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1. What Eurovision win means for Liverpool economy - expert analysis

   Dr Jan Brown of Liverpool Business School looks at how hosting Eurovision next year could impact the city's economy

2. LJMU announced as Principal Sponsor of LightNight

   LJMU is this year’s Principal Sponsor of LightNight, Liverpool’s one-night arts and culture festival, which last year attracted over 50,000 visitors.

3. Liverpool John Moores University celebrates a week’s worth of Graduations

   Liverpool John Moores University is celebrating after a wonderful week of graduation ceremonies at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, in which more than 4,000 students graduated across 18 ceremonies, including 96 members of staff.

4. English student gets his John Barnes rap on BT Sport

   Football legend inspires verse for Black History Month

5. Join us in celebrating South Asian Heritage Month and beyond

   Save the date! July to August is South Asian Heritage Month with East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month beginning in September, come along to the event at LJMU

6. European Grant to help our understanding of how galaxies form

   Professor Nate Bastian, Head of Research at the Astrophysics Research Institute and Royal Society University Research Fellow, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.

7. Move more and sit less to improve health and productivity

   Encouraging desk-based staff to move more and sit less at work can not only improve their health, but also their work performance, was the advice from the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES), at a forum for contact centre employees.

8. REF 2021 Consideration for Individual Circumstances

   As part of the University’s commitment to supporting equality and diversity in the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), we have put in place safe and supportive structures for eligible academic staff to declare information about any equality-related circumstances that may have affected their ability to research productively during the assessment period (1 January 2014 – 31 December 2020), and particularly their ability to produce research outputs at the same rate as staff not affected by circumstances.

9. LJMU appoints global figure to lead research and innovation in health

   Director of Public Health Wales Professor Mark Bellis returns to Liverpool institution.

10. Literacy programme supports Filipino community during pandemic and beyond

    Senior Education Lecturer Dr Judith Enriquez has helped the community of Alapasco in the Philippines to continue to develop their literacy skills despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.