Tom is also an award-winning pumpkin carver-and he amazingly represented his PhD in a pumpkin last year. Our team is still in awe.

Tom Hyatt@tomhyatt.co.uk · 2w ago

Over the last six years, I’ve been doing a PhD at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social at the interface between art and science, researching ‘Electromagnetic Art’: What is it? How might we make it? Why would we want to?

LJMU postgraduate researchers selected for British Council Venice Fellowships | Liverpool John Moores University www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

LJMU postgraduate researchers selected for British Council Venice Fellowships

Two PhD students from the Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries will spend a month in Venice during the Biennale 2026.

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Great week celebrating LJMU's PGR Community. Prof Scott Foster & Gillian Dyche lead future PhD cohort info session . Louise Rimmer-Williams, Leon Ramsey & Liz Edwards lead a wonderful "Research is HOPE in Action" day. Then spooked silly with Shiverpool ghost tour. Thank you to everyone involved

LJMU PGRs have until 7th April to register interest in presenting at the 2026 PGR Festival on 19th May. Open to all MPhil, PhD & Prof Docs from all stages. There are a variety of presentation formats to choose from. See: www.ljmu.ac.uk/the-doctoral... We look forward to seeing you there!

Bibliotherapy - Learn about the benefits of reading and writing for wellbeing, have a book prescribed for you! Open to staff and students, Wed 04 Feb 2-4pm Mount Pleasant Campus Library and Thurs 05 Feb 10am-12 City Campus Library. For more info and to book see unical.ljmu.ac.uk/Default.aspx...

As we begin to take stock of this passing year, here is an amazing blog post by Ingrid Boedker on working with mums and babies 🙂🤱👶🍼🐣 nighttimecaregiving.study/2025-reflect... @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmulibrary.bsky.social @ljmuresearch.bsky.social @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social

For any History PGRs! @ljmuhistory.bsky.social @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026

Thank you to the fabulous PGRs who have supported our monthly "Book Time to Write" writing retreats at Liverpool Central Library. Time for the Festive break. Places open for January - June 2026!

This photo, showing a method for securing forensic evidence that can help to catch poachers and animal traffickers, links to the research of LJMU PhD alumni Dr Alex Thomas. Very exciting!!

Thank you to 19 PGRs who joined The Doctoral Academy's "Book Time to Write" Writing Retreat at Liverpool Central Library today. We're here every month, book a place via eDoc.

IHR webinar about exciting new Applied History Fellowships taking place tomorrow afternoon!

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social. Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our Carve Your PhD @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social winners are here! We were blown away by the creativity and carving skills demonstrated by our fantastic entrants! The judges' first choice was: Tom Hyatt, School of Arts & Creative Industries: Electromagnetic Art: A Portrait of James Clerk Maxwell

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...

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…..

LJMU Open Research Team@ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Mind is currently blown by the wonderful @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social Carve Your PhD competition entries. Creative, beautiful and really lovely. Well done, carvers! 🎃

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!)

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...

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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!

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 👻💀

Thank you to all the PGRs who joined today's Virtual Writing Retreat. So good to return to LJMU's Wednesday Writing Afternoon

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!

Open Research, University of Aberdeen@openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's the first day of October and therefore the start of the Halloween Season 🎃👻🍬 We're thrilled to announce another year of our Carve your PhD contest, where we challenge our wonderful PGRs to represent their dissertation topic as a Jack O' Lantern. Have Fun! Get Spooky! abdn.site/phD

Great to see this. Congratulations on your nomination Amanda!

LJMU Open Research Team@ljmuresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

We were lucky to have Amanda Bennett speak at one of our research cafes that we run with @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social Absolutely fascinating work, from a fantastic researcher!

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.

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

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!

What a fantastic resource for qualitative PGRs, from LJMU's Peter Blundell!

Dr Peter Blundell@drpeterblundell.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been interviewing some #Qualitative researchers for my YouTube channel exploring their experiences of the PhD process. New interview each month www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulQm...

A great trip on Mersey Ferry River Cruise! Thank you to all PGRs who came along 👍🚢

PGR Festival 2025 Huge thank you to PGR Festival Committee, 3MT Finalists, Poster Competition Entrants & all 160 Delegates who ensured this year's event was a success. Don't forget the Spotify "If your PhD was a song" playlist 3 hours of music nominated by Delegates open.spotify.com/playlist/2K1...

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!

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/...

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