As part of the MA TESOL and MA Applied Linguistics programmes, we arrange regular social outings for students and staff.
The Board of UK Research and Innovation has appointed Department of English Professor Nandini Das to the new Research England Council.
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is searching for poets to celebrate the launch of the Woodland Trust’s Charter for Trees, Woods and People. The Charter is a new guide for UK society to build a future where trees and people stand stronger together.
Department of English Senior Lecturer Sandeep Parmar will join James Davies at the Bookcase in Hebden Bridge for the launch of Judith Wilson’s first poetry collection, Crossing the Mirror Line.
The English department has awarded its first English Attainment Scholarships to two first year students.
In March, students and staff from the University’s humanities access/foundation programme Go Higher, braved heavy snow for a residential weekend at Cavendish Hall in Suffolk. Our trip gave students progressing on to undergraduate degrees in English and History, an opportunity to immerse themselves in their subject areas as we considered the lives of people in the Regency period through its literature and architecture.
Perhaps I was still sleeping as we departed from Liverpool Lime Street at 4.30am. Huddled in a water taxi and swaying to the motion of the Venetian waves, I thought I must have been dreaming. Venice possesses an exquisite sense of the surreal, a vibrancy, an incomparable eruptivity of culture.
The School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool invites expressions of interest for the 2018/19 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme.
Shakespeare, jazz, and the meaning of life will be some of the diverse topics up for discussion in a new series of public lectures by academic experts from the University of Liverpool.
The Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics scheme which mentors new BAME critics is returning for a second round, following success for its inaugural programme.
We are hosting the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium on the theme of Extinctions and Rebellions.
‘Writing for Wellbeing’ is a free creative writing course designed for you to do while self-isolating or social distancing, and to help support the wellbeing of keyworkers in the battle against Covid-19.
Two English with World Literature students were hosted by Nanyang Technological University this summer for a ten-day trip to Singapore which was funded by the Office for Students. Find out what they got up to in Singapore.
A new play and exhibition, written by Esme Miskimmin and based on research by Katie Knowles, is set to appear at the Cockpit Theatre, Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot.
MA Applied Linguistics & TESOL student Weihao Zhao has received a Commendation in this year’s British Council Master’s in English Language Teaching Dissertation Awards for his Dissertation “The Role of pragmalinguistic recasting in E-mail requests: a study of Chinese learners in the UK."
