Recent research projects
Explore the diverse range of research projects taking place across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and how they are delivering tangible changes around the world.
Institute of Irish Studies survey: Voting, Identity, Trust and Media
A survey, undertaken in 2023, examining the attitudes towards voting, national identity, trust and the media in Northern Ireland.
NHS R&D NW Provocations Seminar Series
This innovative collaboration seeks to bring HSS research to bear on the delivery of NHS healthcare.
Anticolonial Education Working Group Policy Paper
The Working Group is dedicated to a collective interest in research on anti-colonial pedagogy in higher education.
Clothes, Chocolate and Children
Realising the Transparency Dividend (Nov 2017- May 2019). This project examines how the new political economy of transparency enhances the well-being of workers and children in the developing world.
Agreement: A People’s Process
A physical and digital exhibition hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies to mark the 20th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
Tracing the Past
Drs Alex Buchanan and Nick Webb use the latest digital scanning technologies to unlock the secrets of medieval architecture.
The Human Remains: Digital Library of British Mortuary Science and Investigation
Examining the history of exhumation, investigation, reburial, and recording of human remains buried in Christian contexts from the 7th-19th centuries.
Libraries, Reading Communities & Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Atlantic
Investigating the contribution of books to social, cultural and political change in the 18th century.
Analysis of Roman Silver Coins, Augustus to Gallienus (27 BC - AD 260)
Exploring Imperial fiscal policies, financial problems and the responses to them through metallurgical analysis of silver coinages,
The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments (1780-1925)
The Digital Panopticon project traces the lives of 90,000 people sentenced to transportation to Australia from Britain between 1841 and 1911, with the information freely available on a public website.
Research focus: Coronavirus
Colleagues from across the Faculty have been responding to the Coronavirus pandemic with a range of research projects.
Research focus: climate and environment
A range of projects are confronting the climate emergency, how it is affecting us all and how we can rise to the challenge it poses.
The Contagion of Uncertainty: The Protocol on Ireland & Northern Ireland and the EU Withdrawal Agreement
This report evidences business sectors' growing unease with Brexit across Ireland and the UK.
#Lads on Social Media: Investigating Young Networked Masculinities
Exploring how young men use social media to form and develop their masculinised identifications, connections and networks, particularly those that centre around ‘laddish’ identities
Centre of Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA): immersive technologies in historical buildings
Liverpool, and CAVA, are leading the development of engaging architectural heritage visitor experiences.
The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol: Consensus or Conflict?
This Institute of Irish Studies-commissioned survey has found that the Protocol is not a top priority for most people across Northern Ireland.
Tackling Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Combating slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa by exploring how arts & humanities can shift antislavery efforts towards a more community-engaged focus.
Institute of Irish Studies Tracker & Attitudes Survey
The 3rd of 4 tracker and attitudes surveys has been delivered by the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool in association with the Irish News.
Sisters of Mersey
Meet the extraordinary women who shaped Liverpool and beyond in this mobile app project.
Discover more with our research themes
The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences research themes bring together projects from across the Faculty and beyond. Take a closer look here.