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Happy Christmas 🎄 and Holidays ☃️ from all of us in the University of Liverpool Politics Department!

Congratulations to our very own Professor Andrew Russell and his co-author, Professor Andreja Zevnik, for receiving the Award for the Best Scientific Work in the Field of Political Science for their book from Dr Marko Hočevar on behalf of the Slovenian Political Science Association🗣️📚📖

Thank you to everyone who came round to our 'End of Term Party'!📚📰🥳 It was a fun event built on lively discussion, informative presentations, and a great Q&A! Many thanks to our lecturers Eugenia, Chelsea, and Neil for reviewing the news for us!

Release Peace: The Magazine 📚: In the latest article, Politics student Tom Bouvet examines insecurity and childhood in Haiti: Kidnapped, Raped, and Killed: A Childhood in Haiti: releasepeace.org/kidnapped-ra...

Release Peace: The Magazine 📚: This past week, the long-awaited report of police misconduct in the Hillsborough disaster was published. Read Politics student Charlie Walker’s analysis of institutional denial of Hillsborough: releasepeace.org/from-orgreav...

This project was generously supported by the @liverpooluni.bsky.social i Alumni and Friends Fund.

This year, the Department of Politics teamed up with Release Peace to allow our students to professionally publish their research into conflict and current affairs in the Release Peace magazine! This week, we will be highlighting their brilliant work!: releasepeace.org/release-peac...

Yesterday,we welcomed Dr Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik from who presented on the topic of 'Border deaths in the wake of genocide' as the latest guest of our Departmental Research Seminar series.Her research focuses on investigating state-based violence, migration, and violence against displaced people.

Looking forward to participating in this great event. Thanks for having me.

Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!

For those who don’t know, on November 3rd I gave my first conference/symposium keynote for @millennjournal.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social. My keynote was based on my 2022 reflection piece,‘Your Work is Not International Relations’.Thank you to everyone who attended and the editors for inviting me

Lovely to launch my book this evening at Queens Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social thanks to everyone who came along and to @drdeiana.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social for organising and commentary 💚 @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

"What our students say: I didn't just study politics—I lived it." Read Class of 2024 Politics graduate Ben's story: www.liverpool.ac.uk/careers/stud...

We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles". Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...

Come join us at our End of Year ‘Review the News’ night for informed fun and festivities!!! ❄️⛄️📚📑

Yesterday was a very busy day for our department and knowledge production! Thank you to everyone who attended the book launch for Dr @ndmlees.bsky.social and our offsite round table for the Dayton Peace Agreement which featured Dr @birtegippert.bsky.social at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social 📚👩‍⚖️⚖️

Looking forward to this roundtable today @ljmuirp.bsky.social

Launch event for my new book 'The International Relations of the North-South Divide' today.

New publication alert📚📰 Check out the latest article from our Lecturer in Political Theory Dr Andrew J. Routledge, in the journal of 'Ethics and Information Technology' @springernature.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social has recently contributed to an important report from the Independent Commission on Counter Terrorism. It found that Britain’s counter terrorism strategy is no longer keeping the country safe. Read about the report and Amal's input here ⤵️

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.

Thank you to everyone who attended Dr Claire Pierson’s 📖 launch this afternoon and celebrated her long awaited text ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It is now available with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! @clairepierson.bsky.social

Dr Amal Abu-Bakare's work is just one example of many our Department's and @liverpooluni.bsky.social contributions to impact in the area of national politics. To learn more about the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’: binghamcentre.biicl.org/independent-...

The Department of Politics at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 💼📚🎓invites applications to the Politics Pathway of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP): The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.

Very enjoyable seminar this morning on #rhetoric in #BritishPolitics! Using ancient methods outlined by Aristotle, we discussed the extent to which they represent a valuable framework for modern politicians & their relationship with the media/voters. Great group of students with excellent questions!

New article out in @uk.theconversation.com! What are the big divides among GB councillors? How England’s new Reform councillors compare in their views to other parties theconversation.com/how-englands...

It's a pleasure to be at the University of Tours for a conference on the future of the Conservative Party, in memory of our colleague Agnés Alexandre-Collier. The @psaconservatism.bsky.social specialist group is also sponsoring a roundtable on the future of British conservatism.

We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:

Check out the latest work from our senior lecturer, Dr Birte Gippert published in @iajournal.bsky.social 📚

If you're interested in me supervising your project, my specialisms are in ancient and modern rhetoric/oratory, Parliamentary voting behaviour, UK party politics, leadership, and ideologies.

Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!

CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑 🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026 For more details and to apply: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...

Will be heading to London tomorrow to be present for the Launch of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice Report. My submission for this focused on understanding how race and processes of racialisation shape and inform counter-terrorism law, policy,and practice.

At @livunipol.bsky.social we are recruiting for an ESRC PhD studentship. Get in touch with me if you are interested in IPE and/or Middle East politics. Any other theme, check out my colleagues' work. More info... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...

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.