LIVERPOOL HOPE unIVERsIty

Hilda Constance Allen Building, Hope Park

Our Founding Colleges, dating back to 1844 and 1856, were among the first to provide opportunities for

higher education to women

Hope has the best retention rate against benchmark of all the universities in the North West of England

The University’s

Coat of Arms includes two cormorants - the famous Liver Birds of

our city

Hope has the highest number of doctorates amongst its staff of all the post-92 universities in EnglandLiverpool Hope is

the only ecumenical university foundation

in Europe

Hope Alumni Lord Michael Storey and Lord David Alton sit

in the House of Lords

Images courtesy of UK Parliament

Angel Field,the renaissance-style garden at the Creative Campus, has

won six design awards

Bishop Sheppard and Archbishop Worlock worked together to unify two

Church of England and Catholic colleges, forming what is Liverpool Hope

University today

Lord Charles Guthrie of Craigiebank is Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University

Her Majesty The Queen visited the

Cornerstone Building

at Hope’s Creative Campus in 2004

The Sheppard-Worlock Library was refurbished in 2012 to enhance the study and research facilities for

staff and students

Professor Galina Paramei leads cutting-edge colour

perception research, including how different cultures identify and categorise colours

Design graduate

Kate Earlam was awarded

the prestigious Goldsmiths’

Young Designer Silversmith Award 2012

Liverpool comic legend

Ken Dodd received an honorary

degree from Hope for his contribution to culture

World ranking scholars including Professors Nagar, Jeyaraj and

Ziessler, as well as Doctors Spohrer and Gilleece, represent over 28

nationalities on Hope’s academic staff

The Capstone Theatrehosted the Liverpool

International JazzFestival in 2013, includinga performance from jazz

legend Courtney Pine

call the Halls of Residence in the Hilda Constance Allen Building the

‘Harry Potter Halls’

StudentsPlas Caerdeon, our outdoor education

centre in North Wales, is used by students for field trips, art workshops

and environment excursions

Students and staff volunteer to help

children in countries like Uganda and India through our charity

Global Hope

Social Work academics have collaborated with PSS, a social care

charity, to create a dementia simulation so we can better understand the

effects of the condition

The Cornerstone Festival, ‘Liverpool’s most

significant single arts festival’, stages more than 60 music, art, drama and

dance events

Images courtesy of National Museums Liverpool

Hope’s partnerships with Tate Liverpool,

The Bluecoat, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,

FACT and National Museums Liverpool provide students with

excellent resources

The Jerusalem Bible was first translated at Hope by a team led by foundation Professor of Divinity, Alexander Jones. The team also included The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s chief conductor Vasily Petrenko is a Visiting Professor in

Hope’s Department of Music and was also awarded an honorary degree

Image courtesy of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Our Place, the new student

social space, includes a pizza restaurant and

auditorium for gigs

Our acclaimed Sand Dune and Shingle Network,

led by Paul Rooney from

our Geography Department,

conserves sand dunes and shingle across

the country

The Reader Organisation has a reader in residence at Hope to promote reading for pleasure amongst future teachers trained

at Hope and their students

Our Service and Leadership Award (SALA) encourages

students to volunteer in the local community and abroad

Image courtesy of Daniel Y. Go

Emmy and BAFTA award winner Francis Vose teaches

Media and Communication

students

Image courtesy of BAFTA

The Bee Gees performed at Hope

in the 1960s

Award-winning screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the script for the

London 2012 opening ceremony, is Professor of Reading and

Communication at Hope

Image courtesy of Rosie M. Rogers

Archbishop Desmond

Tutu is the patron of

our Centre for War

and Peace Studies

The Faculty of Education works in close partnership with more than 300 primary and

secondary schools throughout

Merseyside, as well as parts of

Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester

The Capstoneis among the few All-Steinway

Schools in the UK

is the Centre for Research in Emergency Services and Training and works closely

with the blue light services to encourage partnership working

CREST63% of our graduates were awarded a First

or Upper Second Class Honours on average

over the past five years

The Cornerstone Building, Creative Campus

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