Great to see our English department in the top 100 QS subject rankings for English Language and Literature, one of 12 subject areas in the [email protected] @sotauol.bsky.social Details ⬇️

We're proud to be marching in the @togetheralliance.bsky.social this Saturday, because: ✊ We won’t let those who stoke fear divide us. ✊ We will stand against hate. ✊ We will march together in love and unity. 📍 Join us! Central London, Saturday, 28 March. #Together.

Migrants get blamed to distract us. Don’t fall for it.​ 🧼 Pick up the limited edition Hand of Friendship bath bomb at Lush: 75% of all sales go directly to our work, and learn more on our Words Matter campaign: ​https://buff.ly/NIVYCom #LUSHxMRN #ResistDivision #WordsMatter #RacismIsTheThreat

What the machine learning analysis doesn't show, however, is context and the hidden agendas behind seemingly 'positive' narratives even by Labour. And that there can be positive/negative narratives too.

In this chapter we draw on 410 personal experience narratives to pin down the structural and discursive characteristics of the 'positive migrant storytelling canon' that dominates UK migrant advocacy. The book is free to download!

British dual citizens are not a homogeneous group, and their different constituent parts are affected differently by the new UK passport rules — changes whose wider consequences the government does not appear to have fully appreciated, @nandosigona.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com

Newly published Gold Open Access book-Representing Migration: discursive&methodological perspectives. A result of great teamwork as part of the RECRI project @Jaume I University. Very happy to have contributed a chapter with P.Johnson on migrant advocacy narratives www.peterlang.com/document/147...

With @samtbennett.bsky.social and @francozappettini.bsky.social we are co-organising a panel on 'unravelling the dichotomies between top-down and bottom-up approaches to migration discourses' at @cadaad2026.bsky.social

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Happy to have a chapter in this newly published book on gender-inclusive language. With a great team of Greek colleagues, we review the belated awakening of nonsexist language policy in Greek and its lack of uptake in public discourse. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...

Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.

The Guardian reports far- right groups harassing people seeking safety in northern France, destroying water supplies and invading sleeping spaces. This is where the politics of division leads. We need leaders who choose hope and unity. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4sRPMn2

January just got tastier. Bring friends, colleagues, or your community together to host a Potluck for refugees. Share a meal, show solidarity, and support people seeking safety. It is easy to organise and powerful to take part. Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU

When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Migration story for early years. Out Feb 26th

Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!

In the central square of Patra. Proud of my hometown. And a great spot to change the year #humanitarianism& solidarity @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social

"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

How would #migrationstudies look like: (1) if #migrants are the 'stakeholders' and the #migrationindustry the research subject? (2) if we shift from analysing (and problematising) “migrant behaviour” to interrogating (and problematising) the vast ecosystem that governs mobility?

Thanks @podmalm.bsky.social for the organisation. Looking forward to the book!

Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday With Dr Zozan Balci @livunienglish.bsky.social 📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm 📍Sherrington Building, SR 4 🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6

Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.

Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️

What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it? I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...

Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside. What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it? #EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...

November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.

Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy. At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨ Join us in supporting the voices that matter #theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible. Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025. Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Location: MS Teams Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r

Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more. Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open. People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.

🔈 ‘Integration’ narratives are simply an internal border within states that reinforce second-class status, forcing people to abandon their cultures and identities to navigate into systems of oppression. 📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y

1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile Not today The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies @rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues Decision ⬇️

❤️ Σάββατο - Κυριακή - Δευτέρα θα είμαστε στη Μυτιλήνη! Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇 rsaegean.org/el/triimero-... 📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη 🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de

It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda. ✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com

No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...

#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download! el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling) projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...