COMPUTER GAMES


AND PALLIATIVE CARE Researchers from LJMU's Centre for Health and Social Care Informatics (CHaSCI) are working on a ground-breaking project at Alder Hey Hospital exploring the potential of computer games technology as a communication tool for children with palliative care needs. This is the first project to look at how computing and games technology can be used to help children's understanding and acceptance of their diagnosis and its implications. Importantly this approach is more attractive to older children for whom the traditional 'pretend play' approach is not suitable.


The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has brought all of its football research under the aegis of the Football Exchange, offering professional clubs and other organisations access to a host of internationally-acclaimed experts and consultancy services. Students too are benefiting thanks to enhanced placement opportunities and postgraduate research links. Few universities can compete with what the Football Exchange has to offer the football industry as its expertise embraces every aspect of the beautiful game, from the design of


football boots to FOOTBALL CRAZY


performance and match analysis, progression from youth to first team environments and culture and strategy.


LEADING THE WORLD IN ASTRONOMY


LJMU has made a breakthrough in international space research thanks to a new device named RINGO mounted on the Liverpool Telescope. The RINGO polarimeter – which shares its name with the famous Beatle, Ringo Starr – is a £30,000 scientific camera created by LJMU which, when combined with the University’s Liverpool Telescope, also designed by University experts – has enabled astrophysicists to solve the mystery of what powers the most powerful explosions in the Universe, Gamma Ray Bursts or GRBs. Professor Carole Mundell, Head of the GRB team, explains: “This breakthrough discovery is a perfect illustration of technological innovation on a small budget that has allowed us to lead the world and make a fundamental discovery in this competitive field.”


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