Past events
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Beyond the Uniform: Black and Asian Experiences in the Criminal Justice System
16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2024
This third seminar in the Department of Criminology’s Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series examines Black and Asian professionals in the criminal justice system (CJS) and how institutional racism affects not only victims and perpetrators but also those working in the CJS. Recent drives to diversify...
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Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, stratification, and outcomes
16:30 - 18:00 14 February 2024
Social protection is an essential component of public policy. Its successes or failures have direct implications for social welfare, especially among disadvantaged groups. Unlike other institutions, the evolution of social protection reflects advances or regressions in social justice. This lecture discusses...
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MIOIR-SCI Seminar - Geography and Trade Again? 21st Century Evidence on International Trade, Investment, and the Localisation of Production
10:00 - 11:00 13 February 2024
You are invited to attend the jointly hosted seminar by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Sustainable Consumption Institute with Professor Henry Yeung, Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. You can in-person or online! Geography and Trade Again?...
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Mapping crime data in R: An introduction to GIS and spatial data
11:00 - 12:30 13 February 2024
Do you want to display crime data on maps but don’t know how? Crime data often contains spatial components. As a result, analyses of crime data can create patterns that are clearly linked to geography. Naturally, putting the data or analysis on a map makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, if you have...
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Computational social science drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 13 February 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and...
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