Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation at Glasgow Women's Library, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digi..
Macro Seminar - Marta Morazzoni (UCL)
Title: TBA
Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London)
Professor Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London) will be presenting "Polarization over the Priority of Political Problems". Abstract: What drives ideological division about political problems? When prioritising which problems are most in need of redress, voters might disagree about the severity of individual outcomes that constitut..
Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc
Title: Malthusian Migrations
Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as living arrangements, relationships, leisure and travel. Call for..
'Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective' Book launch
With: Dr Sara Stevano, Senior Lecturer in Economies at SOAS, University of London. University of Manchester's Political Economy Centre is hosting Dr Stevano for the launch of her book 'Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective' coauthored with Sara Cantillon and Odile Mackett. Book abstract: 'Feminist political economy is essential..
Comparative Politics Seminar
Paul Tobin and Daniel B. Machado, University of Manchester
Thinking with Affinities: a Morgan Centre Conversation Event
This event is inspired by ideas put forward in Jennifer Mason’s book Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life (2018). We want to create an occasion where people for whom some of the ideas in Affinities have resonance or have been stimulating can come together in conversation. The day will not be a conventional conference with formal p..
Comparative Politics Seminar
Dr Vicente Valentim, University of Oxford
Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography 2024
Join Maisie Tomlinson for this 3-day immersive, reflective workshop in multi-species methods in Manchester. How can we be more sensitive, imaginative, critical and ethical researchers of the more-than-human? Back after a successful pilot in 2022, this is a FREE three-day workshop, whose aim is to further develop methodologies in this excitin..