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1. Welcome to our new students joining us from September 2024

   Take a look through our Before You Arrive webpages and get ready for your studies.

2. Sexual fantasies: should you share them with a partner?

   Dr Jade Elliott, senior lecturer in psychology writes in The Conversation

3. Eurovision volunteers needed

   The volunteering programme has officially opened, giving people the chance to be at the heart of this iconic event taking place in Liverpool in May.

4. LJMU provides largest numbers of tutors in Merseyside

   LJMU students, paid £21 per hour to support local primary schools

5. The anatomy of our ancestors

   Forensic techniques by international scientists, led by LJMU’s Dr Matteo Borrini, have created the facial reconstruction of the oldest preserved mummy in the Egyptian Museum of Florence.

6. Free student transport to our Freshers Fair 2024

   Free coach travel to and from the event all day.

7. Congratulations to all our graduates in Colombo!

   International College of Business and Technology Graduation 2024

8. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

9. ‘Pest’ monkeys save palm oil industry millions

   MONKEYS save the palm oil industry hundreds of millions each year by killing damaging pests, according to researchers in Liverpool, UK.

10. Discoveries of faint galaxies using supernovae

    Tom Sedgwick, PhD student at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), part of LJMU,has with a team of ARI astronomers discovered 140 ‘new’galaxies, with findings due to be published in April’s edition of the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.