Social Responsibility

Events

• CMI Afternoon Seminar: Negotiating Digital Rights - Public Attitudes on Online Privacy and Targeting, at Home and at Work
  Tue 1 May 2018, 15:00 - 16:30

  Professor Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney There is a burgeoning discussion theorising our rights to privacy in an age when we use social media every day, but are increasingly subject to data collection and targeting by corporate advertising, government agencies, and workplaces.

• Join us at the annual CI Dragon Boat Race
  Sat 12 May 2018

  This year UCLAN Confucius Institute will organise the annual Dragon Boat race amongst North West Universities at Preston Marina.

• SEED Sixth Form Lecture: Changing places - Are we making places for people?
  Wed 16 May 2018, 16:30 - 18:00

  This exciting lecture is aimed at all Geography A-Level students and aspiring Year 11 pupils.

• Stealing Smiles: Changes in Dentistry during the 20th Century
  Thu 24 May 2018, 17:30 - 19:00

  To coincide with National Smile Month and 70 years of the National Health Service, this conversation between medical historian Dr Richard Barnett, and Dr Margaret Wilson, Dental clinician and academic, explores historical dental instruments from the Museum of Medicine and Health and Manchester Dental Hospital Museum to reveal great changes in dental care and the pursuit of the perfect smile.

• Understanding Everyday Participation: Relocating Culture, Value and Inequality
  Mon 11 Jun 2018 - Tue 12 Jun 2018

  Questioning traditional boundaries of culture The Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values project calls into question the traditional boundaries of ‘culture’ and exposes the role these play in the making of economic, social and geographical inequalities.

• Community Festival
  Sat 16 Jun 2018, 11:00 - 16:00

  Come and experience our free Community Festival packed with fun family-friendly activities.

• Blue Planet In Concert
  Thu 19 Jul 2018, 17:00 - 23:00

  The award winning bluedot festival will be opening early this year with Blue Planet in Concert, performed by the Halle Orchestra on Thursday 29th July.

• Bluedot Festival
  Fri 20 Jul 2018 - Sun 22 Jul 2018

  The incredible bluedot festival is Jodrell Bank's award-winning music, arts and science weekender that's not to be missed! Set against the backdrop of the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Bluedot combines an out of this world music lineup with an innovative programme of live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.