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1. A month full of free activities to support your wellbeing

   A month full of free activities to support your wellbeing this February.

2. Experts call for 'joined-up thinking' on species reintroductions

   LJMU researchers feed into report by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

3. Honorary Fellows: Gillian Miller and Kevin Fearon

   Read the oration for Gillian Miller and Kevin Fearon on the award of their Honorary Fellowships from LJMU, the University's highest honour.

4. New partnership established to develop world's largest robotic telescope

   LJMU joins forces with Spanish astronomy institute to develop the world’s largest robotic telescope

5. Grace, intelligence and graft: Nisha's recipe for success

   Chancellor Nisha Katona MBE has shared the key ingredients for success with LJMU students and staff: grace, intelligence and graft. She shared her insights at the second Roscoe Lecture series event of LJMU’s Bicentenary year at St George’s Hall.

6. Developing your leadership and management skills

   A new suite of workshops and support has been launched to help you develop your leadership and management skills.

7. LJMU project looks at roots of racism in maternity care

   Midwifery and History students team up to explore the history of racism in maternity care in Liverpool since Slavery

8. Young people in care show their creativity

   Young people in care across the country have shown their creative talent as part of an LJMU contest.

9. A timely reflection on Liverpool and our lives

   At a time when COVID 19 has made people fearful, isolated or alone, Jeff Youngs new book, Ghost Town, offers not only a fascinating read but also a reflection on all those things that are important to us, our families, friends and communities. Its a deeply felt and beautifully written journey through Jeffs Liverpool childhood, the adult writer stalking Liverpool alone or with friends, searching for a past lost, regained, remembered so viscerally that the reader feels intimately connected to the child Jeff longing to leave the hospital where hes had his tonsils removed or to the older man out walking with writer friend, Horatio Clare, in search of de Quincey in Everton.

10. Alcatraz, Auschwitz, Chernobyl…the appeal of dark tourism

    Is dark tourism just another fad in the age of the selfie and tick list travelling? Gillian O’Brien explains its appeal and gives it historical context.