Geography at University of Liverpool

A massive congratulations to all our new #TeamLivUni students who have received the news they’re joining us today! 🎉

Your next chapter starts now - and we can’t wait to welcome you! 💙

Find out more about your Liverpool Welcome here >>> www.liverpool.ac.uk/welcome/

#ResultsDay2025

Lady Park Wood Handover — ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST - Andrew Hacket-Pain (Liverpool University) writes about the handover of the Lady Park Wood long-term experiment.

We have a new #blog:

@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.

Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS

#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎

Great few days sampling 2 sites in the North Pennines for aquatic GHG emissions. Thanks to the @northpennines.bsky.social for arranging access. @livunigeog.bsky.social

The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

9. Cripping Time: Experiencing chronic illness in academia (with Prof. Bethan Evans) Bodies @ Work · Episode

Thanks to Peter Ghin for interviewing me for his podcast about working with Energy Limiting Conditions @isrfoundation.bsky.social & a paper co-authored with @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social & Ana Bê Pereira tinyurl.com/mrx876c8

New mapping tool launched to help bring healthy food to those who need it most New project, backed by government, will develop mapping tool to tackle food inequality.

The mapping tool to be used in Liverpool to tackle health inequality will draw on the work of health #geographer Prof Mark Green & colleagues @livunigeog.bsky.social

#usegeography
#choosegeography

www.gov.uk/government/n...

The 3 week Swedish adventure has come to an end. In total 20 sites have been sampled for GHG emissions including radiocarbon analysis. Sites ranged from Uppsala all the way down to Kalmar, Southern Sweden @livunigeog.bsky.social

A really wonderful start to my day, thanks to two final-year @livunigeog.bsky.social students. Such kind words are really appreciated. Plus an excellent addition to my office plant collection!

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

Does social media influence local elected leaders? A study of online engagement methods through the lens of cycling policymaking in the United Kingdom Social media can be sold as a way to improve grassroots citizen engagement, yet the ways in which it affects decisions made by local elected leaders are less well understood. This study examines th...

🚨New paper 🚨 I asked senior councillors with highways/transport responsibility across the UK how social media interactions affected their decision making on cycling.

🧵The core findings were:

1) That social media doesn't massively alter decision-making

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research by @alexnurse.bsky.social explores how social media shapes local government decision-making.

The study reveals alarming levels of abuse—both online and in person—towards local councillors over cycling & transport policy.

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/29/s...

The amazing team from @livunigeog.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social who are helping with the 2025 resurvey of permanent plots at #LadyParkWood, originally established in 1945. Some plots has been untouched since ~1900. Thanks to @ect-uk.bsky.social for helping us, including with funding

GHG sampling earlier this week at Westhay Moore, Somerset at some of the newer restoration areas. We even found some Sundew on site @livunigeog.bsky.social

Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime This paper explores the significance of the UK’s post-Brexit residency agreement for EU citizens – ‘Settled Status’ (EUSS) – as a ‘digital by default’ immigration regime. As the UK transitions to a...

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New article by my colleague @livunigeog.bsky.social
Kathy Burrell, Anna Key and Kate Botterill: Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Successful morning at Greylake Somerset, sampling GHG emissions from a range of water bodies. @livunigeog.bsky.social

Global RIver Topology (GRIT) is a new and improved global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-thread channels and canals. Great to see this important output from the NERC-funded EVOFLOOD project. See more here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Andrew and Belen on tall ladders installing a warming experiment in beech trees

Great day spent with my brilliant new(ish) colleague @belenfadrique.bsky.social installing a branch warming experiment at Ness Botantic Gardens, replicated across Europe. Testing how the solstice enables beech to synchronise fruit production (masting). Results next spring…
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Congratulations to Prof Mark Green (@livunigeog.bsky.social) who has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) 2025 Back Award for outstanding geographical research impacting public policy on a national and international scale👏👏👏

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/12/p...

Excited that my 3rd paper has been published 🥳 It focuses on space in young people's emotional experience of fitness tracking, engaging with digital geographies & feminist new materialism. Available Open Access in Emotion, Space and Society! lnkd.in/e-8cMqZT

Come and join me in Sept at the 5th conference on approaches to migration, language and identify

I'll talk about the use of LLMs for migration research showcasing some of our recent work!

Thanks @inesvano.bsky.social for spreading the word!

Event details: store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-...

Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social

Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below

Had a great day today @egu.eu for ‘The future of Northern peatlands’ poster session were I presented the first of my PhD work. Thank you to everyone who came along to chat/see my poster (and for inspiring new ideas!)
@peatymike.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social
@egubg.bsky.social

Higher Incidence of Strongly Evaporative Days Drives Severe Water Deficit for Ombrotrophic Peatlands A decade of hydro-meteorological monitoring and three annual water balances of a near-intact blanket bog in NE England indicate that summer water availability (precipitation − evapotranspiration) pri...

Higher incidence of strongly evaporative days drives severe water deficit for ombrotrophic peatlands - just published take a look if you're keen on peatland hydrology, drought impact/recovery and long-term monitoring... #maymoss doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

At the airport putting the final touches to my talk at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Earth Sciences tomorrow — all about loess geochemistry, chronology, and chasing ancient dust across continents.

Slide attached for a sneak peek. Looking forward to the discussion!
#AcademicLife #LoessIsMore

I wrote up my 10min contribution to last week's OECD Working Party in Territorial Indicators on (geospatial) AI for land use: me.darribas.org/2025/04/27/g...

Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI

All packed and heading to Vienna. Here's a reminder of where you can catch my group from @livunigeog.bsky.social presenting.

Had a great first day at EGU listening and talking peatland science from 8:30am to 6pm! Thanks to all those who stopped by my poster for lovely ditchey chat.

This #EarthDay, the University of Liverpool reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability with the theme ‘Our Power, Our Planet’. 🌍

👇 Read our recent news story to learn more:

www.liverpool.ac.uk/sustainabili...

Great morning with the drone at Risley Moss. Hoping the images captured can be used to work out the total area of water across the sites and used to upscale GHG emissions. Thanks to @fdraper.bsky.social for bringing his drone out to capture this data! @peatymike.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social