Congratulations to Dr Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social, Derby Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Slavery & Unfree Labour, who was part of the first cohort of the Academic Leadership Suite programme with UNITAR (UN Institute for Training & Research) and UREKA in Geneva www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Our Welcome Week activities yesterday were a total success! It was so much fun for our students & for us to get involved and meet each other! @livancworlds.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

I’ve been putting together overviews for Humanities PhD students and graduates about fellowships available in the UK and Europe that students with UK PhDs are eligible for. It’s work in progress but drop me a line with your email address and I’ll send them over next week.

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...

We've been given access to the @britsciassoc.bsky.social British Science Festival 2025 asset bank, full of fabulous pictures from all the amazing events that took place. But we're just going to go with this little guy. What's his origin story? Goody or baddy? Favourite sandwich? Who knows! #BSF25

Were you there? Last Friday, we mean, when researchers from UoL worked with pop fans to help chart Liverpool's lost music venues. If you want to find out how it went, listen to Richard Anderson chat to Ngunan Adamu on Radio Merseyside(1hr 32mins in). #BSF25

The Abercromby Square Wellbeing Zone is open, with relaxing music, seating of all sizes and some relaxing live music. A great place to eat that pizza slice... 🍕🎶

Welcome back, students new and returning! Did you know we are a proud city partner with Tate Liverpool, and calls for this year's student ambassadors are now open? Your chance to collaborate with one of the region's leading cultural institutions 👩‍🎨 www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Opening this week, a new photography exhibition exploring the effects of the menopause in women from Black & Chinese backgrounds comes to Blackburne House. The show captures the medical, social, and cultural dimensions of their experience of menopause. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/12/n...

How have artists and intellectuals responded to the Transatlantic slave trade? Join @csis-liverpool.bsky.social on 1 Oct for 'The African Diaspora: Intellectual and Artistic Responses to Slavery and its Legacies' for a thoughtful and fascinating discussion www.ticketsource.co.uk/csis/t-qjreyzq

ICYMI, the winner of the @irishinstitute.bsky.social John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction is Anna Fitzgerald for 'Girl in the Making'. She'll be reading from her book and be presented with her £5k prize at the Liverpool Literary Festival on Sunday 19 October. #BookSky

We're celebrating rising six places in the 2026 Guardian University Guide, placing 21st overall in the UK and second overall in the North West! 🙌 We're so proud of you #TeamLivUni 💙 Read the full story here >>> brnw.ch/21wVMmw

Don't let anything come between you and our latest podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social exploring the politics of dance in Regency society, and how those Austenesque balls were scenes of more than just flirting creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Dr Marieke Riethof, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, explores the historic importance of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's conviction for plotting a military coup theconversation.com/bolsonaros-c...

@liverpooluni.bsky.social Welcome ✨ This week Abercromby Square will be the Wellbeing Zone, where you can register for a doctor, check out the Faculty Pit Stop or take 5 and listen to some music between 11am - 2pm 🎶 Check the student site on liverpool.ac.uk for details and updates.

A new exhibition charting menopause and ethnicity comes to Blackburne House next week. It features photographs taken by members of the local Black and Chinese communities, recording their lives and health experiences. Read all about it here news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/12/n...

Does this Labour government need its own John Prescott? In a new blog, Honorary Professor Ian Wray and founder of Greenguage 21 Jim Steer ask whether Prescott's approach to regional development and transport infrastrucuture should be revisited. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in...

TODAY! Help map Liverpool's lost music scene at 12pm in the Kazimier. Share your memories of the gigs and venues that mattered to you. The Cramps, 1986, in the Royal Court, if you even care. #BSF25 #StaySickTurnBlue @britsciassoc.bsky.social

Our new exhibition Lightbulb moments launches today! 💡 If you love innovation, imagination, and inspiration, you’ll have plenty to explore...and maybe even have your own lightbulb moment!🌟 🎉Open now! 🎟️ Free #LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn #LiverpoolsGreatIdeas #FreeExhibition

From gaming to art, robotic telescopes to the animal internet, take a look at what's on across the city for day two of the British Science Festival #BSF25 @britsciassoc.bsky.social

The #BritishScienceFestival has officially begun! There is over 100 fascinating activities you can get involved with in Liverpool over the next 5 days. If you attend any events, please share your best #BSF25 moments with us! Find the full programme 👉 britishsciencefestival.org/events

Welcome to our Go Higher students who are starting today ✨ We hope that you enjoy exploring campus, meeting your fellow students and getting to grips with the year ahead. It all starts here! www.liverpool.ac.uk/go-higher/

It's Wednesday. It's DAY ONE of the BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL! 🙌🏻 #BSF25

Congratulations to Anna Fitzgerald who gas been awarded the 2024 John McGahern Prize for the best fiction debut by an Irish author. We look forward to welcoming Anna to @liverpooluni.bsky.social LitFest on 19 October for reading from "Girl in the Making" www.liverpool.ac.uk/literary-fes... #booksky

Click-clack goes the railway track... Poets, join this special day of on-board creativity, writing a metropoem on the move between Liverpool and Manchester. Celebrate the world's oldest passenger railway with your own unique poem capturing the rhythm and mood of an urban train ride 🛤️ Sat 13 Sept

The British Science Festival arrives in Liverpool this weekend, and an event not to miss is 'Bionically Beautiful' with Tilly Lockey. Learn how bionics and tech have transformed her life, and others, on Sat 13 at the Black-E britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #BSF25

🎬 Fun times filming a new video telling the story of @csis-liverpool.bsky.social. With thanks to Michelle Charters OBE, Co-director & Head of the International Slavery Museum, Dr Mary Booth, CSIS manager, and Dr Richard Benjamin, Co-director. Full vid coming soon!

Very proud to announce that two @liverpooluni.bsky.social researchers have been elected to the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship @acadsocsciences.bsky.social, including the Faculty's own Professor Nicola Barker, from the School of Law news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/08/l...

We missed the Blood Moon last night (too cloudy), but luckily the sun was shining on this fine sight on the way in this morning.

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

Opening in October, the @victoriagallery.bsky.social will be hosting a fantastic photographic exhibition, 'Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe’ telling the story of the Black musicians of the 50s & 60s whose influence reached The Beatles and beyond. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/04/u... #MusicSky

Great news as colleagues from across the University and the HSS Faculty are announced as members of Research Councils and REF panels today. See them all here news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/04/s... #REF2029 #AcademicSky

UoL ECRs - there are loads of events and opportunities available when you join the @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR Network (as well as our own, of course) ⤵️⤵️

Thread from one of our academics @discodiscourse.bsky.social on the shifting meaning behind the flags that are popping up everywhere 🧵

As part of the British Science Festival, doctor, academic & writer Annabel Sowemimo will share her acclaimed analysis of racial health disparities and the problem of racism in medicine at Colonialism, Race & Health, on 13 September britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

🚂 All aboard for the future of rail! Join us on Saturday 13 Sept at Metal, Edge Hill Station for FREE creative workshops with artist Claire Weetman. 🕤 10:30am–12:30pm 🕑 2:00pm–4:00pm Imagine what train travel will look like 200 years from now! Book your place: bit.ly/FutureRailWo...

If you’re joining as a new student in September, this walk toward the VGM might just become your favourite! Whether it's your first time or hundredth, it always feels a little magical! #VGMmoments #VictoriaGallery #LivUni #LiverpoolArt

💃 Explore the politics of dancing in the 18th century and the crucial role played by assembly rooms in Georgian Britain with our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #AcademicSky #DanceSky

EIGHT DAYS to go until British Science Festival #BSF25 arrives in Liverpool 🙌 Talks and performances on space, public health, truth in the age of AI, and the future of train travel are just some of Uncover Liverpool's picks from the 100+ event FREE programme >> uncoverliverpool.com/features/bri...

🎉 Congratulations to our two colleagues who have been recognised in the highly prestigious National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) awards, including the Faculty's Dr Kerry Traynor from Communication and Media (@commmedia.bsky.social) news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/01/c... #AcademicSky

Contractually obliged photo of Abercromby Square looking swish in the morning sun.

Glad in a new @liverpooluni.bsky.social post I provide a non-technical summary of my paper Heterogeneous Banks, Liquidity Risk and the Distribution of Banks' Liquidity news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/29/b... Thank you @livuninews.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social #econsky

Prof @downham.bsky.social (based in @irishinstitute.bsky.social) reviews 'The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom' by David Woodman and finds a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch theconversation.com/the-first-ki...

September, at last. New pencil cases and tweed jackets at the ready. And what better way to kick of a new year of learning than by booking a few of the events taking place in the British Science Festival (10-14 Sept)? We've rounded up some choice activities here news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/29/b...

Peter Williams, PhD researcher in Architecture, shares how his fieldwork, exploring the landscapes of two power stations in North Wales, was made possible by the PGR Support Fund 🌿📷 @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social Read more 👇 www.liverpool.ac.uk/arts/study/p...

🎨 Catch the last of the Biennial, explore architecture's colonial past, and discover the evolution of football stadium design, all coming up at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North this autumn 🍂 www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Antiviral roller skating! It's the sports / science crossover event we've been waiting for! Part of British Science Festival, Liverpool Roller Birds will show you just what Coronavirus can do, and how science stops it. 12 Sept britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #BSF25

@liverpooluni.bsky.social’s Beatles MA returns in distance-learning format 🌐🎶🎓 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/26/l... Listen to our resident Beatles expert @drhollytessler.bsky.social speak on Original Ideas podcast Episode 5: Popular Music 🎙️💡🎶 www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...

The promise of autumn in the Square today (lovely). Not shown: the squirrel heading off towards the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social 🐿️. Must be nuts about Egyptology.

With the exciting news of the return of our Beatles studies MA spreading across the universe, take a moment to meet @drhollytessler.bsky.social, head of the Master's course and discover the inspiration behind the degree in this podcast creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...