Liverpool Leaders with Jenny Radcliffe: A Secure Career? 💭 Join alumna Jenny Radcliffe as she shares her journey from English studies to a career in social engineering @livunienglish.bsky.social 📅 Tuesday 30th September, 5:30 - 7:00pm 📍 Yoko Ono Lennon Centre 🎟️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...

Big week for #TeamLivUni! 🎉 We’ve climbed five places to 18th in the UK in The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 — our best ranking in over a decade! Read more ➡️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/19/t...

Another rise in the rankings for University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Into the top 20 in the Times/Sunday Times guide. Details ⬇️ @sotauol.bsky.social news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/19/t...

New episode alert! 🚨 Host Natalie spoke to the English Department's 'Decolonising the Curriculum' group about what it means to decolonise a curriculum and the process of decolonising some of the department modules. @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2ZLU...

Excited to share an episode of Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes I did. It's about the timelessness of jokes and focuses on comedy in medieval mystery plays. Features bits of the York and Towneley Plays! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

📻 Professor @sarahpeverley.bsky.social joined Ian Hislop for his ‘Oldest Jokes’ series on Radio 4. It’s on medieval drama and useless men jokes. More here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Who was Jane Austen’s best heroine? 📚 To mark Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, Dr Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz from the Department of English co-authored an article for The Conversation @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social Full article 👇 theconversation.com/who-was-jane...

New publication from @markmcglashan.com of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Details/link⬇️

📣Our Literature and Science Hub is hosting three events at the upcoming British Science Festival. "How to talk to aliens" (tinyurl.com/htttaliens) "Science's invisible women" (tinyurl.com/siwomen) An illustration workshop on fembots and dinosaurs (tinyurl.com/fembotsdinos...) Come along!🦖

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lecturer Hannah Greenstreet has just published a new article on feminist theatre. Read it here: exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

English PGR Sietse Hagen recently presented his research on horror and trauma in children’s literature at the 27th Biennial IRSCL Conference in Spain 📚🖋️ @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social Sietse discusses his experience 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/arts/study/p...

Prof. John Redmond has three new poems published in the latest Fortnightly Review fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/bishop-auc...htt

🎸 Eric's, Planet X, The Royal Court? Liverpool music lovers assemble and help map the city's musical heritage hotspots at this event organised by our Music Dept and the British Science Festival. 12 Sept in the Kaz. Were you there? britishsciencefestival.org/event/i-was-... #BSF25

We're proud to announce that work by Lecturer @markmcglashan.com has been accepted by the Women and Equalities Select Committee enquiry into misogyny and the manosphere

It's here - happy graduation week! 🎓✨ A reminder of the ceremonies: 💚 School of Architecture | Tuesday 14 July 1:30pm 🧡 English & Philosophy | Wednesday 15 July 10am 💜 Communication & Media and Music | Thursday 16 July 10am @commmedia.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Why study English at university? This feature includes testimonials from three of our graduates: universityenglish.ac.uk/english-crea...

🎊 🎉The department is thrilled to be part of the award 'Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet'! Look out for new PhD opportunities with us related to this funding.

Come work with us at Liverpool! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT935/l...

New co-authored article from @sofialampro.bsky.social of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social and colleagues on migration narratives. Details ⬇️

What's the story? The @victoriagallery.bsky.social is back in all its glory! Take a look at the Gothic masterpiece as the scaffolding comes down after three years. #Swish

Delighted to see this finally announced! Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

See below for details of a vacancy in our department in the fields of Applied Linguistics / TESOL. More info ⬇️

Still energized by last week's wonderful workshop on CDS, organised at @commmedia.bsky.social by myself and @sofialampro.bsky.social This slide from my talk with Tommaso Milani was received particularly well 😆

Next up: workshop on "Oracy, local dialect and language teaching: the case of Liverpool English" at Global Voices 2025 by @sofialampro.bsky.social, Victorina González Díaz & David Clay @sotauol.bsky.social @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

@instantlinguist.bsky.social in action (!) on how we talk about multilingualism and why it matters at Global Voices 2025 @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Poster is up! Come and chat with me this afternoon about our work-in-progress on representations of Chinese food culture in the UK press 'post-Covid' (with Lorna Ryan) @cl2025.co.uk #cl2025 @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

📣 Online Poetry Reading Event 📖 Join Yan Ge, Angela Hui and Hongwei Bao who will be reading from new and recent work in this online poetry reading chaired by Lucienne Loh. Wednesday 16th July 2025, 12-1 Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

📣📣📣@markmcglashan.com and colleagues studying language in the manosphere have had a letter published in @theguardian.com responding to an article they published late last week

Join us at 4pm BST on 28 June for Pleasure: University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / Poetry Society Summer Lecture with Ledbury Poetry Critics co-founder Vidyan Ravinthiran at the Ledbury Poetry Festival! In 1802, William Wordsworth was already worried – like us – about

Prof Peverley's latest research on the Mermaids of Staithes is featured on BBC News. Check it out here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you see our exciting news earlier? 👀 We’ve climbed to 147th in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — and we’re officially in the Top 150 globally! A huge moment for our Liverpool community💙 Read more here ⬇️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/19/u...

Congratulations to @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social MA Applied Linguistics & TESOL graduate Weihao Zhao. Weihao recently received a commendation in the British Council Master's English Language Teaching Dissertation Awards. Read more ⬇️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/news...

Last year we interviewed Dr Christian Jones (@eltresearch.bsky.social) and Dr David Oakey about their published article 'Learners' Perceived Development of Spoken Grammar Awareness after Corpus-Informed Instruction: An Exploration of Learner Diaries' open.spotify.com/episode/5bJw...

As part of our transition to Bluesky from the other place we will be posting our back catalogue of episodes for any new followers! The first is 'Food, Fasting and Irish Fiction,' with the brilliant @paddy-brennan.bsky.social from @irishinstitute.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/39KN...

New open access article on The Mermaids of Staithes by Prof Sarah Peverley (w/ Chloe Middleton-Metclfe). It tracks the earliest recorded verbal and written accounts of the legend, draws comparisons with other mermaid tales, + includes egg-broth. 🧜‍♀️ tinyurl.com/4t97jcdf #mermaids #folklore #Yorkshire

Head along to the Shakespeare North Playhouse for a May half-term family day! On Weds 28th May 11-2, Katie and Esme from @livunienglish.bsky.social will be hosting a day of FREE drop-in activities for all ages. No booking required! shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/act-your-age...

Can't beat prepping for Pint of Science 2025 while having an iced coffee, served in the 2024 glass - come to Frederiks on Hope Street to hear me banging on about why 'Being bilingual is a brilliant thing', tomorrow at 7pm 🤓@livunienglish.bsky.social @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @pintofscience.uk #pint25

Our free family-friendly production of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is this Saturday at Central Library, Liverpool. Performances 11am and 1.30pm (c. 35 mins). Suitable for all ages, but especially the young and young at heart! @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Join us at the NATE Conference on 1st July at Kingston University for a day of ideas, inspiration and meaningful conversations on everything from diversity to active approaches to Shakespeare. 25% discount for May bookings with the code 'earlybird'. www.nate.org.uk/product/nate...

📣Liverpool Players will be performing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! ⚔️ Saturday 17 May 2025, 11am & 1.30pm, Central Library, Liverpool 🎊Family-Friendly Performance aimed toward primary school aged children (ages 4-11)👏👏👏

New publication by Nektaria Kourtali and Ziwei Guo from Dept of English @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social on the effects of one type of feedback (recasts) on noticing language within computer-mediated communication. Open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication from Chris Jones @eltresearch.bsky.social of @livunienglish.bsky.social in collaboration with Ulrike Bavendiek @livunihss.bsky.social and Sandra Strigel, using corpus linguistics to help produce learner-led materials for conversation skills in second language German. Details⬇️

🎭 Katie Knowles and Esme Miskimmin have been working on a collaborative project: a new play performed at #ShakespeareNorthPlayhouse, featuring young actors from the Imaginarium Youth Theatre Group. Info on the show and accompanying exhibition: shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/act-yo...

For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...

Nathan Bramald, PGR in the Department of English and co-organiser of the Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference, shares his experience presenting at the BSLS conference 🎤 Full story 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/arts/study/p... @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

More good news as the University is shortlisted for three Whatuni Student Choice Awards: Halls & Student Accommodation, International, and Student Life news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/09/u... #TeamLivUni

University of Liverpool is holding a PGR Poster Day on April 30th. Come along to share your research with the world, or to see some of the incredible breadth of work being done by our researchers! Details of how to get involved here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/universityof...

This recently published special issue of TESOL Quartely on corpus-based approaches to English language teaching features a paper from our own Dr Chris Jones @eltresearch.bsky.social and Dr David Oakey on spoken grammar awareness. Open access. Read more ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15457249...