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1. Jeff's biography on shortlist for Costa Prize

   Senior Lecturer Jeff Young has been shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Prize for his book Ghost Town, a Liverpool Shadowplay.

2. Happy Diwali!

   Diwali is an annual five-day festival of lights celebrated during the Hindu month of Kartika. In the spirit of celebration, let us all get involved with the brilliant array of events occurring during this period in Liverpool, in neighbouring cities and even virtually. Happy Diwali everyone!

3. Summer and graduate placement opportunities

   A great range of 200-hour part-time (20 hours per week over 10 weeks) and five-month full-time, paid student summer placements are currently available exclusively to LJMU students.

4. Could you apply for a VC PhD Studentship?

   Submissions are now open for the PHD VC Studentship scheme 2023/24

5. February is LGBT+ History Month

   This month marks LGBT+ History Month 2022, a chance to shine a light on the overlooked and complicated history of all of the identities and communities under the LGBT+ umbrella .

6. BBC's Rachel Burden trains her brain at LJMU

   Dr Samantha Brooks and Dr Davide Bruno help journalist improve her memory with psychology

7. Paid opportunities for students to be a part time school tutor

   Find out how graduate Ellie Cross became a paid tutor alongside her studies at LJMU and how you can too.

8. "Girls are good enough" – says LJMU student fighting for more women to enter STEM professions

   The UK's percentage of female engineers in the UK is far lower than other developed countries, according to a recent report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with women only making up a small fraction of the nation's engineering graduates.

9. Colleagues proudly support Liverpool Against Racism events

   LJMU staff members proudly supported sessions at the Liverpool Against Racism Conference this week, a day of conversation around systematic racism in society and a debate on what meaningful change really looks like.

10. Greg Whyte joins fellow LJMU experts to discuss the Birmingham Commonwealth Games

    With knowledge across a range of sport science disciplines, LJMU experts have gathered to discuss the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 in a new episode of the 1823 Podcast.