Registration is now open for BAVS Annual Conference 2026

Registration is now open.

Annual Conference British Association for Victorian Studies | Liverpool John Moores University

There are a number of options to choose from for your BAVS registration, especially as we now have a Mid-Career Professionalisation morning, as well as one for PGR/ECR delegates on Monday 27 July. Delegates will have the option to choose individual lunch options from a variety of tasty tiffin boxes, so be sure to enter these on your registration. NOTE if you choose Registration for Monday PM, then lunch will not be included, this will only be included as part of the Professionalisation (Monday AM) package. The LJMU shop is a little awkward to use so if you are selecting more than one option, say, adding the Conference Dinner, then when you click on “Continue Shopping” this will take you back to the main shop. You will need to click “Conferences and Events” on the left-hand tabs in order to select the BAVS page and continue with your registration. Apologies, I have been advised there is nothing we can do about this. If you have any problems then do reach out to the Conference Lead, Dr Clare Horrocks at C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk.

Note for Postgraduates

Postgraduate Bursaries have now been selected and notified. Please select the option for Postgraduate Bursaries on the Registration page. This will register as £0 but will enable you to make your lunch selections for the event.

There is also the option for Postgraduates to be entered for the Rosemary Mitchell Prize for Best PhD Student’s Paper Presentation. Please indicate if you would like to be entered for this on your Registration form. Observers will then attend each of the papers entered and provide feedback according to a set criteria which was piloted at BAVS Oxford in 2025. The winners will then be chosen and announced. For BAVS Liverpool, there is the additional opportunity for the top three papers selected to be invited to publish in a Special Issue of the Journal of Victorian Culture.