How does music relate to the social? Substantively? And methodologically? This workshop will explore how music matters to people - and innovative research methods for thinking about this. Please subscribe early: numbers are limited.

This workshop brings together photographers and social scientists to explore the challenges they face, and the techniques they are developing to overcome the problems associated with the practice of describing change.

Comparing the city of Manchester, ten years after it hosted the Commonwealth Games, with London - host to the Olympic Games in 2012, this two day workshop invites critical inter-disciplinary discussion and evaluation of the legacies of sporting mega-events for post-industrial British cities.

Maurice Glasman will present CRESC's 2012 Annual Lecture. He will talk about 'An Ancient Polity for a New Economy'. Maurice Glasman is a Labour Peer, and Reader in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University

An afternoon workshop which explores the potential of Geographical Information Systems technology in the analysis of ethnic segregation, with input fron leading scholars in the field including Angela Dale (CCSR, Manchester), Martin Dodge (Geography, Manchester), Ian Gregory (Digital Humanities, Lancaster) and Ludi Simpson (CCSR, Manchester).  Please reserve a place with CRESC Secretary Bussie Awosanya (Olubusola.Awosanya@manchester.ac.uk).  Places are limited.

This workshop explores the phenomenon of military multiculturalism in different national contexts.

An open meeting of the Transition Research Network, bringing together academics and activists interested in community-led responses to climate change and resource depletion.

'Winds of Desire: Energopolitics and Renewable Power in Southern Mexico',
Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe, Rice University

Join CRESC for a gallery visit to the Dark Matters exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

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Stewart Muir will be leading a seminar on on ''Healing the nation: Utopianism, Culture, and Aboriginal reconciliation." All welcome!

An online conference bringing together researchers in the US and UK who work on the material culture of the book and publishing.

The CRESC annual conference 2011 takes the rubric of 'framing' to scrutinise the processes by which the city has been  conceptualised, conceived , ordered and depicted - and how these processes have been disrupted and contested - in regard to the meta-themes of: the material, ecologies and environments, publics & politics, economies, the visual, and affect.

This interdisciplinary CRESC workshop brings together researchers across the social sciences and humanities to ask how we might explain the robustness of this form of social identification in the face of the economic and political changes outlined above and what this implies for policy narratives like ‘the Big Society? In particular, what role does the spatialisation of inequality play in understanding class formation, fragmentation and relations; in the construction of social identities and the articulation of belonging; in the experience and memory of displacement and de-industrialisation and in the potential for a renewed class-based politics?

Penny Harvey and Evelyn Ruppert will be speaking at a workshop organised by methods@manchester on 'Research methods and social responsibility'.

A networking meeting for those conducting research reviews and scoping studies as part of the Connected Communities research programme.

Our monthly informal CRESC OU lunchtime meeting. Everyone is welcome - please bring your own lunch.

Michelle Bastian will be leading a seminar on on 'Fatally Confused about Time: Climate Change and Non-Performativity'. All welcome!

Second drawing seminar.  

This course is for people who have prior experience of doing mixed methods research and would like some training and guidance. The course will focus particularly on doing mixed methods research with longitudinal survey data. 

A round table debate at the House of Commons organised by the New Political Economy Network in association with CRESC.

This conference is on borders and the ways in which they shift. It will explore whether this displacement a characteristic of borders as such, and consider the making and remaking of borders, both literally and metaphorically.

This conference will celebrate the 15-year career of Mike Savage as Professor of Sociology at Manchester University. The conference programme includes invited papers from friends and colleagues, all prominent in their own fields, who have been in conversation with Mike’s work over the years.

A symposium at the University of Manchester covering 'Theories, Policies, and Prospects  for Urban Communities in The Wake of the Global Financial Crisis'

The workshop will consist of three sessions held between 11.00 and 17.00 at St Hugh's College, led by students who are either working on, or have recently finished their doctoral studies. The first two sessions will be structured around specific issues and questions submitted in advance by participants.

Financial crisis has raised the question of whether and how mutuals could play a larger role in the provision of financial services as part of a more diverse ecology of firm types and business models within the financial sector. This workshop encourages debate and dialogue amongst academics, policy makers and financial service providers from inside and outside the mutual sector who have different answers to the question about the future of mutuals. The aim is to promote better general understanding of the future of retail financial services and specifically of the arguments for and against a larger role for mutuals in the context of more general policy choices about firm types and business models for established providers and new entrants.

We will bring together politicians, academics, practitioners, regulators and media in a lively, informal debate with each other and a small mixed audience. The workshop format with around 35  in the room is designed to ensure variety and participation. There will be short 15 minute presentations from different points of view giving academic input and a variety of diverse (for, against and agnostic) plus questions from the floor; all under Chatham House rules which should allow practitioners to speak freely. The workshop is be organised by the Centre for Research in Socio Cultural Change at the University of Manchester and the Mutuality Research Programme at the University of Stirling who are grateful for the support of our sponsors The Economic and Social Research Council and the British Acdemy.

Further details from karel.williams@mbs.ac.uk

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During the 1990s and 2000s, urban policy researchers championed the ‘creative city’, the potential for arts and avant-garde culture to revitalise cities and promote urban development. This seminar examines what is happening to the creative city paradigm after the worldwide financial crash of late 2008, and in particular in the UK where it has hit hard.

 What is the relationship between the museum and visuality?   A seminar convened by Andrew Hill and Helen Rees Leahy.