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1. Industry trip wins Data Science students €25,000

   Young research students who won a major European data science competition have shared a prize of 50,000!

2. Research Data Repository has a fresh new look and search functions

   You can now search by year, division, field of research, author, data type and funder.

3. Privacy and security survey

   To better understand how much we all know about data protection matters, a short staff survey has been put together.

4. Individuals ‘can be profiled’ via Virtual Reality platforms

   Study by psychologists raises ethical questions about data capture

5. Staff Infobase update protecting your bank details

   Did you know that you can add additional security around viewing and changing your bank details in Staff Infobase?

6. Research: Virtual reality proves violence breeds violence

   Simulation predicts history of violence in certain individuals

7. Major study of Cold War waste finds uranium 'largely inert'

   The threat to the environment posed by uranium left over from the Cold War may be less severe than feared, according to a field study led by Liverpool John Moores University.

8. Password protection: keeping it simple

   Keeping our digital data safe is serious. All students and staff should look after their data and privacy online. Strong passwords are an essential defence against unauthorised access to your online accounts. Creating a strong, long, complex password will reduce the potential for a cybercriminal to access your data.

9. Tyrannosaurus or Hadrosaur: How well can AI identify dinosaur footprints?

   Artificial intelligence comes out on top in machine v human challenge to identify fossil dinosaur tracks

10. Joint staff and student project wins digital privacy award

    LJMU has won an award at the PICCASO Privacy Awards Europe 2023 for a Privacy and Digital Security project created by staff and students.