This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social

It was a real pleasure to be in your company again @zdgreene.bsky.social in @livunipol.bsky.social and learn more about the fantastic @parliview.bsky.social and what students can and cannot do with AI. Keep us posted!

Save the date 📅 We have an upcoming book launch by our very own @ndmlees.bsky.social on November 19th! 📚 Dr Nicholas Lees’ research examines the relationship between inequality, conflict, and democracy in world politics! We hope you can join us for what will be an exciting conversation.

I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to contribute a chapter on Theresa May & her leadership of the #Conservatives for the new second edition of 'British Conservative Leaders' (eds. Charles Clarke, Toby James, Tim Bale, & Patrick Diamond). @livunipol.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

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

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of fourth wave feminism? 🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇

Really excited to be involved in a pop up exhibition Migration, Refuge & Solidarity‘ on 7th & 8th Nov at @victoriagallery.bsky.social. I will be sharing audio-visual exhibition ‘A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos’ as a part of it. vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.

Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025

Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

ICYMI: Read all about the launch event for the new @liverpooluni.bsky.social MA in Public Administration and Policy, chaired by our co-director Prof. Catherine Durose news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/14/e... @livuninews.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

Today, we are launching our MA in Public Administration and Policy. It is our newest programme and seeks to equip @liverpooluni.bsky.social students with advanced theoretical, methodological and practical tools to research public administration and policy. 👨‍⚖️📚🇬🇧🏥

Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25

Here is the full cast of contributors: Amy A. Quark & Elizabeth Jacobs, @ttieku.bsky.social & Amanda Coffie, Bahar Rumelili, Jozon A. Lorenzana, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez & @alicevadrot.bsky.social, Victória M. S. Santos & Ned Littlefield, @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social & @charlygehrke.bsky.social!

An upcoming event for all HLC staff and GTAs looking at the use of AI in Higher Education. Register your interest here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/andrewroecri... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Congratulations to all @livunipol.bsky.social postgraduate students submitting your thesis! It's a great moment and one which opens doors to many more opportunities which we can help with. Keep in touch after graduation - see you then!

Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Kicking off our Politics welcome week with introductions, information, and fun activities in the Yoko Ono Lecture Theatre📚🗣️📰 @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Delighted to have worked at @livunipol.bsky.social for ten years! I've enjoyed bringing my #rhetoric research to undergraduate students via two modules, and serving in various leadership roles. It has been a highly enjoyable decade! Very much looking forward to opportunities the next will bring!

See the latest research on civil society organizations from our Senior Lecturer ‪Özge Zihnioğlu‬ @ozihnioglu.bsky.social here ‬📚✏️

Also, it's a year since I graduated from Liverpool with an MA in Academic Practice! Time flies - definitely an enjoyable experience and qualification which I'd recommend to all @livunihss.bsky.social colleagues!

Celebrating my final day of being 32 by hosting an academic workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social for our upcoming book 'The Truss and Sunak premierships: the challenges of party renewal in the post-Johnson Conservative Party', with @andrewcrines.bsky.social.

Congratulations to @hannesbaumann.bsky.social who specialises in Middle Eastern Regionalism and political economy, on his recent co-authored publication with Alice Hooper. This is an exceptional example of the scholarship produced via the @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬undergraduate research scheme!📚

In 4 months it will have been a year since some amazing colleagues and I co-wrote 'An appeal to Anti-colonial education at the University of Liverpool' www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu... . It is hoped that this is a helpful resource for educators elsewhere. ‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social‬

Our director Prof Peter Shirlow during today's @arinsproject.bsky.social event, where he discussed the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey with our @livunipol.bsky.social colleague @jontonge.bsky.social. Topics considered included immigration, voting and constitutional issues.

Check out the latest co-authored publication 📚 from our Senior Lecturer Dr @lbernardi.bsky.social in @universitypress.cambridge.org Politics and the Life Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @livunihss.bsky.social

I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

This is the team behind the research on equitable engagement of lived experience in development work by @livunipol.bsky.social. The speakers include Sophie Otiende, @christianashnc.bsky.social, Benedetta Rossi (UCL) & Yuki Lo (Freedom Fund). Report: www.modernslaverypec.org/resources/to...

For anyone interested in hearing my thoughts on Islamophobia, you can listen to my brief interview with @voiceofislamuk.bsky.social Radio this morning on their Breakfast Show: on.soundcloud.com/Nn1nqwBjcpEp.... I come on at 1:30:44 ☺️

Great reps from @livunipol.bsky.social, meeting MPs, journalists, & our brilliant professional #alumni networking in #Westminster! A great way into a professional career is through #postgraduate study, such as our Public Admin Policy MA! www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/publ... @prfandrwrssll.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted to see @josefnicholson.bsky.social's reply to my Introduction to the Global Discourse #rhetoric special edition has now been published! The first of many publications! Give it a read here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... @livunipol.bsky.social

Interested in a British Academy post-doc in politics? Consider applying with us @livunipol.bsky.social. Deadline 16 July. Get in touch with me for all things Middle East and/or IPE. For other topics please check out... www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Did MPs' religious views influence how they voted on the Assisted Dying Bill? @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social from @livunipol.bsky.social ran the numbers (tl;dr: it did) theconversation.com/assisted-dyi... #AcademicSky

Erika's works inspired discussion about normative aspects ot 'ethnos, demos and nation' across regions of East and South East Europe and Middle East. @livunipol.bsky.social was most supportive, especially around Erika's lecture the day before focusing on Nationalism in East Europe.

Both our recently shared articles are supported by the @liverpooluni.bsky.social Alumni and Friends Fund!

We are excited to share the second article from the Department of Politics partnership with Release Peace Magazine! Charlie Walker, a 3rd year Politics student, writes about the institutional denial by the British gov to Orgreave & the Hillsborough disaster: releasepeace.org/from-orgreav...

We are excited to share the first article from the Department of Politics partnership with Release Peace Magazine! Milo Bradley, an MA student in Pol Sci & IR, writes about the continued segregation of the education system in Northern Ireland: releasepeace.org/93-percent-o...

How does politics affect our mental health? That's the question raised by Dr Luca Bernardi from @livunipol.bsky.social and colleagues from UCL. Watch to find out what they discovered: youtu.be/Dh3tq7yYeVE

*PSA Founding Fellow* We are delighted to announce PSA Vice-President, Professor Jon Tonge FPSA, @jontonge.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social as a new PSA Founding Fellow, in honour of their significant contribution to the Association and #PoliticalStudies. Congratulations!

Please see the attached link from the editorial board of @econsociology.bsky.social of which our Professor Samantha Ashenden is a key part

In commemoration of our dear friend Sami Zubaida, a founding member of the Editorial Board, Sami Zubaida article collection is open access until end of 2025. From the beginning in 1972, he helped to shape and steer the distinctive interdisciplinary scope of the journal, only stepping down in 2020.

Another event with research output planned! This one - on October 1st - examines ancient rhetoric in the modern world. It takes a global perspective with international contributors. Papers will appear in the peer reviewed journal, Global Discourse. Places are strictly limited! @livunipol.bsky.social

New research alert 📚 See the latest publication from our Senior Lecturer Dr ÖzgeZihnioglu below!

Upcoming workshop on the Conservative leaderships of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak! The Workshop has been organised by @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social & I and will be taking place at @livunipol.bsky.social on July 10th! If you are interested, then book your place now! www.ticketsource.co.uk/andrewroecri...