Liberal Arts News
ÌÇÐÄTV’s Liberal Arts ranked best in UK by Times University Rankings 2026
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Our Liberal Arts programme has been recognised as the leading Liberal Arts course in the UK by the Times and Sunday Times UK University Rankings 2026. The University of ÌÇÐÄTV has also placed 8th overall for the Best UK University.
Third Edition of ÌÇÐÄTV-Johns Hopkins PhD Summer School Held at the Istituto Veneto
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The third edition of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV / Johns Hopkins University PhD Summer School took place at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti and the ÌÇÐÄTV Venice Centre from June 10th – 20th, 2025.
SCFS host international ‘Nurturing Hope’ conference on Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures
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On 8th-9th May 2025, the Liberal Arts department and the School for Cross Faculty Studies ran an international conference titled ‘Nurturing Hope: Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures,’ which aimed to demonstrate how even 2,000 years later, Liberal Arts education can still provide valuable critical tools for addressing modern-day problems from the very local (ÌÇÐÄTV) to the global. The conference was planned as part of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s 60th year anniversary celebrations and looks forward to the Liberal Arts department’s 10th year anniversary – which it will be entering in 2026.
Liberal Arts department welcomes new Research Fellow Dr Katherine Travers
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Dr Katherine (Kate) Travers has recently joined the Liberal Arts department at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. They previously held the position of Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Languages at St Hugh’s College at the University of Oxford.
Teaching and Tutoring Excellence Awards: School for Cross-faculty Studies Success!
We are extremely proud of Dr Bryan Brazeau (Liberal Arts) and Dr Gioia Panzarella (Global Sustainable Development) for winning the 2022 ÌÇÐÄTV Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE)! The WAPTE Team received more nominations than ever before this year from both students and staff, so it is a real testament to their commitments to personal tutoring to be acknowledged at this level.
