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Centre for New Writing: The Manchester Review Goes Live
The Manchester Review, the Centre's online journal showcasing new work by world-leading and emerging writers and artists, went live Wednesday 2st October.
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Blackboard Training
Introductory level Blackboard training (Kickstart) is now available within the Faculty and via IT Services. The Faculty eLearning team are offering training for groups of academic staff, administrative staff and GTAs. If you wish to arrange a group session please contact elearning@manchester.ac.uk. One of the Faculty eLearning team will contact you to organise the training session.
The eLearning team are also scheduling showcases and intermediate level Blackboard courses. Please see the training calendar http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/course-ict/calendar.php for details of forthcoming training sessions and showcases.
If as an individual you would like some introductory level training please see the IT Services website http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/trainingcourses/corporateapplications/bb/ for details of their training schedule.
Mimas
Mimas are seeking researchers who use, or are interested in using, primary archival sources in their research, to take part in a usability study of a website that describes archives held across the UK. During the evaluation, participants will be asked to perform a series of tasks that involve finding information within a Web page and to give their thoughts on the layout of the site and language used. The session will take no longer than 60 minutes to complete.
Each participant will receive a gift token worth £20.
If you are interested in taking part or would like more information, please contact jane.stevenson@manchester.ac.uk (telephone: 0161-275 6055)
2012
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February
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March
5th 12th 19th 26th
April
2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th
May
7th 14th 21st 28th
June
4th 11th 18th 25th
July
2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th
August
6th 13th 20th 27th
September
3rd 10th 17th 24th
Week commencing 23rd January 2012
Date: 23 January 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: Translating Gender, Translating French Feminism--Jeanne Hyvrard, Nancy Huston and Annie Ernaux in English (Pascale Sardin)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Date: 24 January 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Getting Started with Blackboard IM (for Personalised Communication, Learning & Feedback)
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Contact: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 25 January 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Online Assignment Submission with Turnitin (Tii)
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 25 January 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Online Assignment Marking with Grademark
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 25 January 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Tom Karlsson - Straddling the fence between economic efficiency and constitutional obedience - managing public administrative organisations
Time: 14.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Email: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 26 January 2012
School: cities@manchester
Title: Transforming Manchester: Workshop 1
Time: 09.30 – 16.30
Venue: Hanson Room
Email: caitriona.devery@manchester.ac.uk (please email to request place)
Link: http://www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/events/
Date: 26 January 2012
School: School of Social Sciences
Title: What is a case study in accounting and business management?
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street
Email: gillian.meadows@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/whatis/
Date: 26 January 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Andreas Milidonis - Sovereign Debt Rating Changes and the Stock Market
Time: 13.00
Venue: Room B1, MBS East
Email: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Link: www.mbs.ac.uk
Date: 26 January 2012
School: cities@manchester
Title: Book launch & Reception
Time: 16.30
Venue: Humanities Bridgeford St, 1st floor mezzanine
Email: caitriona.devery@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/events/documents/citiesbooklaunchposter-final.pdf
Date: 26 January 2012
School: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Centre for New Writing
Title: African Writing: a reading by editor Chuma Nwokolo
Time: 17.00
Venue: Room SG1, Samuel Alexander building
Email: geoffrey.ryman@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/
Date: 27 January 2012
School: Institute for Social Change, Social Sciences
Title: Dr. Jochem Tolsma - Residential mobility and the relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion
Time: 13.00 – 14.15
Venue: The Boardroom (2.016), Arthur Lewis Building
Contact: Huw Vasey
Email: scid@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://scidproject.wordpress.com/seminars/
Date: 27 January 2012
School: School of Arts, Histories & Cultures
Title: Performance Poet Mark Gywnne Jones – Tickets cost £5.00
Time: 17.30
Venue: The John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Email: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk or call 0161 275 8951 (Mon-Fri 14.00 – 16.00)
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1120
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Week commencing 30th January to 5th February2012
Date: 30 January 2012
School: MICRA
Title: Designing and Evaluating Wellbeing Interventions for Older People. Speakers: Anna Campbell – Age UK, West Cumbria, Professor Chris Todd – School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, Professor James Nazroo – Sociology & CCSR
Time: 14.00 – 16.00 (with buffet lunch and networking from 13.00)
Venue: Room G306B, Jean McFarlane Building
Link: http://www.ihs.manchester.ac.uk/events/futureworkshops/MICRA300112 to book a place on this course
Date: 30 January 2012
School: School of Social Sciences / Social Anthropology
Title: Beyond Islam: Tradition and the Intelligibility of Experience - Johan Rasanayagam (Aberdeen)
Time: 16.15
Venue: Room 2.016/017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
Email: marie.rostron@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 30 January 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures
Title: The Confucius Institute Spring Festival Gala 2012
Time: 18.00
Venue: Academy 2
Email: katherine.popperwell@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://confucius-institute.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/events_news/forthcoming/index.html
Date: 31 January 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: “The thrill of the ride…..A CEO perspective on leading in difficult situations” (Jackie Daniel seminar)
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.6, MBS West
Email: chris.wood@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 31 January 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Embedding Video in Blackboard 9: BoB, YouTube and the VLS
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 31 January 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Embedding Video in Blackboard 9: BoB, YouTube and the VLS
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Contact: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 1 February 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Getting Started with Blackboard IM (for Personalised Communication, Learning & Feedback)
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Contact: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 1st February
School: School of Education
Title: Shifting codes: professional before their time? - Graham Hardy
Time: 12.30 - 14.00
Venue: Room C3.30, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 1 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group - Agnes Mazars-Chapelon, CREGOR Universite Montpellier
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 2 February 2012
School: methods@manchester
Title: What is Fuzzy Set Analysis
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Email: gillian.meadows@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/whatis/
Date: 3 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School Library Service
Title: Writing for Publications in Business and Management: In this session, speakers from the publishing industry will share the insiders' view of how to write for publication in business and management.
Time: 10.00 – 12.00
Venue: 3.76 MBS West
Email: xia.hong@mbs.ac.uk
Link: Researchers and postgraduate research students are welcome to attend. Please book a place online at www.eprog.manchester.ac.uk
Week commencing 6th February 2012
Date: 6 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Michael J. Mol - External Forms of Involvement in the Creation of Management Innovation and the Production of Radical and Systemic New Practices: Evidence from History
Time: 16.00 (coffee from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Email: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Link: http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation/Newsevents/Seminars.aspx
Date: 7th February
School: Methods@Manchester
Title: British Library social sciences datasets programme A workshop by John Kaye, lead Curator - Datasets This workshop will introduce researchers to the British Library's dataset programme and provide an overview of dataset activities within Social Sciences. It will show reseachers current and planned services the Library is offereng to connect reseachers with data. It will explore the importance of high quality research data in social science disciplines and through examples it will look at where data fits in the reserach workflow. It will also look at some tools to carry out data analysis from Online Analysis and Visualization to Geographic Information Systems.
Time: 1.30pm-4.30pm
Venue: To be confirmed
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/
Date: 7 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – MIS Failure in a Developing Country: Lessons from a Tanzanian NGO – Gerald Mwanyika – IT Consultant, CINGstudio
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.02, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 7 February 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Bb9 Build Workshop
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 7 February 2012
School: CIDRA / ICP
Title: CIDRA & ICP Research Seminar and Screening on Bobby Baker
Time: 17.00 – 19.00
Venue: 4.10 Mansfield Cooper
Email: simon.parry@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/
Date: 8 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Dignity in male dominated work – Cathy Cassell
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Venue: B6, MBS East
Contact: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 8 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Paul Andre, ESSEC Business School
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Theatre 2, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings
Time: 16.00
Venue: Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Arts, Histories & Cultures
Title: Negotiating Indigeneity: Museums and Indigenous groups in Taiwan, Dr Marzia Varutti
Time: 17.00 – 18.30
Venue: Room 4.10, Mansfield Cooper Building
Email: Louise.Tythacott@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/newsevents/seminars/
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Title: Freedom, Suicide & Selfhood in Shakespeare and Early Modern Thought: EAS Strachniewski Memorial Lecture – Speaker Brian Cummings, University of Sussex
Time: 17.00 – 18.00
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Jerome.Degroot@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Social Sciences
Title: Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe: Winds of Desire: Energopolitics and Renewable Power in Southern Mexico
Time: 4.00pm - 5.30
Venue: University Place 2.219
Email: Hannah.knox@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/political-materials-excavation-transformation-incorporation-1
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Title: Negotiating Indigeneity: Museums and Indigenous groups in Taiwan
Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Venue: Mansfield Cooper, 4.10
Email: Louise.Tythacott@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/newsevents/seminars/
Date: 8 February 2012
School: School of Social Sciences
Title: Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe: Winds of Desire: Energopolitics and Renewable Power in Southern Mexico
Time: 16.00 – 17.30
Venue: University Place 2.219
Email: Hannah.knox@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/political-materials-excavation-transformation-incorporation-1
Date: 9 February 2012
School: methods@manchester
Title: What is spatial data and how can I access it for my research?
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Email: gillian.meadows@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/whatis/
Date: 9 February 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: Arguing with Myself: Reviewing and Refining Concepts of \"translation in context" (Amanda Hopkinson)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Week commencing 13th February 2012
Date: 14 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – Managing Electronic Waste: The case of Indian software industries – Logakanthi Subramanian – School of Planning, University of Manchester
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 14 February 2012
School: CIDRA / ICP
Title: CIDRA & ICP: Bobby Baker in Conversation with Gail Hornstein
Time: 18.00 – 20.00
Venue: Whitworth Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Email: jackie.stacey@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/
Date: 15 February 2012
School: CIDRA / ICP
Title: Postgraduate Masterclass: Bobby Baker & Gail Hornstein with Simon Parry (ICP) & Maggie Gale (Drama)
Time: 10.00 – 11.30
Venue: Mansfield Cooper 2.02
Email: jackie.stacey@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/
Date: 15 February 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: History Lunchtime Seminar - "Face to the kishlak!": transforming agrarian relations in the Uzbek SSR, 1924-1928"
Time: 13.00
Venue: Room A202, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Hannah.Barker@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 15 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Tim Adam
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 15 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Cong Cao- The trajectory of China’s High Tech Development: The “growth pain/premature senility” thesis revisited
Time: 16.00 (coffee from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Email: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Link: http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation/Newsevents/Seminars.aspx
Date: 15th February
School: School of Law
Title: Desistance event: CCCJ PGR students in conversation with a leading scholar - Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: To be confirmed
Contact: For further information and to register your interest, please contact Jon Shute
Email: jon.shute@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/index.html
Date: 16th February
School: School of Education
Title: Rohhss Chapman/Craig Blyth. Partnership research
Time: 12.30pm-2.00pm
Venue: C3.30, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchmatersseminars/
Date: 16 February 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Researching counselling in schools: investigating prevalence and examining outcome - Terry Hanley and Clare Lennie
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: C3.30, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 16 February 2012
School: methods@manchester
Title: What are Citizens\' Juries?
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Email: gillian.meadows@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/whatis/citizens-juries/index.shtml
Date: 16 February 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS seminar: Approaching Expertise in Translation from a Process-oriented Perspective: Insights from Empirical-Experimental Studies (Fábio Alves)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
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Week commencing 20th February
Date: 20 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Anne ter Wal - tba
Time: 16.00 (coffee from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Email: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Link: http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation/Newsevents/Seminars.aspx
Date: 21 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – Examining Inclusive Innovation: A study of micro-entrepreneurs in the Kenyan mobile phone sector – Christopher Foster – IDPM, University of Manchester
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 21 February 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: Outsourcing Empire: The Founding of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1864
Time: 16.00
Venue: SG1 Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 22 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: The Impact Agenda – an ESRC funded seminar series. Lead: Ian Miles, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School. This seminar series adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine and clarify the concept of ‘impact’ in the context of academic research in the humanities and social science. The aim is to identify the processes that influence impact and explore mechanisms that maximise it.
Time: 09.00 – 17.00
Venue: Room 2.40, MBS West
Email: veronica.smith@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 22 February 2012
School: Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Title: The Embeddedness of Ethical Banking in the UK
Time: 11.00 – 13.00
Venue: CRESC Manchester, 178 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road
Contact: olubusola.awosanya@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 22 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: The dynamics of difference in higher education – Marianna Fotaki
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: B6, MBS East
Contact: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 22 February 2012
School: School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Title: Hepworth Comes Home, Dr Sam Lackey
Time: 17.00 – 18.30
Venue: Mansfield Cooper, 4.10
Email: Louise.Tythacott@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/newsevents/seminars/
Date: 23 February 2012
School: methods@manchester
Title: What is Linked Data?
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Email: gillian.meadows@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/whatis/
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Week commencing 27th February to 4th March 2012
Date: 27 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – Andrea Filippetti, Visiting Research Fellow, Birbeck University of London
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 28 February 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Online Assignment Submission with Turnitin (Tii)
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 28 February 2012
School: School of Education
Title: The influence on Chinese middle class parents' perspective of early child education - Shaohua Hong
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 28 February 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Paper 2 - Individual planning and the construction of educational difference: a cross-national comparative study. Ines Alves
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: Room C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 28 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – Mobile Bankless Banking as a Social Business: The case of E-MASARY in Egypt – Mostafa Mohamed – MBS, University of Manchester
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.02, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 29 February 2012
School: eLearning Team
Title: Online Assignment Marking with Grademark
Time: Please see link below
Venue: Please see link below
Email: elearning@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/events/
Date: 29 February 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Stephen Taylor, Lancaster University
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 1 March 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: The Acquisition of Expertise in Interpreting: Neurophysiological Correlates (Barbara Moser)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Date: 2 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School Library Service
Title: Manchester eScholar - Enhancing Researchers' Profile: Led by the Manchester eScholar team, this session will explore strategies for increasing the citation rate of your publications and therefore improving your research profile.
Time: 10.00 – 12.00
Venue: 3.76 MBS West
Email: xia.hong@mbs.ac.uk
Link: Researchers and postgraduate research students are welcome to attend. Please book a place online at www.eprog.manchester.ac.uk
Week commencing 5th March
Date: 5 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – Stephen Kinkel, Head of Competence Center Industrial and Service Innovations, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 6 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – Harsha Liyanage – ICT4D Consultant, eNovation
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 7 March 2012
School: School of Education
Title: "Ensure that you stand out from the crowd": an analysis of UCAS personal statements according to applicants' school type
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: AG.3/4, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 7 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Amh Tran, Cass Business School
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangia.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 7 March 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: History Lunchtime Seminar - 10 Rillington Place and the Changing politics of the Backstreet Abortionist in Modern Britain 1949-1971
Time: 13.00
Venue: Room A202, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Hannah.Barker@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 8 March 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: Translation, Migration and the Bio-politics of Language (Loredana Polezzi)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Date: 8 March 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: Amnesty International and the politics of human rights in
Time: 16.00
Venue: Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
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Week commencing 12th March 2012
Date: 12 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served for 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 13 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Development Informatics – ICTs and Gross National Happiness
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: cdi@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 14 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: UCATT;s Vulnerable Workers Unit – Stephen Mustchin
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: B6, MBS East
Contact: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 14 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Awareness of working conditions laws in China – Deirdre McCann
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: B6, MBS East
Contact: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 14 March 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: History Lunchtime Seminar - Researching Scotland\'s Lost Revolution: a Case Study in Serendipity
Time: 13.00
Venue: Room A202, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Hannah.Barker@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 14 March 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Shaping and selling policy: studying networks and influence in primary school literacy - Colin Mills
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: AG.9, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Fahlenbrach Ruediger, EPFL
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 14 March 2012
School: CIDRA
Title: Workshop: 'The Poetics and Physics of Clay: Diverse Approaches to Materiality'
Time: 14.00 – 17.00
Venue: Room 5.205, University Place
Email: ina.berg@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/
Date: 15 March 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: NaTranslation and Creativity: A Case Study in Digital (Re)presentation (Anna Milsom)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Date: 16 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Young Workers and Trade Unions
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
Venue: Rooms 10.04 and 10.05, Harold Hankins Building
Email: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Week commencing 19th March 2012
Date: 19 March 2012
School: Faculty of Humanities with the British Academy
Title: Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy – Professor Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Time: 16.00 – 18.00
Venue: Cordingley Lecture Theatre, HBS Building
Email: noel.castree@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 19 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – John Joseph, Assistant
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 20 March 2012
School: School of Social Sciences
Title: Methods and Challenges of Researching Social Networking Sites
Time: 09.30 – 17.00
Venue: Room G306a, Jean MacFarlane Building
Email: caitriona.devery@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/2012-03-20/
Date: 21 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Alan Lowe, Aston Business School
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Theatre 2, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 21 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Stefano Rossi, Imperial College London
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 21st & 22nd March 2012
School: School of Environment and Development, Manchester Architecture Research Centre
Title: Multi-Faith Spaces: Symptoms & Agents of Religious & Social Change
Time: 10.00 (21st) until 16.30 (22nd)
Venue: St Peter's Church & Chaplaincy (Oxford Road)
Contact: Dr Chris Hewson
Email: mfs@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/research/mfs/outputs/
Date: 22 and 23 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Demand Innovation and Policy: Underpinning Policy Trends with Academic Analysis
Venue: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Email: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Link: http://underpin.portals.mbs.ac.uk
Date: 22 March 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Title: CTIS Seminar: Non-Representational Insights into the Role of Affectivity in Amateur Subtitling (Luis Perez Gonzalez)
Time: 14.00 – 15.20
Venue: A113 Samuel Alexander Building
Email: siobhan.brownlie@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/activities/seminars/seminars-1112/
Date: 23 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School Library Service
Title: Bibliometrics: This session is for researchers who wish to understand the foundations of citations analysis and how it is being used to compare journals, research groups and individuals
Time: 10.00 – 12.00
Venue: 3.76 MBS West
Email: xia.hong@mbs.ac.uk
Link: Researchers and postgraduate research students are welcome to attend. Please book a place online at www.eprog.manchester.ac.uk
Date: 23 March 2012
School: School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures
Title: International Debate: Is European Multiculturalism in Crisis?
Time: 16.00 – 18.00
Venue: Samuel Alexander Theatre
Contact: Sue-Ann Harding, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz
Email: Sue-Ann.Harding@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.russtvethnic.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
Week commencing 26th March 2012
Date: 26 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – Marcel Bogers, Post-Doc in Innovation Management, University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 28 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Infrastructure Development – Governance and Leadership of Mega Infrastructure Programmes
This half-day workshop will feature a keynote address by Sir John Armitt, ODA's chairman, followed by presentations by Howard Sheplee, former ODA Director of Construction, Martin Buck, Crossrail Commercial Director, and Julian Foster, BAA Programme Director. Nuno Gil, CID Academic Director, will share preliminary findings of CID flagship research project on Governing Design, Designing Governance of Mega Projects, a comparative study of practices at London 2012, Crossrail, and BAA Terminal 2. The workshop will conclude with a light lunch. Attendance is open to everyone, but there is a charge for non-affiliated organizations.
Contact: nuno.gil@mbs.ac.uk for further information
Date: 29 March 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Career choice: using visual methods to inform an analysis of young people's career ideas through years 10 and 11 - Danielle White
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: C2.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 29 March 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Understanding school rationale for Extended Services through a 'Theory of Change' metholodogy - Nicola Kassam
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 30 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School Library Service
Title: Social Media in a Research Context: This session will provide an overview of the social media landscape and demonstrate some of the tools available and how they can be implemented in a research context. Please bring your own laptop.
Time: 10.00 – 12.00
Venue: 10.08 Harold Hankins
Email: xia.hong@mbs.ac.uk
Link: Researchers and postgraduate research students are welcome to attend. Please book a place online at www.eprog.manchester.ac.uk
Date: 30 March 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change – How Methods Move in Markets
Time: 12.30 – 16.30
Venue: The Open University, Camden, London
Contact: olubusola.awosanya@manchester.ac.uk
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Date: 16-17 April 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: The Manchester Projects, Programmes and Portfolios Network - The Sixth Making Projects Critical Workshop
Contact: Damian.hodgson@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 18 April 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: History Lunchtime Seminar - Protecting against the misrepresentation of quality: false lengths, yarn counts and trust in nineteenth-century cotton production
Time: 13.00
Venue: Room A202, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Hannah.Barker@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
18th April
School: School of Law
Title: "Kill or be killed, know what I'm saying?" An analysis of gangs and knife crime in Scotland - Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: To be confirmed
Contact: For further information and to register your interet, please contact Jon Shute
Email: jon.shute@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/index.html
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Date: 23 April 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – Knut Blind, Deputy Head Technology Analysis and Innovation Strategies Dept., Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 25 April 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: A model of Racialized Sexual Harassment of Women in the UK Workplace – Sandra Fielden
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Venue: B6, MBS East
Contact: gayle.binder@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 26 April 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: Wives and property or wives as property? Income tax and the making of a female Indian subject, 1916-1937
Time: 16.00
Venue: Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
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Date: 30 April 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research – Corey Phelps, Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris
Time: 16.00 (with tea and coffee served from 15.30)
Venue: Room 10.04/10.05, 10th Floor, Harold Hankins Building
Contact: Siobhan.drugan@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 3rd May 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Access to Higher Education - Cate Goodlad
Time: 12.30 - 14.00
Venue: Room C3.30, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
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Week commencing 7th May2012
Date: 10 May 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: Inequality: A Historical Approach
Time: 16.00
Venue: Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
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Date: 16 May 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Mastering Teaching and Learning? Research issues emerging from the first two years of the MTL - Colin Mills and MTL team
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 16 May 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Mastering Teaching and Learning? Research issues emerging from the first two years of the MTL. Colin Mills and MTL team
Time: 12.30 – 14.00
Venue: Room C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
Date: 16 May 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Jin-Chuan Duan, National University of Singapore
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 16 May 2012
School: School of Arts Histories & Cultures
Title: The Wicked Uncles in Conservative Party Politics: Press Barons and the "Culture of Property" after 1918 in Germany and Great Britain
Time: 16.00
Venue: Room A113, Samuel Alexander Building
Email: Pedro.RamosPinto@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/research/seminars/
Date: 20th May – 22 May 2012
School: School of Law
Title: “A Quarter Century of Organising Crime. Past threats and policies and new horizons in law enforcement” – 13th Cross Border Crime Colloquium
Time: 16.00
Venue: To be confirmed
Contact: For further information and to register your interest, please contact Jon Shute
Email: jon.shute@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/index.html
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Date: 23 May 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group - Harold Scheule, University of Melbourne
Time: 1400 - 1600
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 23 May 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Torkel Stromsten, Stockholm School of Economics
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Theatre 2, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
23rd May
School: School of Law
Title: TBA – Robin Robinson, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Time: 16.00
Venue: To be confirmed
Contact: For further information and to register your interest, please contact Jon Shute
Email: jon.shute@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/index.html
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29th May
School: School of Education
Title: Nicola Kassam. Understanding shool rationale for extended Services through a 'Theory of Change' methodology
Time: 12.30pm-2.00pm
Venue: C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http;//www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchmattersseminars/
29th May
School: School of Education
Title: Chris Chapman/Helen Gunter. Journals and publication
Time: 12.30pm-2.00pm
Venue: C3.19, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/researchmattersseminars/
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Week commencing 4th June 2012
Date: 6 June 2012
School: Manchester Business School
Title: Manchester Accounting and Finance Group – Mara Faccio, Purdue University
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Venue: Room 5.1, Crawford House
Contact: sangita.mistry@mbs.ac.uk
Date: 6 June 2012
School: School of Law
Title: “Return of the Repressed? A Renaissance of Political Economy in Criminology” – Robert Reiner, London School of Economics & Political Science
Time: 16.00
Venue: To be confirmed
Contact: For further information and to register your interest, please contact Jon Shute
Email: jon.shute@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/index.html
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Week commencing 11th June 2012
Date: 14 June 2012
School: School of Education
Title: Journals and publication - Chris Chapman and Helen Gunter
Time: 12.30-2.00pm
Venue: C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Email: diane.l.brooks@manchester.ac.uk
Link: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/reasearchmattersseminars/
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