professor of Biostatistics University of Michigan Title: The Role of Probability Samples in the 21st Century In this talk I will review the rise, fall, and rise(?) of probability sampling for human populations in the 20th and 21st..

Fiction and Research

14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025

This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently published book, Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories and Inquiry (2024, Policy Press), we will explore how social science and fiction can work togeth..

Econometrics workshop: Advances in Macroeconometrics

09:00 - 18:00 16 May 2025

The Econometrics group at the University of Manchester is happy to announce a workshop on Advances in Macroeconometrics. The workshop takes place on Thursday the 16th of May, 2025 at the University of Manchester, location. Our speakers: Annika Camehl (Erasmas School of Economics): TBD Raffaella Giacomini (UCL): Perceived shocks and impulse..

Archival film night: "Wages for Housework & Beyond"

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2025

Join us for a screening of All Work and No Pay and a discussion of the legacies and relevance of 1970s feminist activism and political economy today. We will be screening a 1976 documentary about the Wages for Housework campaign in London. While illustrating some of the everyday experiences and organizing particular to the time, it also raise..

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest

16 - 18 June 2025

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

14:00 - 15:30 16 June 2025

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..

Summer School: Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research

30 June - 02 July 2025

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

02 - 04 July 2025

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..

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