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1. Green app can help save £100 a month in travel costs

   Liverpool City Region residents could save up to £100 each month by swapping car journeys for bike rides or walks according to data from a new mobile app being launched this week.

2. Alcatraz, Auschwitz, Chernobyl…the appeal of dark tourism

   Is dark tourism just another fad in the age of the selfie and tick list travelling? Gillian O’Brien explains its appeal and gives it historical context.

3. Royal Astronomical Society award for ARI’s ‘virtual universes’

   Simulations of Space aid public and scientific understanding of science

4. LJMU donates microscopes for African youngsters

   A project is underway to ship LJMU microscopes to Africa.

5. Could you be the EDI rep for your faculty or Professional Services?

   LJMU has created five Associate Dean positions across the faculties and one for Professional Services to support the university in driving forward the EDI agenda.

6. Policing degrees meet standards of Quality Assurance Agency

   Professionalisation of policing "good for recruits and society"

7. 'Policing' put on equal standing with traditional academic subjects

   Quality Assurance Agency set out standards for degrees for police trainees

8. Anthropologists play down links between modern humans and Denisovans

   An anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University and other researchers have played down links between modern Asian physiology and a recently discovered early human species, Denisova hominins.

9. Smart meter data could help identify dementia

   Energy use patterns from smart meter data could be used to help identify whether people are suffering from conditions such as dementia and depression, computer scientists have shown.

10. Graduation review: Wednesday 20 November 2019

    Here are some highlights of what happened at the first two graduation ceremonies of the week.