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1. Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

   World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 2022

2. LJMU network for women in football

   Liverpool John Moores University is establishing a brand new network to connect and provide greater opportunities for women in football.

3. World Walking Day 2021

   Its #WorldWalkingDay this weekend (3 October) and in partnership with The Association For International Sport for All (TAFISA), LJMU are encouraging our community to get walking! 

4. Sport coaching expertise goes international in Malta

   International specialists in the field of sport coaching at LJMU visited Malta earlier this month as they delivered face-to-face teaching components of the inaugural postgraduate programme.

5. Encouraging more girls to become involved in biomechanics

   In celebration of National Biomechanics Day 2023 (Wednesday 5 April), the Biomechanics Research Group within LJMU’s School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, delivered an exciting, fun-filled, activity packed event with schoolgirls from a Liverpool primary school.

6. Research aims to better connect disabled children with local sport

   LJMU researchers in sport science hope to make a difference to the lives of children with learning disabilities through their Movement Matters community research project.

7. School of Sport and Exercise Sciences celebrates long standing partnership with Everton

   Staff and students past and present gathered at Goodison Park as Everton's Academy Sport Science department hosted an event to celebrate an internship programme run in partnership with The Football Exchange, part of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University.

8. Exercise maintains 'rhythm of life'

   Exercising at a regular time of day may help to ward off mental health conditions by protecting the body's natural circadian rhythms, research suggests.

9. Sport and Exercise science awarded Royal Charter

   LJMU academics contribute much to the success of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

10. World Menopause Day: "We need to stop hiding what is a totally natural part of our lives"

    On World Menopause Day, LJMU's Mel Jones, a researcher development adviser and menopausal woman, talks about her experience ...