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1. Footballers suffer higher risk of neurodegeneration - study

   Footballers who frequently head the ball may suffer from an increased risk of neurodegeneration, according to new research.

2. Building maintenance update

   We have entered a new partnership with an award-winning contractor to maintain your facilities across the university.

3. Staff online security training

   If you have not already completed your online security training for this quarter, you must do so as soon as possible.

4. 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

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. New hope for Borneo's orang-utans: conservation research

   LJMU professor researches orang-utan habitat.

7. Researchers back NHS-Police domestic abuse partnership

   Victims engaging with prosecutions triples, say researchers

8. Strategies for survival

   Scientists uncover why inbreeding occurs in some social species.

9. Reconstructing Ice Age environments

   A study into the feeding behaviour of two extinct European rhinoceros species has revealed an unexpected survival strategy for a mammalian family of the Ice Ages.

10. Life-saving research into Carbon Monoxide

    LJMU’s research into Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarm ownership and the levels of CO in homes has been included in the latest report produced by the All Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group.