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News from the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Liverpool. Monitored 9am-5pm Mon-Fri. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/
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How can creative workshops help shape future care by and for people with energy limiting conditions (ELCs)? Join five artists as they share their insights at this @dadafest.bsky.social event on 17 March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-be... #AcademicSky

This Sat 8 March we're celebrating #BritishScienceWeek! Lots of experiments, puzzles and games all hosted by REAL scientists, doctors, researchers and experts from @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @lstmnews.bsky.social Drop in from 11am - 3pm. FREE! More: 👇 vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/exhibitions_...

Huge congratulations to our Learning, Teaching & Student Experience award winners - we saw so many amazing projects and the overall winner of the Sir Alastair Pilkington Award was announced last week 🏆 @sotauol.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @uolmanschool.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

New literary magazine from our School of the Arts colleagues, launching today! ✒️

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

The Human Remains Digital Library is now live! 💻 We're delighted to share the live link for the project's Human Remains Digital Library (HRDL): hrdl.liverpool.ac.uk HRDL Resources and Coding: github.com/HumanRemains... #digitalhumanities #archaeology #churches #hisitory #digitallibrary

Defiance: A Sister’s Fight for the Truth with Janet Alder Join us for a talk by Janet Alder, based on her book Defiance. For over 25 years, she has fought for truth & justice after her brother, Christopher Alder, was unlawfully killed by police. 🗓 Weds 12 March 👉 Register: bit.ly/janet-alder-...

North by Northwest. The sun rising over the sports hall and Abercromby Square this morning. #AcademicSky

In our latest episode of the Original Ideas podcast, Professor Larry Barham, Dr Ceren Kabukcu and Rachel Stokes discuss how they were drawn to Archaeology, and the multi-disciplinary nature of the work, including in the #OldWood discovery. 🎙️🔍 bit.ly/Orig-Ideas

🚓 Is entrapment by law enforcement ever permissible? That's the topic our 'Researchers in Focus' from @sotauol.bsky.social are tackling in this podcast and blog. We'll just leave it here and look the other way... www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #AcademicSky

✨ March 3rd is International Sex Workers Rights Day, highlighting rights, voices & experiences worldwide. Read Dr Gemma Ahearne’s (@gemmaahearne.bsky.social) blog—who coordinates Crime, Justice & the Sex Industry, one of our most popular optional modules—to learn more: bit.ly/internationa...

Happening today at 12pm, fans of anatomical erotica ☠️🥰👇 #AcademicSky

The Liverpool Institute of Archaeology is 120 years old. Celebrating the institute and its work, this @livuniresearch.bsky.social 'Original Ideas' podcast meets the academics looking back to the very dawn of humanity www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori... #AcademicSky

It's Publication FRIDAY. You may ask yourself, is that a thing? Well no. But it should be. We'll start with a new publication by our staff Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova & Mark Pogson (with Christopher Karadjov), which is out today. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Coming up next Thursday, join Guilane Kinouani to discuss racial trauma and research: 'The Black Researcher as Living and Bodily Archive' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-black-... #AcademicSky

From an idea in the NWSSDTP Youth Risk Research Network @livunihss.bsky.social , to fully fledged special issue: 📢'Race Class & Weaponisation of Child Safety' Thanks to amazing co-editor @lauriewroe.bsky.social & our contributors bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #race #class

Funding opp: ESRC responsive mode for collaborations with US researchers (£350k-£1m). For academics working within the remit of ESRC and the US based Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Directorate www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #AcademicSky

ICYMI | Our football finance expert, Kieran Maguire has spoken with Clive Myrie for the podcast - Football on Trial: The Manchester City Charges ⚽ You can listen again 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @priceoffootball.bsky.social @uolmanschool.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Just a reminder that this is happening today and we'd love to have you along (via Zoom or IRL)!

Conference announcement and call for papers: 'Challenges of conflict transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories', 12 June 2025. For scholars from the wider humanities & social sciences. Full details on presenting and attending here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #AcademicSky

Another ground-breaking archaeological study featuring UoL colleagues 🌳

👩‍🎨👩‍🎨The University of Liverpool is proud to be a Tate Liverpool partner. And as part of that partnership, we'd like to introduce our newest student ambassadors, Ada Malegowska and Lydia Parker: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #ArtSky #AcademicSky

Excited to share the latest article from the R&P Outputs Development Team in Research Professional News discussing the importance of recognising diverse research outputs and highlighting the steps the team are taking at the University of Liverpool to support them 💡 @resprofnews.bsky.social

Interested in the social aspects of language learning in study abroad research? @annaritamagliacane.bsky.social from @livunienglish.bsky.social and @sotauol.bsky.social has co-edited an issue of Language Learning on this area. Read more below- open access⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679922...

PhDs made in Liverpool can have global impact. PGR student Naeema is researching skin-lightening products in India. Learn about her work and why she chose to study with @uolhsspgr.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #AcademicSky

As we wandered on our way to our next meeting, what should we see? Another sure sign of spring in the Square.

Welcome to the Centre for the Study of International Slavery The home of research into slaveries past and present. Supporting and sharing research about slavery in history, legacies and contemporary society. A partnership between the University of Liverpool and the International Slavery Museum.

Sustainability Week 2025 is here! ✨ Join @livunisustain.bsky.social for a week of events, tours & sustainable campus initiatives 👗 Swap shop 🎬 Film screening 🌿 Gardening 🧵 Sewing 👕 T shirt and bag printing ♻️ Much more See full schedule here 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/sustainabili...

Say hello to Lyndon, one of our @uolhsspgr.bsky.social PGR students, as he explains how a range of activities across the Uni supported him during his PhD journey ⤵️

Research by @livunienglish.bsky.social challenging the gender gap in writing performance for children will now be used for teacher training👏🎉 Full Story 👇 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/27/r...

Exploring erotic expression in 18th & 19th-century anatomical imagery, join historian Michael Sappol on Monday 3 March for 'Queer Anatomies: aesthetics and desire in the anatomical image, 1700-1900' www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-h... #AcademicSky

Faculty colleagues from @livunilawsj.bsky.social are partnering with World Museum Liverpool to explore the history of algorithmic technologies, and in particular the methods developed by Islamic Golden Age scholars www.liverpool.ac.uk/law-and-soci...

What does the past tell us about the future?🏺🔍 How does Archaeology impact the world we live in? Original Ideas Podcast Episode 7: Archaeology discusses this and more 💡 🎙️ Listen now! 👇🎧 bit.ly/Orig-Ideas #Archaeology #OldWood

Your PhD can make a real difference, not just to you, but to the wider world. Meet @uolhsspgr.bsky.social's Diana and her quest to understand how businesses can be more socially responsible #AcademicSky

'No, Mr Bond. I expect you to be in between 10am and 4pm to receive your parcel...' Prof Yannis Tzioumakis from @commmedia.bsky.social looks at what might happen now Amazon owns the rights to 007 theconversation.com/james-bond-i...

Join Guilaine Kinouani, founder of Race Reflections, on 6 March for her vital talk 'The Black Researcher as living and bodily archive: Racial trauma, resistance, and community transformation'. In person and open to the public www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-black-... #AcademicSky

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

The North West Social Science DTP is now on Bluesky! Follow us for information about upcoming training and funding opportunities for PhD students in the social sciences. Queries can be sent to [email protected] 😊

All study can be challenging, and your PhD is no different. That's why @uolhsspgr.bsky.social have a suite of wellbeing resources in place to support you every step of the way bit.ly/3QeOOiy #PhDSky #AcademicSky

🎶 Georgian on my mind...

Making the move from student to academic, meet University of Liverpool PGR student Malika and see what she loves about working with @uolhsspgr.bsky.social #AcademicSky

🛍️Pondering over options to gain the most sought-after skills in the #marketing sector? Join our #Postgraduate #OpenWeek #webinar to find out more about the #MarketingMasters programmes at the @livuninews.bsky.social Management School. 📅Wed 26 Mar 🕛1pm (UK time) Sign up ⬇️ shorturl.at/ekTIT

Tag yourself (we'll go floaty tiger print in the middle)

Liverpool and the North West coming out with a strong showing in SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) provision in this new interactive map from @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r... #AcademicSky

A great start to the @livunihss.bsky.social PGR Opportunities Showcase, with talks from the Faculty Director of PGR, the Director of the PGR Experience Team, and (pictured) Prof. Georgina Endfield, APVC for the Research Environment and PGR!

And there you have it... We, along with the other University of Liverpool accounts, will no longer be posting to Twitter / X. Blue skies all the way! ✈️ #AcademicSky

Dr Chao Fang, from @livunislsj.bsky.social, reviews Cottontail, a newly released Japanese film, and its realistic and touching portrayal of modern grief theconversation.com/cottontail-r... #AcademicSky

This is happening tomorrow- come along and find out about doing your PhD at Liverpool.

😻 Do you like cats? Do you like PhDs? Here's an opportunity for a funded 'Cats and the ‘Good Life’ PhD studentship to investigate the association between the cat-owner relationship and owner mental wellbeing (not strictly our Faculty, but: cats) www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #AcademicSky #PhDSky