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1. We know more about relationships now than we knew before 

   A collaboration with pupils and staff at St Vincent's school and funded by Children in Need Janette Porter and Kay Standing from Sociology, supported by LJMU placement students

2. Ancient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets

   A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research.

3. Sport scientists on how we'll exercise post lockdown

   As gyms reopened their doors this week, two of LJMU's sport and exercise scientists shared their views with LJMU Corporate Comms and with The Times newspaper.

4. Microplastics ‘abundant’ in remote polar seas

   There are similar concentrations of microplastic pollution on the seabed in Antarctica as in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, scientists have found.

5. Graduation review: Wednesday 10 July

   Students from Liverpool Screen School, the School of Law, Liverpool School of Art and Design and the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies received their awards.

6. Bomb squad training for Forensics students!

   Royal Logistics Corps' first visit to a UK campus

7. Sport science students make an impact with nearly 15,000 hours of placements

   From community sports clubs that support people with special educational needs to premier league football clubs, 173 students have undertaken 14,730 hours of work-based placements this academic year.

8. What should our future support for students look like?

   Much-anticipated Students at the Heart Conference runs 15 & 16 June

9. Royal Society funds LJMU partnership with schoolgirl ‘researchers’

   Go-getting school girls hope to springboard into top science careers by undertaking their own research with Liverpool John Moores University.

10. Research: Virtual reality proves violence breeds violence

    Simulation predicts history of violence in certain individuals