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1. Your new Academic Board members

   Following the call for nominations for five vacancies on our Academic Board, the Secretariat is pleased to announce that they have filled the positions.

2. New LJMU intranet launched

   Staff and student homepages get new look and feel with improvements in access to news, announcements and quick links

3. Volunteer opportunities with Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

   Student volunteers to collect for the charity over the Remembrance period - now until 11 November.

4. The Conversation: Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates – here’s why

   Evolutionary biologists Dr Laura Buck and Dr Kyoko Yamaguchi write in The Conversation on how human species (hominins) have coped with cold climates over the millennia.

5. From cardiology to couplets

   MA Writing alumnus, consultant paediatric cardiologist and Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine winner, Denise Bundred is looking forward to the publication of her pamphlet, Litany of a Cardiologist.

6. How best to tackle health inequalities?

   Public Health Institute report identifies areas of effective and ineffective intervention

7. Researcher's interview coup with fugitive CEO

   Carlos Ghosn provides exclusive testimony for management paper

8. Ramadan Kareem to all our students and staff

   Ramandan begins this week but what 's its importance for practicing Muslims? Plus inclusive guidance to follow to support students and colleagues

9. 'Covid-19 gave us all a little insight into what it is like to “lose time'

   VC's Award for Excellence in Research winner Dr Ruth Ogden talks about her work at LJMU

10. Thinking about how to spend the summer?

    As the assessment period draws to a close, for most of our students this month and teaching finishes for the academic year, here are four ways to spend your summer.