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1. Our Technician Commitment

   LJMU has backed a national pledge to support technicians working at the University

2. 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.

3. Liverpool Short Film Festival attracts massive interest

   Student organised festival receives 3,000 films from 15 countries

4. Acclimate athletes for exercise challenges

   Sport Scientists use environmental chambers to train competitors

5. Mainstreaming care provision in mental health support requires a shift in culture

   More than one-third of people with severe mental health problems (SMI) have a co-existing alcohol/drug condition: but the evidence base on which to build effective service models and responses is limited.

6. Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology

   LJMU, WWF and HUTAN came together to examine better ways of detecting the great apes in the Bornean forest canopy, by using drones fitted with thermal-imaging cameras.

7. ICC academic awarded AHRC Leadership Fellowship

   The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded Kerry Wilson, Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital, a mid-career Leadership Fellowship

8. Liverpool FC Women rise to the top with an assist from LJMU

   Liverpool FC Women clinched the title of the FA Women's Championship and promotion earlier this month, thanks in part to the help of backroom sport science experts from LJMU.

9. Care experienced girls and young women still at risk of unnecessary criminalisation

   Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today (Weds 4 May 2022). And the study adds that moves to prevent the criminalisation of girls in care need to be high on the agenda for change.

10. Maritime law lecturer named in top 100 list of women in shipping

    Anna Kaparaki, a lecturer in maritime law with LJMU, has been named in the list for the fifth consecutive year.