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Humanities and Social Sciences Research and KE Newsletter As we approach the end of the academic session, there are many upcoming funding deadlines, as well as review panel meetings. This means we are receiving exciting news of successful awards and researchers being invited to the next stage of highly competitive schemes. We have now submitted three large collaborative Horizon 2020 proposals with researchers across the Faculty leading large consortia that comprise academic and non-academic partners. These are in addition to around 30 other EU research proposals, including to the European Research Council for individual researchers at a variety of career stages. We will hold an event in the next semester to share some experiences of putting these proposals together and will be reviewing the support we provide across the University. We hope that the summer months will provide an opportunity to develop research projects and disseminate findings. Do keep us posted so that we can share news of your research and its impact as widely as possible. Professor Barry Godfrey and Dr Jenny Rivers Introducing Dr Philippa Hunter-Jones (ULMS) – Health: Service, People and Service Systems The past eighteen months have been a particularly exciting time for her core areas of research and KE activity. In January 2014, she published her first co-authored book Service and Service Systems: Provider Challenges and Directions in Unsettled Times with Professors Steve Baron and Gary Warnaby. In September 2014, together with colleagues from the Management School Dr Lynn Sudbury-Riley and Paul Matthews, Senior GPs and a Hospital based-team, she was awarded ULMS pump-priming funding to examine the service re-design of outpatients at the Royal Liverpool University Teaching Hospital. Later in the year, with Lynn and their colleague Laura Menzies, Pippa was awarded a grant from East Cheshire Hospice to develop a systematic tool to measure the impact of hospice services upon patients, carers and families. In March this year Pippa and Lynn were part of a team headed up by GP Dr Neil Paul and Michael Pyrah that was awarded £1.9 million under the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund tasked with transforming primary care and improving healthcare access in South Cheshire. Pippa and Lynn are working on the evaluation of the project, a critical element in determining the long-term funding of this initiative. Other collaborations have also resulted in two ESRC funded PhD studentships and a number of funded projects and PhD studentships with colleagues from XJTLU. A ‘Business of General Practice’ CPD offering is also emerging from collaboration with the HLS Faculty. Commenting upon what has made these successes possible Pippa spoke of the fantastic support provided by her School. In particular, she paid tribute to the work of Professor Michael McKenzie, Director of ULMS, who passed away in April: “Michael became the Director of Research in ULMS just as the health-related work began to appear. It was a number of years since I’d engaged properly in this area of research. Confidence levels were pretty low! He smiled, said “whatever you need”, and from then on was always available to discuss and offer support to the projects which snowballed from there. Taking these projects forward has been a real joy”. With no shortage of work to do on existing projects, and more projects in the pipeline, Pippa ( [email protected]) is always keen to hear from interested colleagues who share her passion for research in these areas. Funding Opportunities: Don’t forget AHRC and ESRC open calls The AHRC and the ESRC have been advertising many strategic, targeted calls in the last few years. However, their main project funding is still available and schemes are operating with open deadlines. These funding opportunities are running in a responsive mode and can be applied to at any time during the year. If you are interested in applying, please contact your School Research Teams. Look out for more funding opportunities every week in the Faculty Bulletin and on Twitter @livuniHSS June 2015 Pippa is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School. She has an active interest in health-related research and is currently working on multiple projects linked to the patient experience and service (re)design within primary and acute health contexts. Alongside this, she has a wider interest in the consumer behaviour of marginalised/hidden consumers (e.g. informal carers) and in exploring the circumstances of those who travel with pre-existing health conditions. Pippa is part of the Consumption and Experiential Marketing Knowledge Platform in her School, the Heseltine Institute and is an elected Governor at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Hospital. She is also the founding Chair of the Tourism Marketing Special Interest Group at the Academy of Marketing.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Research and KE Newsletter

As we approach the end of the academic session, there are many upcoming funding deadlines, as well as review panel meetings. This means we are receiving exciting news of successful awards and researchers being invited to the next stage of highly competitive schemes. We have now submitted three large collaborative Horizon 2020 proposals with researchers across the Faculty leading large consortia that comprise academic and non-academic partners. These are in addition to around 30 other EU research proposals, including to the European Research Council for individual researchers at a variety of career stages. We will hold an event in the next semester to share some experiences of putting these proposals together and will be reviewing the support we provide across the University. We hope that the summer months will provide an opportunity to develop research projects and disseminate findings. Do keep us posted so that we can share news of your research and its impact as widely as possible.

Professor Barry Godfrey and Dr Jenny Rivers

Introducing Dr Philippa Hunter-Jones (ULMS) – Health: Service, People and Service Systems

The past eighteen months have been a particularly exciting time for her core areas of research and KE activity. In January 2014, she published her first co-authored book Service and Service Systems: Provider Challenges and Directions in Unsettled Times with Professors Steve Baron and Gary Warnaby.

In September 2014, together with colleagues from the Management School Dr Lynn Sudbury-Riley and Paul Matthews, Senior GPs and a Hospital based-team, she was awarded ULMS pump-priming funding to examine the service re-design of outpatients at the Royal Liverpool University Teaching Hospital. Later in the year, with Lynn and their colleague Laura Menzies, Pippa was awarded a grant from East Cheshire Hospice to develop a systematic tool to measure the impact of hospice services upon patients, carers and families.

In March this year Pippa and Lynn were part of a team headed up by GP Dr Neil Paul and Michael Pyrah that was awarded £1.9 million under the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund tasked with transforming primary care and improving healthcare access in South Cheshire. Pippa and Lynn are working on the evaluation of the project, a critical element in determining the long-term funding of this initiative.

Other collaborations have also resulted in two ESRC funded PhD studentships and a number of funded projects and PhD studentships with colleagues from XJTLU. A ‘Business of General Practice’ CPD offering is also emerging from collaboration with the HLS Faculty.

Commenting upon what has made these successes possible Pippa spoke of the fantastic support provided by her School. In particular, she paid tribute to the work of Professor Michael McKenzie, Director of ULMS, who passed away in April: “Michael became the Director of Research in ULMS just as the health-related work began to appear. It was a number of years since I’d engaged properly in this area of research. Confidence levels were pretty low! He smiled, said “whatever you need”, and from then on was always available to discuss and offer support to the projects which snowballed from there. Taking these projects forward has been a real joy”.

With no shortage of work to do on existing projects, and more projects in the pipeline, Pippa ([email protected]) is always keen to

hear from interested colleagues who share her passion for research in these areas.

Funding Opportunities: Don’t forget AHRC and ESRC open calls

The AHRC and the ESRC have been advertising many strategic, targeted calls in the last few years. However, their main project funding is still available and schemes are operating with open deadlines. These funding opportunities are running in a responsive mode and can be applied to at any time during the year. If you are interested in applying, please contact your School Research Teams.

Look out for more funding opportunities every week in the Faculty Bulletin and on Twitter @livuniHSS

June 2015

Pippa is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School. She has an active interest in health-related research and is currently working on multiple projects linked to the patient experience and service (re)design within primary and acute health contexts. Alongside this, she has a wider interest in the consumer behaviour of marginalised/hidden consumers (e.g. informal carers) and in exploring the circumstances of those who travel with pre-existing health conditions.

Pippa is part of the Consumption and Experiential Marketing Knowledge Platform in her School, the Heseltine Institute and is an elected Governor at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Hospital. She is also the founding Chair of the Tourism Marketing Special Interest Group at the Academy of Marketing.

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Congratulations to…

Dr Firat Cengiz (Law) has been appointed as an expert by the European Commission for the evaluation of proposals in the H2020-INT-Society-2015 programme (Europe as a global actor). After undertaking training in Brussels she will evaluate proposals individually as well as part of a panel in this field which will take final decisions and write reports on each proposal.

Dr Nick Webb (Architecture) and Dr Alex Buchanan (History) were awarded a research support grant (£1k) by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Their project will use 3D laser scanning to make accurate digital models of the aisle vaults of the presbytery of Wells Cathedral to test a theory about how medieval gothic vaults were built.

Dr Jessica Pearson (Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology) and her colleagues at NERC British Geological Survey have been awarded an AHRC research grant worth £150k to investigate the appearance of the world’s first large communities 10,000 years ago. This project, which will measure samples from Turkey at the sites of Çatalhöyük (Stanford University), Boncuklu Höyük and Pınarbaşı (both University of Liverpool), will use isotope-based methods to investigate human mobility and diet in order to better understand how prehistoric men and women had to adapt to what has been described by some as the world's first towns and cities.

Dr Stephen Kenny (History) has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship worth £90k for his project entitled ‘Dark Medicine: racism, power and the culture of American slavery’. This project will explore the disturbing connections between slavery, ‘race’ and medicine in 19th-century America and will offer a major new examination of white thinking about black health, experiments on slaves, black experiences under such pressures, and long-running patterns of medical racism in slavery’s aftermath. Read more about Stephen’s research

Dr Nuno Ferreira and Dr Anna Verges (Law) received funding (£1.5k) from the Society of Legal Scholars for their project on ‘Children in the world of football: A European and rights-based approach to high-performance child footballers’. The aim of the project is to assess whether existing European and English regulatory frameworks are effective in scrutinising and protecting child welfare and rights in the world of professional football academies.

Professor Simeon Yates (Institute of Cultural Capital) in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Music and colleagues at Liverpool John Moores University has been commissioned by the Liverpool City Council to carry out a study investigating what the legacy of the Beatles is worth to the economic and cultural environment of the city. The report is expected to be completed in the summer. Find out more about this project

LiNK: a pioneering PhD skills training and placement programme

This year, ten PhD students from SOTA and HLC have been awarded a place on the programme to work with partner institutions which included FACT, Red Ninja, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool, The Bluecoat, ARUP, VG&M and RIBA. Each student also received a bursary of £500 and, with support from their academic supervisor, had the opportunity to bid for up to £5,000 from the LiNK Knowledge Exchange Fund to undertake an impact activity collaboratively with the organisation providing their placement.

A third round of the LiNK programme will be run in the next academic year. If you would like further information about this opportunity please get in touch with the LiNK Co-ordinator Wendy Asquith.

Institutional Peer Review College: expressions of interest invited

The University is calling for expressions of interest to join a multi-disciplinary institutional Peer Review College, which aims to help improve the quality of research bids being submitted by providing constructive feedback to applicants. This cross-disciplinary College will comprise researchers at different stages of their research career, including early career researchers without direct peer-review college experience but with relevant research expertise, and a number of panels will be drawn from the overall membership.

Institutional peer review will be compulsory where funders dictate that the University can only submit a single bid to a call and also for all NERC standard grants. The Peer Review College will also work in areas where a non-specialist review could have an impact on the quality of proposals, for example, applications for prestigious fellowships and major Centre grants.

For further information please visit the Research Policy intranet site or contact Dr Jane Rees.

Contact us about the newsletter We would like to share news that is of interest to you so please let us know if you, or your colleagues, have success stories to share, or

upcoming events. Please get in touch with Jenny ([email protected]) or Maeva ([email protected]).

The Liverpool Network of Knowledge Exchange programme (LiNK) offers PhD students in SOTA and HLC the opportunity to undertake a 15-day placement at partner organisations in the cultural and creative industries in the region. Now in its second year, this competitive programme gives students a chance, as part of their doctoral training, to enhance their employability, develop skills and training in the professional workplace.