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1. January Media Highlights

   LJMU knowledge and expertise hit the headlines in January with stories and commentary in New Scientist, The Independent, BBC News 24, The Liverpool Echo, BBC 5 Live and more.

2. LJMU goes extra mile for 'hard to reach' students

   Liverpool John Moores University is going the extra mile to support youngsters at risk of missing out on a university education due to the COVID pandemic.

3. LJMU hosts climate summit for businesses

   How businesses and students can help the Liverpool City Region become carbon net zero was the key theme of a summit hosted by LJMU.

4. LJMU postgraduate Sport Psychology programme first of only three in country to gain BASES accreditation

   The School of Sport & Exercise Sciences at LJMU is one of only three universities to have its MSc Sport Psychology course accredited by professional body, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).

5. Women expose themselves when calling out sexual aggression

   A NEW study into unwanted sexual attention in bars and clubs has found that men use two key aggression tactics.

6. Nanotech to lengthen life-span of electric vehicles

   Electric vehicles (EVs) are an important part of meeting global goals on climate change, but with more than half of their emissions coming in the manufacturing phase, product duration is key to ensuring EVs remain low-carbon emitters.

7. Liverpool Short Film Festival attracts massive interest

   Student organised festival receives 3,000 films from 15 countries

8. Our ancient relative who “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape”

   New fossils are the missing link that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans

9. Researchers back NHS-Police domestic abuse partnership

   Victims engaging with prosecutions triples, say researchers

10. Microplastic pollution threatens hermit crab populations

    New research from Queens University Belfast and Liverpool John Moores University reveals how the microplastic pollution crisis is threatening biodiversity.