January Media Highlights
LJMU knowledge and expertise hit the headlines in January with stories and commentary in New Scientist, The Independent, BBC News 24, The Liverpool Echo, BBC 5 Live and more.
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British Academy backs research into COVID policing
Following the tragic killing of George Floyd in America, questions of police legitimacy and police malpractice are being debated internationally.
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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.
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Can supermarket trolleys help cut risk of stroke? - trials underway
Shopping trolleys will be used to help save people from suffering a stroke by identifying irregular heartbeats, as part of a new medical trial.
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Cosmic explosions offer new clue to how stars become Black Holes
Scientists have witnessed for the first time exactly what happens to the most massive stars at the end of their lives.
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The cosmic commute towards star and planet formation
The flow of gas in the Universe by which stars and planets are formed is a process controlled by a cascade of matter that begins on galactic scales.
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Alumni return to Liverpool Screen School with top TV production company
Three LJMU Screen School alumni recently visited current film studies students to share their experience of working in TV and film production.
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Liverpool John Moores University signs up to NW’s £54m ‘Hollywood’ plan
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has been confirmed as the education partner at the much-anticipated Littlewoods Film and TV Studios being developed in the city by CAPITAL&CENTRIC with Liverpool City Council.
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This time last year LJMU student and now graduate Nathan Bickerton, went viral
He was offered a job just fifteen minutes after creating a Wikipedia page and tweeting The Diary of a CEO host and BBC Dragon, Steven Bartlett. Here he tells us about the whirlwind of a year he's had, what his LJMU undergraduate and postgraduate degrees taught him, and his own tips for how to stand out from the crowd in the job market.
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The life of a primatologist
Meet LJMU primate specialist and lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Dr Alex Piel. He talks about his research on chimpanzees and what they tell us about our own history.