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1. Academic Registry Policy Update

   The Academic Board has recently approved an update to the Personal Circumstances Policy, as well as detailed supporting guidance for LJMU students and the Personal Circumstances Panel.

2. Strategies for survival

   Scientists uncover why inbreeding occurs in some social species.

3. Food outlet labelling could cut heart deaths - study

   Study in The Lancet models impact of government policy with more widespread 'calorie' labelling

4. Study dismisses hypothesized reduction in modern human brain size

   Paleoanthropologists warn against Holocene hypothesis

5. Women footballers losing out in sport science stakes

   Researcher and graduate discuss women's game on BBC World Service

6. Transatlantic research partnership in the arts

   LJMU’s School of Art and Design has agreed a five-year partnership with Transart Institute in New York City, which will see the two organisations offer a joint transdisciplinary doctoral programme from summer 2020. The aim of the programme is to create an exchange in research areas including contemporary art, art history, curating and exhibition studies, digital culture and technology.

7. $1 billion not enough to halt orangutan decline

   A new study shows that money is better spent on forest protection and law enforcement than rescue and rehabilitation

8. Special Collections and Archives on the BBC

   The Library's 19th century periodicals collection will be featured in an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip on Thursday 24th January. Presenter Martel Maxwell and expert James Braxton talked to Professor Brian Maidment before heading over to the School of Art & Design to be sketched by two graphic design students.

9. Graduation review: Thursday 14 July

   The penultimate day of LJMU's 2016 Summer Graduation Ceremonies took place at Liverpool Cathedral on Thursday 14 July.

10. Expressions of interest welcomed for multiple Academic Board vacancies

    The Secretariat is now seeking expressions of interest from eligible LJMU staff to serve on the Academic Board and to take up their roles in September.