Researcher in Focus: Dr Lucienne Loh
This month’s researcher in focus is Dr Lucienne Loh, Reader in the Department of English. Lucienne is co-curator for 'Chinese and British', a major exhibition at the British Library, which opened on the 18th of November 2022, and celebrated the contributions of Chinese people and their communities to British society since the seventeenth-century to the present day.
Posted on: 28 October 2022
Welcome to new Fellows across the HSS Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences is pleased to welcome several new Fellows across various Schools and Departments this academic year.
Posted on: 28 October 2022
Being Human Festival 2022: University of Liverpool Events
We’re excited to be organising several events this November in Liverpool as part of this year’s Being Human Festival. Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
Posted on: 12 October 2022
'Scale 1:43. Toys, History and Material Culture' exhibition opens in Argentina
Jordana Blejmar and Erika Teichert share exciting news from Argentina about the opening of an exhibition as part of their AHRC-funded project 'Cold War Toys: Material Cultures of Childhood in Argentina'.
Posted on: 1 September 2022
Researcher in Focus: Dr William Ashworth
This month's researcher in focus is Dr William Ashworth, Reader in the Department of History. William is textiles lead for a major project called Congruence Engine, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the “Towards a National Collection” funding stream, linking the nation’s collections held by a multiplicity of organisations.
Posted on: 19 August 2022
Watch 'Creating a Wondrous Place', the 2022 Heritage Keynote Lecture with National Museums Liverpool
In June 2022, the University of Liverpool was honoured to welcome Karen O'Rourke, Curator of Urban and Community History at National Museums Liverpool, as she presented the annual Heritage Keynote Lecture. Watch the lecture online here.
Posted on: 6 July 2022
Royal African Society publishes report by Dr Jo Tierney into Lever Brothers DCR & Solomon Island Plantations
Dr Jo Tierney, a post-doctoral research associate at the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, has been working with Unilever to explore the business practices of Lever Brothers from 1900-1930 in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the Solomon Islands. Her scoping report has now been published by the Royal African Society.
Posted on: 16 June 2022
Researcher in Focus: Dr Niamh Thornton
Our featured researcher this month is Dr Niamh Thornton, a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film and literature.
Posted on: 9 June 2022
REF2021: Great results across Humanities & Social Science
We are delighted to share an outstanding set of REF results from across the Faculty.
Posted on: 12 May 2022
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Researcher in Focus: Dr Lucienne Loh
This month’s researcher in focus is Dr Lucienne Loh, Reader in the Department of English. Lucienne is co-curator for 'Chinese and British', a major exhibition at the British Library, which opened on the 18th of November 2022, and celebrated the contributions of Chinese people and their communities to British society since the seventeenth-century to the present day.
Posted on: 28 October 2022