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  1. Paul Lewis CBE

    Read the full oration for Paul Lewis CBE on the Award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University.

  2. Rita Tushingham

    Read the oration for Rita Tushingham on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Frank Sanderson.

  3. Steve Williams

    Read the oration for Steve Williams on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Frank Sanderson.

  4. Phil Swash

    Read the oration for Phil Swash on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Frank Sanderson.

  5. Habi Ceesay

    Habi was born in the Gambia but spent most of her formative years in Germany before moving to the UK. She has overcome the obstacles and discrimination that she faced throughout her childhood and teenage years in Germany, to seek out her own opportunities, to educate herself and to work with others to challenge unconscious bias and promote inclusivity.

  6. Norman Thelwell (1923-2004)

    Norman is considered to be the most popular cartoonist in Britian since the Second World War and some regard him as the unofficial artist of the British countryside. As a graduate of the Liverpool College of Art, the forerunner to today’s Liverpool School of Art and Design, it was here that he undertook a course in illustration, one of the many ex-servicemen and women who joined the school after the war.

  7. Hannah Kate Whelan

    Hannah is an impressive LJMU alumni and former British gymnast turned coach and now mother. During her career she represented England and Great Britain at competitions including the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, British, European and World Championships, all while balancing her studies as a sports scholar.

  8. Lorraine Shaw

    Lorraine Shaw was the Subject Lead for Nursing in the School of Nursing and Allied Health from 2013 until her retirement in 2023. As a registered nurse since 1987, practising in a range of clinical areas, her ties with LJMU began in 1992 when she needed a degree to progress with her career and enrolled with LJMU while continuing to work full-time for the NHS, and later venturing into teaching and management.

  9. Professor Frank Sanderson

    Professor Frank Sanderson is one of the pioneering team that launched the sport science degree at Liverpool Polytechnic and was admissions tutor in September 1975 when the first students enrolled.

  10. John Goulding

    John is a PhD student with the School of Education. He is also ex-forces, having served with the RAF Police before leaving the military and beginning his own higher education journey. Alongside his studies, looking at research to support veterans, John is a student representative on our Armed Forces Steering Group.