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1. Why our brains need touch

   An LJMU academic is leading a Neuroscience Group (SANG) that is revolutionising how we view the basic human sense of touch.

2. Analysis of alcohol detox centre shows savings to NHS

   Research examines impact of Rapid Access to Alcohol Detox Acute Referral (RADAR)

3. Are you a School Governor?

   Would you like LJMU to help in your school?

4. LJMU opening times over the winter break

   As semester one draws to a close and we get ready for the winter break, please see LJMU’s opening times for services and buildings below.

5. LJMU partnering in major police fatigue study

   The National Police Wellbeing Service has been awarded funding to conduct a study of their sleep fatigue and recovery biometrics programme in partnership with LJMU.

6. Working in partnership to deliver transgender workshop

   LJMU, in partnership with the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES), welcomed staff, students and community representatives to an engaging, interactive transgender workshop recently.

7. Healthcare framework proposed to improve health of ageing populations

   An LJMU researcher is part of an international team of researchers who have put forward a position statement, published in Science, which lays out a new healthcare framework to help ageing populations stay healthier for longer.

8. UK’s first dedicated housebuilding degree

   LJMU’s Department of Built Environment, in partnership with Redrow and Coleg Cambria, have established the UK’s first dedicated Housebuilding Degree.

9. How can Virtual Reality enhance student learning?

   Dr Alison Lui and Dr Peter Wolstencroft in the Faculty of Business and Law look at the issues after hosting the inaugural European Immersive Learning Network at LJMU

10. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

    For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.