Featured research
Innovation and collaboration are at the heart of the department’s research ethos. An illustrative sample of the collaborative research projects carried out by our staff is given below.
Poets in Vogue
This exhibition will present creative interpretations of the clothes of women poets alongside the poetry they wrote about fashion and self-image.
Visions of the Future: Past and Present
How have past cultures envisioned the future and how has this influenced our view of the future today?
Addressing Sinophobia and Chinese Food Culture in an Age of COVID-19
Popular belief that COVID-19’s origins lie in Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood and Wildlife Market has led to a rise in hate-crime against the Chinese and the foregrounding of negative perceptions of Chinese food culture.
Voices from Coventry: A sociolinguistic study of George Eliot’s novels and correspondence
This sociolinguistic study uses corpus, computational and discourse methods of analysis to analyse the correspondence and novels of George Eliot to examine how GE communicated with her wider social network.
Conversation strategies and communicative competence
This project is a an investigation of the effects of teaching conversation strategies and the language used to realise them as a means for developing conversation skills in learners of English as second language.
COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region
This study will assess the impact on mental health of restricted access to arts and culture in a specific city region, and track, enable and enhance the value of innovation in arts provision in mitigating associated harms.
Yemen in Conflict
The Centre for New and International Writing has been working in close collaboration with the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and colleagues at the University of Leeds to explore ways of protecting and preserving popular literature in Yemen.
COVID-19: Phraseology, imagery, and perceptions of public health messages by speakers of English as an additional language
This project examines linguistic and multimodal communication issues surrounding the effectiveness of public health information about COVID-19 for speakers of English as an additional language (EAL).
Mermaids of the British Isles and Ireland
This project looks at the figure of the mermaid in the medieval cultures of the British Isles and Ireland between (circa 500 to circa 1500), particularly in relation to church iconography, literature and manuscript illumination.
Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED)
Understanding what works for whom in arts and humanities-based approaches to mental health and wellbeing across the globe.
LivCare
LivCare makes reliable information about successful arts in health partnerships from across the Liverpool City Region accessible. It showcases best practice, shares new thinking and provides robust evidence.