Gather round @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social students and carvers 🎃, it's your chance to vote for the winning LJMU Carve Your PhD! Inspired by @openresearchuoa.bsky.social we launched our own competition. To view the entrants and vote yourself go here: ljmuresearchsupport.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c...
31.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We second this! The quality and creativity shown by our PhD carvers is quite amazing! Photos to follow. Carve your PhD has to be an annual feature in the PhD calendar from now on…..
30.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Each time we get a Carve Your PhD entry, we are grateful to @openresearchuoa.bsky.social for their wonderful contest to brighten up these autumnal days as they get darker. Get them in, @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social (check your emails for the reminder!)
23.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Halloween | Liverpool BID Company
ArtsGroupie CIC, with PGR John Maguire, have FREE half term activities: Liverpool Irish Festival 2 Guided Tours of Museum of Liverpool Irish Collection Sat 25 11am & 12:15 pm AND Spooky Storytime Thurs 30 & Fri 31 Oct liverpoolbidcompany.com/halloween/
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/famil...
24.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stand showing banners and leaflets about postgraduate study at Liverpool John Moores University
Delighted to be at Postgrad LIVE Manchester today on behalf of the Doctoral Academy, talking to prospective students about postgraduate research opportunities at LJMU.
www.findamasters.com/events/postg...
See www.ljmu.ac.uk/the-doctoral... for more information on joining us as a PGR at LJMU!
22.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
These Postgraduate Researchers braved Ghosts, Ghouls, the most Haunted Street in Northern England & St James Necropolis with Shiverpool Ghost Tours! All 22 Souls returned safe & sound 👻💀
17.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Schedule for Writing Afternoon
Thank you to all the PGRs who joined today's Virtual Writing Retreat. So good to return to LJMU's Wednesday Writing Afternoon
08.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh, it's ON @openresearchuoa.bsky.social Inspired by your contest, we're now taking your advice/guidance/contest and created a competition at LJMU. It's now live for all of our @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social PGRs. Check your inboxes and let's GET CARVIN'. With thanks to our open research friends!
02.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Great to see this. Congratulations on your nomination Amanda!
25.09.2025 09:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We hosted 20 Postgraduate Researchers at our second Writing Retreat at Liverpool Central Library. A wonderful historic venue for PhD work & to connect with the PGR Community. We'll be back regularly, be sure to book your place, contact us or see eDoc for details.
19.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Suicide prevention charity, Martin Gallier Project, backed by LJMU experts has unveiled vital research in Parliament to help reshape the UK’s response to suicidal crisis.
The report could become a blueprint for prevention.
Read more: www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
10.09.2025 13:41 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Good to see Dr Kate Slade, LJMU PhD alum, in the lineup for the Science Comedy Spectacular at LEAF this Friday, 8:30pm (advance tickets sold out, walk in tickets available on the door) britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... Part of British Science Festival this week!
10.09.2025 09:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a fantastic resource for qualitative PGRs, from LJMU's Peter Blundell!
09.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
18.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A great trip on Mersey Ferry River Cruise! Thank you to all PGRs who came along 👍🚢
23.07.2025 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for coming along to the event yesterday Theo, great 3MTs from all of our 2025 PGR presenters!
22.05.2025 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apologies Peter we are experiencing some issues with eDoc today- it’s being investigated and we’re hoping to be back online soon!
07.05.2025 11:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Registration for LJMU's 2025 PGR Festival is now open! Whether you're pressing play on new ideas, pausing to reflect, or rewinding through past lessons, this festival is your space to explore, share, and celebrate your research journey!
See www.ljmu.ac.uk/PGRFest25 for full programme and to book!
25.04.2025 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Events
All the latest events from the School of Advanced Study.
The School of Advanced Study has an amazing looking free online research training programme, open to all! Topics include academic writing, narrative CVs, book and article publishing, and some specifically for Humanities researchers too: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
16.04.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
LJMU PGRs: If you haven't already, please do complete PRES! let us know your experience on everything from supervision and resources to academic support and opportunities. Your honest feedback will help us to shape a better experience for you and fellow researchers! www.ljmu.ac.uk/PRES25
14.04.2025 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great news!!
14.04.2025 09:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poster of event described in post above.
ECR speakers include:
Isabel Robinson (LJMU)
Cassandra Gooptar (University of Hull)
Lucy Moynihan (University of Liverpool)
Michelle Girvan (University of Liverpool)
CMCH presents British Institutions & the Legacies of Enslavement
Chair: Andrea Livesey (LJMU): ECR panel researching historical connections betw slavery & certain schools, universities & institutions in N Eng. #skystorians
All welcome. Thurs, 27 Mar., 4pm, Rm G.15, John Foster Building, LJMU
18.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Trailblazers
Find out more about Trailblazers, a Liverpool University Press open access monograph initiative.
Are you an ECR @ljmuofficial.bsky.social interested in publishing your first monograph open access with @livunipress.bsky.social as part of their innovative Trailblazers programme? Our webpage is now live and applications are now open! All details here: www.ljmu.ac.uk/library/rese...
18.03.2025 09:13 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
SAVE THE DATE! 21 May for the 2025 PGR Festival! We have a dedicated team of PGRs planning this year's event with the theme "Play, Pause, Rewind: the Rhythm of Research"
With 3MTs, posters, keynotes, workshops and other activities, it will be a day to share and celebrate your research journey!
28.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What is a PhD? 2 sessions for LJMU students, graduates, external candidates & Staff to learn more about PhD study.
On campus 3-5pm, Mon 17 March, with Dr Scott Foster, Dr Komang Ralebitso Senior & Prof Cathy Montgomery.
Online version on Teams 2-4pm on Tue 1 April.
www.ljmu.ac.uk/the-doctoral...
27.02.2025 09:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Speaker talking to audience
PhD student explaining research blog to an audience
Great to see so many of our new starters at today’s PGR welcome event! Now just hoping the rain clears for this afternoon’s trip to the Anglican cathedral tower 😬🤞🏼🤞🏼
20.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Library worker. Reader. Runner. Cyclist. Frequently grumpy. Mackem
Hon Prof @University of Kent, Founder of the Women in Academia Support Network #WiASN and co chair & CEO, Co director of LLB Inclusive Employment & Director of ACB Inspire & Inspire block printing. Mother to R,S & N. Michael B Redston is my better half.
Researcher & Translator. She/her.
Interests:
EU, Ireland & UK healthcare law & policy.
Languages: French/German/Dutch-Eng.
Co-convenor @EUHealthGov.bsky.social
www.maryguy.com
May also post on other topics!
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Reader in Socioeconomic Engagment in Health at LJMU.
LJMJ Lead: Researcher Development Concordat.
Applied health and wellbeing research: working with communities and whole-systems; co-developing initiatives to tackle inequalities.
Bowel cancer survivor
#Historian, #football enthusiast and participating observer. Lecturer in Modern European History. Opinions here strictly my own!
Lecturer in Psychology at Arden University | Research in Education, Cognition, Mental Health and the Armed Forces Community | Crocheter 🧶 | Book Reader 📚
Views are my own.
phd student studying red knot movement | video maker | artist | i bake too | did I miss something? | (she/her)
Stories, strategies and support to help you thrive in a research-adjacent career. New podcast episodes fortnightly. https://researchadjacent.com/
#researchadjacent
Trainee Health Psychologist and Lecturer in Applied Psychology at DMU. I'm interested in long-term physical health conditions, intervention development & evaluation, optimal wellbeing, and supporting advocacy efforts.
Senior Lecturer in Law; International Human Rights Law; Economic, Social, Cultural Rights, Conflict and Peace, Social Justice. Personal account - All views my own. Reposts not endorsements.
History PhD researcher interested in the tailored suit ✨(She/her)
Working class feminist academic. Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
#Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Psychologist, Assoc. Prof/Reader, Academic, Researcher Mental Health Wellbeing and Lived Experience
Researcher careers and development devotee. Helping PhD and postdoc researchers make career transitions, especially beyond academia. Trainer and PhD careers blogger at: https://phd-careers.co.uk Living with #AZOOR 👁
Maths, Stats and IT tutor at Liverpool John Moores University. Lapsed computational physicist.
