Dr Jonathan Arlow is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His current research project is a comparative evaluation of Sinn Féin as an all-island party since the Great Recession.

In this Researcher in Focus podcast, we are pleased to feature Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, a Reader in Global Journalism and Media in the Department of Communication and Media here at the University of Liverpool. Vera's work focusses on global journalism, its current state worldwide, and the safety of journalists around the world. Here she talks about keeping journalists alive, where the UK's press ranks globally, and what people have been saying about Trump around the world.

In this podcast, we are pleased to feature Dr Eduardo Coutinho, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music. Eduardo tells us all about his fascinating research into the emotional impact music can have on its listeners, and how this can affect our mental wellbeing and cognitive performance, and what the social and clinical implications of these may be.

Our researcher in focus for this month is Dr Sophie Jones, from the Department of History. In this episode, Sophie tells us all about her work exploring the social and cultural development of the North American colonies and how this shaped political identities during the American Revolution.

This month’s researcher in focus is Dr Stella Morgana, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics. In this podcast, Stella discusses her research on the politics and practicalities of labour in Iran and the wider Middle East with a special focus on the digital gig economy, as well as how climate change is seen and approached in the region, as well as her upcoming projects and conferences.

This month’s researcher in focus is Dr Sarah Arens, Lecturer in French at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool. Find out all about her wide research interests, including the histories, texts, and visual cultures produced during and in the aftermath of Belgian and French colonialism.

Meet this month’s researcher in focus, Professor Susan Pickard, Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Learn more about her work exploring ideas around health, age, gender and ethnicity in this podcast from the Humanities & Social Sciences' Research and Impact team.

In the first of our new 'researcher in focus' series of podcasts, meet Dr Nicolás Brando from the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Nico is a Colombian social and political philosopher who, after much hopping around the world, has ended up working on philosophical and legal questions around childhood and children’s rights in the city that saw The Beatles grow up.