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1. A new treatment for eating disorders: trials on Merseyside

   Neuroscience backs training your brain to aid recovery

2. Developing your leadership and management skills

   A new suite of workshops and support has been launched to help you develop your leadership and management skills.

3. Generation X hardest hit as drug deaths rise yet again in England and Wales

   Record deaths but many drugs not even included in figures.

4. Astrophysicist Renske Smit reacts to seeing 'furthest corner of known Universe'.

   International analysis of images from James Webb telescope confirm galaxies sighted 13.4 billion light years distant

5. Size really does matter! Professor Satya Sarker talks nanomedicine.

   Professor Satya Sarker, Director of the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, has published a new book on nanomedicine. We asked him about advances in this exciting field of science which actually dates back to Asia, 2,500 years ago.

6. Staff networks explored, explained and celebrated

   Staff recently came together to celebrate the power of staff networks in the workplace and to mark the launch of the Admin and PA Staff Network.

7. Study tempers hopes of 'voice assistant' retail boom

   Millions of consumers could end up giving shopping-with-Alexa a miss unless  retailers improve the buying experience, according to new research published this week by Liverpool Business School.

8. Women in STEM lecture series: Chi Onwurah MP

   In 1984, there were 14 per cent of female graduates in engineering and technology courses. In 2015, there was still only 14 per cent of female graduates in engineering courses. This sad statistic formed the basis of an impactful lecture by Chi Onwurah MP about the gender imbalance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology (STEM) subjects and subsequent careers.

9. LJMU astronomer helps uncover new object in famous galaxy

   A team of astronomers from the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory got a big surprise!

10. Major new study into impacts of COVID-19 on children

    A major study has been launched to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).