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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 3d

Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 2d

Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Read all about the launch event for the new @liverpooluni.bsky.social MA in Public Administration and Policy, chaired by our co-director Prof. Catherine Durose
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/14/e... @livuninews.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Event celebrates new MA aimed at next generation of public servants - University of Liverpool News

Event celebrates new MA aimed at next generation of public servants

news.liverpool.ac.uk

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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 7d

Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7d

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the “Bad” Migrant at Europe’s Borders - https://cup.org/473YrJ8

- @gemmabird.bsky.social & @davideschmid.bsky.social

#FirstView #JREP10

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 9d

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 8d

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · 7d

Today, we are launching our MA in Public Administration and Policy. It is our newest programme and seeks to equip @liverpooluni.bsky.social students with advanced theoretical, methodological and practical tools to research public administration and policy. 👨‍⚖️📚🇬🇧🏥

Photos of Master in public administration policy launch event

Photos of Master in public administration policy launch event . Alison Fell speaking

Photos of Master in public administration policy launch event . Catherine Durose speaking

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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 10d

Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 21d

Here is the full cast of contributors: Amy A. Quark & Elizabeth Jacobs, @ttieku.bsky.social & Amanda Coffie, Bahar Rumelili, Jozon A. Lorenzana, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez & @alicevadrot.bsky.social, Victória M. S. Santos & Ned Littlefield, @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social & @charlygehrke.bsky.social!

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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · 14d

An upcoming event for all HLC staff and GTAs looking at the use of AI in Higher Education. Register your interest here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/andrewroecri... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to all @livunipol.bsky.social postgraduate students submitting your thesis! It's a great moment and one which opens doors to many more opportunities which we can help with. Keep in touch after graduation - see you then!

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 23d

Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · Sep 15

Kicking off our Politics welcome week with introductions, information, and fun activities in the Yoko Ono Lecture Theatre📚🗣️📰 @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · Aug 6

Delighted to have worked at @livunipol.bsky.social for ten years! I've enjoyed bringing my #rhetoric research to undergraduate students via two modules, and serving in various leadership roles. It has been a highly enjoyable decade! Very much looking forward to opportunities the next will bring!

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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · Sep 14

See the latest research on civil society organizations from our Senior Lecturer ‪Özge Zihnioğlu‬
@ozihnioglu.bsky.social here ‬📚✏️

Özge Zihnioğlu @ozihnioglu.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢The EU champions civil society inclusion in Turkey & Serbia, but who really gets heard? My new paper shows how consultation processes often privilege some civil society organizations, while silencing others, deepening hierarchies and exclusion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EU civil society funds in Turkey and Serbia: promoting inclusion, creating epistemic exclusion

This article investigates the European Union’s (EU) efforts to incorporate civil society organizations (CSOs) into its funding programmes, focusing on Turkey and Serbia – two long-standing accessio...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · Jul 15

Also, it's a year since I graduated from Liverpool with an MA in Academic Practice! Time flies - definitely an enjoyable experience and qualification which I'd recommend to all @livunihss.bsky.social colleagues!

Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · Jul 15

Graduation day at @livunipol.bsky.social!

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Dr David Jeffery @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social · Jul 10

Celebrating my final day of being 32 by hosting an academic workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social for our upcoming book 'The Truss and Sunak premierships: the challenges of party renewal in the post-Johnson Conservative Party', with @andrewcrines.bsky.social.

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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations to @hannesbaumann.bsky.social who specialises in Middle Eastern Regionalism and political economy, on his recent co-authored publication with Alice Hooper. This is an exceptional example of the scholarship produced via the @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬undergraduate research scheme!📚

Hannes Baumann @hannesbaumann.bsky.social · Jul 30

New article with Alice Hooper in @mideastpolicy.bsky.social: Gulf investment across the Arab states has skyrocketed. Did this create a transnational pan-Arab corporate elite? We analyse board interlocks to find out & consider possible political effects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · Jul 3

In 4 months it will have been a year since some amazing colleagues and I co-wrote 'An appeal to Anti-colonial education at the University of Liverpool' www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu... . It is hoped that this is a helpful resource for educators elsewhere. ‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social‬

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our director Prof Peter Shirlow during today's @arinsproject.bsky.social event, where he discussed the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey with our @livunipol.bsky.social colleague @jontonge.bsky.social.
Topics considered included immigration, voting and constitutional issues.

ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · Jun 25

This afternoon’s event is underway with Profs Pete Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social discussing “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey”

@ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

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Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social · Jun 25

Check out the latest co-authored publication 📚 from our Senior Lecturer Dr @lbernardi.bsky.social in @universitypress.cambridge.org Politics and the Life Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @livunihss.bsky.social

Poor mental health does not always reduce political participation: Wrong assumption, wrong samples, or wrong measures? | Politics and the Life Sciences | Cambridge Core

Poor mental health does not always reduce political participation: Wrong assumption, wrong samples, or wrong measures?

www.cambridge.org

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Jun 23

I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) @modernslaverypec.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is the team behind the research on equitable engagement of lived experience in development work by
@livunipol.bsky.social. The speakers include Sophie Otiende, @christianashnc.bsky.social, Benedetta Rossi (UCL) & Yuki Lo (Freedom Fund).
Report: www.modernslaverypec.org/resources/to...

Towards principles for equitable engagement

Research on equitable engagement of lived experience, with six separate reports from four continents.

www.modernslaverypec.org

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · Jun 17

For anyone interested in hearing my thoughts on Islamophobia, you can listen to my brief interview with @voiceofislamuk.bsky.social Radio this morning on their Breakfast Show: on.soundcloud.com/Nn1nqwBjcpEp.... I come on at 1:30:44 ☺️

Breakfast Show Podcast 17-06-2025 - From Revelation to Reformer & Raise Your Voice, Not Hate

News: Latest News/Headlines | Traffic | Weather| Sports Topic I: From Revelation to Reformer: A Pattern of Denial Topic II: Raise Your Voice, Not Hate: International Day for Countering Hate Speech

on.soundcloud.com

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