Events from the 01 May 2025 - 31 May 2025 Reset
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).
08 May 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Teams
Joyce Havstad (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Fellow at the University of Hannover) visits Durham and gives a lecture on methodological choice in science.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside ER278
15 May 2025
This is a meeting to discuss how three Children’s Social Care departments have sought to improve social workers’ analytic skills when making sense of information about a child’s life and well-being. It draws on Eileen Munro's (LSE) and Nancy Cartwright's (Durham) research on providing credible evidence of singular causal claims.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
CB-1017 (Confluence building)
Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Professor Eileen Munro (London School of Economics) and John Pemberton give a seminar based on their upcoming book.
22 May 2025
Professor Nancy Cartwright first presented her lecture “In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming” as an Inaugural Mary Hesse Lecture in Cambridge on 24 Oct 2024.
29 May 2025