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1. Lockdown 2.0: Is time flying towards Christmas?

   One in four of us have experienced time as moving faster or slower than normal since the COVID pandemic began.

2. Can supermarket trolleys help cut risk of stroke? - trials underway

   Shopping trolleys will be used to help save people from suffering a stroke by identifying irregular heartbeats, as part of a new medical trial.

3. Staff and students support Whitechapel Centre’s Christmas Appeal

   Whitechapel and LJMU are working together to bring some much needed comfort to homeless people during the forthcoming festive season.

4. 5G technology used in Liverpool

   Margot James, Minister for Digital and Culture, this week visited Europe’s first dedicated 5G health and social care pilot, helping people live independently at home.

5. Mainstreaming care provision in mental health support requires a shift in culture

   More than one-third of people with severe mental health problems (SMI) have a co-existing alcohol/drug condition: but the evidence base on which to build effective service models and responses is limited.

6. First cohort graduates from Leadership Skills programme

   Partnership tackles problem of 'accidental managers'

7. Award for pupil tackling homelessness in the city

   Read more about the Good Citizenship Award presented to Georgia Johnson in recognition of her fundraising and support for homeless people in Liverpool.

8. July is Disability Pride Month

   July marks the celebration of Disability Pride month. An opportunity to raise awareness and have positive conversations about disability in study and the workplace.

9. We know more about relationships now than we knew before 

   A collaboration with pupils and staff at St Vincent's school and funded by Children in Need Janette Porter and Kay Standing from Sociology, supported by LJMU placement students

10. COVID-19 creates huge spike for legal advice

    LJMU's free-to-public Legal Advice Centre to double capacity