Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Macro Seminar - Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota)
Title: Why Do Households Save and Work?
Macro Seminar - Marko Irisarri (University of Manchester)
Title: Entrepreneurship across Space: Capital Misallocation and Place-based Policies
Balancing Technology’s Benefits amid the Digital Addiction Debate
How do we find the balance between what technology can provide us and the dangers of what has been called digital addiction? About the talk Digital addiction, including social media use and gaming, has become a topic of debate and public concern. This talk will explore how and when these concerns about digital addiction first arose, and the..
The 2026 Dorothy Emmet Public Lecture
The 2026 Dorothy Emmet public lecture at the University of Manchester will be given by Professor Elisa Paganini (Università degli Studi di Milano) on Thursday 21st May from 4-6pm. The lecture is open to all - we hope to see you there! The Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Do We Need Truth in Fiction? Abstract: Fiction is thought to work by telling us..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.
Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the study can and cannot provide evidence for. This fact about results reports should not be surprising since, as JL Austin taught, ‘We do things with words’. I..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.
The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences in the context of medicine, evaluating a range of conditions under which a physician’s inferences about the effects of a drug are reliable or unreliabl..