Past events
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Summer School: Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research
30 June - 2 July 2025
This course offers a hands-on introduction to creative approaches to doing qualitative research. It is designed for researchers and PhD students who already have a background in qualitative research techniques and would like to expand their knowledge to include more creative techniques. The course will engage with various stages of research including...
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Somatics, Yoga & Working Lunch - CoDE Early Career Network Event
23 July 2025
Somatics, Yoga & Working Lunch - CoDE Network Event This event aims to provide a space for radical care, community and wellbeing for ECRs working on race and racism. Expanding on the last CoDE ECR Network Event in February 'Building Solidarity', this event will begin with a short somatics session led by ECR network member Macole Lannaman followed...
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Collaborative Café: Conversations on Racism
12:00 - 16:30 11 September 2025
This event offers a safe, open space for migrants, practitioners, and academics to explore and discuss racism. Building on the CSR Collaboration Cafés, it aims to spark dialogue and foster research and collaboration. Four speakers—including migrants, grassroots practitioners, and academics—will give short talks on topics such as the systemic...
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Justice Interrupted: Race, Ethnicity, and Resistance – Early Career Researcher Symposium
3 October 2025
Part of our series of events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser for more details.
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
Karoly Takas, Linkoping University Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship Relations, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using unique social network panel data from...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Laurence Brandenberger (University of Zurich) - Chairs, Cliques, and Clout: Network Drivers in Parliamentary Collaboration
16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
How do members of parliament choose collaborators? Is it policy or people that tip the scales? This talk argues that the everyday social fabric of the chamber steers who works with whom. Treating parliament as a living network, I show that collaboration tends to form inside small, cohesive clusters where informal norms and reciprocity sustain...
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South Asian Women's Activism in Manchester: Film Screening and Discussion
13:30 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. This film screening and dialogue event highlights South Asian women’s activism and anti-racism resistance in the 1980s and their current struggles for justice. The archival film ‘Immigration Wives and...
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Activism and Academia (ECR network meetup) followed by Gary Younge Faber lecture
14:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Our early career network meetings aim to create space for early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity to share experiences and insights, and to create connections. The focus of this meeting will be on engaging in activisim from within academia. All participants are invited to stay on after our buffet tea for Gary Younge's Faber lecture 'Pigeonholed'....
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Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)
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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Listening, learning, collaborating: ECR reflections on research with ethnic minority older people
09:30 - 12:30 20 October 2025
Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. A reflective and collaborative event for ECRs who have conducted fieldwork with ethnic minority older adults, aimed at sharing experiences and co-producing practical guidance for future work in the field. Location:...
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