Dr Alex Coupe and Dr Pauline Hadaway
Meet Dr Alex Coupe, Lecturer in Theatre and Drama Studies, and Dr Pauline Hadaway, researcher in in cultural policy and heritage, and learn more about their work exploring the arts-based peacebuilding taking place in Northern Ireland.
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Dr Ellen Reeves
For this edition of our 'Researcher in Focus' feature, we are pleased to meet Dr Ellen Reeves, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, and learn about her work on the unintended consequences of domestic violence law and policy reform.
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Dr Anna McKay
In this edition, we are joined by Dr Anna McKay, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of History.
Anna talks to us about her work researching the lives, and deaths, of prisoners across the British Empire, as well as the fascinating and still-relevant use of prison hulks and the long, often unexpected afterlives of navy warships.
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Dr Jonathan Arlow
Dr Jonathan Arlow is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Politics. His current research project is a comparative evaluation of Sinn Féin as an all-island party since the Great Recession.
In this episode, he talks about his research into Sinn Féin's political strategies, his journey to the University of Liverpool through the Horizon Europe-funded Marie Curie Fellowship, and the opposition to the burgeoning far-right movement in Ireland.
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Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova is a Reader in Global Journalism and Media in the Department of Communication and Media. Vera's work focusses on global journalism, its current state worldwide, and the safety of journalists around the world.
Find out what dangers journalists face around the world, who has the most press freedom, and what the comments really said about Donald Trump.
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Dr Eduardo Coutinho
Dr Eduardo Coutinho is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music. In this podcast, Eduardo tells us about his fascinating research into the emotional impact music can have on its listeners, and how this can affect our mental wellbeing and cognitive performance, and what the social and clinical implications of these may be
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Dr Sophie Jones
Dr Sophie Jones, from the Department of History, tells us all about her work exploring the social and cultural development of the North American colonies and how this shaped political identities during the American Revolution.
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Dr Mary Booth
Dr Mary Booth tells us all about her research interests, including the study of the interpretation and memorialization techniques surrounding the representation of historical atrocities, as well as her work as Programme Manager for the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS).
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Dr Stella Morgana
In this podcast, Stella, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics, explains her work researching the gig economy in Iran and the wider Middle East, as well as how climate change is appraoched across the region.
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Dr Sarah Arens
Dr Sarah Arens, Lecturer in French at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, tells us all about her wide research interests, including the histories, texts, and visual cultures produced during and in the aftermath of Belgian and French colonialism.
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Professor Susan Pickard
Professor Susan Pickard is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Here she explains her work exploring ideas around health, age, gender and ethnicity and the exciting collaborative studies she has coming up.
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Dr Nicolás Brando
Nico is a Colombian social and political philosopher based at the School of Law and Social Justice. After much hopping around the world, he has ended up working on philosophical and legal questions around childhood and children’s rights, and in this podcast he explains the many and fascinating questions this topic contains.
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