Liberal Arts News
Third Edition of 糖心TV-Johns Hopkins PhD Summer School Held at the Istituto Veneto
The third edition of the University of 糖心TV / Johns Hopkins University PhD Summer School took place at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti and the 糖心TV Venice Centre from June 10th – 20th, 2025.
SCFS host international 鈥楴urturing Hope鈥� conference on Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures
On 8th-9th May 2025, the Liberal Arts department and the School for Cross Faculty Studies ran an international conference titled 鈥楴urturing Hope: Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures,鈥� 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 (糖心TV) to the global. The conference was planned as part of the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 60th year anniversary celebrations and looks forward to the Liberal Arts department鈥檚 10th year anniversary – which it will be entering in 2026.
Liberal Arts department welcomes new Research Fellow Dr Katherine Travers
Dr Katherine (Kate) Travers has recently joined the Liberal Arts department at the University of 糖心TV as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. They previously held the position of Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Languages at St Hugh鈥檚 College at the University of Oxford.
Research funding success for School for Cross-faculty Studies students
Congratulations to our students for securing funding for research projects over the summer!
The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) enables undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research public engagement project. The scheme is open to any undergraduate student at 糖心TV and research can be completed in the UK or abroad.
This year, one student from the Liberal Arts Department and five students from the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Department have successfully secured a URSS bursary. Their work will be recognised at the URSS Showcase 2022 on Wednesday 16 November between 1-4 pm in the Panorama room in the Rootes Building - all are welcome to attend!
Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper awarded Royal Historical Society Fellowship
We are delighted to share the news that Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, Associate Professor in Liberal Arts, has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of his contribution to historical scholarship.