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1. Making Every Contact Count staff training: September to December

   Book onto the mental health and wellbeing training now.

2. Health, safety and environmental management code of practice updates

   The Executive Leadership Team (ELT) has recently approved a new health and safety code of practice as well as amendments to a further 11 policies.

3. New LJMU professors and readers

   LJMU has confirmed a number of new professors and readers following a rigorous process.

4. Searching for Kuwaiti War dead

   LJMU's Forensic team add knowhow to nation's search for last resting places of soldiers

5. New workplace milk initiative

   Staff can now order milk through Catering Services for their team to collect once a week.

6. Menopause cafes throughout 2024

   This year we will once again host four menopause cafes for our staff, with the first taking place on Tuesday 16 January, and anyone wishing to attend can book via the staff wellbeing events page.

7. Start-up funding opportunity for new student businesses

   The LJMU Start-up Hub is excited to announce that the new Bathgate Boost award is now open! The £500 award is designed to support students who can demonstrate their business idea. Sitting alongside this funding is a package of support from the Start-up Hub team built around developing your start-up and skills as an entrepreneur. The award is open to all current LJMU students and new alumni who graduated from LJMU during 2023.

8. Memory offers new clues to onset of dementia

   People dying with Alzheimer's 11% down on memory tests taken years earlier

9. Presenting the past to the public

   Research at LJMU is working on ways of presenting the past and creating content for historic sites and museums across Ireland and the rest of the globe.

10. Staff and students support Whitechapel Centre’s Christmas Appeal

    Whitechapel and LJMU are working together to bring some much needed comfort to homeless people during the forthcoming festive season.