Doing a PhD in sport sciences
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, we asked some of the students who completed their PhDs with the Institute over the last 20 years to share their stories.
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How we can use light to fight bacteria
This research could provide an answer to some of the problems posed by antibiotic resistance
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Sport psychology students' field trip
Two Sport Psychology students share their experiences of their field trip to Manchester United training ground and the English Institute of Sport.
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Exam top tips
Business Studies student, Julia Harrison, shares her top tips in preparing for exams.
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Knife crime and gangs: how a decade of bad policy left deprived young people without real choice
England’s dramatic rise in gang-related knife crime has been called a “disease” by the UK home secretary, Sajid Javid, and amid the daily drama of Brexit the prime minister, Theresa May, has called a summit of 100 experts to Downing Street to discuss the issue.
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Clearing success stories
Students from LJMU share their Clearing success stories and highlight how it worked well for them.
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A trip to Clairefontaine
Sam Lee and Henry Ogden, BSc (Hons) Science and Football students, share their experiences of their trip to Clairefontaine, the training base for the French national team.
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A chimpanzee cultural collapse is underway, and it’s driven by humans
Chimpanzees now face the daunting task of surviving in a habitat increasingly infested and assaulted by humans. And as their populations decline, so does their behavioural variation. In short, humans are causing chimpanzee cultural collapse.
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My experience working with orangutans
MRes English student, Lindsay Wilkinson shares her insights into the orangutan volunteer project in Indonesian Borneo.
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The welcome rise and worrying fall in covert investigation
Covert techniques and specialist intelligence never appear to be far from the headlines - so why are they on the decline?