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1. Staff update on Freshers activities 2023

   LJMU and JMSU are gearing up for another action-packed Freshers period, here's some of the key things to expect.

2. Finance policy updates

   The University Financial Regulations and other supporting policies have received important updates. Read the latest from Finance Director Hannah Argo.

3. Five things for our new students to do before they arrive

   As more students confirm their places at LJMU and we prepare for clearing, here’s five essential things we’ll be encouraging our new students to do as soon as possible.

4. Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate the Universe

   FLAMINGO project publishes results after two years of modelling evolution of the Universe

5. Professorship and Readership Conferment: Call for submissions

   Each year applications are invited for the conferment of Professorships and Readerships and the process for 2021 is now open

6. Research captures longstanding NI tradition

   A published collection of Northern Ireland’s murals, which captures a longstanding tradition of large community-based mural painting, has been produced by LJMU’s Dr Stuart Borthwick.

7. Research Investment

   LJMU in top ten universities funded by HEFCE.

8. Why our brains need touch

   An LJMU academic is leading a Neuroscience Group (SANG) that is revolutionising how we view the basic human sense of touch.

9. Supporting Science and Engineering Innovation

   LJMU has received a £5 million share of HEFCE’s £200 million funding scheme to support an increase in high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students.

10. 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.