Events
The Researcher Development Team offer a range of seminars covering a broad range of topics, from supporting your development as an effective researcher right through to reflective accounts of careers within academia.
Each year, teams across the University delivers a range of events, bringing together researchers and supporting them to develop interdisciplinary connections. These encompass a range of activities, including the Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase as well as departmental level events, which often form part of your portfolio for progression and assessment. These are also excellent opportunities to enhance your presenting and communication skills and showcase your research.
Upcoming events
Social Statistics Seminar Series
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform (joint with Xavier Jaravel) The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to conduct qualitative interviews at a large scale, with thousands...
AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Fabio Cuzzolin: Epistemic artificial intelligence
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI) has improved remarkably over the last years, its inability to deal with uncertainty severely limits its future applications. In...
BEYOND Conference 2024: Creative Cities
Creative Manchester will be a partner of this year's BEYOND 2024 conference, where we will showcase the innovative research taking place with partners from across the city and beyond, in digital and creative technologies. As part of this we will deliver a creative R&D Showcase on one of the conference's stages, centred on the Our Heritage, Our...
Teamwork and Collaboration Principles for Successful Research
Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based ways of working and skills are becoming increasingly important in the fundability and impact assessment of research outputs. The University of Manchester’s “Teams Build Dreams” Team Research Programme is dedicated to providing you with the necessary skills and insights to thrive in this increasingly...
Teamwork and Collaboration Principles for Successful Research
Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based ways of working and skills are becoming increasingly important in the fundability and impact assessment of research outputs. The University of Manchester’s “Teams Build Dreams” Team Research Programme is dedicated to providing you with the necessary skills and insights to thrive in this increasingly...
ECR networking (and mince pies)
This is an internal event aimed at University of Manchester early career researchers, from PhD students to academics. This is a networking event, designed to foster community creation and collaboration. You will engage in a mini World Café session where you’ll delve into strengths and priorities for environmental sustainability research, designed...
Celebrating Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research
Celebrating Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research will be the theme of this year's Sustainable Futures’ Annual Conference, an event showcasing interdisciplinary sustainability research at The University of Manchester. Organised with Manchester Environmental Research Institute, Henry Royce Institute and the Sustainable Consumption Institute,...
AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Ruth Misener
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: Autonomous research machines: Self-optimising new chemistry Abstract: Consider "micro reactor flow systems". Because these high-throughput microfluidic devices can control...
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