Events in the School of Social Sciences

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

Macro Seminar - Jeanne Commault (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 07 May 2024

Title: TBA

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)

14:00 - 15:30 07 May 2024

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..

MET Seminar - Joel Watson (UCSD)

17:00 - 18:00 08 May 2024

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”

16:00 - 09 May 2024

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)

16:00 - 17:00 14 May 2024

Title: TBA

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London)

14:00 - 15:30 14 May 2024

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..

Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives

10:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024

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

14:00 - 15:30 20 May 2024

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

15:30 - 22 May 2024

Paul Tobin and Daniel B. Machado, University of Manchester

Thinking with Affinities: a Morgan Centre Conversation Event

11:00 - 16:00 22 May 2024

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..