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1. Study into life-long impact of child abuse wins national acclaim

   Office of National Statistics Award for LJMU and Public Health Wales

2. Women footballers losing out in sport science stakes

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

3. New LJMU professors and readers

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

4. In the footsteps of giants: Can dinosaur tracks tell us as much as fossils and bones?

   Dr Peter Falkingham to lead major ERC study into fossilised footprints and dinosaur evolution

5. Exclusive to LJMU – part-time or summer student internships and graduate placements available now

   An exciting range of part-time or summer internships are available for current students to apply for now, along with a host of graduate placements for LJMU graduates who left the University from 2020 onwards.

6. Cave bears may have been adapting to survive the ice age

   Recent research published in Quaternary Science Reviews on the long extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) has found their attempt to adapt to the growing harshness of the last ice age before their extinction.

7. Weight management programme 90% effective in tackling childhood obesity

   Results of LJMU GOALS programme.

8. Massive star discoveries

   The evolution of the energies of the Universe

9. Taking the city under water

   Unexpected biodiversity at Liverpool's Albert Dock

10. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

    An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.