Lightning Lunch Sessions 19th April till May 21st

Join LJMU for a series of lunchtime insights on current courses at Liverpool John Moores University. Each session is under 30 minutes and will focus on current discussions relating to the curriculum and new discoveries on the subject. Starting at either 12pm or 12:30pm, these short course insights will develop your understanding of university level study around your subject of choice.

Monday 19th April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Psychology: Why can some people cope with stress and others can’t?

Tuesday 20th April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Biology / Zoology: Understanding seafood: a biodiversity story behind your dinner plate

Wednesday 21st April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Public / Environmental Health: The Disease Detectives: John Snow and the Broad Street Pump

Thursday 22nd April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – History: The winds of change: the Suez Crisis and its impact

Monday 26th April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – History of Art and Museum Studies: The History of Paint; How artists have used paint over the centuries

Tuesday 27th April – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Biological Anthropology: What makes us human? The incredible journey of how we evolved from our primate ancestors

Tuesday 27th April - 12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions - International Relations and Politics: Who is Paddington? Representation in popular culture

Wednesday 28th April – 12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Media, Culture, Communication: The impact of Covid-19 on the Media, Cultural and Creative industries

Thursday 29th April – TBC
Lightning Lunch Sessions – English Literature

Thursday 29th April – 12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Business: The future of work and you

Wednesday 5th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Pharmaceutical Sciences: Pharmaceutical analysis-focus on IR spectroscopy

Thursday 6th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Criminology: Policing, gender and social order in the 21st century’

Tuesday 11th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Biology / Zoology: Studying animals without seeing them: the tiny fragments of DNA that can portray life in our oceans

Wednesday 12th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Creative Writing/English

Wednesday 12th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Nursing: Nursing on the frontline – a student nurse’s perspective on Nursing through a pandemic
Join us for this special Lightning Lunch Session to celebrate International Nurses Day

Wednesday 12th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Law: Ghosts in the Machine: what can the law do to help vulnerable people?

Thursday 13th May - 12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions - Computer Science: Emerging Technologies

Thursday 13th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Psychology: Drugs on the brain: why do we use drugs and why can’t we stop?

Friday 14th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – History: Thinking about American empire, at home and abroad, 1865 – 1975

Tuesday 18th May -12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions - Computer Science: Programming Languages

Wednesday 19th May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Drama

Thursday 20th May - 12pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions - Mathematics: How mathematics is improving human vision

Friday 21st May – 12:30pm
Lightning Lunch Sessions – Psychology: 10 minutes a day: Mindfulness meditation for positive mental health