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1. Cancer Café: Supporting someone during and after cancer treatment

   Meet the new LJMU Cancer Support Ambassador Network at this Cancer Café session.

2. Cancer Café: Guest Speaker from Teenage Cancer Trust (plus Feb Fun Swap)

   Have a cuppa, chat with the Cancer Support Ambassadors, and join our Feb Fun Swap in SLB 203, followed by a talk from Teenage Cancer Trust.

3. MA Education and Social Justice Discovery Webinar - 10th December

   Find out about our MA Education and Social Justice recruiting students in September 2025 from the Programme Leaders, Dr Sana Rizvi and Dr Angie Daly during this free online event taking place on Thursday 10th December from 4:00pm.

4. MA Education and Social Justice Discovery Event - online

   Find out about our MA Education and Social Justice recruiting students in September 2025 from the Programme Leaders, Dr Sana Rizvi and Dr Angie Daly during this free online event taking place on Thursday 8th May from 4:30pm.

5. MA Education and Social Justice Discovery Event - online

   Find out about our MA Education and Social Justice recruiting students in September 2025 from the Programme Leaders, Dr Sana Rizvi and Dr Angie Daly during this free online event taking place on Thursday 12th June from 4:30pm.

6. RCBB Research Talk - Martina Giancane (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)

   In this RCBB Research Talk Martina Giancane (Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa) will present her current research under the title "Engineering emotional touch: Decoding emotional tactile communication in human-robot interaction".

7. Gang culture appeals to disenfranchised young people – but ‘social mixing’ offers a way out

   Over the past ten years, violence among young people involved in gangs has claimed hundreds of lives and dominated national debate in the UK.

8. Knife crime and gangs: how a decade of bad policy left deprived young people without real choice

   England’s dramatic rise in gang-related knife crime has been called a “disease” by the UK home secretary, Sajid Javid, and amid the daily drama of Brexit the prime minister, Theresa May, has called a summit of 100 experts to Downing Street to discuss the issue.

9. Prehistoric people started to spread domesticated bananas across the world 6,000 years ago

   One of the most widely grown, traded and eaten of all the crops, bananas were once a prized exotic novelty, but are now a staple in many country’s supermarkets – Prof Chris Hunt and Dr Rathnasiri Premathilake investigate

10. Trans Awareness Week and Trans Day of Remembrance

    As Transgender Awareness Week begins (13 -19th November) and ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance (20 November), Dr Bee Hughes (they/them/theirs), LJMU Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication and Co-Chair of LJMU Together LGBT+ Staff Network looks at the local, national and international picture when it comes to trans awareness and allyship in 2021.