Past events
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Friends, family, and flows of things: Everyday practices of sustainability
09:00 - 11:00 12 May 2026
Guest lecture from Professor Jo Lindsay (School of Social Sciences, Monash University). Co-organised by Sustainable Consumption Institute and University of Manchester Geography. Part of the Geography Department Research Seminar series Prof Lindsay is a sociologist in the fields of sustainability, consumption,...
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 12 May 2026
Do you find yourself: - stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? - not sure what to learn next? - the only person in your team using computational methods? - wanting to meet other computational social scientists? - interested to learn or teach some data skills with like-minded individuals? Join...
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SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
13:00 - 14:30 12 May 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar , we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Amiya Bhatia Associate Professor, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
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Getting started with secondary analysis
09:00 - 10:30 11 May 2026
Participants will learn about the key issues to consider when using secondary data analysis as a method. This introductory workshop will briefly cover the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will...
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Convivial futures: Living well together on a climate-ravaged planet
8 May - 18 June 2026
This interdisciplinary symposium will explore how we might reimagine mobility, belonging and kinship amidst mounting ecological upheavals Our current era of accelerating ‘ecocide’ marks a ‘double death’ (Rose, 2012) through the untimely obliteration of the ‘deep biological rivers that constitute...
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