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1. Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History publications

   Find a publication produced by staff members within the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History.

2. Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour case studies

   Read the case studies to find out the type of work the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour are undertaking including: animal behaviour studies, mindfulness, and experiments into pain and pleasure.

3. Centre for Port and Maritime History Projects and Exhibitions

   LJMU’s CPMH members have contributed to or curated several exhibitions and are currently involved in exciting new and inter-disciplinary projects, including one centred on the Battle of the Atlantic 80th Anniversary Celebrations.

4. Nineteenth-century writing and print culture

   Find out more about Nineteenth-century writing and print culture research within the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History.

5. Fracture and contact mechanics

   The Fracture and Contact Mechanics specialises in the development and use of finite element structural and multi-physics packages.

6. Networking and Distributed Systems

   The Networking and Distributed Systems Research Group conducts research into building systems and frameworks for both networked appliance solutions and services. You can find out more about this research, the researchers and the contact details for this research group here.

7. The Multisensory Mouth: An investigation into the Motivational, Cognitive and Emotional mechanisms, driving Oral behaviours

   This project focuses on the role olfactory and oral perception plays in shaping our consummatory experiences, preferences, and food seeking behaviours. Research into this area is important to health research, shaping understanding of individual differences in food selection, consumption, and other dietary behaviours.

8. Ethnic mental health inequalities: Understanding whether discrimination causes psychosis among people from ethnic minority backgrounds

   This study aims to understand the causal relationship between discrimination and psychosis in ethnic minority populations in the UK.

9. Communication and blended-learning: Language and social cues in different learning contexts across educational stages

   The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the pace at which educational institutions moved towards a blended approach of online and in-person learning (Jisc, 2020). While embracing this change, the challenges it brings for learner experience, engagement and learning must be carefully considered.

10. Suicide crisis and self-harm attendance at A&E in autistic CYP

    Research suggests that autistic people are at a higher risk of suicide than non-autistic people. Figures show that up to 66% of autistic adults had thought about suicide during their lifetime (compared to 20% of non-autistic adults), and up to 35% had planned or attempted suicide.