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1. Meet LJMU's own Ten Pound Pom

   Professor of Creative Writing Catherine Cole's poignant memoir on emigration to Australia and the bravery of migrants

2. Staff and Students celebrate South Asian and East South-east Asian Heritage Month

   The Diversity and Inclusion event held at the Student Life Building this week ‘Cultivating Representation: If you can see it, you can be it’ was open to all staff and students to celebrate South Asian (SA) and East South-east Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month.

3. Teacher Training: Partnership approach earns praise from Ofsted

   Inspectors also cite social justice, mentoring and curriculum as Primary and Secondary training earn 'good' status

4. We are failing in a key cornerstone of democracy in the UK: justice

   We spoke to Dr Lizz Peatfield JP about the failings of the criminal justice system after the publication of her new book The Reality of Justice in England's lower courts

5. The life of a primatologist

   Meet LJMU primate specialist and lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Dr Alex Piel. He talks about his research on chimpanzees and what they tell us about our own history.

6. Students work with English National Ballet and Tate Liverpool

   Collaborative partnerships create unique opportunities

7. Paralympics team GB are Rio ready with LJMU help

   An LJMU student and several LJMU sports experts are behind a cohort of para-athletes who will be going for gold in Rio this week.

8. Energy from plants - how hybrids can boost biomass production

   Plant biologists show methods to improve Miscanthus hybrids to optimise seed production

9. Careers advice for students and graduates with a disability, are neurodiverse or have a long term health condition.

   LJMU students and graduates attended a virtual careers event to give them advice on their future careers.

10. Bollywood creatives work with LJMU students on musical theatre production

    See the production - Fireflies - at the university’s drama studio on Thursday 30 May and Friday 31 May.