Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn: From “oops” to “ops”: spotting insider risk before it becomes an incident with Dr. Ismini Vasileiou.
Insider threats are the cyber risk that often looks like “normal work”: trusted access, everyday shortcuts, and small decisions that can snowball into real incidents. This talk will demystify what “insider threat” actually means, distinguishing malicious insiders, well-meaning but risky behaviour (the “oops” factor), and compromis..
Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026
The Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) are hosting a landmark convention this April 2026 to explore how data is used to understand racial inequality in the UK, and what must change to better support racial justice work.
Europe’s Age of Externalisation? Migration, External Cooperation, and Human Rights
European states are currently exploring a number of so-called ‘innovative solutions’ to address the irregular arrival of asylum seekers and migrants at their borders, often entailing the externalisation of asylum processing, returns or border control. Yet, available evidence shows that these policies routinely produce wide-ranging harmful..
‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'
Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider how relational life becomes visible through both disruption and continuity. We reflect on two pathways through which relations across the lifetime can be unders..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Eleanor Power London School of Economics
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions are not stable, mechanisms are not isolatable, and delivery is adapted contextually to each young person. Drawing on in depth case studies of three youth mental h..
‘The European Court of Justice: An Insider’s Perspective’
Prof. Alejandro del Valle-Gálvez will provide an insider’s perspective on the workings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), drawing on his extensive experience within the EU legal system and his academic research on European law, migration, and human rights.
Multispecies Deconstructions of the ‘Human’ Within International Human Rights Law
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This session offers a posthumanist deconstruction of the human (we are animals, our bodies contain multitudes of life-forms, we exist within and not apart from nature)..