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1. Updates from the Research Engagement Team September 2023

   Details of new workshops, guidance and templates to help researchers across LJMU.

2. The Conversation: Prison Food: what we learned from food-themed art workshops for women prisoners

   Erin Power, Research Fellow in Sociology and her collaborators discover how food impacts on identity, motivation and empowerment in women's prisons.

3. Understanding time may be the key to the race against climate change - Dr Ruth Ogden, reader in experimental psychology

   Dr Ruth Ogden, reader in experimental psychology, Liverpool John Moores University writes in The Conversation

4. Turning CSI to curb the illegal trade of wildlife

   Professor Stefano Mariani of Liverpool John Moores University leads study of forensic tools to identify illegal trade in marine species

5. Why algae is a forensic biologists best friend

   Dr Kirstie Scott explains how diatoms provide evidence in BBC cold case

6. Magnetic fields "central to creation of Milky Way"

   Study in Nature Astronomy tracks role of hidden force in star and planet formation and more

7. On the origins of heavy metals

   Astrophysics Research Institute experts part of MASA-led international study of massive gamma-ray burst which 'created' spectrum of heavy elements

8. Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate the Universe

   FLAMINGO project publishes results after two years of modelling evolution of the Universe

9. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

   For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.

10. Monocled Mutineer revisited

    Honorary Fellow Paul McGann returned to the University for a special public event, presented by the School of Humanities and Social Science and as part of the University’s Merseyside at War project, to commemorate the acclaimed BBC drama in which he starred, the Monocled Mutineer.