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1. Scholarships for new students starting September 2024

   Every year we award a range of scholarships from £1,000 to £5,000 that don't need to be paid back!

2. A Virtual Museum

   €2.3 million story telling search engine for cultural artefacts

3. Discover magazine recognises Homo naledi research

   Research regarding the discovery of a new species of human relative shedding light on the origins and diversity of our origins was selected as the second most important scientific story in 2015.

4. Hiking retirement age to 70+ inequitable, say experts

   Industrial Relations expert at Liverpool Business School Dr Maddy Stevens critical of 'unfair' pension plan

5. Is this the world's oldest oven?

   Archaeologists have unearthed baked bread and food remains from 70,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave in Iraq and published the study of early culinary skills in the journal Antiquity.

6. Student finance reminder

   If you are an undergraduate student and are continuing on your course in September 2019, don’t forget to reapply for your student finance as soon as possible.

7. £2m study to open doors in synthetic biology

   Dr Femi Olorunniji partners University of Chicago in search for 'synthetic biology toolkit'

8. Astonishing difference globally in approach to children in prison

   Marie Claire Van Hout of the LJMU Public Health Institute publishes research in Lancet

9. In memoriam: Dr Malcolm Dixon

   It is with great sadness that LJMU announces the passing of Dr Malcolm Dixon who worked here for 30 years, until his retirement in 2015.

10. Free winter flu jabs for staff

    As part of our commitment to employee wellbeing, we are again offering staff vouchers for a free winter flu jab.