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In this edition, we are joined by Dr Anna McKay, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of History.

Anna talks to us about her work researching the lives, and deaths, of prisoners across the British Empire, as well as the fascinating and still-relevant use of prison hulks and the long, often unexpected afterlives of navy warships.

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 episode, he talks about his research into
Sinn Féin's political strategies, his journey to the University of Liverpool through the Horizon Europe-funded Marie Curie Fellowship, and the opposition to the burgeoning far right movement in Ireland.

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.

Research by Dr Christina Malathouni and Dr Barnabas Calder raised awareness of the UK’s post-war architectural heritage and contributed to the Grade II listed status of Preston Bus Station. Find out how they did it and what makes the architectural icon so special in this podcast.

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.