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LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY
Our Founding Colleges, dating back to 1844 and 1856, were among the first to provide opportunities for higher education to women
Hope has beaten the benchmark for projected completion of degrees for the past seven years
The University’s Coat of Arms includes two cormorants - the famous Liver Birds of our city
Liverpool Hope is the only ecumenical university foundation in Europe
Hope is in the top 20 of all UK universities for percentage of academic staff with doctorates
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 is among the many dignitaries that have visited our campuses, including former Irish President Mary McAleese and former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
The Sheppard-Worlock Library offers the best study and research facilities for staff and students
Medical doctors in our Faculty of Science are researching areas including ageing and dementia, diabetes and obesity and sports injuries.
We are ranked fourth in the North West for research intensity in the latest Research Excellence Framework
Award-winning film and television director Ken Loach received an honorary degree from Hope for his contribution to culture
Liverpool Hope’s academic staff is made up of many world ranking scholars who represent over 29 nationalities
The Capstone Theatre hosts the Liverpool International Jazz Festival each year with previous performances from jazz legend Courtney Pine
Students call the Halls of Residence in the Hilda Constance Allen Building the ‘Harry Potter Halls’
Plas 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
Our students come from 67 countries around the world
The annual Cornerstone Festival, ‘Liverpool’s most significant single arts festival’, stages 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 included The Hobbit author J.R.R Tolkien of the University of Oxford
The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize, a partnership with Royal Court Liverpool, included actress Kathy Burke, screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce and playwright John Goder on the judging panel
Our Place, our student social space, includes a pizza restaurant and auditorium for gigs
The new £8.5 million Science Building will open in 2016. It will include stateof-the-art nutrition, genomics and psychology labs and a double-height robotics suite for drone testing
Image courtesy of Daniel Y. Go
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) rewards students who volunteer in the local community and abroad
Emmy and BAFTA award winner Francis Vose teaches Media and Communication students
Image courtesy of BAFTA
Image courtesy of Rosie M. Rogers
The Bee Gees and Rod Stewart performed at Hope in the 1960s
Award-winning screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the script for the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, is Professor of Reading and Communication at Hope
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 Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester
The Capstone is among the few AllSteinway Schools in UK Higher Education
We sponsor the Liverpool Hope University International Tennis Tournament, which attracts world-class tennis players to our city each year
63% of our graduates were awarded a First or Upper Second Class Honours in 2013/14
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