Events
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Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
15:00 - 16:15 11 October 2025
Join us for a captivating afternoon with two of Britain’s most original literary talents, Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson, as they discuss their haunting new books exploring nature, myth, folklore and the female body. In Helm, Sarah Hall (twice Booker Prize–nominated, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award) conjures a ferocious wind in...
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Refugees and the UK housing crisis (HCRI public event)
17:00 - 14 October 2025
Join the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) for roundtable discussion with four leading scholars on the realities and politics of refugee housing in the UK. SPEAKERS: - Dr Jessica Field - Author of 'Eviction: A Social History of Rent' (Verso, 2025) and is currently working on crisis-setting research ethics with colleagues at HCRI -...
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Using integrated non-survey data for evaluating and correcting for non-response bias in surveys
13:00 - 14:30 14 October 2025
Over the past decade, the landscape of survey data has substantially changed as response rates in probability-based surveys have seen a steady decline. Survey non-response can have a substantial impact on data quality, including the precision and reliability of survey estimates. The integration of non-survey data sources (i.e. administrative records,...
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SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns
13:00 - 13:30 15 October 2025
Time & Location 15 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 13:30 Online About the event Join SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wednesday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through the Looking Glass? The Collapse of Self/Other in AI Mental Health Apps'. Dr Jennifer Cearns is a digital anthropologist, specialising in AI and algorithms in social...
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The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester)
19:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance, Gary explores what has been termed as the ‘burden of representation’ and the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from...
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