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1. Liverpool Short Film Festival attracts massive interest

   Student organised festival receives 3,000 films from 15 countries

2. LJMU submits 600 academics to Research Excellence Framework 2021

   On March 25, the University hands over its best research to the 2021 Research Exercise Framework, the REF. With more than 600 academics put forward and dozens more colleagues behind the scenes, the REF is arguably the largest project undertaken by the university community.

3. This time last year LJMU student and now graduate Nathan Bickerton, went viral

   He was offered a job just fifteen minutes after creating a Wikipedia page and tweeting The Diary of a CEO host and BBC Dragon, Steven Bartlett. Here he tells us about the whirlwind of a year he's had, what his LJMU undergraduate and postgraduate degrees taught him, and his own tips for how to stand out from the crowd in the job market.

4. LJMU celebrates Paralympics with Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson

   Sport experts at LJMU are backing the transformational power of the Paralympic Games, which start today in Tokyo.

5. Welcome Week 2022

   We've got an exciting schedule full of activities and events for you this September!

6. World Mental Health Day 2019

   World Mental Health Day on October the 10th is the annual global celebration of mental health education, awareness and advocacy. Throughout the week starting Monday 7th– Friday 11th October LJMU Student Advice and Wellbeing Services will be delivering a range of activities and raising awareness to celebrate good mental health and encourage us all to look at what we can do to maintain and promote positive wellbeing.

7. Graduation: Honorary Awards in Maritime and Girlguiding

   Maritime connections and raising the aspirations of women lie behind LJMU’s Winter 2019 Honorary Awards.

8. Why the fitness and leisure sector should be awarded ‘essential service’ status – by Professor Greg Whyte OBE

   Leading sport scientist puts the case for not locking-down leisure

9. Pandemics and public health: have we found our new normal? - Conan Leavey and Graeme Mitchell, Public Health Institute, LJMU

   It was only a relatively short time ago - in March this year - that the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic. We know now that it is likely to be many, many months before the UK pronounces its outbreak over; and certainly years before it is over globally.

10. Songs, stories and games earn history lecturer national recognition

    Singsongs, card games and radio shows would not normally be part of a History degree unless you are lucky enough to be taught by lecturer Lucinda Matthews-Jones, that is.