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1. Milky Way research earns Parliament invite

   Early-career researcher Hannah Dalgleish was invited to Parliament after making a new discovery about the Milky Way.

2. Royal Astronomical Society award for ARI’s ‘virtual universes’

   Simulations of Space aid public and scientific understanding of science

3. New mental wellbeing peer support

   We have a new team in place to help support any member of staff with their mental wellbeing. The LJMU Connectors are on hand to provide peer support and make sure colleagues have access to the appropriate resources and services.

4. Liverpool ECHO Regional Business awards 2020

   The Liverpool ECHO is on the look-out for the very best of the business world as it launches the Regional Business Awards 2020.

5. The Cost of Violence on Merseyside report - Public Health Institute

   Landmark study finds serious violence costs £185m to region

6. Our ancient relative who “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape”

   New fossils are the missing link that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans

7. LJMU academic shaping solutions to tackle climate concerns across the construction industry

   Dr Ana Bras has been nominated as chair of an international committee looking to find solutions to climate challenges across the whole chain of construction.

8. Professorship conferred on Vice-Chancellor

   Mark Power, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University, has been conferred as a Professor of Higher Education Leadership.

9. Benefits of Collaborative Online International Learning

   Students improved employability skills through COIL project

10. This time last year LJMU student and now graduate Nathan Bickerton, went viral

    He was offered a job just fifteen minutes after creating a Wikipedia page and tweeting The Diary of a CEO host and BBC Dragon, Steven Bartlett. Here he tells us about the whirlwind of a year he's had, what his LJMU undergraduate and postgraduate degrees taught him, and his own tips for how to stand out from the crowd in the job market.