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1. Legal Advice Centre launches Windrush 'justice' scheme

   LJMU School of Law teams up with Liverpool Advocates for Windrush to improve access to legal redress

2. In memoriam: John Windle

   We are saddened to learn of the death of our former colleague, John Windle.

3. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

4. Reconstructing Ice Age environments

   A study into the feeding behaviour of two extinct European rhinoceros species has revealed an unexpected survival strategy for a mammalian family of the Ice Ages.

5. Transformative criminological research celebrated at FACT 20th anniversary

   Dr Emma Murray, a Reader in Military Veteran Studies, has been collaborating with FACT since 2014 and in 2019 became FACT’s Criminologist-in-Residence.

6. Baroness Amos discusses challenges of the UN

   Baroness Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, delivered a Roscoe Lecture entitled ‘The role of the United Nations in a world riven by conflict, poverty and hunger.’

7. Is this the world's oldest oven?

   Archaeologists have unearthed baked bread and food remains from 70,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave in Iraq and published the study of early culinary skills in the journal Antiquity.

8. Career Development Programme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff

   LJMU launches new 'Nia' scheme

9. Lord Field of Birkenhead

   The university is saddened to learn of the death of our honorary fellow, Frank Field.

10. Vegan-based biomaterials developed to support eco-friendly crop management

    New vegan-based biomaterials could be used instead of chemical products and pesticides to help farmers manage their crops in a more eco-friendly and sustainable way, according to new research.