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1. Liverpool’s key position in creating more active and healthy communities across the Globe

   A worldwide network of active cities is set to expand following a knowledge-sharing event attended by ten different countries.

2. Bonobos share and share alike

   Bonobos are willing to share meat with animals outside their own family groups. This behaviour was observed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is documented in a new study in Springer’s journal Human Nature

3. Masters level degree apprenticeship students balance work and study to become more effective managers

   Masters level degree apprenticeship students balance work and study to become more effective managers

4. Top study spots for LJMU students

   With exams just around the corner, third year journalism student, Ryan Everett has rounded up his favourite spots on campus, and around the city, to revise.

5. Metro Mayor launches Centre for Educational Leadership

   Steve Rotheram says LJMU's support for schools will be a beacon for country

6. A timely reflection on Liverpool and our lives

   At a time when COVID 19 has made people fearful, isolated or alone, Jeff Youngs new book, Ghost Town, offers not only a fascinating read but also a reflection on all those things that are important to us, our families, friends and communities. Its a deeply felt and beautifully written journey through Jeffs Liverpool childhood, the adult writer stalking Liverpool alone or with friends, searching for a past lost, regained, remembered so viscerally that the reader feels intimately connected to the child Jeff longing to leave the hospital where hes had his tonsils removed or to the older man out walking with writer friend, Horatio Clare, in search of de Quincey in Everton.

7. Liverpool Short Film Festival attracts massive interest

   Student organised festival receives 3,000 films from 15 countries

8. What the pandemic taught me 2 - LJMU Together

   Your reflections on our pandemic year

9. Melissa crowned Pulp Idol for teen pregnancy novel

   UP-and-coming novelist Melissa Grindon hailed LJMU's writing community after being crowned Pulp Idol by Liverpool literary organisation, Writing on the Wall.

10. Ancient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets

    A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research.