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1. Elite sport stars deliver guest lectures

   The guest lecturers included Premier league football coach Mike Phelan and England International netball player Sara Bayman.

2. LJMU submits 600 academics to Research Excellence Framework 2021

   On March 25, the University hands over its best research to the 2021 Research Exercise Framework, the REF. With more than 600 academics put forward and dozens more colleagues behind the scenes, the REF is arguably the largest project undertaken by the university community.

3. Is this the world's oldest oven?

   Archaeologists have unearthed baked bread and food remains from 70,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave in Iraq and published the study of early culinary skills in the journal Antiquity.

4. International Women's Day

   International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th every year; it is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights.

5. The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests – so is the theory broken?

   Ian G McCarthy, Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University writes for The Conversation's Cosmology in Crisis series.

6. Global impact for publication on lack of exercise under ‘lockdown’

   Research which highlights changes to the human body during lockdown and other sedentary situations is having a huge impact among scientists worldwide.

7. Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey

   LJMU has opened the national Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) for level 7 students.

8. Photo ID – Did it impact on voter rights in Liverpool?

   Early research by Dr Ben Stanford, LJMU School of Law, suggests Government changes could be significant

9. Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology

   LJMU, WWF and HUTAN came together to examine better ways of detecting the great apes in the Bornean forest canopy, by using drones fitted with thermal-imaging cameras.

10. Liverpool announced as one of the cheapest cities for students to live

    According to new research, on behalf of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Portsmouth, Liverpool and Newcastle respectively all landed in the top three in the Student Living Index. The research takes into account the everyday cost of living and accommodation costs.