👋 A warm welcome to the new students who are joining us in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems! 🎉 We look forward to working with you & hope you enjoy your time a the University of Liverpool. @liverpooluni.bsky.social #TeamLivUni @livunihls.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

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...

And that’s a wrap on the 194th British Science Festival! 🎉 For four days, Liverpool was alive with inspiring talks, hands-on experiences, and city-wide celebrations of science! We were proud to help shape this year’s programme, with research from across all three Faculties showcased. 🙌

1/ 🚨 Two fully funded #PhD studentships for UK students ❓ Are you passionate about making a difference for people’s health and wellbeing? Would you like to learn cutting edge data science skills for real impact? 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/two-... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth

📣 Professor Sarah Rodgers Inaugural Lecture on 02 Oct 2025 🏙️ "Transforming Our Cities From the Ground Up Connecting the dots between communities, systems & data" 🔗: www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o... 👤 www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/sarah... ⬇️ View past @livuni-iph.bsky.social inaugural lectures

🎤 Talks by academics, inventors and writers! 🍄 Art installations! 🛼 Performances across the city! 🪨 British Science Festival X Liverpool Biennale! 👩🏽‍🔬 Meet the scientists! Five FREE things to do at the British Science Festival this week! #BSF25 #Liverpool www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague Professor Martin O'Flaherty, appointed to a panel for the criteria-setting phase of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. #REF2029 🔗 Read more about Martin's research: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/marti... 📖 Read more on the REF2029 panel appointments ⬇️

Just one week to go until the British Science Festival opens in Liverpool! ✨ Talks, art, robots, music + more — all free to attend. More Info> news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/03/c... #BritishScienceFestival #BSF2025 #Liverpool

Liverpool expertise is helping shape REF 2029! 13 University of Liverpool academics have been appointed to expert panels across seven units of assessment and three Main Panels. Congratulations to all colleagues appointed 👏 Full list here ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/04/s... #REF2029

🎙️ New episode of Civic Health Innovation Labs (@livunichil.bsky.social) released today, co-hosted by PHPS's @edmhill.bsky.social! 📣 Find out about how we are using civic data to improve public health. #SciComm 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1kbSyvI... 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@HealthDataD...

NEWS | Professor Dan Pope from @livuni-phps.bsky.social and Dr Jonny Higham from the Department of Geography and Planning have developed a prototype low-cost air monitor, a new, affordable way to measure personal exposure to air pollution ➡️ bit.ly/4lHMJJl #TeamLivUni

In the latest Original Ideas podcast episode, our researchers explore food’s impact on health and wellbeing, including: 🍟 Junk food advertising’s impact on children 🏡 How our environment shapes eating habits 📱 Social media’s influence on what we eat Listen here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...

1/ 📰 Liverpool unveils prototype low-cost personal air pollution monitor for Africa 💨 Aim to reduce the burden of household air pollution 🇨🇲 Prototype launched at Central Africa LPG Expo in Cameroon 👥 Collaboration including PHPS colleague Prof Dan Pope #Science #Research #PublicHealth

British Science Festival #BSF25 is nearly here! Have you booked yet? 🦾 These five health and humanity highlights from the programme take a people-centred approach, sharing the voices, stories and lived experiences that shape modern healthcare 🧠 www.britishscienceassociation.org/Blog/five-he...

From 10–14 Sept, the British Science Festival transforms Liverpool into a playground for ideas. Join our researchers for hands-on science, from roller skating with viruses to robots making art. 🤖🧪 👉 All events are FREE – find out more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/08/b... @britsciassoc.bsky.social

❓ How do different types of mental health difficulties manifest in childhood & adolescence? How are these patterns shaped by early life socioeconomic disadvantage? ✍️ See research article co-authored by PHPS colleagues Yu Wei Chua, Daniela Schlüter & David Taylor-Robinson 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

1/ 👏 University celebrates ten years of research in Cameroon 🗓️ In July 2015, research partnership launched between University of Liverpool & Douala General Hospital to tackle burden of disease from household air pollution. #PublicHealth 🔗: Celebration of ten years of impact on 26 July 2025👇

Our Vaccinations and Immunisations Team spoke with Radio BBC Merseyside about our immunisation catch up clinics across Merseyside 📻 The clinics aim to help protect children and young people, and prevent further spread of measles 👇🏽 youtu.be/rm7X1jTpops

Head down to Ness Botanic Gardens next month for Discover Nature - a series of talks exploring the amazing natural world around us! 🌼 Tickets are FREE - check out all the dates and details here tinyurl.com/4zd3w87y @livunihls.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social

🎓 It has been graduation week at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🎉 Congratulations to our #ClassOf2025!

1/ 🏆 Success at 2025 University of Liverpool ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition 👏 Congrats to our PhD student Rukun Khalaf. First place at Faculty Heat stage (Health and Life Sciences) & Runner Up in overall final! 🔗: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/30/t...

Step into the weird and wonderful at #BSF25 from 10 to 14 September 🌟 Some questions we’re asking: 🌳 Do trees have social lives? 🧬 Can we trust ancestry tests? 🍟 Why is junk food in every game? 🏳️‍🌈 Where’s the autistic joy in research? Book your free tickets now: britishsciencefestival.org

1/ 🚨 #JobOffer Data Manager to support GroundsWell Consortium (@groundswellcon.bsky.social) & contribute to impactful research on urban health! ⏳ Application deadline: 23:30 BST, 18 Jul 2025 🔗 Link to role and how to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth

❓ Interested in learning more about the process of producing a podcast at @liverpooluni.bsky.social? #SciComm 🛠️ Now available online is our contribution to the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Public Engagement Group toolkit: "Making a podcast" 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...

Last night, we launched the Liverpool City Region Data & AI Innovation Charter at VG&M Liverpool. Read the full report and charter here: civicdatacooperative.com/residents-as... Thanks to all residents who helped shape it — your voices matter! #DataForGood #LiverpoolCityRegion

📝 Read a new blog post by @edmhill.bsky.social & Sam Ball about creating and co-hosting the Health Data Decoded podcast. 🎧 A podcast series for @livunichil.bsky.social, Health Data Decoded shares with the public both scientific research & career experiences. 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...

1/ 🎧 New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! 🎧 #SciComm #DataScience #PublicHealth ❓ What is Data into Action (DiA)? What are the responsibilities of a Programme Director? 👥 Andrea Astbury, DiA Programme Director, helps answer these questions! 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=185j... 🔗 Spotify👇

The Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) recently hosted a 3-day global event in Liverpool highlighting the principles and frameworks for responsible data governance and new developments in the sphere of digital commons ▶️ bit.ly/43PrWOi @civicdatacoop.bsky.social @livunichil.bsky.social

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...

🏆 Liverpool Staff Awards 2025 👏 Congrats to Children Growing Up in Liverpool 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' project team - 'Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement' Team Winner! 🧒 Engaged school groups with arts-based methods & Lego Serious Play to get children's thoughts on future of Liverpool.

We’re celebrating a global rise! 🎓 The University of Liverpool is now ranked 147th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — officially in the Top 150! #TeamLivUni💙 Read more ⬇️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/19/u...

🛟 Today's PHPS forum was given by Belinda Tyrrell 📝 On development of the Liverpool Citizens chapter in partnership with @citizensuk.org & @livuniheseltine.bsky.social 🔦 Spotlight on community organisation driving social change on locally identified issues 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

1/ Our recent departmental newsletter featured 7️⃣ new starters! 🎉 Will intro each this week. #PublicHealth 👤 First is Joy Wyche (joined us in Mar 2025) 🧪 Research Assistant on project assessing feasibility of randomising young people to invasive & non-invasive sampling techniques for suspected UTIs

📰 Find out about recent PHPS activities from these news items in our Summer 2025 departmental newsletter 🗣️ @profbuchan.bsky.social presents at the COVID-19 inquiry 🎙️ Launch of the Health Data Decoded Podcast 🙌 University of Liverpool Staff Awards 2025 shortlisting 🧳 PHPS departmental away day

We’re so excited to be co-hosting the upcoming British Science Festival with our friends @ljmuofficial.bsky.social in September! 🙌 Join us 10–14 September for free events, workshops, and performances across the city. Stay tuned for more details soon! 💙 @britsciassoc.bsky.social

📰 University of Liverpool Staff Awards 2025 nomination 🙌 Children Growing up in Liverpool 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' Team shortlisted for 'Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement' 👪 'Young Voices, Big Ideas' aims to empower diverse group of children, young people & their families in Liverpool

Save the date! 🤩 The British Science Festival is coming to Liverpool in partnership with @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. This 10–14 September, join us for FREE events at iconic cultural venues across the city centre, the docks and uni campuses: ow.ly/vE9n50W0TTa #BSF25

Today we had our 2025 away day at Greenbank Conference Centre! 💭 Theme of ‘Making a difference’ with departmental members engaged in networking & discussions 🎤 Panel session on inclusivity ⚡ Flash talks by PGRs & ECRs 👥 Small group activity discussing “What constitutes a public health problem?”

❓ How we can use civic data to improve public health? #SciComm 🎙️ Explored in the Civic Health Innovation Labs (@livunichil.bsky.social) Health Data Decoded podcast, co-hosted by PHPS's @edmhill.bsky.social! 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1kbSyvI... 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@HealthDataD...

🗣️ Our colleague Will Whittaker spoke at today's Health Data Science forum 🛟 Will's research aims to inform effective, efficient & equitable ways to provide health & care 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/willi... Health Economics and Equity at Liverpool (HEEL) 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h...

1/ ⚡ Today's PHPS forum featured PhD student lightning talks! 🧵 A short thread with a selection of recent public health study articles from some of our PhD students. 🛟

📣 Funded 3yr PhD opening for UK applicants in @hpruezi.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. #PhDSky 🧪 On "Economic Evaluation of NPIs for the control of epidemics" #IDSky #EpiSky 👥 Supervised by our colleague @breconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Apply by 09 Jun 2025 🔗: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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