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1. Face Lab in running for Times Higher Awards

   Project to help identify migrant victims shortlisted for best UK research

2. Armed police and further cuts – Sir Jon Murphy’s Roscoe Lecture considers the future of policing

   Sir Jon Murphy delivers the 141st Roscoe Lecture, recounting his four-decade-long policing career.

3. Meet Renske Smit, latest researcher to join the Astrophysics Research Institute

   Dr Renske Smit will be joining the Astrophysics Research Institute as an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow. We caught up with her to find out more about achievements in astronomy and her plans for her time at LJMU.

4. Is it time to start rethinking endings in global health emergencies?

   The ‘After the End’ project aims to improve the way in which we end global health emergencies by critically examining how endings are determined and what happens after the end is declared.

5. Make healthier choices this October

   From Stoptober, to go sober for October, our HR team share some tips and ideas for making healthier choices.

6. Measuring Natural Capital

   The economic value of sustainability

7. Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology

   LJMU, WWF and HUTAN came together to examine better ways of detecting the great apes in the Bornean forest canopy, by using drones fitted with thermal-imaging cameras.

8. In memoriam: Professor John Somauroo

   It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Professor John Somauroo.

9. Costis to advise Public Health England on COVID impacts

   Costis Maganaris, of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, has been appointed a COVID-19 advisor to Public Health England.

10. Oar-some marathon rowing challenge

    Danny Cullinane, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, is attempting to row further than he has ever rowed before, by completing a marathon distance (42,195 metres) in aid of the charity True Athlete Project.