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..
2023-24 Full Year: Undergraduate Politics Dissertation Conference
Organised jointly by the Politics Department and Juncture [junctureuom.co.uk] student journal, the conference showcases undergraduate research in Politics & IR at the University of Manchester, encourages students to think of themselves as researchers and to experience academic research first hand. The conference will take place on Tuesday 7 Ma..
Macro Seminar - Jeanne Commault (Sciences Po)
Title: TBA
Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)
Professor Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute) will be presenting "Perinatal health in educational attainment: individual and population level relevance" (joint work with Marco Cozzani, Niko Eskelinen and Matti Lindberg) Abstract Numerous studies have shown that perinatal health can have long-term effects on educational attainmen..
Brownbag - Akbar Ullah (manchester Centre for Health Economics
Title: The Impact of Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity on Wage Variation and Wage Sorting: Evidence from England's Adult Social Care Sector
MET Seminar - Joel Watson (UCSD)
Manchester Economic Theory (MET) schedule: http://daviddelacretaz.net/seminars/ Speaker website: https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jwatson/
MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Merten Reglitz, “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”
Dr Merten Reglitz, University of Birmingham - “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”
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