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1. World Athletics Championships 2015

   PhD students are accelerating elite athletes through sport science

2. North West award for child lockdown study

   NIHR award for School of Psychology academics for Ask, Listen, Act COVID study

3. REF 2014: World-leading research reaches new heights at LJMU

   LJMU has achieved world-leading status in the latest assessment of university research, with the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences 0.01 marks off the top position in the UK.

4. Liverpool Telescope helps inspire city's children

   New school book launched in city's Knowledge Quarter

5. Children’s Laureate delivers Roscoe Lecture

   The Roscoe Lecture, named ‘What do you think about when you think of nothing?’ entails the strange concept that meditating and clearing the mind often throws up a lot of questions- which is exactly what you are not meant to be doing

6. Astonishing difference globally in approach to children in prison

   Marie Claire Van Hout of the LJMU Public Health Institute publishes research in Lancet

7. Study to expose how traffickers groom children online

   Dr Laura Pajon of the School of Justice Studies one of handful funded by ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

8. Professor welcomes international delegates as ECSS President

   LJMU’s Professor of Exercise Physiology is also the incumbent President of the European College of Sport Science, and recently welcomed around 2,800 delegates from across the globe to the annual congress, this year held in Vienna.

9. Premier League sports psychologists attend Football Exchange conference

   The Football Exchange, from the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, hosted its first ‘Psychology of Football’ conference. The event, endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES), was attended by over 120 delegates, including representatives from every English Premier League club, the Scottish Leagues and women’s football, with practitioners travelling from across the UK, Holland, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Poland and the US.

10. Girls feel strain of lockdown more - study

    A study of the impact of the pandemic on adolescents has found girls significantly more likely to suffer from lockdown stress and anxiety than boys.