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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
