Liverpool Hope University

Liverpool Hope University is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England.The university is both a research and teaching intensive institution. It has gained notable recognition for its teaching.

The university has two teaching campuses. The larger of these is Hope Park in Childwall, in the vicinity of Childwall Woods and Calderstones Park. The university's specialist campus for music and visual and performing arts teaching is the Creative Campus in Everton next to St Francis Xavier's Church. The university also has a residential-only campus, Aigburth Park in St Michael's, and Plas Caerdeon, an outdoor education centre in Snowdonia, North Wales.

The university's teaching campuses contain three Grade II listed buildings. One of these is the former main building of Saint Katharine's College at Hope Park, now renamed as the Hilda Constance Allen Building. The Creative Campus includes the other two: the former Saint Francis Xavier's School (now the Cornerstone Building) designed by Henry Clutton, and the former LSPCC (Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) building at 3 Islington Square.

The university comprises 7 schools and two departments. It is a flat organisation as the 7 schools do not contain departments (though four of the schools are divided less formally into subject teams) and schools/departments are not grouped upwards into middle-management-level faculties.

The School of Creative and Performing Arts is located at the Creative Campus, with all other schools/departments at Hope Park.

Notable Alumnis are :

Heather Craney, actress, Simon Gilbert, journalist and author, Terry Molloy, actor, Emma Hayes MBE, Chelsea F.C. Women manager, Colm McFadden, Gaelic footballer.