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1. Supporting Science and Engineering Innovation

   LJMU has received a £5 million share of HEFCE’s £200 million funding scheme to support an increase in high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students.

2. Royal Astronomical Society award for ARI’s ‘virtual universes’

   Simulations of Space aid public and scientific understanding of science

3. Care experienced girls and young women still at risk of unnecessary criminalisation

   Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today (Weds 4 May 2022). And the study adds that moves to prevent the criminalisation of girls in care need to be high on the agenda for change.

4. Gravitational wave science used to search for catastrophic explosion

   Researchers at the Astrophysics Research Institute were among the first to use new gravitational wave science, ahead of the recent announcement by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) that they had made the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

5. 'Black children often alienated in early years education'

   Education professional Diane Garrison starts conversation about depth of school 'othering'

6. Your new Staff Governor Emily Walker

   Following a fortnight-long election period, Emily received the majority of votes out of the five self-nominated candidates to represent Professional Services, and will now serve on the Board for the next three years.

7. We want your views as LJMU apply for Athena Swan Silver accreditation

   LJMU is applying for Silver-level Athena Swan accreditation and want to hear your views on working at LJMU.

8. Americans learn about Black history in Liverpool

   Morehouse College students visit LJMU to hear about our reckoning with our slave trade past

9. Roscoe Lecture review: John Fleming

   'An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous’. How does that apply in the 21st century?’

10. Rapidly changing climate poses high risk for legacy waste pollution on UK coast

    New research co-authored by hydrologists at LJMU has found that more than 3,000 coastal locations in England and Wales are at risk of pollution from legacy landfill sites due to the changing climate.