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1. LightNight 2017 a shining success

   This year’s event on Friday 19 May proved to be the best yet!

2. Graduation review Thursday 12 July

   The morning saw graduations from Maritime and Mechanical Engineering, the Astrophysics Research Institute, Electronics and Electrical Engineering and the School of Nursing and Allied Health. In the afternoon Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Research Institute, Civil Engineering and Built Environment all celebrated their graduations.

3. International curriculum handbook to enhance teaching of technology education

   Dr Matt McLain, a Senior Lecturer in Education and Professional Learning in the School of Education has co-edited the Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education, a forward thinking new text that brings together international perspectives to enhance technology teaching.

4. LJMU launches 'eco houses' to help reduce carbon emissions from UK housing stock

   First purpose-built, multi-unit housing test facility in the North will be used by innovation and construction SMEs to address sustainability challenges of homes built over the last 100 years.

5. 'Deviant entrepreneurship' in Merseyside street gangs

   We talk to Dr Robert Hesketh from the School of Justice Studies about his research into drug dealing as a substitute for employment in Merseyside street gangs.

6. Celebrating 40 years of Sports Science

   LJMU at the forefront of sporting innovation and development since 1975.

7. World Sleep Day

   World Sleep Day takes place on Friday 17 March

8. Exercise training won’t show on scales but will improve health

   Using scales to see if your two months of exercising has paid off might sound like a simple and logical step but LJMU Professors Thijssen and Green say it’s likely your scales will deliver a disappointing message.

9. Graduation review: Friday 14 July 2017

   Find out more about the last day day of LJMU's 2017 Summer Graduation Ceremonies that were held at Liverpool Cathedral on Friday 14 July.

10. New animation brings ‘the Greatest Scot of all time’ Robert Burns back to life

    The team at LJMU Face Lab have created a ground-breaking new animated facial reconstruction of Robert Burns.