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1. IDEAS summer school

   Join our exclusive Innovation Development, Evaluation and Acceleration to Scale (I.D.E.A.S.) Programme Summer School and condense months of learning into six days.

2. See the four average faces of Merseysiders

   Revealing the average faces of Liverpool

3. Action for staff: update to Student Disability Declaration Process

   LJMU is updating its internal process so that students can declare a disability throughout the academic year. Action will be required from all staff who teach and support students.

4. 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.

5. Sea pollution explored in new podcast

   Academics at Leeds Beckett and Liverpool John Moores Universities are using sound - and the short stories of Merseyside writer, Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) - to bring to life the magnitude of plastic pollution in our seas.

6. A unique astronomical anniversary for the ARI: The Return of Comet Longmore

   Find out about how a comet discovered by an astronomer in the 1970s has been rediscovered by his son at LJMU over 40 years later

7. Pandemic exacerbated disadvantages faced by young people with special needs and disabilities

   Education, mental health, and social care downgraded or, in some cases, withdrawn altogether.

8. World Mental Health Day

   World Mental Health Day is observed annually on 10 October with the main objective of raising awareness of mental health issues and mobilising efforts in support of mental health.

9. Teaching student creates new braille for her visually-impaired pupils

   Enterprising Jade Smith, from St Helens on Merseyside, says the pre-braille method is already being used by youngsters in Liverpool, Lancashire, London, Wales and even in Missouri, in the US.

10. In memoriam: Caroline Aherne

    It is with great sadness that the University announces the death of former student Caroline Aherne at the age of 52.