Search the LJMU website

1. National showcase for world class conservation research

   The making of Conservation AI told on film by funding body the Science & Technology Facilities Council

2. LJMU wins funding for 200 new Degree Apprenticeships under Government initiative

   LJMU will be opening its doors to an extra 200 new employer-supported Degree Apprentices in September 2017, after being only one of 18 universities to secure part of a multimillion pound Government fund.

3. One of only eight universities to secure prestigious international funding

   LJMU has been awarded approximately £490,000 from Research England’s first ever International Investment Initiative (I3). The award has been jointly made to LJMU and The University of Western Australia (UWA) for the international collaboration project, i-CARDIO. The project has a dual focus; the first component is the delivery of workshops to develop innovative ways to detect cardiovascular diseases for preventative intervention using imaging techniques. The second element is the evaluation of Australia’s model of accreditation of clinical exercise scientists and physiologists. The accreditation incorporates university and work place-based learning to enable graduates to secure roles in the healthcare system as recognised allied health professionals.

4. Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate the Universe

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

5. Voice Acting Scholarships

   Voquent.com are a multilingual voice acting agency based in London, UK. They've created the Voquent Voice Acting Scholarship to give one lucky student everything they need to work in the voice acting industry.

6. Get Trained on GaP

   All grant funded projects and knowledge exchange projects must be recorded on the GaP system from April 2020

7. Study to expose how traffickers groom children online

   Dr Laura Pajon of the School of Justice Studies one of handful funded by ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

8. £10m study to predict heart and stroke disease

   EU's Horizon Programme funds TARGET< a collaboration with 10 countries led by LJMU to use AI models to track common disease evolution

9. LJMU leads €10m project on data science-led healthcare

   LJMU, Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital partner with ten European countries to model improved diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for atrial fibrillation to stroke patients

10. Scientists to simulate 14 billion years of cosmic evolution

    Astrophysics Research Institute wins time on STFC Supercomputer