Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Combining evidence for establishing causality.
Medicine and health science relies on a variety of methods, but do they establish the same thing? It is not uncommon that the available evidence points in different directions with respect to causality. In the standard evidence hierarchy, the priority in case of conflicting evidence is clear. In this presentation, I will argue that the differe..
‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’
Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich, .THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL FDI EMBEDDING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
This study examines how structural characteristics of countries’ local inward and outward FDI networks influence economic development across different stages of development. Drawing from IMF Counterparty Direct Investment Statistics data 2009-2024, I apply an MRQAP time-fixed effects model to a set of Burt’s (1992) structural hole measures..
‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) - ‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Shan Shi University of Manchester
The New International Economic (Dis)order: On Law, Privatization and Power
In 1976, Gillian White published her famous article ‘The New International Economic Order’ in the Virginia Journal of International Law, finding a ‘climate in which some genuine amelioration is possible’. Fifty years later, the New International Economic Order (NIEO) has clearly not materialised. Quite the contrary is the case: The exe..
'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Kath Weston (University of Virginia) - 'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’
Macro Seminar - Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm)
Title: Does Student Aid Improve Educational Mobility?
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Mónica Hernández Alava Professor in Health Econometrics, University of Sheffield Title: TBA Abstract: TBA