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1. The Conversation: More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely

   Supply Chain expert Foteini Stavropoulou of Liverpool Business School analyses the impact of food aid operations in Gaza

2. LightNight 2018

   The LightNight festival, which takes place on Friday 18 May this year, promotes the city’s arts and cultural offer to people who may not usually engage with the arts.

3. LJMU appoints Julia Midgley as Bicentenary year Artist in Residence

   Julia has a long history of connections with the university and will record events throughout 2023 in documentary drawing and watercolour sketches.

4. Study shows monkey's emotions linked to genes

   Primatologists at LJMU and Chester find genetic variants which explain social attention and negative emotions

5. How the brain controls our sense of touch

   MRC Funded grant to offer most detailed insight yet

6. Cancer study is win-win for people and animals

   School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences wins PhD studentship from National Council for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research

7. Public Health Institute and Drama students create educational film on gang-related violence

   LJMU Drama students have joined forces with LJMUs Public Health Institute to create an educational film helping NHS staff deal with the consequences of gang-related violence in hospitals.

8. Student Spotlight: Abbie Romano

   The representations of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) roles is improving, but there’s work to be done. As of 2018, WISE Campaign (Women into Science and Engineering) announced that the UK is on track to have one million women working in the field by 2020. These statistics are encouraging, and demonstrate an improvement in opportunities shown to young women who pursue the career path.

9. International Conference on Mixed Methods Research (ICMMR 2019)

   Prof Padam Simkhada, Professor of International Public Health at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, delivered the keynote speech in the International Conference on Mixed Methods Research (ICMMR 2019) at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, India on Saturday 23rd February 2019. Professor Simkhada also gave an inaugural speech on the implications of mixed methods on health service research during the conference inauguration ceremony.

10. In memoriam: Professor David R. Burton

    It is with great sadness that the university has learned of the passing of Professor David R. Burton.