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1. Rethinking the orangutan

   The critically endangered orangutan—one of human’s closet living relatives—has become a symbol of wild nature’s vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.

2. 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.

3. First Roscoe Lecture of the Bicentenary year given to hundreds at St George's Hall

   An audience of hundreds gave a rapturous response to the first Roscoe Lecture of LJMU's Bicentenary year, delivered by Professor Andy Newsam

4. Summer and graduate placement opportunities

   A great range of 200-hour part-time (20 hours per week over 10 weeks) and five-month full-time, paid student summer placements are currently available exclusively to LJMU students.

5. Civil engineers offer solution to Bangladesh's toxic construction industry

   A NOVEL brick made from industrial waste has the potential to make a positive environmental impact and create 'clean jobs' in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

6. Microbes, pollution and freshwater ecology in China

   Research to help inform water quality monitoring

7. Prehistoric predators kept large animals in check and shaped ecosystem

   Our prehistoric ancestors may have had large carnivores – giant lions, saber-tooth cats, bears and hyenas up to twice the size of their modern relatives – to thank for an abundance and diversity of plants and wildlife.

8. Isolation and detachment must be tackled says Governor of the Bank of England

   Read more about the Roscoe Lecture delivered by the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney where he made a startling appraisal of how globalisation is failing great swathes of society.

9. The Conversation: More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely

   Supply Chain expert Foteini Stavropoulou of Liverpool Business School analyses the impact of food aid operations in Gaza

10. 'Just commit' is final thought before Olympic race says LJMU Lecturer and medallist

    Ever wondered what goes on in an Olympic athlete’s mind just before the start of a race? Or what an Olympic athlete's training schedule looks like? We caught up with LJMU Sport and Exercise Sciences Lecturer and Women’s 4x400m Relay Olympic Bronze medallist, Kelly Massey, to find out.