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1. Reportable Events Policy update

   Amendments are in line with the latest Office for Students (OfS) guidance.

2. Student teachers learn together with families seeking asylum in Toxteth

   A group of student teachers are working with families seeking asylum in Liverpool to provide education sessions for children without a place at school.

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. Open Research Week 2022

   Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Liverpool and Edge Hill University libraries are delighted to announce our programme for Open Research Week 2022, taking place from 14th-17th February 2022. There are 8 events over 4 days. All will take place over Microsoft Teams and each session can be booked individually. All events will be recorded; if you are unable to attend but are interested in the content, please sign up and the recording will be sent out to you in due course.

5. Provide peer-to-peer wellbeing support

   LJMU Connectors provide peer-to-peer mental wellbeing support to colleagues, at a local level, across the university.

6. New Staff Gardening Group

   The School of Biological & Environmental Sciences has been working on a project to improve Byrom Street Campus with 10 urban wildlife gardens.

7. Time to be inventive on woodland climate threat - researcher

   Natural England expert Sarah Dalrymple welcomes assisted migration of trees

8. LJMU encourages researchers to deposit data in university repository

   The researcher engagement team are committed to open science and data management by working with researchers to deposit their data in the LJMU Data Repository. These ongoing efforts enhance data accessibility, reproducibility, and transparency in research.

9. Do you have a UPF diet?

   Study at LJMU and University of Liverpool assesses public awareness of ultra-processed foods and their risks

10. UKRI open access monograph funding changes

    A reminder that UKRI has recently announced their guidance and requirements with regards to publishing open access monographs, which come into place from 1 January 2024.