Past events
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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 - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling
16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
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 elementary school students in Hungary, we test different predictions of the cultural-ecological theory among the Roma, one of the largest ethnic minority groups in Europe. First,...
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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 activism 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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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Nynke Niezink (Carnegie Mellon University), Network Analysis in Statistics Education: Substantive and Methodological Results
16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Progress on substantive research and methodological development often goes hand in hand. In this talk, I will illustrate this in the context of statistics education. While statistics classes are getting larger and larger, feeling a sense of belonging remains fundamental to students’ academic success and well-being. Sense of belonging is inherently...
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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects us all. Drawing on groundbreaking research on reproductive loss, post-mortem and bereavement, Professor Reed will problematise the boundary between life and...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth
16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes of religious segregation within friendship networks. A key question is whether religious segregation stems from Muslims' in-group bias or non-Muslims' reluctance...
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