Gemma Bird
@gemmabird.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics & IR at the University of Liverpool. Activist scholar working on the politics of migration and solidarity in the EU & African political theory. Views my own. She/her
Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala
September 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala
Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday and sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food and stories to a whole new audience is very special.
September 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday and sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food and stories to a whole new audience is very special.
Some great summer reads!
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Some great summer reads!
Justice for the 97 run this morning in Liverpool with @davideschmid.bsky.social #YNWA #AlwaysRemember
May 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Justice for the 97 run this morning in Liverpool with @davideschmid.bsky.social #YNWA #AlwaysRemember
A very important lecture this evening at @livunipol.bsky.social as Professor Erika Harris talks to us about ‘Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas and Controversies’. This timely lecture is the first of a two day engagement with Erika’s vastly important work.
May 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A very important lecture this evening at @livunipol.bsky.social as Professor Erika Harris talks to us about ‘Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas and Controversies’. This timely lecture is the first of a two day engagement with Erika’s vastly important work.
Greatful to everyone who came to see the exhibition launch in Amsterdam yesterday. “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” will be exhibited at De Verbroderij all May, so please do go and see it and let me know what you think!
May 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Greatful to everyone who came to see the exhibition launch in Amsterdam yesterday. “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” will be exhibited at De Verbroderij all May, so please do go and see it and let me know what you think!
Very excited for this venue! Exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos opens tomorrow at 3!
May 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Very excited for this venue! Exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos opens tomorrow at 3!
Exhibition among the book shelves! A pleasure to be joining the @bisasee.bsky.social 20 year celebration workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social today with our exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos.
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Exhibition among the book shelves! A pleasure to be joining the @bisasee.bsky.social 20 year celebration workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social today with our exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos.
January 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
10 years ago on this day I submitted my PhD. I wasn’t really sure whether I would make it as an academic or what the next decade would look like. But looking back now I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me since and for the opportunities I have had to pass it on!
December 12, 2024 at 7:43 PM
10 years ago on this day I submitted my PhD. I wasn’t really sure whether I would make it as an academic or what the next decade would look like. But looking back now I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me since and for the opportunities I have had to pass it on!
In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davideschmid.bsky.social & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex, often contradictory, relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders
December 10, 2024 at 11:44 AM
In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davideschmid.bsky.social & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex, often contradictory, relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders
Such an excellent Saturday afternoon read. Beautiful artwork and lots to think about with the state of the world
November 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Such an excellent Saturday afternoon read. Beautiful artwork and lots to think about with the state of the world
A huge congratulations to Sarah Elmammeri who passed her viva today with the project “Trapped Between Borders”. Hugely well deserved!
November 18, 2024 at 1:35 PM
A huge congratulations to Sarah Elmammeri who passed her viva today with the project “Trapped Between Borders”. Hugely well deserved!
NGOs on Samos report highest number of residents in the Closed & Controlled Access Centre on the island since it opened in 2021. This means people seeking asylum forced to sleep on the floor reportedly without blankets. These are flashbacks to the previous camp & this provision is not good enough
November 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
NGOs on Samos report highest number of residents in the Closed & Controlled Access Centre on the island since it opened in 2021. This means people seeking asylum forced to sleep on the floor reportedly without blankets. These are flashbacks to the previous camp & this provision is not good enough
A Sunday afternoon well spent! #Cheesecakes
November 17, 2024 at 1:37 PM
A Sunday afternoon well spent! #Cheesecakes
Thanks for having us Athens! It was lovely to show “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” in the big city. Had some brilliant and important conversations in the last few days. An important reminder that we persist!
November 7, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Thanks for having us Athens! It was lovely to show “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” in the big city. Had some brilliant and important conversations in the last few days. An important reminder that we persist!
We are open! “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” is up and running in Romantso. An exhibition about community, displacement, solidarity and borders. Do drop by and see us if you are in #Athens
November 5, 2024 at 8:48 AM
We are open! “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” is up and running in Romantso. An exhibition about community, displacement, solidarity and borders. Do drop by and see us if you are in #Athens
As one exhibition comes to a close planning is well underway for the final #exhibition of a “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” being shown in #Athens on the 5th & 6th November in Romantso. Athens it would be great to see you. romantso.gr/event.php?id...
October 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
As one exhibition comes to a close planning is well underway for the final #exhibition of a “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” being shown in #Athens on the 5th & 6th November in Romantso. Athens it would be great to see you. romantso.gr/event.php?id...
Exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” all set up at PaperCup Liverpool as part of the Liv Uni ESRC Festival of Social Science events! It’s great to be in this brilliant cafe so please do come down, see the photos and have a coffee www.ticketsource.co.uk/livunipublic...
October 22, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” all set up at PaperCup Liverpool as part of the Liv Uni ESRC Festival of Social Science events! It’s great to be in this brilliant cafe so please do come down, see the photos and have a coffee www.ticketsource.co.uk/livunipublic...
An important reminder on the streets of Liverpool
October 12, 2023 at 6:50 PM
An important reminder on the streets of Liverpool
Spotted from the harbour of Duisburg “more poetry, less police”
September 27, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Spotted from the harbour of Duisburg “more poetry, less police”