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1. 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

2. Graduation review: Friday 12 July 2019

   As graduation week ended, the final graduands of July 2019 arrived at Liverpool Cathedral with their friends and families to receive their awards.

3. Launch of Women’s Professional Services Staff Network 

   LJMUs newest staff network has launched this February with over 70 attendees from across Professional Services attending the event online. 

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. Professorship conferred on Vice-Chancellor

   Mark Power, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University, has been conferred as a Professor of Higher Education Leadership.

6. Staff dental plan

   An opt-in period is now open for a staff dental plan.

7. Black Lives Matter

   On the 12-month anniversary of the death of George Floyd, LJMU has restated its commitment to change and respond to the needs of people of colour.

8. Sport science programmes promote greater diversity

   "We have a chicken and egg situation, which is unsustainable"

9. Anthropologists play down links between modern humans and Denisovans

   An anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University and other researchers have played down links between modern Asian physiology and a recently discovered early human species, Denisova hominins.

10. Alumni return to Liverpool Screen School with top TV production company

    Three LJMU Screen School alumni recently visited current film studies students to share their experience of working in TV and film production.