Image credit: © Ian Jones 2026. I’m incredibly proud to share that Face Lab , the MA Art in Science programme , and Liverpool John Moores University have been awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education  (formerly the Queen’s Anniversary Prize) . The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education recognises outstanding excellence and innovation in education and research across the UK. It celebrates institutions whose work has made a significant national and internationa

Are you aware that many medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, or know how to make a herbarium sheet; a historical record and a reference tool to study and identify plants, providing information on biodiversity, taxonomy, and evolution?  For the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool, LJMU Postgraduate Researcher and VC Scholarship recipient, Samantha Cooper, aka ‘Mindful Garden ’  delivered three interactive "Medicinal and Mindful" workshops linked to her PhD resear

The World Museum's botany collection contains a vast number of botanical items that often go unnoticed by the public. It is estimated...

As part of my research, I booked a visit to the Herbarium and Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as a...